tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25520654533819859172024-03-27T16:53:28.254-07:00 Vivien LeighVivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-89363338961629070152018-05-16T14:46:00.000-07:002018-05-16T15:02:07.663-07:00The Double Life of Vivien LeighTops Magazine<br />
February, 1955<br />
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The London audience that jammed the theatre to see Vivien Leigh enact the role of Blanche in the sizzling play version of<i> A Streetcar Named Desire</i> will never forget her starkly realistic portrayal of a sex-ridden woman.<br />
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Playgoers sat silently in rapt attention as she went through the uninhibited sexual gyrations of a nymphomaniac.<br />
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"Miss Leigh's lust," wrote one critic, "rolls off the stage like a tropical storm cloud, causing vague stirrings in old codgers far past their prime."<br />
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But it was the closing minutes of the play that would later be regarded with such deep significance-- when the sex-mad heroine, unable to satisfy her craving for more and more lascivious adventures, suffers a complete mental breakdown. Vivien Leigh's real-life breakdown, years later, seems to parallel her <i>Streetcar </i>role in more ways than one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the London stage as Blanche Dubois</td></tr>
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Even at the height of her success in this play, close friends of the actress were already noting how fervently she was throwing herself into the part. In gesture, in voice, in other ways, Vivien was even acting out the role of a tormented woman <i>off the stage</i>.<br />
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That Vivien Leigh was leading a strange double life first came to public notice a few months ago, when it was learned that the actress had made a trip to Paris in the company of playwright Terence Rattigan.<br />
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But Vivien's Parisian adventure was not the only incident that has kept London's West End tattlers gossiping about the actress' dual personality.<br />
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Actually, it all began when she landed a part in a new play co-starring with one of England's most rapidly rising young stars, Laurence Olivier.<br />
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Although Vivien was already married and the mother of a beautiful little girl, she was unable to resist the attentions of Olivier. During the successful run of the play, <i>Fire Over London [Fire Over England]</i>, the most torrid love scenes undoubtedly took place backstage.<br />
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Friends of Vivien, aware of what was going on, were worried about her. They already knew that for her, love was an all-embracing and overpowering emotion. If sufficiently aroused, she could kick over the traces of her past life.<br />
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She did. She divorced her husband, bade her daughter a tearful farewell, and ended the first act of her real-life drama by throwing herself into Olivier's eager arms.<br />
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For a while, all was serene. Olivier rapidly became England's greatest actor, culminating in his remarkable production of<i> Hamlet</i>. For his superb artistry, he was knighted. And Vivien automatically became Lady Olivier.<br />
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But by now there were ugly rumours in Piccadilly that she was not conducting herself in a lady-like manner.<br />
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There were more rumours to the effect that Sir Laurence was keeping a tight rein on his lady-love in a desperate attempt to hold her on the straight-and-narrow.<br />
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The public got its first inkling that storm clouds were raging within the Olivier household when Paramount Pictures wired the couple an offer to co-star in <i>Elephant Walk</i>, which would be filmed in Ceylon.<br />
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Olivier glanced at the script and instantly turned it down. There was nothing unusual in this -- Olivier had always made the decisions about what plays or scripts they would do.<br />
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But then Vivien rebelled -- and accepted the female lead in the film!<br />
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Did her action stem from a genuine desire to play the part? Or was it a ruse to place herself beyond the watchful eye of her husband?<br />
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Olivier himself was the one who gave credence to this suspicion by insisting that a mutual friend, Peter Finch, be assigned to the picture-- to keep an eye on Vivien.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vivien Leigh, Peter Finch & Laurence Olivier</span></td></tr>
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Finch obviously took his extracurricular job with a large grain of salt. Dana Andrews, who replaced Olivier in the co-starring role, was seen everywhere with her. And Vivien acted like a changed woman-- happy, carefree, bent on having fun.<br />
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Then, something happened. The exact details may never be known, but it is reported that Andrews, her constant companion, was deeply concerned about her behaviour. He urged her to see a psychiatrist. Vivien turned up her beautiful nose at the idea.<br />
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"Psychiatrists cause more trouble than any other people in the world. I don't believe in them," she snapped.<br />
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At this stage, Peter Finch apparently decided matters had gone too far. He finally told the facts to Sir Laurence, who wasted no time in flying to Ceylon.<br />
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What transpired in the privacy of the room where Sir Laurence and his Lady conferred is another aspect of this drama that may forever be shrouded in mystery. The end result was that Vivien, Dana Andrews, and the rest of the company went off to finish the film in Hollywood. Sir Laurence took a plane back to England alone.<br />
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And now the scandal-sheets and rumour mongers really had something to go to work on.<br />
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One peep-hole artist literally crowed his discovery that, although Vivien was supposed to be living alone in a rented home, actually she was spending most of her time in the apartment of none other than Olivier's trusted pal, Peter Finch!<br />
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Another discovered that Vivien was also seeing quite a lot of John Buckmaster, an English actor who was once married to Jan Sterling. Buckmaster and Vivien, so the story went, spent hours together while he taught her the mysteries of Yoga.<br />
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It was obvious even tot he technicians at the studio that Vivien's real-life drama was fast nearing its climax.<br />
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The breakdown occurred on the set, where she collapsed in hysterics. A psychoanalyst was summoned. And Vivien Leigh's condition became public knowledge. She was forced to withdraw from her role in<i> Elephant Walk</i>, and was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor. <br />
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What the public did not know was that Vivien's derangement had the effect of erasing her identity as Vivien Leigh. She had become the nymphomaniac in <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> -- right down to the sultry southern accent.<br />
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The double life of Vivien Leigh merged into a nightmare single entity --that of sex-ridden Blanche of the play.<br />
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Fortunately, the real-life drama of Vivien Leigh has a typical Hollywood ending. The actress is now completely well --thanks, mostly, to the devoted love and affection given her in her darkest moments by her husband, Laurence Olivier.<br />
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But it is unlikely that Vivien Leigh will ever forget the horrible weeks she spent living a fantastic double life.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back cover of Tops Magazine</td></tr>
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-82646385258329189982018-01-26T11:21:00.003-08:002020-02-13T18:18:14.524-08:00Scarlett's Opening Scene in Gone With the WindOn January 26, 1939, Vivien Leigh reported to work, for her first day of filming, on the set of <i>Gone With the Wind.</i> Finally, Vivien's dream of playing Scarlett O'Hara, a dream she'd been carrying with her since she first read the book, was about to come true.<br />
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The first scene scheduled, for shooting that day, was the front porch scene at Tara, with Scarlett and the Tarleton boys discussing the possibility of war. This is the scene in which the world would be introduced to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. The Tarleton twins were played by Fred Crane (Brent) and George Reeves (Stuart). Over the course of the next nine and a half months, this opening scene would be filmed a total of five times. George Cukor directed it the first two times and Victor Fleming directed it the last three times.<br />
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After viewing the first attempt at this scene, producer David O. Selznick was not pleased. He didn't like the twins' hair color or style. In a memo dated January 30, 1939, David Selznick wrote the following to George Cukor: <i>I feel very strongly that the hairdress we used on the twins makes them look grotesquely like a pair of Harpo Marx comics...because of the color of their hair. I would like Mr. Westmore to redress their hair and I would have him arrange with Mr. Plunkett for me to see them again in their next costumes and with their hair re-dressed before they work.</i><br />
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Ray Klune, the production manager, recalled the following: <i>Everybody was nervous and it showed in the next day's rushes. George had Vivien on too high a key, way up there. David felt that she was playing it as though it were the first act of a dress rehearsal. The same thing with the boys... they were overdoing it.</i><br />
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There's also a second memo dated January 30, in which Selznick thinks it would be better to use the white prayer dress for Scarlett's opening scene. For whatever reason, that idea is abandoned and Vivien Leigh continues to wear the barbecue dress.<br />
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For the second filming of this scene, George Reeves and Fred Crane showed up with a slightly different shade of hair color and a new 'do. Their curls were now gone. Scarlett still wore the barbecue dress, but now sported a black choker. However, Selznick wasn't pleased with the lighting.<br />
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By now, George Cukor had left the production and Victor Fleming was at the helm. Selznick darts off another memo, this time to Ray Klune, which is dated February 20: <i>We will start shooting again on Monday. Please get together with Mr. Fleming immediately in connection with the opening scene. We should start with the twins and then go to Gerald and Scarlett to permit you to change the condition of Tara. It would be my preference, if there is no reason against it, and if Fleming is agreeable, to then jump into retakes in the Bazaar, followed by Rhett and Scarlett on the McDonough Road.</i><br />
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The third time was not the charm. Scarlett and the Tarleton twins were moved from the side of the porch to the front of the porch.<br />
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<i>...according to Fred [Crane], the film’s technical advisor, [Susan Myrick] who was a Daughter of the Confederacy, informed Selznick that 'a young girl showing that much bosom wouldn’t be sitting out with two young men unchaperoned in the afternoon.' <a href="http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/new/ae/with-fred-cranes-death-a-distinction-ends-for-gone-with-the-wind" target="_blank">(</a></i><a href="http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/new/ae/with-fred-cranes-death-a-distinction-ends-for-gone-with-the-wind" target="_blank">Source).</a><br />
