The Vivien Leigh Archive

Explore the extraordinary life of one of Britain’s most celebrated actresses, Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), through items from her personal collection of letters, scrapbooks, photographs and treasures. Featuring exclusive interviews with Leigh’s co-stars from the golden age of Hollywood.
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[@abbye8482]

I believe she won the role of Scarlett because she had a beauty that was not only pretty, but cute. She smiled and all that you hated about her melted away. If any other actress played that role they would have been hated all thru the film. She was and will always be the best.

[@maybrittrnningen580]

I am one of them WHO hates Scarlett.That is the ONLY movie i have seen with Vivien.She got a rude and nasty personality.

[@Books_Makeup]

Scarlet was not actually beautiful in the book. Selznick told Katherine Hepburn that she was not pretty enough to play the part which was bull. That's my only complaint about Leigh playing Scarlett in Gone With The Wind. Otherwise she was perfectly cast.

[@KTR2022]

@@Books_Makeup Obviously they could never follow the book in that matter. Can you even imagine if the biggest contenders for that role, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn and even Norma Shearer did get to play her? I'm a huge fan of Bette but she was completely wrong for this part despite playing Jezebel, let's not even mention the other two. Miriam Hopkins was said to have been Margaret Mitchell's personal choice and Paulette Goddard almost got the role but she was completely off. In the end, they had to get a very beautiful actress to play Scarlett, a pretty face that could get away with all the bitching she did and still keep audiences interested out of pure acting talent. It had to be Vivien! haha

[@Alfakkin]

She was indeed...a magnificent talent 😍

[@cance7984]

There will never be another one like her.

[@lilypond5158]

She was my grandma's favorite actress. And now she's mine.

[@johnvanfloydlawson9955]

She was stunning

[@johnvanfloydlawson9955]

Yes lilly nice one.beautiful...

[@torilllundborn7899]

When I saw Gone with the wind, for the first time...I was in a sort of trance of this movie..her face expressed every feeling in her. I think of all Stars ever and whatever nationality..she was the best actress I have ever seen on a screen Just Amazing

[@FecitAnon]

She was stunningly gorgeous and brilliant. Superb actress. A true star.

[@sharronpotocki7130]

she was lovely but Hedy Lamar was an absolute beauty I dont think I have ever seen a more beutiful woman not only that she had a very high IQ

[@diane4537]

I think they were equals. Hedy was a brain. Too bad she had a down side as well.

[@christophepena2212]

@@sharronpotocki7130 hedy was not more beautiful than vivien...when you see the movies of both...you see it...more than that hedy had no personality on the screen...and no talent as an actress...

[@garypatterson2055]

@@sharronpotocki7130 Vivien Leigh's bipolar disorder, then known as ( manic depression )made some people think that she was crazy. She was anything but crazy. People assume that've you have a mental illness, your some how dumb. Every documentary that've ever seen about Vivien applied that she was actually very intelligent and intellectual. She read all sorts of literature about space to romantic novels. All her co stars said that she was very sharp witted and a great hostess. Hedy Lamar had a great IQ, so did Vivien Leigh. Just thought that I'd add this comment. R.I.P. Vivien. You were a true Hollywood star. God bless you.❤🙏🙏🙏xx.

[@angiesmilth5325]

She was a genius 🤩 wow

[@65wiseman]

Vivien Leigh didn't act; she became her characters.

[@jarnopylkkanen5453]

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[@TWTR4EVER]

As Blanche would say, "I Have Always Depended On The Kindness Of Strangers"..........Brilliant

[@susancarter2365]

I love her. She was a brilliant actress. Her performance as Blanche was amazing.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

A great documentary on Viv and the archives of her extraordinary life. The great beauty and talent.

[@jjcameron7977]

So brilliantly put together. She was astonishing actress.

[@RossCompose]

I was thrilled to find a two display cases from these wonderful archives when I was in London in 2017. The items from Streetcar were especially interesting to me as I love Tennessee Williams and Leigh's two roles in two of his major film versions. The V&A is AMAZING!

[@haintedhouse3052]

she said that "Waterloo Bridge" was her favorite film. it was probably a relief after a huge project like "Gone With The Wind."

[@charlessingletary4113]

Vivien Leigh was the greatest Actress to ever lived bar none.

