Opinion: Beauty is in the eye of the casting agent Jun 19, 2008
In a recent interview, I was asked this question: "Director Elia Kazan hired Vivien Leigh for 'A Streetcar Named Desire' because of her beauty. So what's wrong with beauty still informing casting decisions today?". I pointed out that while Leigh was indeed beautiful, she was cast just as much, if not more so, for the luminous quality she radiated, the fragility in her eyes and her ability to animate her character with those qualities which is talent. (Christian Science Monitor)
Aboard Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic Crossings, Plays and Workshops by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Set the Stage for Enriching Voyages Jun 19, 2008
Graduates include a "who's who" of British actors, from Sir John Gielgud and Vivien Leigh to Sir Anthony Hopkins, Joan Collins, Glenda Jackson, Peter O'Toole, Kenneth Branagh and Ralph Fiennes. "The RADA programme offers our guests the unique opportunity to experience dramatic performances of the highest quality in the ship's extraordinary theatres," said Carol Marlow, president and managing director of Cunard Line. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Joan Rivers talks about laughing at life's trials Jun 17, 2008
"And I do wish I had a gay son. What could be better than calling my gay son at 4 in the morning, saying, 'Quick! Turn on Turner Classic Movies -- they're showing 'That Hamilton Woman' with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh'? "Melissa is wonderful, but she doesn't get it. And she doesn't care. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Gone With the Wind musical to shut early in London due to poor ticket sales Jun 2, 2008
But the 1939 movie starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable remains tremendously popular with generations of film lovers. Most Viewed. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Butterflies aren't free May 8, 2008
In his memoir, the legendary Elia Kazan wrote about directing Vivien Leigh in "A Streetcar Named Desire." While he did not think that Leigh was a great natural actress, he was impressed that she would crawl through glass to get the role right. Hillary Clinton may not be a great natural politician, but traveling across the United States on her own Bus Named Desire, she has crawled through glass to get the role right. (International Herald Tribune)
Frankly, my dear, it's time for the chorus line Apr 23, 2008
Like the Hollywood producer David O. Selznick, who cast the virtually unknown British actress Vivien Leigh as Scarlett in the film version, Nunn also went with a little-known name for his lead. His choice, the energetic Jill Paice, a 28-year-old native of Ohio, is nearly the spitting image of Leigh. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Coco' lives on (without Kate) Apr 23, 2008
Vivien Leigh starred in "Tovarich," Robert Ryan did Irving Berlin's "Mr. President" and Anthony Perkins warbled in the short-lived "Greenwillow." Rex Harrison had an enormous success in "My Fair Lady," largely because he didn't sing the role of Henry Higgins, but rather talk-sang it. "Coco" rehearsals were embattled from the get-go, says Auberjonois. (San Francisco Chronicle)
GWTW the musical opens Apr 22, 2008
As Scarlett, the energetic Jill Paice, a 28-year-old native of Ohio, is nearly the spitting image of Vivien Leigh. Paice has a tiny waist, gorgeous dark hair and even sounds uncannily like Leigh in the way she delivers her distinctive Southern drawl. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Frankly, audiences don't give a damn Apr 20, 2008
Directed by Trevor Nunn, the cast includes Darius Danesh, best known for Pop Idol, as Rhett Butler, and relative unknown Jill Paice as Scarlett O'Hara, seeking to escape the shadows of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in the Oscar-winning 1939 movie. The costly production got off to a bad start when its first preview performance was cancelled because the actress playing Mammy, the O'Haras' house servant, suffered a leg injury. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Movie: The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Apr 6, 2008
Alexander Korda had originally wanted Vivien Leigh to play the Princess and Jon Hall in the role of Ahmad, but both were unavailable at the time. Filming Locations. (Suite101.com)
Mother Goddam Apr 5, 2008
When Vivien Leigh won the battle of the belles, it was proof that in Hollywood, if you were a woman, beauty almost always triumphed over brains or bravado. The other character she had a yen to play, a rather more surprising choice, was Alice in Wonderland. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Nuremberg' screenwriter Abby Mann dies Mar 29, 2008
