Vivien Leigh

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Vivien Leigh was one of Britain's finest actresses and screen goddesses, proving that beauty and talent can come in the same package.  Although forever famous as Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 blockbuster "Gone with the Wind", she ticked all the boxes; a great film and stage actress, and a great star.  An Anglo-Indian, the Convent school educated Vivien was born Vivian Hartley to parents Ernest and Gertrude in Darjeeling, British Indian in 1913.  When she died in 1967, front page headlines...Read Full Story

Do you spend your days setting your goals? Are you a “life happens to me” or “I choose what happens in my life” person? Lots of people feel that life happens and that they have no choice. They must just react to whatever happens to them and hope the circumstances are not too awful. Other people consciously plan life out. These people set goals, envision their life as they want it, and expect those things to happen. Either one will work. It’s just whatever your belief system happens to be in...Read Full Story

By David Gardner Last updated at 1:43 AM on 23rd August 2010 Playing the lady: Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind She was described as ‘the essence of English womanhood’ by the then poet laureate John Betjeman. On top of that, Vivien Leigh’s romance with Laurence Olivier was a fairytale that wowed 1930s Hollywood. It was, of course, all too good to be true but the full extent of Miss Leigh’s fall from grace can now be revealed. According to a new...Read Full Story

Who’d have thought that while Laurence Olivier lounged on a lilo stroking his pool boy, Vivien Leigh was out hunting pee-nays and the odd muff at her local petrol station? Well, that’s according to a new (and scandalous it says) biography, which claims the late actress was ”a bi-polar and bi-sexual nympho.” *Files under*: aren’t we all? Co-author of the biog and friend of Leigh, Darwin Porter , writes that Scarlett O’Whore was a fan of “rough trade” and slept with many of her co-stars...Read Full Story

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...Read Full Story

"In the 1940s, the world's most recognizable star would drive down to Scotty's (a notorious LA brothel that masqueraded as a gas station with one pump and 22 attendants) with her friend George Cukor, the initial director of 'Gone With The Wind,' and they would both pick out young men for the night They would pay the men with gifts such as cigarette cases, jewels, or even stocks and bonds. She depended on the professional discretion of men not to boast they had just serviced Scarlett O'Hara...Read Full Story

1937 'Fire Over England'  Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh have just got married, to great public acclaim. They are the most famous couple in Hollywood, possibly in the world. She has just finished playing...Read Full Story

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

1937 'Fire Over England'  Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh have just got married, to great public acclaim. They are the most famous couple in Hollywood, possibly in the world. She has just finished playing...Read Full Story