[@meganagetro6302]

First time I ever saw her was in gwtw in 2011. She had a Talent and beauty combination that was so unique.

[@coolsdon]

1.58..That Angus McBean double exposure shot is just stunning!

[@steveprice448]

And only twenty films under her belt. WOW, THATS HISTRIONIC!!!

[@damianop100]

Many many years ago I went to the cinema to see a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. I was especially looking forward to seeing Brando again, but found that I couldn't take my eyes off of Vivien Leigh. Someone once said that after the film version of Streetcar there was no need for any other actress to play Blanche DuBois, that Vivien had hit every note of the role so perfectly that it was complete.

[@MrEmilio6969]

Now I know she was from England. Beautiful lady.

[@danielemoura1983]

I fell in love with this woman when I was a child and my love will live forever!

[@gummybear41283]

you can't fall in love with another woman

[@danielemoura1983]

@@gummybear41283 Indeed!!!

[@gummybear41283]

@@danielemoura1983 yes I'm in love with her

[@sandrakenney567]

She was so beautiful. Those eyes of hers when she was young so beautiful. Rest in peace Viviane Godbless You Amen. 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🦋🦋🦋🦋🐬🐬🐬🕊🕊🕊🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷💐💐💐🙏

[@mariaboletsis3188]

LOVE That Hamilton Woman!!!!

[@katekrissana]

Beautiful lady. I love both her winning Oscar movies

[@indigocheetah4172]

My mother met Vivien Leigh when she visited Australia . Mum said she was smaller than average , but when she was introduced to Vivien . Her smile was enchanting and she was beautiful . The story is longer as my mother told it to me so many times . I had watched GWTW. I wanted to know everything . Very happy memories for both of us .

[@underated17]

5'3 is average for a woman! I think her height really suits her and the height difference between her and Clark Gable was perfect!

[@indigocheetah4172]

@@underated17, my mother said that Vivien was an exquisite lady. My Mum was 5ft 4in (1.63 m)s, so a similar height. I haven't met a screen and stage actress, but if I met them in real life, I would probably also think that they were taller. Clark and Vivien were perfect together.

[@underated17]

@@indigocheetah4172 Wow she got to meet Vivian? Does Vivian have Armenian roots?

[@indigocheetah4172]

@@underated17, I don't know. This was when she was on tour in Australia.

[@geraldinebowbia5176]

Absolutely stunning 🙏😢❤️

[@andyroo9381]

So very interesting. I am so glad this popped up.

[@TermiteUSA]

Love you forever Viv

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

Waterloo Bridge is a Beautiful film starring Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor. Highly Recommended 😊😍👍

[@brigitteunterweger5711]

Vivien Leigh did not like Clark Gable. He had problems with his teeth and had bad breath and she complained about it often. That made me respect more, since they had quite a lot of love scenes. It takes a great actress to not show it how she really felt about him.

[@46foryounger]

A legend✨

[@loriperry2640]

I love her she is amazing! Wish I could have met her she would be great to have tea with!

[@nancyayers6355]

Maybe so ... Once she rushed back home to be with u after a short trip to town hunting fora willing stranger to screw in public - Vivling was once described by a movie critic as a "galloping nymphomaniac!" in real life, and those excursions when a guest was expected, are real!

[@partycentralsales]

@@nancyayers6355 Sadly, hypersexuality occurs in some people who suffer from bipolar disorder.

[@nanwilder2853]

@@partycentralsales: It’s actually quite common in Bipolar Disorder.

[@AustrianAdrian]

The most beautiful AND talented actress in movie history. Put together the talent of Bette Davis and the looks of Hedy Lamarr. Olivier definatly limited her movie carreer as he knew she was far superior on screen (which he was on stage). Really a pity - after GWTW she could have had the biggest carreer ever.

[@andrewpalframan4666]

Simply not true.Olivier would have dissuaded her from a career in the theatre if anything.He simply didn't care for film making,so it would have made more sense to encourage her to make MORE films.Her decision to turn her back on Hollywood was her decision,she hated the place and was only too happy to devote her time and talent to the English classical tradition on stage.

