To Paris, France, where Proper Hollywood Legend Olivia de Havilland still lives, aged 100. As always with someone of that impressive vintage, the questions with which we bother them are so important. Full credit to the Hollywood Reporter, then, which this week asked Ms de Havilland a big one: what does she reckon to Feud, Ryan Murphy’s FX series documenting the tension between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, in which she was a supporting player?

As far as trying to get her take on events when he was writing the show, Murphy himself decided against, telling the Hollywood Reporter in an earlier interview: “I didn’t want to intrude on Ms de Havilland.”

Still, now she has been bothered, what does she have to say? “I have received your email with its two questions,” runs her response to the Hollywood Reporter. “I would like to reply first to the second of these, which inquires of me the accuracy of a current television series entitled Feud, which concerns Bette Davis and Joan Crawford and their supposed animosity toward each other. Having not seen the show, I cannot make a valid comment about it. However, in principle, I am opposed to any representation of personages who are no longer alive to judge the accuracy of any incident depicted as involving themselves.”

Oh dear. But what of the show’s meticulous big-budget set piece, a scene at the Academy Awards when Davis won for Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, with Crawford not even nominated? “As to the 1963 Oscar ceremony, which took place over half a century ago, I regret to say that I have no memory of it whatsoever and therefore cannot vouch for its accuracy.”

Yowch. Thank you, Ms de Havilland. Now, if we could just trouble you for a view on whether the dress is blue and black or white and gold?