Vivien Leigh, Waterloo Bridge, 1940
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Vivien Leigh as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1937.
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On one occasion she brought me a couple of rose bushes. It was a cold day in early March. She said, "If you put them in now you'll just make it; this one is called after me - rather pretty, and very sweet of them - and this one," indicating a little bunch of thorns in a plastic bag, "this one is new, I ordered it specially for you, it's called 'Super Star'." And I said, rather lightly, "Then they are both called after you, how lovely." Viv was quite still for a moment, and then her eyes rimmed with tears and she hugged me like a little bear. And we just stood there in the cold garden among the silent roses until she had composed herself.
When she was ill, this last time, she sent me a card with a lady wearing a huge cartwheel hat covered in cherries and lace, an old theatrical postcard, I think it was of Lily Elsie, and she wrote, "This is what I wear in bed to receive my guests and visitors. Don't wait until I'm stronger, I'm simply splendid; do, do come in sometime next week." But there wasn't a next week.
- Dirk Bogarde
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Marilyn Monroe receives farewell kisses from Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as she returns to the US following the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, 1961
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Vivien Leigh is/was super hot and iconic, but I can't help being tickled that Irene Papas beat her because she's SO amazing, but it was such a long shot for her to beat someone so much better known!! Or so I would've thought. Real David and Goliath moment.
one of the shocker polls of round 3! That tie wasn't even on the horizon at the start—I think that's the biggest turnaround we've ever seen on this blog.
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Photos from the personal collection of Vivien Leigh
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Costume designed by René Hubert for Vivien Leigh in That Hamilton Woman (1941)
From Julien's Auctions
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Once I went into her dressing room and found her in tears. But Vivien in tears was not like anyone I knew; no sniffles, no swollen eyes. She simply sat at her table, in her beautiful scarlet costume, and diamond tears rolled down her cheeks. - CLAIRE BLOOM, Leaving a Doll's House
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