[@terrihilder8217]

@@andrewpalframan4666 I don't know about that. Read some biographies about VL's and Olivier's relationship. The other commenter has a valid point. Olivier had her convinced that being on the stage was 'real' acting. Olivier didn't like Hollywood. It was to her detriment. She even herself knew that she really didn't have the voice to be great on stage. It was considered too light and high pitched. She became good on stage, but her true talents were in front of the camera. She understood the camera better than even Olivier did on screen. But she wanted to stay with him in the UK.You're wrong when you say Olivier encouraged her to act in films in Hollywood. He encouraged her to act on stage. Read Anne Edwards biography. Before David Selznick had to cut her loose, he had to sue her because she wouldn't come back to the US and act in movies to honor a contract. No, Olivier did not encourage that until much later in their marriage.

[@fizzao1342]

The war also got in the way.

[@nancyayers6355]

Vivien Leigh and Hedy Lamar were both Scorpios, and known for their prowess in bed, but Vivien's sex drive was stronger than Hedy's!

[@maya_jones3411]

LOL Hedy is younger than Vivien by a year, so it’s actually Hedy that looks like Vivien.

[@annamariafacchiano1688]

Interesting video.

[@mercedesfernandezgarcia4822]

Pongan subtítulos en español, por favor.

[@youandwhosearmy6339]

Curator looks like a Norwegian writer called Tore Renberg.

[@mrsx7944]

Claire Bloom speaks so eloquently.

[@richardmoon1852]

thannks

[@quinnmorlotti]

Does anyone know when the exhibition begins?

[@Loopyloualways]

There'sNoPlaceLikeHome it ran for a few months back in 2013 to coincide with Vivien Leigh's 100th birthday

[@James-c3j2f]

Run for the hills vivain

[@lindajones7219]

Beautiful oh yes bbut the most beautiful woman ever was the truly magnificent Olivia de Haviland a True Star her gentle beautiful face and her manner was well theres no words for her

[@francesvansiclen1444]

Linda- I tend to agree- love Olivia- I notice in one of the pictures was Gina Lolabridgia; she was gorgeous !

[@kathrynmcmorrow7170]

My father would agree on this. I was surprised when he told me he liked her more than Leigh in GWTW. But then again, his first marriage (my mother) was also with a woman as desperately bipolar as Vivien Leigh! 🙄

[@mahnoorfatima331]

@@kathrynmcmorrow7170 desperately bipolar? Really? Does it come with a choice of intensity???

[@kathrynmcmorrow7170]

@@mahnoorfatima331 🙏 Spoken like a champ.

[@seanliamgo]

Did she ever become a Dame?

[@nancyayers6355]

Yes, after hubby, Sir Lawrence Olivier was knighted by Queen Elizabeth!! And she was very jealous of him for it - wore all-black that day, with no jewelry. This couple grew jealous of each other's talent, and she exhausted him in bed, hitting him with a wet towel if he came home and fell asleep without taking care of HER sexual needs, which consumed her! She eventually forced him to seek a divorce!

[@anthonyhebisen]

Nancy Ayers sorry Nancy, she never became a dame . She became Lady Olivier once her husband was knighted :)

[@terrihilder8217]

VL should have been a Dame. I think if she had lived longer she would have been.

[@nealhurwitz]

fab

[@babakbabak1414]

❤❤❤❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@mrsx7944]

It's weird that her daughter looked so different from her. And not in a good way. VL was stunning.

[@dxmxo9427]

1957,you mean 1937?...

[@diane4537]

Vivien and Hedy had the world at their feet but then they both got old. Face it. That is the way it is.

[@shadrach6299]

Diane Chavez Vivian was bipolar and died of TB.

[@vivling999]

Vivien died at the age of 54! You consider that old??

[@flower_girl4983]

Yeah, Audrey was in her 40s and she didn't get nay great roles in the 70s

[@lisaa8795]

Unfortunately this seems to happen only to actresses - older actors get paired with much younger actresses all the time. Over - 50 actresses stopped working unless they began their careers in character parts.

[@Indomita506]

Dumb*ss take

[@user-zx2pu1jr4c]

低評価つけてる人って彼女の何を知ってて着けてるの？

[@michelleregis6181]

yeah she could act..tut tut

[@rogerpropes7129]

In her prime she represented for me the ideal woman and actress. Nevertheless I thought her acting was limited to the quintessential simpering coquette in every role. She thought she was not equal to Olivier's talent. George Bernard Shaw said she was doing Cleopatra all wrong in the movie, reducing her to the coquette when she was supposed to be intellectual. Dick Cavett said she misinterpreted Blanche in Streetcar. She didn't have much of a figure, quite thin. I liked her best as Emma Hamilton and Anna Karenina, the latter film spoiled by a nondescript Vronsky. Every time I watch GWTW I see ludicrous things like her hairdos, make-up and costumes, nobody looked like that in the 1860s. Just look at old photographs.

