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Mar 5, 2016 · Laurence Olivier bought the house (the former coach cottage belonging to the larger Durham House next door) as a London base for he and Vivien Leigh. Using quotes from biographies and excerpts and rare photos from vintage Swedish magazines, Lena was able to plot out what the house looked like when the Oliviers lived there from 1937-1956.
Apr 4, 2011 · Vivien Leigh appeared on the programme on September 9, 1952. Unfortunately the audio isn’t available at this time, but it is really interesting to see which songs she chose. I think it reveals she had quite eclectic (aka awesome) yet refined taste in music. I see Vivien and I both share(d) a love for a little Ludwig Van! Vivien’s picks:
Aug 9, 2013 · This was where Vivien Leigh played Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth in 1945 before she fell ill with tuberculosis. 9. Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In 1942, Vivien Leigh made her return to the British stage after her successful sojourn in Hollywood. The play was George Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma and it was staged at the Theatre Royal ...
In the biography Vivien Leigh by Hugo Vickers, the author mentions an account David Niven wrote about Vivien’s complete nervous breakdown in Hollywood, 1953. Niven disguises Vivien’s name as “Missie” so as not to reveal her identity (most likely out of respect for their friendship while Vivien was alive).
His situation was now rather like that of Leigh Holman (Vivien’s first husband) nearly 20 years earlier. Holman had stood by in a state of numbed perplexity while his wife, whom he loved dearly, scarcely bothered to conceal even in his presence her passion for the youthful “Larry Olivier”.
Feb 3, 2010 · The cat’s out of the bag; “Missie” was Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh aka Missie. In Confessions of An Actor, Laurence Olivier talks about David Niven and Stewart Granger being there with Vivien during her infamous 1953 breakdown during the filming of Elephant Walk. Because Larry was in Ischia at the time, it took him a few days to get back ...
The voice, too, would have been Vivien Leigh’s if she had read the amende honorable I intend to make now, to wit, that as a comedienne she was the most elegant, skilful and enchanting of any I have ever seen, and that as a serious actress her performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone with the Wind, had made her quite likely to have been the “Hedda Gabler” of our time.
Vivien’s former co-star and lover, Peter Finch remembers the parties at Notley in Gwen Robyns’ Light of a Star: An attitude circulated that these weekend parties were in some way exclusive gatherings of a small and somewhat superior theatrical clique.
Apr 2, 2011 · Elaine Dundy, a critic and ex-wife of Kenneth Tynan, recounts her experience of interviewing Vivien Leigh backstage at the National Theatre in Washington DC. She describes Leigh as a cat-like, adventurous, and outspoken actress who snubbed her and refused to talk.
Feb 19, 2011 · Vivien a Love Affair in Camera by Angus McBean — One of only two (if you count Vivien Leigh by John Russell Taylor) photography books focusing on Vivien Leigh that have been published. Angus McBean was known for his surrealist portraits of celebrities and photographed Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier numerous times throughout their careers (as did his assistant, John Vickers).