His other movies included "A Child Is Waiting" (starring Lancaster and Garland) about retarded children; "Ship of Fools" (with Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer and Lee Marvin) involving human interplay on an ocean liner; and "Report to the Commissioner" (featuring Michael Moriarty) about police corruption. Finding film studios increasingly unwilling to tackle controversial subjects, Mann returned to television. (FOX 11, AZ)
Spears offered lead role Mar 28, 2008
If Spears accepts the part of the pretentious but insecure Blanche, she will follow in the footsteps of Vivien Leigh, who won an Oscar for her portrayal in the 1951 film adaptation. Meanwhile, Spears is set to appear at this year's Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in Los Angeles on March 29. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
'The Other Boleyn Girl' Feb 29, 2008
Dazzling, high-spirited Portman, for her ill-fated part, looks and acts not unlike that other Scarlett girl -- the O'Hara one, as played by Vivien Leigh. Rylance plays their slimy, despicable father in a nauseously low-key manner, while Kristin Scott Thomas as his disapproving wife fumes. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Up for Air: Oscar time brings out some old chestnuts Feb 28, 2008
As Time Goes By is one of the best love songs ever written, and I wait for hours to hear Butterfly McQueen say to Vivien Leigh s Scarlett, I don t know nothin bout birthin babies. As for the Oscar ceremony itself, it s been on TV way past my bedtime since 1957. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Oscars 2008: First time at bat can be the right time Feb 25, 2008
Gone With the Wind, 1939: leading and supporting actresses Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel. Going My Way, 1944: leading and supporting actors Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The anti-hero isn't new to the world of Oscar Feb 21, 2008
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'HarainGone With the Wind (1939)The bad: The ultimate Southern belle is jealous, selfish, headstrong, scandalous and too blind to see that Rhett Butler is the carpet-bagging rogue of her dreams. The good: Her strength, smarts and perseverance saves Tara, the family plantation, after the Civil War erupts. (USA Today -- Life)
Best of the best of Oscar Feb 16, 2008
The eyes and hint of shoulder loom large when Vivien Leigh plays Scarlett O'Hara ... Vivien Leigh, "Gone With the Wind" (1939) ... The runners-up: Vivien Leigh, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951); Elizabeth Taylor, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966); Katharine Hepburn, "The Lion in Winter" (1968); and Sissy Spacek, "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Movies with heart Feb 14, 2008
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this 1939 drama based on the novel by Margaret Meade tells the story of Southern belle Scarlet O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) as she must learn to deal independently with both the collapse of the world she knows as well as her own emotions. Filled to the brim with both passion and romantic tension, this rather long film will have you looking at the clock and exclaiming, like one of its characters, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!". (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Hollywood's Hottest Pairings Feb 13, 2008
As such, none of Old Hollywood's iconic pairs, like Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, or Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, make the cut. Films where three primary characters share the spotlight ( Shrek, Harry Potter) were also excluded. (Forbes -- Business)
Book zooms in on cinematic kisses par excellence Jan 29, 2008
To be included, Knight writes, the kisses had to embody "romantic serendipity," not just be "steamy lip-locks." Some are classics, like Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Gone With the Wind: "None of the fools you've ever known have kissed you like this, have they?" Then there's Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr surfside in From Here to Eternity. (Who even knew there was verbal foreplay. (USA Today -- Life)
Designers say we still need couture Jan 26, 2008