[@anthonyhebisen]

In 1938, the make up department along with the costume designer, Walter Plunkett approaches producer David O Selznick and asked him if they should give Olivia de Havilland a authentic 1860’s look , of the 1940 glamorized representation of the era that he ordered Vivien Leigh to be done in. He left the decision to Olivia herself, and she wanted the authentic look. Selznick was considering replacing Plunkett early on because his costumes for Scarlett , were mundane. There was a designer named Muriel King who sketched her version of the drapery dress and it was acclaimed by Margaret Mitchell privately. However, her asking price for her services were astronomical and by then, Plunkett started turning in the glamorized costumes Selznick had wanted . You can google the Muriel King Sketch.

[@rogerpropes7129]

@@anthonyhebisen The late Ann Rutherford who played the youngest sister was interviewed and said she approached Selznick to say he need not spend so much money on her underwear which no one would see. He told her he wanted her to really feel like the daughter of a rich southern planter..

[@terrihilder8217]

Roger Propes Did I just read that you quoted "Dick Cavett" of all people, that said that VL "misinterpreted Blanche" in Streetcar? Lol How many Academy Awards does "Dick Cavett" have? Please...I think you posted that comment somewhere else. Because supposedly Dick Cavett's wife who nobody has heard of played Blanche in a play somewhere? Wow, thanks for the laugh. VL only won an Academy Award for it in an iconic role that people to this day still talk about. Tell you what, in Marlon Brando's biography, he said VL was awesome and was better than Jessica Tandy, whom he had worked with. Sorry, I'll take the great Marlon Brando's opinion to heart over your buddy Dick Cavett anyday. lol As far as the George Bernard Shaw Cleopatra role, GBS hand-picked Vivien to play the role. So he has only himself to blame if he didn't like the interpretation. GBS had worked with Vivien Leigh in the "Doctors Dilemma" play that had so much success in London after her GWTW success. It was a very successful play for over a year. Apparently, GBS wasn't happy that the Cleopatra movie wasn't a big box office success.

[@anthonyhebisen]

@@terrihilder8217 i like you .

[@terrihilder8217]

@@anthonyhebisen Ahhh, thank you. Just wanted to let you know I have loved, loved, loved many of your thoughtful, well-written and informative posts about the late, great Vivien Leigh that I have seen. I am a fan as well. Thank you for the kind words.

[@BrendaEaster-c8k]

This presenter sounds pretentious, but I know it is an upper crust accent. It also makes him sound like a pouf....jez sayin.

[@lowesonia8551]

NO ONE WAS HER EQUAL. THROUGHOUT HER LIFE. THE VIVACIOUS EXQUISITE BEAUTY PRESENCE AND GRACE SET HER APART. HER ILLNESS NEVER DIMINISHED HER TALENT . ABSOLUTELY ADORED HER .

[@Alfakkin]

I completely agree with you...

[@peterbreughel4440]

She's on the screen for about four hours straight in "Gone with the Wind" and you never get tired of looking at her.

[@recoveringintrovert717]

No, on top of being otherworldly in her beauty at all times, she's just got this charisma that glues your eyes to her

[@arthurmaestrini4350]

That's really impressive!! I say the same for "Waterloo Bridge" and "That Hamilton Woman"

[@Tiffin59]

In the garden along the River Avon behind the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, there is a small stone memorial to Vivien Leigh. By it, stands a glass jar with a fresh red rose in water. It is changed regularly....... by someone.

[@Alfakkin]

❤️

[@recoveringintrovert717]

How lovely. I want more than myself when I die for her to be always remembered. I don’t know why I feel that way, I just do. I hate that she's gone and we only have her after image

[@nikkibrookhart699]

She was beautiful..but beautiful in a natural way.. I think she was most beautiful when she smiled

[@anaale1306]

Vivien Leigh, the best actress and the most beautiful in history! What a very brave woman! Always in my Heart!

