British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Vivien Leigh
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*Includes pictures. *Includes quotes about Vivien's life and
career, including her own quotes. *Includes a bibliography for
further reading. I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film
star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
- Vivien Leigh A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of
history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is
lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' British Legends
series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of
Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to
finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten
or never known. The 1930s were the height of the classical
Hollywood era, and it is no accident that 1939 has historically
been designated as the pinnacle of Hollywood film history. The era
was known for its lavish studio productions, with MGM, RKO, Warner
Brothers, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox all operating at the
height of their powers. Every major studio possessed a long roster
of contract players, with films released at such a rapid pace that
it made for an especially competitive environment within the
industry. Even while America remained in the throes of the Great
Depression, the film industry continued to flourish, and movies
easily supplanted the theater as the main attraction for American
entertainment. Of course, what made 1939 the watershed year was the
release of several critically acclaimed movies, including The
Wizard of Oz and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But the most famous
of the bunch, and perhaps the most famous movie of all, is Gone
With the Wind, and one of the most remarkable aspects of the film
is that the quintessential Southern belle was played by Vivien
Leigh, a British actress still relatively unknown in Hollywood.
Vivien was an accomplished stage actress and had already appeared
in foreign films during the 1930s, but she was a complete dark
horse to get the iconic role she's still associated with, and it
only came about because of her persistence in getting cast for the
role. 30 years after Gone With the Wind was released, one film
critic credited Selznick's inspired casting of Vivien Leigh as
Scarlett with the film's success. Another 30 years later, the same
critic wrote that Leigh still lives in our minds and memories as a
dynamic force rather than as a static presence. While Gone With the
Wind made Leigh a big name practically overnight, she continued to
buck the usual trend by doing Broadway and even appearing on stage
in London during the 1940s, instead of focusing on movies. A lot of
this was no doubt due to her famous marriage to Laurence Olivier,
himself an accomplished stage and film actor. At the same time,
Vivien became notorious for being difficult to work with and
unusually temperamental, a byproduct of bipolar disorder that
frequently affected her mood and occasionally left her incoherently
hysterical. Nevertheless, Vivien was able to recapture the magic in
1951's A Streetcar Named Desire, which cast her in the role of
Southern belle yet again. Phyllis Harnoll praised Leigh's Blanche
DuBois by saying that, in the London stage production of the play,
she showed, proof of greater powers as an actress than she had
hitherto shown. In fact, it was actually during her time as DuBois
that she reached the pinnacle of her stage career. Likewise, her
role in the movie was described as one of the greatest performances
ever put on film and one of those rare performances that can truly
be said to evoke both fear and pity. Unfortunately, her life and
career faced constant upheaval by both her mental and physical
maladies, including tuberculosis, which led to a premature death in
1967. British Legends: The Life and Legacy of Vivien Leigh examines
the life and career of one of Hollywood's most famous actresses.
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