VIVIEN LEIGH & Claude Rains in "Ceasar and Cleopatra"

VIVIEN LEIGH as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind 1939.🌹

VIVIEN LEIGH as Libby with Charles Laughton in St Martin's Lane (SideWalks of London)

as Katie Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind GWTW 1939. With Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Bárbara O'Neil (Mrs. Ellen O'Hara), Ann Rutherford (Carreen) Evelyn Keyes (Suellen), Rand Brooks (Charles Hamilton) Clark Gable (Rett Butler) and Olivia de Havilland (Mellanie Hamilton).

VIVIEN LEIGH as Libby with Charles Laughton in St Martin's Lane (SideWalks of London)

Source: Vintage Vivien Leigh (English Rose) on Instagram

Vivien Leigh in Serena Blandish, 1938

Vivien Leigh in screentests for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, 1939.

Vivien Leigh, 1930s/40s

“Once I visited her dressing room to find her in tears. I didn’t know the reason, and didn’t like to pry. But later I learned that rumors had reached her, hinting that Olivier had been seen dining after his show with pretty actresses a fraction of his age. The rumors turned out to be only too true.” -Claire Bloom

A copy of That Hamilton Woman was always kept at Chartwell, as it was Sir Winston Churchill’s favorite film. His daughter, Sarah Churchill, later said, “My father used to show it in the private cinema whenever we had important guests until we, the family, all knew it by heart. He never tired of seeing it and it was through this film and his admiration for the Oliviers that they later became friends.”

“She had always loved gambling, and it kept her poor. For this she is not necessarily to be despised. But what I do particularly dislike about Emma in these later years is her habit of regularly fainting at public concerts, whenever and wherever John Braham’s popular ballad The Dead of Nelson was sung. This ballad was promptly inserted into the programme when she went to any theater of concert-hall. And Emma duly and disgustingly fainted in public.” -Excerpt from Vivien’s book review Bradda Field asked her to conduct of Emma Hamilton, called Milady. 

The wonderful Vivien Leigh 🌹

VIVIEN LEIGH as MYRA LESTER WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940)

Vivien Leigh