[@colinpsykes]

In every sense, there is this scale and enormity about her. So beautiful, so smart, so talented, so ambitious, so amorous, so loving, so difficult, so possessive, so carnal, so fun, so determined, so poised, so wicked, so charmed, so honoured and respected, but so troubled, so (ultimately) unwell. It’s strange how naturally you, as the viewer, can suspend disbelief and see Scarlett O’hara, Cleopatra, Blanche DuBois. Most people don’t have that kind of presence.

[@Sarah-wf2bl]

Vivien Leigh is an incomparable talent. There has never been and will never be an actress like her. So much beauty and skill wrapped up in a tiny frame!

[@ddaaron6357]

You are so right about Vivien Leigh

[@charlessingletary4113]

Should have won the Oscar for every movie she made.

[@romanclay1913]

Leigh was the greatest British actor. Her favorite film was WATERLOO BRIDGE.

[@nicholastroutman5931]

That is also my favorite of all her films opposite the gorgeous Robert Taylor. I was hoping this clip would mention Waterloo Bridge, I was disappointed that it wasn't. With all of the turmoil that's occurring here in the states I'm so grateful I can escape into a short history of the Life and Times of Vivien Leigh.

[@colleencupido5125]

@@nicholastroutman5931 Robert Taylor went on record saying Waterloo Bridge was His favorite film.

[@elenaelena9711]

Unforgettable and unique as an actress. In Russia we had a film critic, who wrote a book about her, they were corresponding. In his book you could see a sequence of her close ups from Waterloo Bridge, when she all of a sudden recognizes her beloved one at the railway station. The way she expresses her emotions just with her eyes is unsurpassed. I admire Vivien Leigh. She is wonderful in all her films.

[@taniatinn9072]

She had so many demons and sadness in her life, i guess she brought this to her roles. She was absolutely a great actress.

[@MrQbenDanny]

BRAVO!!!BRAVISSIMO!!!! VIVA VIVIEN LEIGH!!!! Thank You so much for this fantastic documentary on the great LEIGH who gave the GREATEST performance ever captured on film as Scarlett O'Hara. "She was born so Scarlett O'Hara could LIVE ". I believe Olivier was the worst decision she ever made. He was a pompous overactor who was jealous of her natural gifts born with on film, and likely to have a sadistic pleasure in making her feel inferior as an artist. Gorgeous women have ALWAYS been felt as lacking true talent in show business, and were humiliated and exploited. Just look what the great "Gentleman",Larry said about the great Hollywood Icon MARYLIN MONROE on his film "The Prince and the Showgirl", it's on KZbin and note the sadistic pleasure in exploiting MARILYN he gets talking to a journalist. Absolutely devastating. Many decades ago, I met Karl Malden at a party in New York City and told him my parents spent their honeymoon in New York City in 1947 and saw him in Streetcar named desire on Broadway, he smiled and said: "Did they NOTICE me?"hahaha... I told him my parents loved him and felt more pain for HIM than Blanche!!! The Broadway Blanche was also British JESSICA TANDY, I asked him about Marlon Brando and LEIGH... About her he said: "She was a genius as Blanche, I was in awe of her and couldn't believe I was acting with Scarlett O'Hara!!!". I have always believed Williams created Blanche from Scarlett...and so brilliantly done! Vivien Leigh brought that English European Elegance to both characters, something the American actresses who auditioned for the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara didn't naturally have, I'm sure DAVID Selznick loved it in casting her.

[@mspixiedust100]

She seems so modern, even then. She could totally fit in today.

[@poohbearsauntie]

mspixiedust100 ~ I Truly Wish With All My Heart That She Was Still With Us.. Alive.. Today.💔

[@elizabethventurini8088]

Too much talent and class for today.

[@maya_jones3411]

Her FACE was also modern mixed in with classic beauty. If Vivien was alive today she’d be the most naturally beautiful celebrity.

[@charlottebuchanan3193]

This was a really good mini doc. VL was beautiful in an "other worldly" sort of way.

[@georgelong9782]

This was a great but short documentary. Very interesting interviews and pictures. Vivien Leigh is one of my favorite actresses. Great beauty but also GREAT talent. She DOES remind me of a cat with her unusually green eyes and strange, catlike smile. It's too bad she didn't make more color films;only 4.She always looked so elegant and classy too.

