Olivia de Havilland attributed her longevity to “the three Ls: “Love, laughter and learning.”

De Havilland, a Hollywood movie icon, died July 26 at age 104.

De Havilland was the last living cast member of “Gone with the Wind” (1939), in which she played the feisty Melanie.

Along with Kirk Douglas, who died Feb. 5 at age 103, De Havilland was one of the last living actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Olivia de Havilland was a two-time Oscar recipient, as actress, “The Heiress” (1949), and actress, “To Each His Own” (1946), and a five-time Oscar nominee, including, actress, “The Snake Pit” (1948); actress, “Hold Back the Dawn” (1941), and supporting actress, “Gone with the Wind” (1939).

De Havilland and her sister, Joan Fontaine, are the only siblings to have received Oscars for acting.

Fontaine, actress nomination, “Rebecca” (1940), and actress nomination, “The Constant Nymph” (1943), received an Oscar, actress, for “Suspicion” (1941).

De Havilland, with 61 credits as an actress, is noted for her eight roles acting opposite screen idol Errol Flynn: “Captain Blood” (1935), “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1936), “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938), “Four’s a Crowd” (1938), “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” (1939), “Dodge City” (1939), “Santa Fe Trail” (1940), “They Died with Their Boots On” (1941), and in separate scenes in a ninth film with Flynn, in “Thank Your Lucky Stars” (1943).

De Havilland is also remembered for the “de Havilland decision,” a 1944 court ruling in which the 5 ft. 4 in. actress stood up to the powerful Hollywood studio system.

De Havilland made her movie debut at 18, as Hermia, in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” (1935), for Warner Bros., for which she signed a seven-year contract.

De Havilland wanted to appear in stronger female roles and turned down several projects. Jack Warner suspended her contract for six months and added that amount of time to her contract, set to expire in 1942.

De Havilland sued the studio. The court ruled in her favor. The “de Havilland decision” was a harbinger of the end of the studio system and provided more employment choices for actors.

Kirk Douglas also wasn’t just another pretty face in Hollywood.

Douglas was a beneficiary of de Havilland’s battle with the studio system.

Born Issur Herschelevitch Danielovitch Demsky, with 95 actor credits, Douglas was nominated for three Oscars: actor, “Lust for Life” (1956), actor, “The Bad and the Beautiful” (1952), and actor, “Champion” (1949), and received an Honorary Oscar (1996) for “50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community.”

Douglas founded Bryna Productions in 1955 to produce films, including “Paths of Glory” (1957) and “Spartacus” (1960), each directed by then-unknown director Stanley Kubrick and each starring Douglas.

Douglas is credited with helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by giving onscreen screenwriting credit for “Sparticus” to Dalton Trumbo, targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee anti-Communist probe. The chant, “I am Spartacus,” became a symbolic rallying cry for unity in Hollywood and America.

Douglas burst onto the movie screen in a dynamic role as the troubled husband in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers” (1946), opposite Barbara Stanwyck.

Douglas had a long-time on-screen pairing with fellow screen legend Burt Lancaster, for seven films, including and starting with “I Walk Alone” (1947), “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (1957), “Seven Days in May” (1964) and “Tough Guys” (1986).

Olivia de Havilland and Kirk Douglas are from another era of Hollywood. Fortunately, the stars still shine in their films shown on Turner Classic Movies, other Cable TV movie channels and in other movie formats.

Coming soon:

Reopening dates for the multiplexes continue to be “coming soon.”

Regal Cinemas announced July 28 that it plans to reopen its theaters in the United States Aug. 21. Regal previously announced it would reopen July 31.

AMC Theatres, which were to have opened July 30, now plans to open in mid-to-late August.

Cinemark, which was to reopen July 24, has postponed its theaters reopenings to a date to be announced.

Russell Crowe’s “Unhinged,” which was to open July 31, is now to open Aug. 21.

Disney’s live-action “Mulan,” which was to open Aug. 21, is now to stream on Disney + as of Sept. 4.

The U.S. release date of director Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” has been postponed until Sept. 3.

The fate of the indoor cinemas and multiplexes is not in the hands of Hollywood, nor movie reviewers.

For example, public health officials in major markets such as New York and California won’t allow cinemas to reopen.

As for the reason for the shutdown, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the reviews are still out.