Editing Olivia de Havilland (section)

===Religion and politics===
De{{nbsp}}Havilland was raised in the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] and remained an Episcopalian throughout her life.<ref name="anglicans-whalon"/>{{#tag:ref|In a 2015 interview, de Havilland stated that her religious beliefs had lapsed in her adult years, but that she regained her faith when her son was ill. Her renewed faith inspired her sister to return to the Episcopal Church.<ref name="variety-stadiem-notorious"/>|group=Note}} In the 1970s, she became one of the first women [[lector]]s at the [[American Cathedral in Paris]], where she was on the regular rota for Scripture readings. As recently as 2012, she was doing readings on major [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|feast days]],<ref name="anglicans-whalon"/> including Christmas and Easter. "It's a task I love", she once said.<ref name="wsj-meroney"/> In describing her preparation for her readings, she once observed, "You have to convey the deep meaning, you see, and it has to start with your own faith. But first, I always pray. I pray before I start to prepare, as well. In fact, I would always say a prayer before shooting a scene, so this is not so different, in a way."<ref name="anglicans-whalon"/> De{{nbsp}}Havilland preferred to use the [[Revised English Bible]] for its poetic style.<ref name="anglicans-whalon"/> She raised her son, Benjamin, in the Episcopal Church and her daughter, Gisèle, in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], the faith of each child's father.{{sfn|De Havilland|1962|pp=103–104}}

As a United States citizen,<ref name="cnn-facts"/> de{{nbsp}}Havilland became involved in politics as a way of exercising her civic responsibilities.<ref name="wsj-meroney"/> She campaigned for [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s ultimately successful reelection bid in 1944.<ref name="wsj-meroney"/> After the war, she joined the [[Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions]], a national public-policy advocacy group that included [[Bette Davis]], [[Gregory Peck]], [[Groucho Marx]], and [[Humphrey Bogart]] in its Hollywood chapter.<ref name="wsj-meroney"/> In June 1946, she was asked to deliver speeches for the committee that reflected the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]] line, and the group was later alleged to be a [[communist front]] organization.{{sfn|Billingsley|1998|pp=123–124}} Disturbed at seeing a small group of communist members manipulating the committee, she removed the pro-communist material from her speeches and rewrote them to reflect Democratic president [[Harry S. Truman]]'s anti-communist platform. She later recalled, "I realized a nucleus of people was controlling the organization without a majority of the members of the board being aware of it. And I knew they had to be Communists."<ref name="wsj-meroney"/>

She organized a fight to regain control of the committee from its pro-Soviet leadership, but her reform efforts failed. Her resignation from the committee triggered a wave of resignations by 11 other Hollywood figures, including future president [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name="wsj-meroney"/>{{#tag:ref|Reagan was a relatively new board member when he was invited to join 10 other film-industry colleagues, including MGM studio head [[Dore Schary]], for a meeting at de{{nbsp}}Havilland's house where he first learned that Communists were trying to gain control of the committee.{{sfn|Reagan|1990|p=112}} During the meeting, he turned to de{{nbsp}}Havilland, who was on the executive committee, and whispered, "You know, Olivia, I always thought ''you'' might be one of them." Laughing, she responded, "That's funny. I thought ''you'' were one of them." Reagan suggested they propose a resolution at the next meeting that included language reaffirmed the committee's "belief in free enterprise and the Democratic system" and repudiated "Communism as desirable for the United States"{{nsmdns}}the executive committee voted it down the following week.{{sfn|Reagan|1990|pp=112–113}} Shortly afterwards, the committee disbanded, only to resurface as a newly named front organization.{{sfn|Reagan|1990|p=112}} Despite organising Hollywood resistance to Soviet influence, de{{nbsp}}Havilland was denounced later that year as a "[[Pinko|swimming-pool pink]]" in ''Time'' magazine for her involvement in the committee.{{sfn|Gottfried|2002|p=146}}|group=Note}} In 1958, she was secretly called before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] and recounted her experiences with the Independent Citizens' Committee.<ref name="wsj-meroney"/>