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So, for the fourth time, the opening scene was filmed again. This time with Vivien Leigh in the white prayer dress, which was, by far, a more appropriate outfit for a young lady. Alas, Vivien looked too tired and Selznick sent her away for a break. Vivien had been working almost non-stop since January 26. She was exhausted and it showed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting ready to film Scarlett's opening scene for the fourth time.</td></tr>
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In 1960, Vivien discussed filming the opening scene for the fourth time and the fifth time: <i>On the last day of shooting, we had to film the first scene of the picture all over again. The scene where I sit as a girl of sixteen, on the porch of Tara, saying,'Everyone is talking of war, war, war.' When we shot the scene again, David Selznick saw it and said to me, 'You look too old and too ill for the scene. Better take a holiday.' So I went off to France with Larry and came back [filmed it for the fifth time] and 'Gone With the Wind' was finished. </i><br />
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On October 12th, Vivien went before the cameras one last time as Scarlett O'Hara. During her time away from Hollywood, Vivien traveled to New York City, where she reunited with Laurence Olivier and also found the time to screentest for <i>Rebecca</i>. Afterward, Vivien and Larry traveled to England, before finally returning to Hollywood. Vivien showed up fresh and relaxed on the set for the final time and created cinematic history.<br />
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<i>Gone With the Wind</i> was released two months later to great acclaim. David O. Selznick's attention to detail and strive toward perfection paid off in ways he couldn't possibly imagine. Reviewers loved the movie:<br />
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<i>In its length alone, Gone With the Wind is the most imposing spectacle ever to reach the screen. It is magnificent, too, in its superb color, in its scrupulous details, in its scope, in its technical virtuosity, in its sheer extravagance. The film is dominated by Vivien Leigh. One carries away from the picture a rich store of unforgettable images. (Cincinnati Post)</i><br />
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<i>No puny adjectives fit Gone With the Wind. It is the most lavish, probably the most magnificent, ever to come out of Hollywood. (Philadelphia Inquirer)</i><br />
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<i>The excitement of it will take your breath away...The spectator is convinced he is sitting in on history...The novel of the decade has been turned into the cinema of the century. (unk newspaper)</i><br />
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All memos are from <i>Memo from David O. Selznick</i>, edited by Rudy Behlmer.<br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-7239675495700349442017-11-03T17:09:00.001-07:002017-11-03T17:18:02.365-07:00Fashion Friday: Vivien Leigh Models for MotleyIn 1940, Vivien Leigh modeled clothing for the department store, Bonwit Teller. The gowns modeled by Vivien were created by Motley, a group of three very talented women, who designed sets and costumes for the stage and screen. Motley worked on several plays that Vivien starred in, including <i>The Happy Hypocrite, Romeo and Juliet</i> and <i>The Doctor's Dilemma</i>.<br />
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The outfits for today's Fashion Friday post were inspired by British heraldry. They feature the symbols and colors associated with certain British monarchs.<br />
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In this first outfit, Vivien stuns in a gorgeous, pale blue, satin coat. The floor-length coat features amethyst studded sleeves. The sleeves are also heavily embroidered with gold trim and are horizontally slashed, in a crescent shape. This type of 'slashing' was normally done vertically, as in the Elizabethan age, with material from the underdress pulled through the cutouts, to achieve a puffy sleeve.<br />
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The coat falls dramatically to the floor in satin waves. It's not hard to imagine how luxurious this material would be to the touch. This rare image of Vivien recently popped up on ebay and sold for $410! </div>
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The New York Times ran an article with a few of these ensembles designed by Motley, called <i>Fashions from Heraldry</i>.<br />
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The description printed with this next gown reads:<i> A Black Prince coat appliqued in velvet fleur-de-lis and lions is worn with this black gown.</i> This black gown, in its simplicity, is absolutely stunning on Vivien.<br />
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The <i>Black Prince coat</i> referred to in the above description is modeled below. Fleur-de-lis (lilies) and lions are appliqued onto the black velvet jacket. The jacket's hood is lined with a lightweight red wool.<br />
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The term<i> Black Prince </i>is a reference to Edward of Woodstock (June 15, 1330 to June 8, 1376), father of King Richard II, from whom the Motleys drew inspiration from for this design. At some point in history, Edward began to be known as the Black Prince. His coat of arms were lions and fleur-de-lis.<br />
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Unfortunately, for this next gown, I only have the newspaper photo, which came with the following description:<i> White chiffon is embroidered with crystal beads in sunbursts, the badge of King Richard II. </i><br />
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Up next is this lovely, red crêpe, evening gown. <i>This draped crimson gown is the shade of the Rose of Lancaster. </i>It features a very deep décolletage, which is accented with flowers.<br />
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Finally, we have this gorgeous portrait of Vivien in a floral headdress. Many people confuse this picture with one of Vivien from <i>Romeo and Juliet. </i>The printed description simply states: <i>Roses of York form an evening headdress.</i> The Rose of York was a white rose and represented the House of York. It comprised one half of the <i>Wars of the Roses</i>, which was fought for control of the British throne. The other half fighting for control was the House of Lancaster, represented by the red Rose of Lancaster.<br />
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The dress is also embroidered with roses, as pictured on the gown's sleeves.<br />
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All photos are by Bob Coburn, who had also photographed Vivien for the recently wrapped <i>That Hamilton Woman. </i> The<i> italicized descriptions</i> are from the<i> New York Times, Fashions from Heraldry, December 29, 1940.</i><br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-12235270886938265862017-09-28T06:16:00.000-07:002017-09-28T17:59:40.084-07:00Going, Going, Gone With the Wind: Highlights of the Vivien Leigh AuctionThe Vivien Leigh auction brought in £2,243,617, which is about $3,000,000. The bidding lasted for roughly seven and a half hours, with all 321 items selling. I wasn't able to be in London, so I watched the auction live from my computer. It was very exciting to hear and to watch the bids come in as the prices climbed on certain items. Listed below are a few of my favorite things from the auction.<br />
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The biggest seller of the day was a painting by Winston Churchill (Lot 245). This <i>Study of Roses</i> sold for £500,000 (hammer price £638,750). It's oil on canvas, signed W.S.C in the bottom left corner and measures 20 inches by 14.5 inches. Churchill gifted the painting to Vivien, in 1951.<br />
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She wrote to Churchill, <i>I should like to show you where the painting you gave me hangs. It is in my bedroom dear Sir Winston and I look at it every day as I wake and every night as I go to sleep... </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Vivien Leigh, letter to Sir Winston Churchill, 14th February 1961, The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, CHUR 2/527A). </span>Noting her decor, I think it's only apt that she kept the painting in her bedroom.<br />
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Churchill's book, <i>Painting As A Pastime</i>, was another big hit with the bidders. It sold for £15,000. Sotheby's listed the first edition book as <i>full blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, some very light rubbing to boards. </i>The personal inscription read, <i>To Vivien Leigh, from Winston S. Churchill, 1950.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gone With the Wind</span><br />
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I really hope that whomever purchased these three items were representing a museum! Vivien's first edition copy of <i>Gone With the Wind</i> sold for £50,000. The book features an inscription from the author, Margaret Mitchell, to Vivien Leigh.<br />
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<i>To Vivien Leigh-- </i></div>
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<i>"Life's Pattern pricked with a scarlet thread </i></div>
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<i>where once we worked with a gray, </i></div>
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<i>in the shock of an epic day." </i></div>
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The lines are from Robert W. Service's poem <i>The Revelation</i>. Mitchell wrote them on a separate sheet of paper, which Vivien attached inside her book. </div>
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Vivien's personalized copy of the <i>Gone With the Wind</i> script sold for £58,750. David Selznick gave these special, presentation copies as gifts for Christmas, 1939. To read more about her script, and other <i>GWTW </i>scripts that have been sold, please follow <a href="https://vivienleighlegend.blogspot.com/2017/09/vivien-leighs-gone-with-wind-script-is.html" target="_blank">this link</a>.<br />
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A <i>Gone With the Wind</i> photo album was also auctioned. It's estimated price was £3,000 to £5,000 and it sold for £8,750. The album contained <i>28 production still photographs from 'Gone With The Wind,' with two photographs from 'Fire Over England' mounted at the end, also with five photographic portraits of Leigh loosely inserted, including three studio portraits, by Lenare (on her wedding day, 1932, photographer's stamp on the reverse), Vivienne (c.1930s, photographer's stamp on reverse), and Dollings (photographer's stamp on the reverse), a photograph of her seated in furs (stamp of C. Norman Probert on the reverse), and a further still from 'Gone With The Wind.'</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Appointment Books</span><br />
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Two of Vivien's appointment books were placed on the auction block. The first one, which is dated from January 10, 1937 to November 25, 1939, sold for £15,000. In this book, Vivien noted that she <i>Told Leigh</i> (her first husband, Leigh Holman) presumably about Laurence Olivier. Then, on June 16, she wrote <i>Left with Larry</i>. The second appointment book only sold for £3,250 and was dated for the year 1953. This was also an important time in Vivien's life as '53 was the year she was diagnosed with manic-depressive disorder.<br />
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The Roger Furse paintings all sold very well, but this one, of Vivien Leigh and Tissy, really brought home the bacon. The selling estimate was listed as £1,000 to £1,500 and it sold for £62,500.<br />
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A sketch of Vivien by Augustus John sold for £18,750. It was a <i>Study for Portrait of Vivien Leigh</i>, signed and dated 1942. The medium used was red chalk on paper and it measured 15.5 inches by 11 inches.<br />
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Vivien Leigh's own painting of <i>Italian Landscape</i> sold for £6,875. The auctioneer noted that this was the first painting by Vivien to be sold. The selling estimate was listed as £200 to £300. It's oil on canvas and measures 12 inches by 16 inches. I'm a little surprised that this painting didn't reach the £10,000 mark.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Streetcar Named Desire</span><br />
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Vivien Leigh's wig, which she wore as Blanche Dubois, in the film production of <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>, had an estimated selling price of £400 to £600. It sold for £7,500. The wig came with a photograph of Vivien wearing the wig, for a hair and make-up test.<br />
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Lot# 282 was a gorgeous jewelry case, apparently presented to Vivien Leigh, by Laurence Olivier, on the opening night of <i>A Streetcar Named Desire's</i> stage production. From the NYT: <i>The crocodile case is embossed with the initials V.L.O. and 12th October 1949, the date of the London stage premiere of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' in which Ms. Leigh starred and Olivier directed. </i>The selling estimate was £800 to £1,200 and it sold for £11,250.<br />
