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marciabrady · 1 month ago
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"She devoted herself to being a theatre actress, and everybody always said, 'Oh, well, of course, he [Laurence Olivier] taught her.' She was too bloody beautiful. She'd had to have worn a mask." -Judy Campbell "She was often underrated because she was so beautiful. She was a consummate actress anyway, hampered by beauty- and as a person the complete romantic. She had this great talent for creating beauty around her, she made these exquisite gardens, dressed ravishingly, she had true breeding, and when she invited you to dinner, the food and everything was perfect...[yet] there was something tragic even when she was at her happiest. Somehow, I wasn’t surprised when I heard she died. And Kate Hepburn said, 'Oh, thank God!' because she’d suffered so much and was so miserable, really, from the time her marriage with Olivier broke up to the end of her life. Although most of the time you’d never suspect it. She was Rabelaisian, this exquisite creature." -George Cukor "Something else Vivien had to fight as an actress was her quite incredibly beauty. In Streetcar she wore an unflattering blonde wig, and covered her face with garish make-up; but I, who sat beside her on a bench for twenty minutes every night while she poured out Blanche’s story, could see through the make-up, and there were evenings when, knowing the script as well as she did, the only way I could pretend hearing it for the first time was to concentrate on the line from the bottom of her chin down to her throat. How I wished I was Michelangelo." -Bernard Braden
VIVIEN LEIGH in THAT HAMILTON WOMAN — 1941
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thecinamonroe · 4 months ago
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Vivien Leigh and Marilyn Monroe at an airport in London, November 1956.
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summertimenoir · 20 days ago
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - dir. Elia Kazan
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lihiominaa · 1 month ago
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A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 dir. Elia Kazan
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audreys-hepburn · 7 months ago
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Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara GONE WITH THE WIND — dir. Victor Fleming (1939)
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vivien-leigh · 3 months ago
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GONE WITH THE WIND (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
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screengifs · 3 months ago
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GIF MEME: 09. the subject should be in silhouette. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." Gone with the Wind (1939)
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emyn-arnen · 9 months ago
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VIVIEN LEIGH as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
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zoirohs · 4 months ago
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Vivien Leigh as Lady Emma Hamilton
THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941) dir. Alexander Korda
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xxhorace · 1 month ago
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Vivien Leigh
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jedivoodoochile · 5 months ago
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Vivien Leigh by Laszlo Willinger, she has to be one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood history.
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marciabrady · 3 months ago
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“Vivien has a body of swansdown and the constitution of a GI on leave.” -Noël Coward
VIVIEN LEIGH in WATERLOO BRIDGE — 1940
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ueberdemnebelmeer · 10 days ago
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 | dir. Elia Kazan
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summertimenoir · 4 months ago
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Miss Leigh’s Scarlett commands first commendation as a memorable performance, of wide versatility and effective earnestness. She possesses all the physical requirements for the part. It is not as a coquette that she scores most heavily, however, nor as the scheming, bitter and ruthless wife and mother who knows no opposition to her will. She is best when the story demands attributes and characteristics of courage and determination, as during the exciting sequence of the flight with the helpless mother and child in her care. Again, in the brief passage with the Yankee deserter whom she shoots and kills. With her youth, looks and abundant talent, Miss Leigh springboards from ‘Wind’ to a boxoffice factor in the film market. - John C. Flinn Sir. Variety, December 19, 1939.
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939)
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lihiominaa · 7 months ago
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A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 dir. Elia Kazan
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sugaryhoneymoon · 2 years ago
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Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1937.
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