#vivien leigh

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Vivien Leigh and Claire Bloom at London's Lyric Theater during rehearsals for their new play, "Duel of the Angels” in February 1958.

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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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Vivien Leigh and Marilyn Monroe at an airport in London, November 1956.

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Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara GONE WITH THE WIND — dir. Victor Fleming (1939)

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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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A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 dir. Elia Kazan

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GONE WITH THE WIND (1939), dir. Victor Fleming

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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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Vivien Leigh as Lady Emma Hamilton

THAT HAMILTON WOMAN (1941) dir. Alexander Korda

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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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VIVIEN LEIGH as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

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Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1937.

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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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Propaganda

Irene Papas (Tribute to a Bad Man, Electra, Zorba the Greek)—"From the opening shot of Michael Cacoyannis's Electra, as the proud, implacable face emerges from encroaching shadows, it becomes impossible to imagine anyone else as Euripides's heroine. Erect, immutably dignified, dark eyes burning fiercely beneath heavy black brows, Irene Papas visibly embodies the sublimity of classical Greece, tragic yet serene." -Philip Kemp (film critic) Also she's a a badass.

Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire)—Leigh is exceptionally beautiful. To quote Garson Kanin, Leigh was "a stunner whose ravishing beauty often tended to obscure her staggering achievements as an actress. Great beauties are infrequently great actresses—simply because they don't need to be. Vivien was different; ambitious, persevering, serious, often inspired." She was an actor's actor, one of those big old-school theatre dames, full of drama and temper.

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Irene Papas:

An amazing actress and singer, some may say a literal Greek goddess. Fought against military dictatorship in her home country and had an affair with Marlon Brando.

She literally played Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world in Greek mythology, what more could you want

Vivien Leigh propaganda:

"I submit this gifset--help she is so beautiful and tragic"

"Extremely versatile, absolutely beautiful features and a wonderful resting bitch face if needed."

"She has such a range of character types that she could fit any favorite type of woman. And have you seen her in the Red Dress? with her cocked eyebrow???"

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"She played one of the most famously unlikable characters in cinema history and knocked it out of the park."

"Vivien Leigh vs every established and wannabe actress on Earth- grand slam winner for Scarlett O'Hara and won the oscar. Ultimate power couple with hottie finalist Laurence Olivier. I am just on my knees for that arched eyebrow and smouldering look."

"She’s just mmm the PASSION behind her performances is palpable, she’s so beautiful and elegant and amazing and yeah"

"look at her. im a gay man and im in love with her"

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Vivien Leigh