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Vivien Leigh's watch sold for £25,000! The engraved watch (<i>Vivien Larry Only!! Darling Xmas 1940)</i> features rubies and diamonds. Sotheby's states that it was<i> likely to have been a gift from Larry to Vivien for Christmas 1940, marking their first Christmas together as a married couple.</i><br />
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Vivien Leigh's charm bracelet was Lot 315. The estimated price was £1,000 to £1,500 and it sold for £33,750. Description: <i>the double curb link bracelet set with a six charms including: an oval locket inscribed Lady Hamilton with the initials VL, containing a photograph of Vivien Leigh as Lady Hamilton and a portrait by George Romney; a book inscribed Gone with the Wind, the pages inscribed Vivien Leigh and Scarlett O'Hara, with an engraved image of the character; a round charm with a design of a boat against a sunset, the sky of blue chalcedony; a jadeite pendant carved with a design of a bat; and two chalcedony drops. </i><br />
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Sotheby's called the last item of the auction the 'Eternally' ring. This stunning little ring was engraved with some kind of floral motif. Inside the ring's band were the following engraved words: <i>Laurence Olivier Vivien Eternally. </i>The ring's estimated selling price was only between £400 to £600. The actual selling price was £37,500.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laurence Olivier</span><br />
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I was really surprised that this photo of Laurence Olivier sold for £6,000 (selling estimate £200 to £300). Olivier signed this photo in the bottom left corner-- from L to his V forever --And he spelled LOVE diagonally, in red ink!<br />
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A silver, presentation mug to Laurence Olivier: <i>later embossed and chased with scrolls, flowers and fruits and engraved with initials 'LO' and inscription: '12th June 1947 / from G[?]...' </i><i>maker's mark, London standard and date letter for 1722. </i>The date refers to Olivier's knighthood and appearance in the Honours List. Sold for £3,000!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Books</span><br />
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This first edition of Ian Fleming's book, <i>Casino Royale,</i> sold for £30,000!<br />
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Truman Capote's true crime novel, <i>In Cold Blood</i>, sold for £16,250. Capote had inscribed the book to Vivien with the following: <i>for dearest Vivien, with <u>much</u> love, Truman</i>.<br />
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Thanks for joining me for this recap of the Vivien Leigh auction! If I missed your favorite item from the auction, then please let me know and I'll add it to the post.<br />
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Cheers!<br />
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<i>All images are from Sotheby's as are all italicized item descriptions.</i><br />
<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-50566160308175349012017-09-25T13:17:00.000-07:002018-08-25T13:55:00.224-07:00Vivien Leigh as Muse (Part I)It's no secret that Vivien Leigh's great beauty and talent have been inspiring artists of all mediums, since she first made headlines in 1935. Words of glory were thrown at her feet; roses and racehorses were named for her; she was photographed, sculpted, painted and forever immortalized. All because of <i>The Mask of Virtue.</i><br />
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<i>It is an agreeable task to be able to welcome a new actress with unrestrained praise. 'The Mask of Virtue' obtained a personal triumph for Vivien Leigh, a discovery of Sydney Carroll. Miss Leigh is ravishingly pretty, which might not matter, but that her talent equals her beauty. She moves with grace. She is lovely in repose. Her voice is most attractive, and warmth, ardour and sincerity are not wanting in her acting. Vivien Leigh gave genuine life to the part of the girl, enchantingly reconciling her conflicting qualities. Her quiet dignity in the acceptance of a repugnant task, the growth of affection and the awakening to the sense of a triumph odious to her, were beautifully expressed and composed a performance that grew in loveliness and interest. </i>--A.E. Wilson, <i>The Star</i>, May 1935<br />
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In this series of <i>Vivien Leigh as Muse</i>, we'll first look at a few of the items Sotheby's will be auctioning on Tuesday, September 26th. Among the Sotheby's items are photographs, caricatures, sketches and paintings of Vivien Leigh.<br />
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This first painting is by artist Dietz Edzard. The painting is oil on canvas and is sized at 28.5 inches by 21 inches. The estimated selling price is $10,600 to $15,900 (Sotheby's <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/pdf/2017/L17148/index.html" target="_blank">pdf catalog, page 21</a>).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Miss Vivien Leigh in 'The Mask of Virtue,' </i>by Dietz Edzard (from Sotheby's)</td></tr>
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Edzard was a German born painter, who later moved to Paris and painted in the style of French Impressionism. Author Gerd Muehsam describes his style perfectly: <i>Edzard has captured in his canvases the charm of the Parisian atmosphere. With the light, vibrant touch of his brush, he produced sparkling, and yet delicate, paintings of beautiful women, dancers and flowers. His brilliant delineations of circus life and the theatre, his spirited portrayals of Parisian cafe scenes have made him a favorite of art circles in this country and abroad.</i> Edzard's buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.<br />
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In July, 1935, a reporter happened to come across Vivien Leigh, in the Leicester Galleries. She was standing in front of her portrait. Vivien shared with the reporter that Mr. Edzard had painted her from sketches he'd made, while watching her perform in the play, <i>The Mask of Virtue. </i>In addition to the sketches, <i>The Daily Express</i> reported that Vivien sat for Edzard twice. Coincidentally, Vivien was also painted by Suzanne Eisendieck, who later married Edzard in 1938.<br />
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These next two art pieces are by Roger Furse. Roger Furse was a well-known friend and collaborator with both Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Depending on the project, he acted as set designer, costume designer and production designer. He worked on several of their plays and movies. Some of their collaborations include: <i>Antony and Cleopatra, Caesar and Cleopatra, Macbeth, The Skin of Our Teeth, Duel of Angels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The Prince and the Showgirl, Richard III, Spartacus, Henry V</i> and <i>Hamlet</i>.<br />
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Furse was nominated for a Tony award for Best Scenic Design, for Vivien's play, <i>Duel of Angels</i>, in 1961. He also picked up two Academy Awards for Laurence Olivier's film, <i>Hamlet</i>: Art Direction (B&W) and Costume Design (B&W).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh as Jennifer Dubedat, in <i>The Doctor's Dilemma</i></td></tr>
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This charming sketch of Vivien Leigh, by Roger Furse, is from the upcoming auction. Sotheby's lists it as <i>A Sketch From the Doctor's Dilemma, 1941</i>. Furse signed the bottom of the sketch, with the following: <i>Wishing you a great success, dear Vivien, Roger</i>. It's pencil on paper and is 12 inches by 8.5 inches. The selling estimate is $800 to $1,100 (Sotheby's <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/pdf/2017/L17148/index.html" target="_blank">pdf catalog, page 26</a>).<br />
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This watercolour on paper, by Roger Furse is titled <i>Vivien Leigh Reading with Tissy</i> in the Sotheby's catalog (<a href="http://www.sothebys.com/pdf/2017/L17148/index.html" target="_blank">pdf page 119</a>). The selling estimate is $1,350 to $2,000. The portrait measures 15.75 inches by 13.75 inches.<br />
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I love how Furse took care to note Tissy's different eye color. Vivien's fur baby really did have one green eye and one blue eye!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roger Furse greets Vivien as she arrives in Corfu, Greece, 1966.</td></tr>
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Roger Furse and Vivien Leigh remained lifelong friends. In 1966, she travelled to Corfu, Greece, where Roger greeted her as she disembarked. She had come to look at land parcels as she was thinking of building a home near Benitses. Furse lived nearby with his second wife, Ines (<a href="https://atcorfu.com/notable-foreign-residents/" target="_blank">pictured below</a>).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roger Furse, Ines Furse, Vivien Leigh and Juli Damaskinos in Corfu.</td></tr>
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Cecil Beaton was another well known collaborator of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's. Beaton had been photographing Vivien Leigh since the 1930s. In addition to being a photographer, Beaton also designed sets and costumes. A few of his collaborations with Vivien included <i>Caesar and Cleopatra</i> (film version), <i>Anna Karenina </i>and <i>The School for Scandal</i>.<br />
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Sotheby's is having a special sale on portraits of Vivien Leigh, from The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive. The prices start at £3,000. Here are two samples from that sale. Follow <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/cecil-beaton-vivien-leigh-exhibition-l17899.html" target="_blank">this link</a> for all the details.<br />
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Beaton said of Vivien, <i>Vivien is almost incredibly lovely. Hollywood is at her feet. She is madly in love with her husband – who adores her… Her former husband dotes upon her & adores her still – she is unspoiled – has many loyal friends & only ambition to improve as an actress. The adulation of her beauty leaves her cold.</i><br />
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Beaton was also a frequent visitor to Notley Abbey, writing, <i>The life they lead in the country is most suitable for Shakespearean actors. The whole atmosphere of the place is suitable for giving performances of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet.</i><br />
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Vivien is pictured in my favorite costume from <i>Anna Karenina.</i> In this photograph, Vivien's wearing a short waisted jacket, made from white silk and black velvet. Below the jacket is a white skirt, featuring multiple layers of organdy. The photos of Vivien, by Beaton, in this particular outfit, are my favorites from the film. To read more about the costumes of <i>Anna Karenina</i>, please <a href="https://vivienleighlegend.blogspot.com/2017/02/fashion-friday-costumes-of-anna-karenina.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br />
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-51657128477978231032017-09-22T11:05:00.001-07:002020-02-13T18:40:34.935-08:00Fashion Friday: Sidewalks of LondonIn 1938, Vivien Leigh starred in <i>St. Martin's Lane,</i> along with Charles Laughton, Rex Harrison and Tyrone Guthrie. The movie centered around a group of street entertainers known as buskers, who took Vivien's character, Libby, into their group. The U.S. premiere didn't happen until 1940, retitled as <i>Sidewalks of London</i>, taking full advantage of Vivien's newfound stardom as Scarlett O'Hara, in <i>Gone With the Wind.</i><br />
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The film received outstanding reviews:<br />
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<i>Vivien Leigh has such a quality in her work that I feel she has only just begun. She has allure, charm, sex appeal and acting ability</i>. --John Paddy Carstairs<br />
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<i>Charles Laughton will easily clinch his hold on American theater-goers through his shining performance. Vivien Leigh's artistry easily matches that of Laughton as well as measuring up to the standard she set for herself as Scarlett O'Hara!</i> --Daily Variety<br />
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<i>A hit picture...literally spiked with good audience stuff. Splendid performances by Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. Audiences should take to this picture as ducks to to water!</i> --Hollywood Reporter<br />