[@jimrick6632]

HER PHYSICAL HEALTH WAS POOR AND OF COURSE THIS AFFECTED HER MENTAL HEALTH...SHE DIED WAY TOO SOON....SAD....

[@shadrach6299]

JIM RICK TB and bipolar

[@epluribusunum1460]

@@shadrach6299 I wondered if any other viewers here knew about the tragedy of her life with bipolar disorder.

[@pamtufnell6751]

Scarlet O'Hara was leigh

[@MrRight1000]

Her beauty is timeless just like that of Nefertiti who lived 3000 years ago.

[@shadrach6299]

Streetcar Named Desire was and still very disturbing to me. Excellent performances. Tennessee Williams always presented women as helpless and dependent. Maggie the Cat started out weak but she prevailed so maybe his viewpoint was changing. My sister wrote a term paper in English class regarding Williams portrayal of women.

[@amybaker4654]

I think that was influenced by his sexuality and was a kind of mysogyny.

[@omfug7148]

@@amybaker4654but he also had a sympathy toward women living in an age where they had no power, his sister, to whom he was extremely close, was mentally ill (she was the inspiration for Laura in the Glass Menagerie) I think that Williams felt a sense of fragility of desire and ambition thwarted at least in some of his female characters (who usually were the most important characters in his plays, it is the men who are either ciphers (like Tom or even the "gentleman caller" in Menagerie) or brutal meat heads driven by their sexuality like Stanley. My favorite play in many ways is Summer and Smoke where Alma (the name means Soul) cannot bring herself to act on her attraction to the doctor next door (constrained by the mores of the time when women were expected to repress desire) yet ends up as a whore basically.

[@stuartwray6175]

shadrach I find Tennessee William's struggle for expression and identity heroic given his family background - which permeates his work. His love and loyalty towards his sister is also admirable.

[@flower_girl4983]

I never thought old films would give me any emotions, but that film made me cry wen I watched it yesterday

[@pennydavis2637]

I think Tennessee Williams was simply a man of his time, when any “properly” raised gentlemen AUTHENTICALLY, and NATURALLY saw the man’s role as protectors, leaders, and providers for women in general...Men very much still had manners, honor, and respect toward women then...Not all of course but most..Because it did not end well if another gentleman saw a man being abusive, lewd, and disrespectful to a female in public for sure, and if a man was abusive behind closed doors, they would have that females family to deal with...Etc...Men were still the primary providers, protectors of women, of course he saw things that way in general but knew there was those unusual cases at that time, where women had to be the backbone too, in a multitude of ways because families were much bigger than today!

[@scheckdj]

I always thought the 2 most beautiful actress' in Hollywood back then were Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh and for me what separated them apart was Liz was an alright actress and Vivien was a GREAT actress!!

[@valeriegriner5644]

I totally agree!

[@thebeatnumber]

Hedy Lamar, Lauren Bacall, Gene Tierney

[@nicolettafourikis5749]

Liz Taylor was gorgeous buy diddnt have the soft features that Vivian Leigh had.

[@ahyan6681]

I think Liz has her great roles and her terrible ones, her best is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, I recommend A Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

[@annepurcell100]

Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh and Grace Kelly...😀

[@arimarianne7528]

6:39 It truly was “an incredible ordeal, the filming of [Gone with the Wind].” Not only was Vivian Leigh in almost every single scene of the film, not only was the script changed almost daily, not only did she have to wear the heavy and confining clothes of the day in the heat, but she had to do it all under the incredibly bright and hot lighting for Technicolor filming that the camera technician described as working in Death Valley. The director, Victor Fleming, deliberately goaded her and angered her throughout the filming process. She apparently chain smoked between scenes to deal with the stress. And to top it off, she wasn’t allowed by the studio to see her partner, Laurence Olivier, at her house-iirc she saw him rarely or never-during the filming. They had guards placed around her residence so her married partner could not come to see her (also married) and cause a scandal, because the studio wanted to tightly control her public image. It was a terrible ordeal, and she still shines so brightly through the entire movie.

[@ivangomez123]

Jesus H Christ all the stars in the book of Vivien: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Orson Welles, Sir Alec Guinness, Richard Burton and Judy Garland.