For next summer he looked to the goddesses of the silver screen in the 1940s and 1950s - Hollywood heroines Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor - and recreated grand gowns in a range of appropriately rich gemstone colours, from ruby red and emerald to topaz and amethyst. Murad, who counts Ivana Trump among his loyal customers, feels he is also struggling against a certain prejudice in France that Lebanese designers draw all their clientele... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Letters Of Noel Coward Jan 5, 2008
When Vivien Leigh announced she was pregnant and wondered if it would muck up South Sea Bubble, she asked him to write saying he was not angry. Oh, but he was livid. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
New Scarlett from North Dakota Dec 27, 2007
When famed producer David O. Selznick was making Gone With the Wind in 1939, he wound up casting the veddy British Vivien Leigh as Southern belle Scarlett O Hara. Now famed British director Trevor Nunn ( Cats, Les Miserables ) has reached across the pond to find his Scarlett for a musical version premiering in London on April 22. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
City 'Gone' Wild Nov 25, 2007
Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens; (718) 784-4520 Museum of the Moving Image offers classic movie buffs an opportunity to see one of cinema's (New York Post -- Entertainment)
AMY ADAMS IN ENCHANTED ''I'ma little bit intimidated by my ... Nov 20, 2007
I had a whole new appreciation for what Vivien Leigh must've gone through as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Were little girls freaking out when they saw you. (Entertainment Weekly)
Amy's fairytale of New York Nov 18, 2007
Spitfire' also neatly encapsulates the nagging sense that Adams was born into the wrong era - her inspiration was Vivien Leigh - and when I describe her magnificently over-the-top performance in Enchanted as 'ballsy', she tells me that the days of men getting all the big screen-filling roles are numbered: 'The times they are a-changin' - if I have anything to do about it. . (The Observer)
Brits put on American accents Nov 2, 2007
" If Brits and others are devoting more energy to the business of sounding like Yanks, the motives are both economic and artistic. Where a "House" can keep actors like Laurie and Aussie castmate Jesse Spencer profitably employed for years, some of the most prestigious British series have much shorter runs, with as few as six episodes per season. Recent cutbacks at the BBC, with an announcement this month of more to come, make American networks look even more inviting. In terms of quality, where... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Rhett Butler retells 'Gone With the Wind' Oct 29, 2007
Scarlett O'Hara' and 'Rhett Butler,' played by Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, in a scene from 'Gone With the Wind. . (KHOU.com, TX)
Read on... Oct 24, 2007
Tovah Feldshuh - Entertainment News, Variety Weekend, Media - Variety. Plays Golda Meir in 'O Jerusalem,' opening Oct. 2410/23/07 8:15am Stars as Calleigh Duquesne on 'CSI: Miami'10/22/07 8:00am Plays Mary Alice Young on 'Desperate Housewives'10/19/07 10:00am Stars as Trevor on here. (Variety)
Deborah Kerr: From Her to Eternity Oct 20, 2007
Their names still say "class": Vivien Leigh, Wendy Hiller, Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom. Of course, in a class by herself, Audrey Hepburn. (Time.com)
TIFF 07: Angel Sep 25, 2007
She infuses Angel with the same beauty, strength, and frustrated determination that Vivien Leigh brought to Scarlett O'Hara seventy years ago. Even though her youth does strain believability near the end of the film, as she ages, you nevertheless believe her in the part, such is the presence with which she carries her character. (IGN FilmForce)
This 'Streetcar' is true to Williams - and to itself Sep 18, 2007
But just those names now summon up ghosts of their own, from Elia Kazan's indelible 1951 film: delicate, damaged Vivien Leigh; earthy Kim Hunter; and, most vivid of all, Marlon Brando. It's almost impossible to experience some moments in the play - Stanley's bellowed "Stella!," Blanche's reliance on the kindness of strangers - without conjuring those celluloid spirits. (Boston Globe)
Stepping up to 'Streetcar' Sep 7, 2007
But with the iconographic images of Elia Kazan s film version a young, hunky Marlon Brando shouting out Stanley s sexual desire for Stella, the indelible Vivien Leigh as the fluttering, faded Southern belle Blanche Dubois is it possible to offer a fresh take on this classic. The four lead actors in the New Repertory Theatre production, which runs Wednesday through Oct. 7, confront the ghosts of the film on their own terms. (Boston Globe)
