Vivien Leigh

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That Hamilton Woman,” 1941.

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Anna Karenina (1948)

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Anna Karenina (1948)

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Sidewalks of London, directed by Tim Whelan, 1938

Blancanieves quiere dormir.

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Gentlemen's Agreement, 1935

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Vivien Leigh, 1930s

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Hollywood legend, Vivien Leigh, as Anne Boleyn in a production of Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (1936)

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Supongo que será OI pero fue muy desaprovechada en fotografía. Pocas fotos suyas logran impactarme.

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Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and Tallulah Bankhead at a party given by Hedda Hopper, 1950.

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The love which this anonymous young woman harbours for Maxim comes burning through. Which is part of the problem; her character is just too emphatic for a role requiring the very absence of intensity which Max longs for after the volatility of Rebecca. Also, although Olivier clearly allows the camera to favour Vivien, his performance is muted, somewhat uncommitted. That hint of doubt in his letters seeps into his playing.

Much later he did admit: ‘The worst part of it was I really did not want her to get the part.’ He claimed that with the strain of their divorce worries and the European situation it was perhaps better ‘to have a little vacation from constant togetherness’ which seems special pleading considering that they had been apart for most of the past few months. Very possibly – and given his on-set coolness to Joan Fontaine, finally cast – he wanted Rebecca to be primarily his film; he was now a major star, with his brooding Heathcliff image dominating posters all over America, and might well have been reluctant to co-star with someone whose star-power after Gone With the Wind was released might match – or eclipse – his own. If Vivien sensed any of this, she kept quiet.
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan (x)

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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in Fire Over England (1937). It is the first film where Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier appear together, and Leigh's performance convinced David Selznick to cast her as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939).

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Qué guapísimo veo a Laurence Olivier, mira que antes no me gustaba. Empiezo a entender...

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Creo que Vivien lo encontró con otro tío...

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