Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Vivien Leigh performances. According to Wikipedia: Vivien Leigh, was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the... [more]

Vivien Leigh news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Vivien Leigh performances. According to Wikipedia: Vivien Leigh, was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she had also played in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. During her thirty-year stage career, she played parts that ranged from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.

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Bipolar and Brilliant, Vivien Leigh

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Mental Health Monday Vivien Leigh was most known for her role as Scarlett O’hara in Gone With the Wind. She won an Oscar for best actress for her role as Scarlet, she won another Oscar for her role in A Streetcar Named Desire. She was a phenomenal actress, who like many, was also bipolar. Vivien was an insomniac, needing only 3-4 hours of sleep a night. In 1944 she lost a baby to a fall that happened on set, it is thought that the loss of her baby brought forth her illness. Soon after she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Little was known about bipolar ... Read Full Story

Celebrating Oscar ~ Some of Our Favorite Best Actresses of the 1940's

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There can be no celebration of the Oscars without a look back at some of the glorious stars from the past. Hollywood in the 1940's was full of contradictions, but the studios were quite masterful at maximizing the star wattage of its leading ladies. As a result the glow of Best Actress Winners like Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, and Ginger Rogers endures to this day. Below is Vivien Leigh's very low key speech from her win in 1940 for Gone With the Wind. Read Full Story

A Streetcar Named Desire, Groundbreaking Hollywood

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A Streetcar Named Desire, made in 1951, is a highly charged work of art, which challenged the prevailing censorship laws and which deals openly with such adult subjects as rape, domestic violence, homosexuality, and nymphomania.The movie features remarkable acting performances from the main stars. Marlon Brando's uncouth, sweaty animal magnetism contrasting with and complimenting Vivien Leigh's frail, faded belle, dominated the screen. The movie received and amazing twelve Academy nominations and and won 4, including an unprecedented 3 in the Best Acting categories: Best Actress for Vivien Leigh (her second Best Actress Oscar), and Best Supporting Awards to Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. This ... Read Full Story

Vivien Will Conjure Life of Hollywood’s Scarlett O’Hara in Philly

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The Walnut Street Theatre’s 2007-08 season of works in the intimate Independence Studio on 3 continues, with Rick Foster’s Vivien , a portrait of the actress Vivien Leigh, playing Jan. 15-Feb. 3, 2008. Read Full Story

Vivien Will Conjure Life of Hollywood’s Scarlett O’Hara in Philly

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The Walnut Street Theatre’s 2007-08 season of works in the intimate Independence Studio on 3 continues, with Rick Foster’s Vivien , a portrait of the actress Vivien Leigh, playing Jan. 15-Feb. 3, 2008. Read Full Story
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