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For today's Fashion Friday post, I'll be showcasing two of the costumes Vivien Leigh wore in the movie. John Armstrong is the credited costume designer for the film; however, the costumes we'll be looking at today were designed by Victor Stiebel. Vivien had already been acquainted with Stiebel, for a few years, when she attended his showing, in 1938. From this show, she chose the following outfits for a few scenes, which appear in the latter half of the movie.<br />
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Vivien wears this delightful jacket and skirt ensemble, when she returns to the boardinghouse, looking for Charles. The linen jacket featured black and white stripes, while the skirt stayed the course in pure black. Stiebel decided to embrace the idea of a longer jacket and made it less tight on the body, than in previous seasons. The jacket featured a wide belt, emphasizing Vivien's small waist. The skirt also came out a little fuller than what was considered normal in 1938.</div>
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The ensemble's accessories included a black purse, gloves and a matching, straw hat that tied beneath the chin.</div>
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Unfortunately, I don't have photographs of Vivien from the movie wearing this outfit. I did do some screenshots from youtube. Warning-- they are really poor quality, however, you can still see how great Vivien looked in this outfit.</div>
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Victor Stiebel's advice on dressing well: <i>My attitude towards dress designing has always been one, which, while fully appreciating the psychological confidence good clothes give to a woman, it really concentrates more on personalities. </i></div>
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One fashion critic called Vivien's jacket a throwback to menswear from the turn of the century. I can kind of see the resemblance with the suit jacket on the left.<br />
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Vivien kept this particular outfit from the film and was photographed wearing it on a couple of different occasions. It even looks like the same blouse and brooch, too.<br />
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<i><br /></i><i>Victor Stiebel, the famous dress designer, gives his recipe for chic. Here it is. Black — except for dramatic occasions. Simplicity always. Money spent, on the woman herself, rather than the actual garment. He says clothes should be a frame for well-groomed hair, hands and face. He gives full marks to the dress which makes you remember the woman and not what she had on. (unk newspaper cutting)</i><br />
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As you can see from the stylish models pictured below, wearing a large bouquet of flowers across your bodice was quite fashionable. The models, pictured at the fashion show, wear eerily similar gowns. The first gown was designed by Motley, who, coincidentally, designed several of Vivien's costumes for plays. The second gown was designed by Victor Stiebel and it's the one Vivien chose for her character.</div>
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Stiebel's gown originally came with a tulle veil, made from three different pastel colors, that clung to the head via an apple blossom crown. Alas, the veil didn't make the cut and wasn't in the movie. </div>
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This is actually one of my favorite dresses that Vivien wears in the film. The dress was made from slipper satin, which is defined on wikipedia as a <i>stiff and medium-to heavy-weight fabric</i>. The material is tightly woven and slightly lighter than duchess satin.<br />
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Here's a close-up look at the detail on the bodice. There was actually a lot of talk about how Stiebel's low bodices, such as the one pictured here, managed to stay up without straps. <i>The bodice with no visible means of support is waspish.</i><br />
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The gown was a lovely silver in color, though one fashion critic called it <i>a dreary oyster grey</i>. The bodice featured the gown's only decoration: apple tree leaves in full blossom. <br />
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I'm including this next screenshot to show the length and movement of the gown's full skirt. Also, to simply show how lush and gorgeous the satin material looked.<br />
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-72926764826236806902017-09-14T11:57:00.002-07:002017-09-22T06:14:54.277-07:00Vivien Leigh's "Gone With The Wind" Script Is Up For AuctionIn recent years, a plethora of items related to <i>Gone With the Wind </i>have turned up on the auction block. This year is no different. On September 26, Sotheby's will be auctioning off items personally owned by the movie's star, Vivien Leigh. One item, in particular, will be drawing the attention of <i>Gone With the Wind </i>collectors: Vivien's leather-bound script, gifted to her by the producer, David O. Selznick.<br />
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David O. Selznick gave these presentation scripts as Christmas gifts, in 1939, to select members of the cast and crew of <i>Gone With the Wind, </i>along with a few people outside the film<i>. </i>There were two styles of these hardbound scripts: one screenplay was covered in cloth and morocco leather; the other, in leather only. The four main cast members (Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard and Vivien) all received ones bound in full leather.<br />
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These presentation scripts were maroon in color, with <i>GONE WITH THE WIND</i>, 'SCREEN PLAY' and the recipient's name gilt-stamped onto the cover. Selznick inscribed each copy with a personalized note to the recipient, found inside on the front end paper. These beautifully bound scripts were given the date of January 24th, 1939 and contained the finalized script of the film. Black and white stills from the movie were interspersed with the script.<br />
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Vivien Leigh's script is not the first one from the movie to be auctioned. Selznick handed out a few dozen of these scripts and many of them have been on the auction block. Walter Plunkett's, Hattie McDaniel's and Clark Gable's scripts have all been sold via auction houses.<br />
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Hattie McDaniel's script was made from cloth and leather. It's been on the auction block at least twice. In December 2010, Hattie's screenplay sold for $18,300 and then in April 2015, it sold again for $28,750. The seller noted that the covers had come unbound from the spine, along with leather loss and a stain on the front. Selznick's personal note to Hattie reads, <i>For Hattie McDaniel, who contributed so greatly! With gratitude and admiration, David, Christmas, 1939.</i><br />
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Walter Plunkett, the costume designer for <i>Gone With the Wind</i>, also received a presentation script made from cloth and leather. At an auction, in April 2015, Plunkett's personalized screenplay sold for $22,500. Selznick's inscription reads, <i>For Walter Plunkett, With appreciation of, and for, his brilliant execution of a difficult job. David O. Selznick, Christmas, 1939.</i><br />
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<i>Gone With the Wind's</i> publicist, William R. Ferguson, received one of these cloth and leather bound books, too. It's signed, <i>For Bill Ferguson, in memory of Atlanta. With appreciation, David Selznick. </i>Ferguson's copy sold at auction, in October 2014, for $23,000.<br />
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Sidney Howard, the only credited screenwriter for <i>Gone With the Wind,</i> passed away in August, 1939. His all leather copy was presented to his widow, Polly Damrosch. Selznick didn't inscribe this one. However, Polly gave the script to her nephew, writing, <i>With love to Blaine on Jennifer's birthday, March 23rd, 1940, from Polly.</i> This script hit the auction block in 2008, selling for $3,250; and then again in 2014, this time selling for $62,500. </div>
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Norma Shearer, a would-be Scarlett at one time, received one of the special, leather bound screenplays. David wrote, <i>For Norma, the ever appreciative. With gratitude for her never-failing encouragement, and with affection. David, Christmas, 1939</i>. Norma's script fetched $14,640, at an auction, in 2011.</div>
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A few of the other recipients included William Kurtz, John Hertz, Will Price, William B. Hartsfield and the book's author, Margaret Mitchell. Mitchell's leather-bound, presentation script is kept in Atlanta. The Atlanta Fulton Public Library placed it on display for the 75th anniversary of the book's publication.<br />
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William B. Hartsfield's personalized screenplay was presented to him during <i>Gone With the Wind's</i> 21st anniversary, by David Selznick. The event was held in Atlanta and attended by Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and Selznick (read <a href="https://vivienleighlegend.blogspot.com/2016/10/fashion-friday-12-gone-with-winds-21st.html" target="_blank">more about that event here</a>). Hartsfield was Atlanta's mayor during the film's original premiere in 1939 and also during the film's anniversary celebration. Inside the script, David wrote, <i>March 10, 1961, To Mayor William B. Hartsfield with the affection and gratitude of the "Gone With The Wind Company," including his admirers. David O. Selznick. </i>The script was also signed by Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Butterfly McQueen and Samuel Yupper, a friend of Mitchell's. It sold at auction, in 1995, for $8,625.<br />
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Will Price bequeathed his <i>Gone With the Wind </i>script to writer Carla Carlisle <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Country Life, Sept 6, 2017)</span>. Will was the Southern voice coach for the cast. Selznick wrote, <i>For Will Price, who literally shoved the South down our throats. With good wishes always, David Selznick.</i><br />
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Leslie Howard's script recently hit the auction block, in November 2016, as part of <i>TCM Presents... Lights, Camera, Action</i>, with an estimate of $80,000 to $120,000. It remained unsold. Selznick's inscription reads, <i>For Leslie, with the profound, (but probably futile), hope that he'll finally read it. Christmas, 1939. </i>Howard was kind of famous on set, for never having read <i>Gone With the Wind</i>, even after Selznick told him to at least read Ashley's scenes that were making it into the movie.<br />
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In 1996, Clark Gable's personalized screenplay sold for a whopping $244,500! The winning bid was placed by Steven Spielberg. The leather-bound script was inscribed to Gable by David Selznick, who referenced how the public, almost unanimously, chose Clark Gable to play Rhett Butler, <i>For Clark, who made the dream of fifty million Americans (who couldn't be- and weren't- wrong!) and one producer come true! With gratitude for a superb performance and a happy association, David, Christmas, 1939. </i>Gable later recalled how he didn't want the role of Rhett Butler, <i>It wasn't that I didn't appreciate the compliment the public was paying me, it was simply that Rhett was too big an order. I didn't want any part of him, Rhett was too much for any actor to tackle in his right mind.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clark Gable as Rhett and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett</td></tr>
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Now, on September 26th, Vivien Leigh's leather-bound, personalized script will go on the auction block. Sotheby's selling estimate is between $13,300 to $19,900. However, this is not the first time Vivien's family has attempted to sell her screenplay.<br />
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In 2006, Bonhams listed the book, citing the provenance as <i>by direct family descent</i> (most likely Vivien's daughter, Suzanne Farrington). The selling estimate was given as $80,000 to $120,000. The script didn't sell and remained with the family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh's leather-bound presentation script</td></tr>
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Unfortunately, David's inscription to Vivien is missing from the book. <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/pdf/2017/L17148/index.html" target="_blank">Sotheby's catalog</a> states (pages 36-37 pdf) <i>...Vivien's copy now has a jagged-edged stub where the inscribed leaf has been cut out with a pair of scissors.</i> We'll probably never know what happened to David's note to Vivien. Perhaps a guest or fan took it home as a souvenir or one of Vivien's grandchildren accidentally tore it out. Then there's always the possibility that Vivien removed the inscription herself, if she were truly mad at David Selznick.<br />
