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Of course, the one time Vivien Leigh played someone “normal,” she went insane. Leigh specialized in portraying mad women: Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and the deranged and damaged Blanche du Bois ...
Vivien Leigh: Public Faces ... “And also magical is the headdress Oliver made for Vivien’s role as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Old Vic in 1937. It is an exquisitely made ...
‘Oh, the bliss of not having to go mad, commit suicide, or contemplate murder,’ Vivien Leigh trilled as she disembarked a flight in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1953. The Gone With The Wind star ...
Vivien Leigh captivated the world with her iconic performance as Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind,” along with her real-life romance with actor Sir Laurence Olivier.
Vivien Leigh was one of the silver screen’s true legends: an incendiary talent who won two Best Actress Oscars, famously married (and divorced) another towering artist, Laurence Olivier ...
Keith Lodwick, V&A exhibition curator, said: "Vivien and Olivier were great friends and their creative work resulted in two of Leigh's most celebrated roles - Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream ...
Vivien Leigh left the South West to become a southern belle. Yet the star of the stage and the screen still shines brightly in Devon. Topsham Museum looks after the Leigh legacy and tells the ...