By Sarah Jones
She's the last star of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Olivia de Havilland - who turned 100 on Friday - recently dished on her past romances with high-profile A-listers in the latest issue of People magazine.
The actress revealed that she passed on the role of George Bailey's wife in It's a Wonderful Life because she felt 'awkward' working with her former lover, Jimmy Stewart.
Hollywood's Golden Age: Olivia de Havilland - who turned 100 on Friday - recently dished on her past romances with high-profile A-listers in the latest issue of People magazine (pictured February 2011)
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The couple spent 'many months' together and he even accompanied her to the New York premiere of Gone With the Wind in 1939.
Often hailed as America's original Hollywood sweetheart, she played Melanie Wilkes in the classic Civil War film opposite Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard.
Stewart was enlisted in World War II in March 1941 and the couple split. He returned from war five years later and took on the role of the Oscar-nominated Bailey.
'In retrospect, I think Jimmy was a very complex man and revealed himself to very few people,' de Havilland said as she compared Stewart being similar to Bailey's character.
'It would be awkward': The actress said she passed on the role of George Bailey's wife in It's a Wonderful Life because she felt uncomfortable working with her former lover, Jimmy Stewart (pictured at the New York premiere of Gone With the Wind in 1939)
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While she may have had apprehensions about the handsome actor, the two-time Oscar winning actress had previously confessed to being in love with her onscreen co-star, Errol Flynn.
The pair starred in The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938 and she admitted: 'There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.'
De Havilland reportedly turned down advances from John F. Kennedy but dated business tycoon Howard Hughes.
She said the producer was 'honest, fair; I never ceased to admire and like him.'
De Havilland eventually went on to marry journalist and author Marcus Goodrich in 1946 but the couple divorced in 1953.
Two years later she wed Pierre Galante but they too separated in 1962 and remained friends until he passed in 1998.