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In 1945, Selznick filed an injunction against Vivien, attempting to prevent her from appearing in the play, <i>The Skin of Our Teeth.</i> Sir Walter Monckton, Selznick's attorney, argued that <i>The screen personality of a leading lady is a very valuable commodity to be treated rather as an exotic plant. Under the terms of his contract with Miss Leigh, Mr. Selznick claimed the right to decide how 'the exotic plant' was to be exposed so that it could not be subjected to unwise exposure. ...A screen personality is something so expensive and so valuable that a person investing in it large sums of money will naturally say, 'I want to prevent you from entering into adventures otherwise than with my consent.' </i><br />
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Vivien's attorney, Valentine Holmes, contested this testimony. He said<i> that it was against public policy to have restrictive clauses in a contract that prevented anyone working in 'war time.' No injury to Mr. Selznick could occur through letting her act for eight weeks in the play, but considerable damage and inconvenience would be caused to a number of completely innocent people if she was prevented</i>. He went on with Vivien's affidavit. <i>It had been decided under American law that a contract such as hers with Mr. Selznick was unenforceable after seven years, and in view of that decision, Mr. Selznick had for some months been urging her to enter into a new agreement. She refused as it would involve her in film appearances over a number of years and separate her for long periods from her husband. </i>Vivien won the injunction.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara</td></tr>
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It'll be very interesting to see how much Vivien's personalized screenplay will sell for at auction, especially if two buyers get into a bidding war. There are many <i>Gone With the Wind</i> fans, including myself, who would love to have it as part of their collection.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the front cover of Vivien's script</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the front cover of Vivien's script</td></tr>
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-25184348835361327572017-09-08T10:28:00.001-07:002017-09-08T10:39:13.460-07:00Fashion Friday: Scarlett's Red DressToday's Fashion Friday post is about Scarlett's scandalous, red ball gown. Rhett forces her to wear the dress to Ashley's surprise birthday party. Earlier in the day, Scarlett and Ashley were caught hugging by India Wilkes. Scarlett doesn't want to go to the party, but Rhett won't have anything to do with her cowardice.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhett (Clark Gable) embraces Scarlett (Vivien Leigh)</td></tr>
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Rhett: <i>You're not ready for Melanie's party.</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>I've got a headache, Rhett. You go without me and make my excuses to Melanie.</i><br />
Rhett: <i>What a white, livered, little coward you are! Get up. You're going to that party and you'll have to hurry.</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>Has India dare--?</i><br />
Rhett: <i>Yes, my dear, India has. Every woman in town knows the story and every man, too.</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>You should have killed them, spreading lies.</i><br />
Rhett: <i>I have a strange way of not killing people who tell the truth. No time to argue. Now get up.</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>I won't go. I can't go until this, this, misunderstanding is cleared up.</i><br />
Rhett: <i>You're not going to cheat Miss Melly out of the satisfaction of publicly ordering you out of her house.</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>There was nothing wrong. India hates me so. I- I can't go, Rhett. I couldn't face them!</i><br />
Rhett:<i> If you don't show your face tonight, you'll never be able to show it in this town as long as you live. And while that wouldn't bother me, you're not going to ruin Bonnie's chances. You're going to that party, if only for her sake. Get dressed.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GWTW Publicity Photo</td></tr>
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Rhett: <i>Wear that. Nothing modest or matronly will do for this occasion. And put on plenty of rouge. I want you to look your part tonight.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarlett and Rhett arrive at Ashley's birthday party</td></tr>
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Rhett: <i>Good night, Scarlett</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>But, Rhett, you've-- </i><br />
Rhett: <i>You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you.</i><br />
Scarlett: <i>Oh, Rhett don't leave me. Don't.</i><br />
Rhett: <i>You're not afraid? </i>(and then walks away)<br />
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As most fans of <i>Gone With the Wind</i> know, all of Scarlett's costumes were designed by the amazing Walter Plunkett. David Selznick, the film's producer, brought Plunkett on board as early as 1936. Walter was a native Californian, who'd been designing costumes for the movies since 1926. The <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687703/" target="_blank">imdb website</a> credits him as costume designer on almost 300 movies.<br />
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For his research on <i>Gone With the Wind</i>, Plunkett traveled to the Southern U.S., visiting Atlanta, Savannah and Charleston, in search of inspiration for his costumes. He met with Margaret Mitchell, who gave him a list of books to help guide him in his fashion search. He also met with the Daughters of the Confederacy, where one of the ladies gave him fabric samples of dresses worn during the time of the Civil War (1861 to 1865).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walter Plunkett and Vivien Leigh</td></tr>
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In the book, <i>Gone With the Wind</i>, Margaret Mitchell imagined Scarlett's dress of shame as jade green. <i>[Rhett] drew out her new jade green watered silk dress. It was cut low over the bosom and the skirt was draped back over an enormous bustle and on the bustle was a huge bunch of pink velvet roses. </i>However, the final product was re-imagined in red.<br />
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In a memo to Raymond Klune, the production manager, David Selznick wrote: ...<i>The third part of the picture should, by its colors alone, dramatize the difference between Scarlett and the rest of the people-- Scarlett extravagantly and colorfully costumed against the drabness of the other principals and of the extras. ...This picture in particular gives us the opportunity occasionally-- as in our opening scenes and as in Scarlett's costumes-- to throw a violent dab of color at the audience to sharply make a dramatic point.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front of Scarlett's Red Ball Gown (from the HRC)</td></tr>
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The red ball gown recently went through a restoration by the Harry Ransom Center. The conservationists discovered that additional feathers had been added to the gown, which they subsequently removed. There were also weights in the gown's hem, (which is pretty common in skirts and dresses to keep hems from flying up on windy days and to keep trains in place), which over the years had caused damage. They were removed to prevent further tearing of the dress.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail of the glass beading on the bodice (from the HRC)</td></tr>
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<i>This sleeveless, silk velvet gown is embellished with glass teardrop beads and round, red faceted beads at the neckline and a profusion of ostrich feathers around the shoulders. Rhett's choice of an ostentatious gown in an immodest burgundy-red color is intended to humiliate Scarlett. </i>-description of dress from the <span style="color: orange;"><a href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/gonewiththewind/costumes/scarlett/ball/#top" target="_blank">Harry Ransom Center.</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back side of Scarlett's Red Ball Gown (from the HRC)</td></tr>
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-84644472575896919852017-08-31T21:22:00.000-07:002017-09-01T12:31:56.876-07:00Screen Album, 1940The 1940 summer edition of <i>Screen Album</i> promised to have 100 new pictures and 1,000 new facts, inside its covers, of the day's leading actors and actresses. Both Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were featured. They each received one full page, which contained one photograph and a biographical article.<br />
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I've typed up both articles, which are definitely products of their time, so they should be read with a big grain of salt. Enjoy!<br />
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Vivien Leigh was the 29th, and last contestant, in Selznick's two year search for Scarlett. Two weeks before, she'd arrived in Hollywood, a modern version of the scarlett woman opposite Laurence Olivier... The story starts on Guy Fawkes Day in Darjeeling, India, with the birth of Vivian Mary Hartley, November 5, 1913. Mother Hartley was on vacation from Calcutta's heat. Her stockbroker husband stayed behind to watch the market. At six, Vivien was transported to a convent near London. The Indian climate's no recipe for an English complexion. After eight years of British fog, she crossed the channel to a French convent. At sixteen, she was graduated, stage struck, from Mlle Manileve's School for Young Ladies in Paris. She underwent at eighteen months of finishing at Baroness von Roeder's Bavarian seminary before entering the Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.<br />
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A lighter moment at a hunt ball produced Barrister Herbert Leigh Holman. In three weeks, Miss Hartley was Mrs. Holman. Three more weeks and she was back at the Academy to finish her course. A year later, daughter Suzanne was born. Herbert made a good living, augmented by a private income. Herbert's wife could afford to harass the agents til she got the right roles. So, as Vivien with an E and, because she loved her husband, surnamed Leigh, she visited agents. Two small film roles got her a part in a play, which led to discovery in the mask of virtue.<br />
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She was Vivien now, with the 'e' for glamour and the Leigh for the love of her husband. Hollywood shoved contracts at the most talked about actress since Bankhead. Vivien politely declined in favor of two films per year with Korda. The Holmans, meanwhile, were as happily married as an English lawyer and London celebrity could be. Then came Korda's<i> Fire Over England</i> and-- Laurence Olivier. They'd met a year before in mediocre film. Nothing happened. Now Leigh forgot home and husband to be Shakespeare's mad heroine to Olivier's melancholy Dane. Under love's stimulating influence, their careers went soaring swiftly skyward.<br />
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They kissed and parted when the Gold Coast lured Larry in the fall of '38. Vivien languished-- but not for long. December 1st saw them reunited in Hollywood. Sly Larry took her to dinner with agent Myron Selznick, brother of producer David. The brothers Selznick saw the spittin' image of Scarlett O'Hara-- 5'3", 106 pounds, reddish-brown hair that photographs black and <i>green</i> eyes. The identity of Scarlett was revealed to the world. But were their faces scarlet when they discovered the scandal to be hidden from the newshawks! The lovers were warned never to be seen together. A watchman patrolled Leigh's home. It was no use. Neither made any effort to keep their love affair secret. Inseparable, Larry coached his Vivien, taught her how to outwit Gable, the scene stealer.<br />
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Atlanta premiere time came and Leigh's ultimatum that she wouldn't join the fun unless Larry came, too. Larry went. Mysteriously absent from New York's premiere, Leigh was with Olivier. News of her divorce broke soon after GWTW. Holman named Olivier co-respondent in an uncontested suit, January 5, 1940. He was awarded custody of Suzanne, now in a convent. On January 29th, Vivien Leigh was named as co-respondent in the Olivier case. Simon Olivier was given to his mother. And it's off with the old, on with the new.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">~~~Laurence Olivier~~~</span></div>