[@TheCluelessOne022]

My all-time favorite actress....

[@carolmufarrij777]

This is a treasure!!! There is new insight here.Thank you.

[@steveprice448]

The MOST ELECTRICAL OF ACTRESSES!!! She devastated me in Anna Karanina! Committing suicide for her sins. OMFG!!! I cried for days

[@stellaogilvie2478]

Steve Price: you would love her in the movie Waterloo bridge! So heartbreaking!🙄

[@anaale1306]

It's My opinion. Vivien's only mistake, was Larry. He was professionally jealous, always. Let's remember the delivery of the Oscars of 1940. All the spotlight on Vivien. He was cruel in his memoir with her, 1982 My support always with my Dear Vivien Leigh🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@katiescarlett65]

She was born in 1913, not 1915. People need to do their research beforehand.

[@robertholliston]

She was also in pictures well before the era of Lauren Bacall and Ava Gardner - another major and easily avoidable gaffe!

[@nanwilder2853]

Katiescarlett65: I am sorry but you are mistaken! The narrator DID say 1913, as I was paying close attention: My Grandmother was born in 1899, which I realized made her 14 years older than Vivien Leigh. (You might want to give some Meditation videos a try)....

[@nanwilder2853]

@@reasonrestored9116: Who do you think YOU are, calling a complete stranger-who wasn’t even talking to you-a “bitch”?! Project much?

[@paperchain1232]

Brilliant woman- classy talented and unique- her roles have given me an insight to myself and this has been with me always, love you 💗💓❤💕💐

[@elderlypoodle9181]

What a wonderful video . I truly appreciate this. Thank you .

[@randallgonzaloazofeifaarce8964]

She is Eternal

[@acastrohowell]

True beauty

[@Danielevanssmith]

Thank you for this short but beautiful overview of Vivian's life. I especially enjoyed Claire Bloom's comments.

[@BadGuyRants]

My Queen💔

[@emilinebelle7811]

I didn’t know she was British. Now I’m sad she got the southern belle part in gone with the wind. But having witnessed her perfect performance, can’t think of a better actress for that role. She convinced me she was a southern belle

[@donaldcasey5989]

A great actress the first time I saw Gone with the wind, she captured me she's one of the reasons that I love old movies. besides she could play the on screen one the best norodic.

[@Akenaten1]

My absolutely favourite actress of all time. Love Vivien!

[@gummybear41283]

I'm in love with Vivien and I was born after she died

[@blondthought5175]

We share a birthday, but that's about it. I could use some of her mania.

[@nancyayers6355]

Too bad ... Brunettes have all the fun!

[@cleasterwilliams4623]

Love all her movies ❤️, it's really ashame she became ill.

[@angelinanobile6212]

She wasn’t bipolar……living with Olivier,who was a habitual homosexual philanderer, that would drive any woman into the throws of depression. Danny Kaye and Olivier were often lovers for over 20 years even though Kaye was married and stayed married to the same woman for 40 years.

[@janethu9169]

Lady Hamilton. Beautiful

[@Gregory......]

What a Great Actress !! If she would have moved to Hollywood, she would have owned it !!

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

heavenly looks :)

[@ryansutter4291]

7:15 to 7:20.... An ORIGINAL Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in their house?😮

[@margo6347]

Love her ❤ Beautiful 😍 There is a reason why Gone WITH The Wind is on lots of best films of all time lists ! Legend so Beautiful yet troubled too she will never be forgotten ❤

[@1956soulmate]

We don't mind if an English woman plays Scarlett O'Hara, as long as she ain't a Yankee! Just joking!

[@tizianamorandi5381]

My favorite movie with Vivein Leigh is Waterloo Bridge ....Vivien and Robert Taylor were perfect.

[@charmedprince]

Like I've said in another video of Vivien Leigh, she is the most beautiful actress in the world, alive or dead.

[@charmedprince]

Gosh, their pencrafts on the visitors log were art.

[@MicaRayan]

She follows her own styles... she looks like Audrey Hepburn + Grace Kelly

[@shilpisharma5864]

She was born in Darjeeling, India. What? What the hell. Never known this before 🙂

[@romanclay1913]

Like George Orwell, Kim Philby and Julie Christie.

[@jeanmank742]

A stunning actress, and the most beautiful woman who will ever walk this planet.