Actress Olivia de Havilland in Paris, 1958
Published: September 1, 2012
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Paris, May, 1958: At her home in Paris, actress Olivia de Havilland, the winner of Oscars for best actress in 1947 ("To Each His Own") and 1950 ("The Heiress"), models a shirt given to her when she was made an honorary member of the U.S. Army's 11th Airborne Division. De Havilland spent mid-1958 worrying about a statutory requirement that she return to live in the U.S. for 18 months (leaving her French husband behind) or forfeit her citizenship. A congressman introduced a bill in May to resolve the problem, but before it could be voted on the State Department granted her a waiver of the five-year overseas residency limit because of her "activities for U.S. Armed Forces abroad and for her promotion of American culture abroad."
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