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Like so many Britons of talent, Olivier is not really English. The first Olivier in England was French Huguenot. Since then the loyal Oliviers have married French and the name is pronounced O-leev-yay. To make your flesh creep, Olivier tells you his father was a priest, legitimizes himself then by adding "Episcopalian." Priest Gerard Olivier had three children: Gerard, Jr., Larry and Sybille. When his childish treble still had a five year future, Larry was stuffed into an Eton collar and sent after Gerard to choir school. Here they studied catechism, singing and frivolously enough, acting.<br />
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At 10, Larry was Brutus to Gerard's Caesar. Four years later, at Stratford-Upon-Avon, the school celebrated Shakespeare's birthday with a presentation of The Taming of the Shrew. Then, at an exclusive public school, Larry had Heathcliff pummeled into his personality. The boys distrusted this choir school exotic who recited catechism and poetry with such fine feeling. Larry's mother had just died and the sensitive kid needed sympathy. He got beatings. His father's remarriage was another bitter blow. Larry went on the stage, resolved never to take another penny of his father's money.<br />
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Like any self-made man, Larry speaks proudly of his first humble job. "We called ourselves the Lavatory Players," he says. "We toured God's country. Dressing rooms were scarce and lavatories gave you privacy." Larry soon quit the lavatory squad, but there were those among his new associates who would gladly have kicked him back-- and locked the door. This was Larry's jinx phase. If he took a part, then the play folded, and vice versa. Ruefully, he recalls quitting <i>Journey's End </i>to contest the Beau Brummel role with Maurice Evans. Laurence won and Evans stepped into <i>Journey's End.</i> <i>Brummel </i>folded in a week and<i> JE</i> was a two season sensation.<br />
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His unholy talent expanded in America. He made a picture with Ann Harding. She folded. Same thing happened to Elissa Landi. Finally, they gave him Garbo in <i>Queen Christina</i>. Garbo sulked like a girl whose parents have picked her a distasteful bridegroom. Finally, she walked out on him altogether, saying, as she departed, "Life is a pain." She wanted and got Gilbert as a leading man. But at the same time, she'd not only saved herself from the hellbent Landi-Harding path, but broken Olivier's spell.<br />
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The last act in this jinx drama was Olivier's expiation. He produced a show himself. Despite a Priestly script and stellar performances by Ralph Richardson and Greer Garson, it flopped-- and the ghosts of plays and players were laid forever from Olivier's conscience.<br />
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In '36, he made <i>Fire Over England</i> with MRS. Vivien Leigh Holman. Together they journeyed to Denmark, he to be Hamlet and she to be Ophelia, at Elsinore, original site of the play. On broadway, he met another girl, Miss Jill Esmond. It was lightning love, hitting hard and burning out quickly. Wooed back to Hollywood for <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, his Juliet joined him to do Scarlett opposite Gable. They played <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> on Broadway-- to a poor press and a packed house. With Vivien as Juliet, he really meant that balcony scene. Ordinarily though, this 33 year old professional goes about love scenes thoughtfully. "Kissing," he says, "is a job." By marrying Leigh he'll achieve a very happy medium between business and pleasure.<br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-18935812179204513482017-07-07T16:32:00.003-07:002017-07-08T01:50:51.049-07:00Fashion Friday: A Top Ten List Vivien Leigh loved fashion. She enjoyed clothing and all the accessories associated with dressing like a true star. She had a great sense of style and had a lot of fabulous fashion moments throughout her lifetime. To celebrate her style during the 50th anniversary of her passing, I've put together a top ten list of my favorite fashions that Vivien wore in real life.<br />
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1. Vivien's Wedding Dress<br />
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Vivien Leigh married her first husband, Leigh Holman, in a Roman Catholic ceremony on December 20th, 1932 at St. James Church, in London. Vivien's father, Ernest Hartley, walked her down the aisle. For this special occasion, Vivien wore a gorgeous, long-sleeved gown made from white satin. She carried a bouquet of roses mixed with baby's breath and fern leaves. Her hair was styled in the latest fashion, covered by a crocheted Juliet cap with a floor-length veil attached. Vivien's wedding band was <i>an eternal ring of diamonds</i>.<br />
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2. Tennis Match<br />
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In late fall of 1939, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier stepped up their fashion game at a tennis match in Hollywood. Vivien wore a hat with a swooping scarf, while her hair was caught up in a fetching net a la Scarlett O'Hara in <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. Olivier looked quite debonair in a stylish suit.<br />
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3. Hollywood Premiere of <i>Gone With the Wind </i><br />
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On December 28th, 1939, <i>Gone With the Wind</i> finally had its premiere in Hollywood. The premiere was held at Fox's Carthay Circle Theater. For this special night, Vivien chose to wear a fuchsia colored evening gown. The gown's bodice and matching purse were both studded with matching fuchsia sequins. More sequins decorated the hood and its veil. Vivien Leigh's dress was designed for her by Walter Plunkett, who had also created her Atlanta premiere outfit. It's a shame there are no (known) color photos of Vivien in this dress. The fuchsia color would be amazing against her dark hair.<br />
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4. The Oscars, 1940<br />
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Vivien wore a stunning, floor-length gown by Irene as she attended her first Oscar ceremony, in February, 1940. Irene Lentz was a fashion designer, whose salon was located inside the Bullocks-Wilshire department store. In addition to designing costumes for the movies, Irene also designed for private customers, which included many of Hollywood's top stars such as Carole Lombard, Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert and Loretta Young. In the fall of 1939, Irene held a fashion show for one of her collections. The gown Vivien chose for the Oscars was listed as item number fourteen with the simple description of red poppy evening gown. The green printed chiffon dress featured the aforementioned red poppies with hints of yellow, gray and blue mixed into the gown's color palette. Vivien won the Best Actress Oscar for her role of Scarlett O'Hara in <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. Vivien's chiffon gown featured spaghetti straps, side cut-outs and a low-cut bodice. Her topaz pendant, set in yellow gold, hung from a slender chain around her neck, drawing attention to the deep V of the dress. Vivien chose costume jewelry to complete her look, a bracelet and large ring, to match the tone set by the pendant.<br />
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5. Vivien's Head Scarf, 1946<br />
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In 1946, Vivien and Laurence Olivier travelled to the United States. Olivier was coming with the Old Vic Company to perform in New York City. For the trans-Atlantic journey, Vivien swept her hair up into this nifty head scarf, which was then dubbed the Bedouin Bonnet by the press.<br />
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6. White Sunglasses<br />
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Vivien owned at least two pairs of white sunglasses. In this first picture, Vivien and Laurence Olivier are seen in Tasmania, in 1948. How cute does Vivien look all wrapped up? The second picture, containing a slightly different style of sunglasses, is of Vivien in Portofino.<br />
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The Oliviers, along with the Old Vic Company, traveled to Australia to perform in several plays, in 1948. Vivien and Larry were treated like rock stars. Crowds lined up to see this British couple in person. After arriving in Perth, they attended a reception held for them by the British Council. Vivien wore this charming dress to the party. I'm not 100% positive, but I believe the dress was designed by Hardy Amies. The dress was made from white muslin and featured a blue floral motif. The lapels of the dress were pinned together by a brooch, featuring rubies and diamonds in a platinum setting. Vivien's large hat, belt, purse, sandals and gloves with a scalloped trim, were all in corresponding white. Check out that bow!<br />
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8. Suzanne's Wedding, 1957<br />
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Vivien's only child, Suzanne Holman, was married in December, 1957. For her daughter's wedding, Vivien chose to wear a silk coat. But not any silk coat. This coat featured a leopard pattern, which had been hand painted onto the material. Vivien topped it off with a matching hat and fur scarf. Her outfit, according to one newspaper, put all the mink coats and smart costumes in the shade.<br />
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9. <i>Gone With the Wind's </i>21st Anniversary<br />
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<i>Gone With the Wind</i> celebrated its 21st anniversary in March, 1961. The celebrations were held in Atlanta, Georgia, in conjunction with the Civil War Centennial. Newspapers around the world ran headlines such as <i>Scarlett turns 21</i>. The three day event took place from Wednesday, March 8th to Friday, March 10th. On Thursday, March 9th, a costume ball was held at the Biltmore Hotel. Vivien wore an original ball gown, specially created for her, for the 21st anniversary gala.<br />
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The gown was based on the barbecue dress Vivien wore as Scarlett O'Hara in 1939. Vivien's modern day, white gown had a billowing skirt, which trailed behind Vivien when she walked. The dress featured a green velvet waistband, with flowing ribbons down the backside of the skirt. The very fitted bodice showed off the gown’s gorgeous embroidery. Green-blue sprays of flowers were embroidered onto the gown and peppered with pearls and rhinestones. Vivien’s accessories for the evening included a three strand pearl necklace with a diamond drop pin around her neck, while diamond hair barrettes adorned her coiffure. She topped the gown off with long gloves and a fox fur wrap, both white to match her dress.<br />
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To mark William Shakespeare's 400th birthday in 1964, Vivien Leigh attended an outdoor celebration for the Bard. The party took place on an overcast day at the partially finished Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford. For this special occasion, Vivien chose to wear a hot pink, two piece outfit. The boxy shaped jacket featured five buttons down the front, pocket flaps and side buttons. Vivien accented her outfit with a fur stole around her neck, gloves and a black velvet hair band a la <i>Alice In Wonderland</i>.<br />
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During rehearsals, Vivien began the habit of wearing the same outfit daily. Her chosen attire was by designer Hardy Amies, whom she'd known since the 1930s.<br />
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This rehearsal outfit was made from a black, light-weight wool, which <i>Vivien said she practically lives in.</i> The slightly flared, pleated skirt hit Vivien below the knee. Sometimes, she changed things up by switching out the blouses-- from short sleeves to long sleeves and vice versa. One standout feature of the blouses were their Quaker girl collars.<br />
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Amies wasn't a fan of the padded shoulder look and worked hard to bring a more natural looking shoulder to women's clothing. <i>What I didn't realize was that the moment skirts were lowered, we could soften shoulders. I say that the battle of the shoulders was won at the hemline. </i>-Hardy Amies<br />
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Another way Vivien changed up her daily look was to add a scarf to her blouse. She had several different colored ones that she'd slide beneath the collar of her dress and tie in the front.<br />
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Vivien did several publicity portraits for the promotion of <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>. Here she poses for the camera in the same outfit twice: one picture shows her with her dark hair dyed blonde, for the role of Blanche; and in the other picture, she's wearing one of her dark wigs.<br />