'Hash slinger to stars' still cooks Aug 15, 2007
An ascot that Clark Gable wore in "Gone With the Wind" is preserved under glass with a framed drawing of the actor as Rhett Butler famously clenching Vivien Leigh, his Scarlett. "No Bloody Swearing," one bronze plaque reads. (Los Angeles Times)
From famous lit to the orchestra pit Jul 23, 2007
Having directed many films and operas derived from books or plays, he says of Streetcar: "This one is more difficult than any other opera I've done because it is based on a very famous play and a very famous film that everyone has seen, with some of the finest actors of the time - Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden." ... The operatic Blanche is stronger and more physical than Vivien Leigh's neurotic portrayal, says Halliwell, because "music lends more heroic stature to characters". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The General Lee, Short Circuit Robot, Chewbacca and The Soprano's Ride Lead The Collection of Cars, Costumes and Other Collectibles to be put on the Auction Block August 2-3, 2007 Jul 12, 2007
-- Anakin Skywalker's light saber from Star Wars: Episode II-Attack of the Clones (*$40,000-$60,000) -- Ewan McGregor "Obi-Wan Kenobi" light saber from Star Wars: Episode 1-The Phantom Menace (*$25,000-$35,000) -- Grail tablet from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (*$30,000-$40,000) -- Statue of Liberty head from Planet of the Apes (*$30,000-$40,000) -- Elvis Presley's karate gi (*$20,000-$25,000) -- Original KWKH / Louisiana Hayride Microphone used by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and other... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Hollywood History - July 8 Jul 9, 2007
On July 8, 1967, actress Vivien Leigh died of tuberculosis. She was 53. (NBC4.tv, CA)
PowPAC mounts unexpectedly strong 'Streetcar' Jul 4, 2007
Furthermore, British actress Vivien Leigh had assumed the role in the London production to much acclaim, and was considered the only bankable box-office draw in the cast, including the young Brando, at the time virtually unknown in Hollywood. For what is seen by many as a definitive performance, Leigh would win an Academy Award (her second, after "Gone With the Wind"), along with co-stars Karl Malden and Kim Stanley. (North County Times)
Old Parks, New Thrills Jun 10, 2007
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were married there, and John Huston completed "The African Queen" during a three-month stay. Starting at $2,990 a night, the Kennedy Cottage isn't even the most expensive on the ranch. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Gone With The Wind set for stage Jun 5, 2007
The Oscar-winning film starred Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh ... Starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, it has been named the most successful movie of all time at the US box office by film trade journal Screen Digest. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
English star's films defy age (Gary Arnold) May 31, 2007
His triumph in "Wuthering Heights" coincided with the more spectacular triumph of his consort, Vivien Leigh, in "Gone With the Wind." Curiously, Mr. Wyler had offered Miss Leigh the role of Isabella in "Wuthering Heights." In fact, there was a remote possibility that the Olivier-Leigh romance would be commemorated in four consecutive movies during 1939-1940. Miss Leigh turned down "Wuthering Heights" because "Gone With the Wind" took precedence. (Washington Times, DC)
Great pretender May 23, 2007
" Even so, his performance as Coriolanus was hailed as "a pillar of fire on a plinth of marble". He moved to Hollywood, where he resisted moves to be renamed Larry Oliver, but enjoyed little initial success. The turning point came in 1939 when he appeared as Heathcliff in William Wyler's film adaptation of Wuthering Heights opposite Merle Oberon, following this up with the dashing Maxim de Winter in Rebecca. 'Shrewd cookie' Marriage to Vivien Leigh - star of Gone with the Wind - brought the sort... (BBC News -- UK)
Sir Larry still lights the way May 21, 2007
Olivier kept his secrets so that even the polite fiction of his happy marriage to Vivien Leigh was sedulously maintained: only later did one learn that, during his triumphant season at Stratford, he was frequently driven to sleeping on his dressing-room floor to get a bit of peace. In some ways, Olivier belongs to an age when one actor could be seen as head of the profession and when acting itself was a form of Protean disguise. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Drug-resistant TB raises pandemic fear May 4, 2007
