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Vivien Leigh

January 2023

  • Full of conviction … Debbie Chazen as Millie Grable in Irrelevant.

    Irrelevant: A Hollywood Tragicom review – broad-brush contender story misses its mark

    Keith Merrill’s monologue about an agent who feels she should have found fame as an actor relies too heavily on backstory and hackneyed lines

April 2022

  • Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

    Truly Madly review – the deadly desire of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier

    Biographer Stephen Galloway’s purple prose does its best to give a romantic sheen to a famously troubled relationship

August 2021

  • 31 July 1977 The double life of Miss Leigh

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: looking back at the fiery life of Vivien Leigh

    Ten years after her death, a stilted and rather unfair portrait of the great actress

June 2020

  • Pete Postlethwaite as Macbeth in 1997

    Foul is fair: stunning shots of Shakespeare's Macbeth – in pictures

    As the RSC’s production starring Christopher Eccleston is broadcast on BBC Four, take a look back at some of the most arresting stagings of the ‘Scottish play’

May 2020

  • Big night … the team root for their film in Ryan Murphy’s series.

    Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood?

    It’s got orgies, arrests, scandals and eccentrics. But is the central story – about gay and black people triumphing in 1940s Tinseltown – realistic? We sift the ugly facts from glossy fiction

February 2020

  • Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.

    A Streetcar Named Desire review – hard times in the Big Easy

    The toxic chemistry between Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando isn’t all about sex in the 1951 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play, now rereleased

October 2019

  • SCOTTY - Scotty Bowers in uniform - Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

    Scotty Bowers, ‘male madame to the stars’, dies aged 96

    Bowers claimed to have slept his way through golden-age Hollywood while helping stars hide and indulge their true sexual natures

September 2018

  • Robert Harris as King John

    Peter O'Toole's Petruchio to Diana Rigg's Cordelia: Shakespeare by Angus McBean – in pictures

    Featuring Christopher Plummer as Richard III, Vivien Leigh as Viola and Charles Laughton as Bottom, Shakespeare by McBean is a volume of the photographer’s shots at the RSC between 1945 and 1962

January 2018

  • A poster for 1958’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, starring Elizabeth Taylor

    Hitchcock, Hepburn and Dirty Harry: vintage movie posters – in pictures

    Produced for classic films such as Psycho, Roman Holiday and The Italian Job, these rare original Hollywood posters are now all worth a pretty penny as cultural antiques

October 2017

  • Bush Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom<br>WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 05: Pulitzer Prize winner and “To Kill A Mockingbird” author Harper Lee smiles before receiving the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House November 5, 2007 in Washington, DC. The Medal of Freedom is given to those who have made remarkable contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, culture, or other private or public endeavors. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Harper Lee

    Unseen Harper Lee letters give intimate view of To Kill a Mockingbird author

    Set to be sold, correspondence shows her fond regard for friends including Gregory Peck and Vivien Leigh, and records her reaction to Barack Obama’s election

August 2017

  • ‘She was an avid reader’ ... Vivien Leigh, circa 1941.

    From Evelyn Waugh to Elizabeth I: Vivien Leigh's eclectic library up for auction

    Personal inscriptions from Winston Churchill, Orson Welles and AA Milne in the actor and avid reader’s library are expected to sell for more than £500,000

September 2016

  • Maxine Peake as Blanche DuBois

    From Maxine Peake to Vivien Leigh: Streetcar's Blanche Dubois – in pictures

    Maxine Peake is the latest actor to play Tennessee Williams’s troubled heroine. Take a look at the other stars who have depended on the kindness of strangers

May 2016

  • Oliver Messel’s Cleopatra headdress for Vivien Leigh being prepared for display.

    Vivien Leigh and designer reunited in exhibition from star's archive

    More than 100 pieces will go on display at Oliver Messel’s home in show charting their twin careers and friendship

July 2015

  • Vivien Leigh, her then husband Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles and Australian performer Robert Helpmann.

    When Orson met Larry: 'Welles was a very bad boy. But he was a great artist'

    It was a clash of two massive egos. As Orson’s Shadow makes its European premiere, its playwright Austin Pendleton about how he turned Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier’s famous theatrical fall out into a play

February 2015

  • Laurence Olivier with Vivien Leigh

    Laurence Olivier’s steamy love letters to Vivien Leigh see light of day

    Hundreds of previously unpublished letters reveal passionate exchanges from one of Hollywood’s greatest affairs

January 2015

  • 'GONE WITH THE WIND' FILM - 1939

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 3 January 1982: Angela Carter reappraises Gone With the Wind

    The film’s ideology still stinks, says Angela Carter, but see what’s going on between the lines…

July 2014

  • Wings of Desire

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about kindness

    Mercy, magnanimity, generosity or sympathy, let's do the decent thing and name songs about human nature's warmer side, says Peter Kimpton

November 2013

  • 1940, WATERLOO BRIDGE

    Vivien Leigh – a life on screen

    Oscar-winner Vivien Leigh – born 100 years ago this month – was always subject to Hollywood's impossible demands on its female stars, writes Michael Newton

  • Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind

    What you should watch this week
    Why Gone with the Wind is the one film you should watch this week - video

    Peter Bradshaw recommends the re-release of the 1939 Civil War epic as his one film to watch this week

  • Vivien Leigh's archive

    From the Guardian archive
    Vivien Leigh, the greatest beauty of her time

    It's 100 years since Vivien Leigh was born. Here's how the Guardian and Observer covered some of her greatest moments, and her untimely death at just 53

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