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This glamorous gown was made from brown tulle and silk. The dress featured a beaded bodice, embroidered with copper coloured sequins. The gorgeous stole, wrapped around Vivien, was also made from brown tulle and studded with matching sequins.<br />
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Once again, Vivien posed in the same evening gown, with and without her wig. Honestly, I really prefer her natural hair to any of her wigs.<br />
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The designer is Molyneux, who created this gown especially for Vivien. The dress is made from a light-green satin. It features a closely fitted bodice and a fully gathered skirt. The gown's wide straps wrap around Vivien's shoulders, creating a shawl-like effect. Lily of the valley is attached to the bodice.<br />
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The last bit of fashion for today's post is this adorable cap! The wool hat was created by Valentina, a<br />
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Vivien loved this little cap so much that she bought it in several different colors. It features two long straps for tying either in the back, under the hair or in the front, under the chin. She wore these hats quite a bit as she laughingly commented to a reporter: <i>My friends are sick of the sight of me in it!</i><br />
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Besides <i>Gone With the Wind,</i> their work can be seen in hundreds of movies such as <i>The Shanghai Gesture, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Cleopatra, The Virgin Queen, Cover Girl, High Society, That Hamilton Woman, Anna Karenina</i> and the list goes on!<br />
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For today's Fashion Friday post, I thought we'd look at one of the costumes and necklaces from <i>Gone With the Wind. </i>Rhett and Scarlett have just been married and are currently enjoying their honeymoon in New Orleans. Scarlett wears a sumptuous, midnight blue gown, adorned with lovebirds.<br />
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In the movie, we only see Scarlett sitting down, while wearing this dress. The Butlers are eating at a restaurant with CanCan dancers as the entertainment. I really wish I could find a full-length photograph of Vivien Leigh in this dress.<br />
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Around Vivien's neck is this gorgeous diamond and amethyst necklace. The diamonds are really iridescent stones, which set off the simulated amethysts. Joseff certainly knew how to deliver the Wow factor!<br />
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Scarlett's necklace is set to go on the auction block in November. Since it's from one of the most iconic and beloved movies of all time, I think the selling price will be quite high. In addition to the necklace, Vivien wore a matching bracelet, which is stunning with its intricate detail.<br />
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Besides <i>Gone With the Wind</i>, the necklace appeared in three other films.<br />
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It's first appearance, after <i>Gone With the Wind,</i> was in the 1948 movie, <i>Let's Live A Little, </i>starring Hedy Lamarr. </div>
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The next time we see the necklace, it's adorning Ginger Rogers in <i>The Barkleys of Broadway</i>, in 1949. It appears that the strands were tightened to give it more of a choker look.<br />
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The last leading lady to wear the necklace was Linda Darnell in <i>Blackbeard the Pirate</i>, from 1952. The necklace now appears to have been returned to its former <i>Gone With the Wind </i>glory. </div>
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-53406087702289928522017-03-31T15:14:00.000-07:002017-03-31T15:14:54.691-07:00Fashion Friday: Harper's Bazaar, 1940In 1940, Vivien Leigh appeared in the pages of Harper's Bazaar as a fashion model. For Vivien, modeling designer clothing was nothing new. She'd been appearing in fashion magazines since the 1930s.<br />
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The photographer for this particular shoot was George Hoyningen-Huene, who was well-renowned in the field of fashion photography. The clothing came from Henri Bendel, a NYC based department store (which is still in business today).<br />
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In these photographs, Vivien wears two different velvet skirts, each topped with a lamé blouse. The first skirt is made from black, chiffon velvet. Chiffon velvet is simply a lighter weight than normally expected from velvet. To top off the skirt, Vivien wears a beautiful melon-pink blouse made from Bianchini silk. The lamé blouse ties in the middle, providing that cinched-waist look. The retail price of this outfit was $135.<br />
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In this next image, Vivien is pictured wearing a full skirt, made from black, rayon velvet. Vivien wears a silver lamé top, with a striking, silver lace trim around the collar, lapels and bottom of the blouse. I can only imagine how stunning both blouses would be in color! The retail price of this outfit was $165.<br />
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The gorgeous jewelry pictured in these photographs was created by Verdura. I'm simply in love with this amazing brooch!<br />
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-76664007432302384692017-02-25T12:53:00.001-08:002020-02-09T09:44:16.729-08:0011 Things About Vivien Leigh & the OscarsVivien Leigh only made nineteen movies during her thirty-three year career, as she preferred standing on the stage to standing in front of a camera. During her career, she took home two Oscars for Best Actress: one in 1940 and one in 1952. I thought it would be fun to compile a list of Oscar related trivia, that you may not know, about Vivien.<br />
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1. Vivien Leigh, a British actress, won both of her Oscars for portraying Southern women. She earned her first Academy Award, for Best Actress, for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara, in <i>Gone With the Wind.</i> She earned her second Oscar, as Blanche DuBois, in <i>A Streetcar Named Desire.</i><br />
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2. Vivien won both of her Best Actress Oscars during leap years: 1940 and 1952.<br />
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3. She was the first British actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.<br />
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4. Vivien knew in advance that she had won for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara, in <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. The names of the winners were released the day before the ceremony to the newspapers. The LA Times ran a list of winners on the day of the Academy Awards, instead of the day after the ceremony.<br />
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5. According to Laurence Olivier's son, Tarquin, Olivier experienced a little bit of jealousy over her win and his loss (he had been nominated for Best Actor for <i>Wuthering Heights</i>): <i>On their way home, he grabbed her Oscar and 'It was all I could do to restrain myself from hitting her with it. I was insane with jealousy.' </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><br />
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6. Vivien wasn't able to attend the 1952 Academy Awards. She was appearing onstage in New York, as Cleopatra, in dual plays by Shaw and Shakespeare. She heard her name announced as the winner, via the radio, in her dressing room at the Ziegfield Theater.<br />
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7. Greer Garson accepted the Best Actress Award for <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>, on Vivien's behalf, at the 1952 award ceremony. Greer made a short speech: <i>It's an honor and a thrill to accept this for you, Vivien. I hope you're listening in New York, We're all very excited about it. God bless you and congratulations. I know she'd want to thank you if she were here herself. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><br />
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Vivien's co-star in <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>, Kim Hunter, also didn't attend the ceremony. Bette Davis accepted the Best Supporting Actress award on her behalf.<br />
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8. Vivien received her Best Actress Oscar later that year, in London, on June 17th. Johnny Green did the honor of presenting the statuette to Vivien.<br />
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9. In March 1953, Vivien arrived in Hollywood, from Sri Lanka, to continue filming <i>Elephant Walk</i>. While there, she planned on attending the 1953 Oscars and was scheduled to present the Best Actor Oscar. Her chosen dress for the evening was a stunning, ivory satin gown. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to attend due to a mental illness breakdown and had to return to London for treatment.<br />
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10. While Vivien was recovering from her breakdown, thieves broke into her London home, Durham Cottage. They stole her Oscar for <i>A Streetcar Named Desire,</i> along with silverware and miscellaneous clothing. Her Oscar was subsequently replaced by AMPAS.<br />
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11. In 1993, Suzanne Farrington (Vivien's daughter), sold some of her mother's things at a Sotheby's auction. One of the items placed on the block was the Oscar Vivien had won for <i>Gone With the Wind. </i>The statuette sold for $510,000, which was the highest amount paid for an Oscar at that time.<br />
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1. <i>My Father Laurence Olivier</i> by Tarquin Olivier, page 86<br />
2. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmjIaO0kUT4" target="_blank">1952 Oscars' video of Greer Garson accepting award</a><br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-75064466822347253872017-02-11T08:07:00.003-08:002017-09-24T14:30:40.105-07:00Fashion Friday: The Costumes of Anna KareninaFor this week’s Fashion Friday post, I'll be taking a look at several of the costumes that Vivien Leigh wore in <i>Anna Karenina</i>. Based on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, Vivien filmed <i>Anna Karenina </i>at Shepperton Studios in 1947; the film premiered in London, in January 1948.<br />
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<i>Anna Karenina </i>was directed by Julien Duvivier, whom Vivien had nothing but kind words to say about his directorial style: <i>Instead of shouting his instructions, which is sometimes embarrassing if one has made a mistake, he will always walk up and whisper them- not only to the leading actor or actress, but to individual members of the crowd.</i><br />
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While filming <i>Anna Karenina,</i> it was Vivien's tendency to arrive at Shepperton Studios at around 7am, each morning. During downtime and on her lunch break, Vivien would do the Times crossword puzzle. She also enjoyed playing gin rummy on the set, usually beating her opponents!<br />
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The costumes for the movie were designed by Cecil Beaton and created by Karenska. Vivien wore approximately fifteen different costumes as Anna. One newspaper article noted that some costumes had to be duplicated, due to the fake rain and snow used in the movie. In a letter Cecil Beaton wrote to Greta Garbo, he said: <i>By the end of one day's shooting Anna's sable cape looks like an old drowned rat, and the ostrich feathers in her hat look like the flu brush. Time and again Anna has to get out of the train, while the wind machines blow a mixture of perspex and salt and cement onto her. Personally, I think it a lot of fun- and that is the part of the films I like the best- the imitation icicles and snow- the imitation train- but by now Vivien doesn't share my views and she is thoroughly disgusted by the smell of the steam.</i> (as shared by Hugo Vickers in <i>Vivien Leigh</i>).<br />
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While Cecil Beaton was designing the clothing for <i>Anna Karenina, </i>he was also designing the costumes for <i>An Ideal Husband </i>(starring Paulette Goddard)<i>. </i>The two movies were both produced by Alexander Korda, at the same time and at the same studio. Here's Beaton's take on creating the costumes for these two movies:<br />
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<i>I think color makes a great deal of difference to the mood of an actress; that the color she wears colors her performance. If, therefore, an actress dislikes a particular color, I believe she should have the right of refusal and in a picture of where I am Designing Director, she has that right. The grays, the dark greens, the burgundy are the sombre colors. White and the pale blues, such as you see in religious paintings, the colors of virginity, of purity and of peace. Pink, more than any other, is the color of frivolity.</i><br />