From the 17th century to the 20th, it was a major killer in the United States and Europe, taking the lives of notable people such as the poet John Keats, the composer Frederic Chopin, the writer Stephen Crane and the actress Vivien Leigh. A virulent strain of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs is surfacing around the globe, raising fears of a pandemic that could devastate efforts to contain TB and prove deadly to people with immune-deficiency diseases such as HIV-AIDS.. (Houston Chronicle)
Marlon Brando, remembered May 2, 2007
A Streetcar Named Desire (12:30 a.m.) - Brando's second film, in 1951, immortalized his star-making Broadway performance in the Tennessee Williams classic, opposite new co-star Vivien Leigh. Guys and Dolls (2:45 a.m.) - Brando can't sing very well, but co-star Frank Sinatra does, in Hollywood's 1955 wide-screen version of Frank Loesser's Damon Runyon musical. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Best actress: Why doesn't Hollywood care? Apr 29, 2007
Your stories dont matterAll of this continues a trend in effect since World War II. In the first 15 years of the Academy (roughly 1928-43), the woman who won best actress appeared in that years best picture three times: Luise Rainier for The Great Ziegfield in 1936, Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind in 1939, and Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver in 1942. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
The Making of a Madame Alexander Doll Apr 24, 2007
Another hit: a Scarlett O'Hara doll, released in 1937, that bore an uncanny resemblance to Vivien Leigh, who portrayed Scarlett in the 1939 film. Gone With the Wind. (BusinessWeek)
DOUBLE TROUBLE Apr 16, 2007
Traina arrived in a green dress similar to the one Vivien Leigh wore as Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film classic. "Well, darlin', I've outdone you this time,'' Dede said while taking a cursory look at my lavender hoop-skirted, off-the-shoulder dress and wide leghorn hat with pink roses tucked under the brim. "The hat is nice,'' she grudgingly admitted before turning toward Al, who was dressed like Rhett Butler in riding pants, shiny black boots, and a hunting jacket. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Building bridges Down Under Apr 8, 2007
Slated to perform on the very boards that accommodated Dame Nellie Melba, Vivien Leigh, Sir Robert Helpman, Sir John Gielgud, Rex Harrison and Katherine Hepburn, among others, Dama will be presenting its highly-successful musical tale of star-crossed lovers and unfulfilled love, Butterfly Lovers, from June 7 to 9. It all began during Damas inaugural run of Butterfly Lovers at the KL Performing Arts Centre in September/October last year. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Stratford's actors prepare to tread new boards Apr 2, 2007
"My first cycle of all the plays took 25 years, ending with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in Titus Andronicus in 1955.". He is now on his third cycle and has seen 21 productions in the RSC's current Complete Works project (and wasn't sure about The Tempest set in a chill Arctic landscape). (Guardian Unlimited)
'It's me, isn't it?' Mar 6, 2007
His marriage to the porcelain, neurotic beauty Vivien Leigh was also cracking up, and with it their regal, unbalanced stage partnership. He fell in love with his young, future wife, Joan Plowright - "an unlikely Wallis Simpson to his Windsor," said Osborne - when she took over the role of Archie Rice's daughter for The Entertainer's West End run. (Guardian Unlimited)
New Rep's 'Orson's Shadow' exposes the underbelly of fame Mar 4, 2007
And Olivier was going through a difficult patch in his life that included breaking up with his wife Vivien Leigh and falling in love with Joan Plowright, who was in the production of "Rhinoceros" with him ... Ten years after one of his reviews, Vivien Leigh still hadn't gotten over what he said about her performance ... At the end of the play, Vivien Leigh, who's starting to unravel mentally, repeats "Macbeth" over and over again as a kind of curse on everyone, especially her husband. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Welles and Olivier take center stage in 'Orson's Shadow' Feb 28, 2007
The actress Joan Plowright makes an appearance, too, as does the actress whom she is soon to replace in the role of Olivier's wife: poor Vivien Leigh, her career and life increasingly clouded by mental illness. The British critic Kenneth Tynan also figures heavily in the action, bringing his two friends together in hopes of advancing his own theatrical ambitions. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Official Oscar Quiz Feb 24, 2007
