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Montecito’s proximity to Los Angeles has long made our village the jewel in the crown for location scouts seeking blue-chip environs for unforgettable Hollywood classics. And then there is the great Olivia de Havilland’s silver screen zenith and its intersection with Montecito. “They shot Gone with the Wind in Montecito?!” No, you lovable fool. I’m talking about 1972’s The Screaming Woman, in which Ms. De Havilland roams the grounds of Montecito’s Bliss Estate (known more colloquially as Casa Dorinda) in the hallucinatory fog of a rolling nervous breakdown. What was the great Ms. De Havilland thinking? Frankly, mon ami, the critics didn’t particularly give a hoot.