Laurence Olivier (1948) and Vivien Leigh (1951) (who were not yet married when Leigh won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1939); Paul Newman (1986) and Joanne Woodward (1957). 11. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Hugh Jackman Eyed for 'Gone With the Wind' Broadway Role Feb 23, 2007
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable as Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler are shown in a scene from Gone With The Wind ... Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable as Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler are shown in a scene from Gone With The Wind ... Pace, a popular up-and-comer, is said to resemble Vivien Leigh. (FOX News)
LITERARY MAN TO BE MISSED Feb 20, 2007
It wasn't Merle Oberon you married, it was Vivien Leigh. " Olivier exclaimed, "My dear boy, you are so right. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Oscars fashion Feb 18, 2007
Vivien Leigh, the first British female to receive the best actress Oscar, in 1940 for playing Scarlett O'Hara, imbued the annual Hollywood affair with its first major dose of megawatt glamour. Before Leigh's big night, the Oscars had been dull and dominated by fat-cat studio moguls. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Stage heavies in a new light Feb 18, 2007
At that time, Olivier was still married to Vivien Leigh , whom he would later divorce, and having an affair with Joan Plowright , whom he would later marry. Kenneth Tynan , the 20th century's foremost drama critic in English, was friends with both men. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Theater Minis Feb 15, 2007
The 1960 London staging of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" brought together the legends Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier and the influential British theater critic Kenneth Tynan along with Olivier's mentally shattered wife, the old school movie star Vivien Leigh, and his mistress, Joan Plowright, a practical and down-to-earth young actress. The play is a kind-hearted and often hilarious exploration of great artists as they wrestle for control. (Washington Times, DC)
She loves me... Feb 14, 2007
Vivien Leigh plays a manipulative woman and Clark Gable plays a roguish man, and the characters have a turbulent love affair in America during the Civil War. 9. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Cleopatra, the (not so) beautiful seductress Feb 14, 2007
" The legendary femme fatale, who ruled in the 1st century BC, has been played by Vivien Leigh, Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor - all of whom portrayed her as a dark beauty who drove men to obsession before she committed suicide at the age of 38. But in the last few years the debate over her looks, or lack of, have split many in the academic world. Whilst Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra made reference to her youthful looks and 'infinite variety' others have since claimed she was short,... (Daily Mail)
Timeless tales of passion and loss Feb 14, 2007
Gone with the Wind, produced in 1939 and starring heartthrob Clark Gable and British actress Vivien Leigh, is the movie North Iowans we contacted cited most frequently as the most romantic motion picture of all time. Clark Gable, I could take him any time, said Dori Smith of Britt. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
GWTW actor cashing in on memorabilia Feb 11, 2007
Fred Crane (right), Vivien Leigh and George Reeves (left) are shown in a publicity shot for 'Gone With the Wind ... Today in Barnesville, they will auction off their home and all the bric-a-brac Crane collected over the years, from a Vivien Leigh cigarette case to a Clark Gable travel kit that includes a comb still smelling of his hair tonic ... Numerous pieces of jewelry owned by Vivien Leigh. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Clash of the big-screen titans (Jayne Blanchard) Feb 9, 2007
It's infinitely more fun to peek in on such luminaries as Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Joan Plowright and Kenneth Tynan from a distance than actually be trapped in a room with the outsized egos, florid neuroses, and engulfing sense of need ... Tynan (Will Gartshore), an influential British theater critic, decides to champion his friend by pleading with Olivier (Anthony Newfield) -- who, at the time, was running the National Theatre -- that Welles should direct the London... (Washington Times)