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<i>The different moods you can create in costuming-- what I enjoyed so much about costuming </i>Anna Karenina <i>and</i> An Ideal Husband<i>, one after the other, was that they were so different; give such a range of mood, manner and character. One, </i>An Ideal Husband<i>, a light, delightful trifle; the other, </i>Anna Karenina<i>, with the taste of doom, of fate, hanging over the different characters. Wonderful to go from the silly to the sombre, from Vivien Leigh's grand passion to Paulette [Goddard], naughty Paulette, under the stigma of being rather fast...</i><br />
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<i>[The clothes in </i>Anna Karenina<i> should have] quite an effect. The very long waistline, the tight, thin pointed waistline. The very 18th century shoulders. No shoulder seams. All cut on the cross as they were in the 18th century- and in these costumes Vivien looks charming, very charming, so neat and strong. </i><br />
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<i>Designing is not, you see, a mere matter of a bow here, a bow there. Much more serious than that, much more serious. A very good designer should know, not only the measurements and the physical type of the woman for whom he is designing, but her character as well. </i><br />
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The first costume from<i> Anna Karenina</i> is this lovely outfit, which Vivien is wearing in this publicity photo. The silk dress and its cape are both black and green. A matching green and black hat sits on the back of her head and ties beneath her chin.<br />
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Her green and black shawl-like wrap is trimmed with a wide band of velvet, which is attached to a hand-made fringe. The wrap is decorated with stars and a geometric pattern. </div>
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The bottom of the skirt features wide bands of black velvet, which contrasts against the silk pattern of the dress. The dress Vivien's wearing, beneath her shawl, is pictured below. In this picture, we get a better view of the gown's design, along with its wide, lace cuffs. The frilly lace collar is set off by a brooch pinned bow.<br />
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This next costume is a gorgeous, form-fitting day dress which holds a classic, timeless appeal. The structured, burgundy gown is made from wool and velvet. </div>
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The gown features a sable trimmed capelet, which covers the shoulders. In his biography, <i>Vivien Leigh</i>, Hugo Vickers relays the following snippet from a letter Vivien sent to Bernard Berenson in June, 1947: <i>There has been a heat wave during which I have had to pretend I was living in Moscow in deepest winter! --covered in velvets and sables and corseted down to 19 inches. I thought this last would gain me some sympathy when I told Larry. But not a bit of it. He too is corseted and pretending it's winter in Elsinore! It really does seem a strange way of earning a living sometimes. </i></div>
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The overskirt, with its asymmetrical pleated hem, is folded into bands and gathered toward the back, creating a fabulous silhouette for Vivien. The excess material creates a small, bustle like effect in the back of the dress. The underskirt falls to the floor and features a small train.<br />
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Vivien poses in this next publicity photo while wearing a stunning lilac gown, which would be amazing to see in color. The satin bodice features a large peek-a-boo cutout, while the bottom part of the basque angles away from the front of the dress.<br />
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The silk dress features multiple rows of narrow, plaited ruffles from the neck to the bottom, where the gown ends in pleated ruffles. Vivien wears fingerless gloves and carries a matching umbrella trimmed in fringe.</div>
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Vivien's curls are topped with a lovely hat ornamented with lilacs, to match the color of the dress. Black lace falls from the cap to tie beneath the chin. </div>
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Lilacs are also used as decoration on the gown. A small bouquet of lilacs are pinned to the front of the bodice, while a long garland of lilacs drapes itself across the lower part of the body. The garland loops from one side of the gown to the other, dipping down to the knees before rising back to the other side. </div>
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This next outfit is my favorite costume from <i>Anna Karenina</i>. Vivien is absolutely stunning in this outfit. The dress features a short waisted jacket, made from white silk and black velvet. The black velvet lapels perfectly sets off the lacy, white collar. The jacket's silk sleeves end in a swath of black velvet, with long, lacy cuffs spilling out from the sleeves.</div>
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The back of the jacket ends with a wide, black velvet train, that travels down to the floor. The white skirt features multiple layers of organdy draped across the body. Each layer ends in a band of pleated lace ruffles, which match the costume's cuffs and collar. </div>
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Vivien's hat is constructed from white lace and black velvet. The hat is topped with black and white ostrich feathers, with a black velvet band of ribbon dangling down the back.<br />
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In the picture below, one gets a better view of the jacket's lacy collar, which is mostly hidden by the bouquet pinned to it in the above pictures. I think the dress looks better without the bouquet.<br />
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This sumptuous, black ball gown is made from velvet, satin and taffeta. Multiple shades of black, along with different materials, make for a glamorous night out in this gown.<br />
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The gown features a low cut bodice, with off the shoulder decolletage. <i>Extreme decolletage as I designed...can be, according to the woman who wears it, and how she wears it, very naughty; or it can be as decorous as the sable capes and sombre shades I gave Vivien Leigh... </i>-Cecil Beaton<br />
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The long-waisted bodice is called a cuirass basque. These were usually boned to mold a woman's body into a 'pleasing' feminine form. I only hope that if Vivien dropped anything on the floor, she had someone nearby to pick it up for her!<br />
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In the front, the ball gown ends in long rows of narrow, plaited ruffles.The striped material is draped across the front, then gathered upward toward the back, ending in a gloriously long train. Back in the 1870s, this was known as a peacock train.<br />
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Cecil Beaton created another wonderful evening gown for Vivien to wear as Anna, this time in white silk and gold lamé. Color wise, it's a complete one-eighty from the black ball gown.<br />
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This evening gown begins with a low-cut bodice, which is trimmed in a white silk fringe at the top and bottom of the basque. The overskirt is draped across the body in an apron effect and trimmed with a white silk fringe. The underskirt also features the same fringe, ending in a small train in the back. Diamantes add an extra touch of elegance to this gown.<br />
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This next outfit was sold at auction a few years ago by Bonhams. The high bidder paid $2,585 USD for this lovely costume. The website's description is simply <i>Green velvet gown with chiffon bodice and bolero jacket. </i><br />
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From these color photographs of the gown, it's easy to see that the collar and cuffs were also made from white chiffon, and shaped into pleated ruffles. I'll have to rewatch <i>Anna Karenina </i>to figure out when Vivien wears this costume in the movie.<br />
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Years later, in looking back over her career, Vivien Leigh would cite <i>Anna Karenina</i> as a regret: <i>My mistakes were doing the films of </i>Anna<i> </i>Karenina <i>and </i>The Deep Blue Sea<i> and appearing in the farce </i>Look After Lulu<i>, which was totally embarrassing. </i><br />
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Vivien may have regretted doing <i>Anna Karenina</i>, but I don't regret how marvelous she looks in these costumes. Cecil Beaton did an outstanding job as designer.<br />
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Thanks for joining me for today's Fashion Friday post!<br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-51975928404329648572017-02-08T05:38:00.001-08:002017-02-08T05:38:46.072-08:00The Knight Was Made For LoveConfidential<br />
March, 1961<br />
by John Blough<br />
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About the only thing missing in the recent divorce of Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh to make it the most adroit comedy of manners in many years was a credit line for Noel Coward.<br />
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For here, observers are generally agreed, is a matrimonial mix-up that screams for the classic Coward coolness, <i>where everybody was very nice, old chaps, even if there was a deuced lot of cheating going on. </i>The kind of stuff, in short, that has made deah Nuhl's plays tops in weird love situations.<br />
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Conditioned to seeing such things on the stage, the general public nevertheless sat bolt upright when the Olivier-Leigh design for living and loving was revealed recently.<br />
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Sir Larry, it seems, chaps, admitted adultery with a gal named Joan Plowright in a London hotel and Lady Olivier, so help us, said she had been a bit more than indiscreet. In fact a bit more than once; two times, to put it succinctly, once in Ceylon and again in London. Like a true blue British Lady, though, Vivien didn't name the gentlemen involved in these far off Broadway personal productions of <i>Twice Upon a Mattress. </i><br />
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Triangles, of course, are nothing new, offstage or on, and therefore you can't be blamed for asking: "So what's unusual about this situation? Here's Larry, a handsome gent, going for another girl? Blimey, it's done more times than you can shake a private eye at."<br />
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And of course it's done, chums! But what makes his case even curiouser is the fact that the lass Larry lolled about with happened to be married to a TV actor named Roger Gage. Yet Roger, to everyone's surprise, admitted he had committed adultery, too. In, of all places, Helsinki, which seems like a long way to go for a roll in the hay.<br />
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There you have it, a four way adultery tablet, which the Court seemed to swallow as easily as a cold tablet with the same quadruple benefits. Only in this case it would have been cheaper for Sir Larry to stick with the bottle instead of the babe, because the Court assessed him the cost of both cases; to wit, Olivier vs. Olivier; and Gage vs. Gage.<br />
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Thus, as Time might put it, after 20 years of marriage, no children, came divorce to Sir Larry and Lady Olivier.<br />
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But if Time put it that way, friends, they would have missed a pip of a story, because the saga of Sir Larry and his Lady is a lulu. In the first place, the recent divorce action brought Larry's love life to full circle, a coincidence generally missed by the raised eyebrows set.<br />
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It started with a kiss and ended with a kiss. Only the women were different.<br />
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At the time he met Vivien, Larry, then without that impressive Sir subsequently appended to his name, was very much married to a good looking actress named Jill Esmond. They were rapidly gaining distinction as a husband and wife team; but at the time Vivien blew into Larry's life he was playing solo at a London theatre, the star of<i> Fire Over England.</i><br />
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Well, sir, faster than you could say Hamlet's soliloquy, Larry was rhapsodizing over his new costar, who happened to be beautiful, charming and all those things a guy sees when he first gets that way over a dame. The girl, natch, was Vivien and the fact that, in addition to being desirable, she was also married seemed not to bother Larry. In no time at all, the <i>Fire Over England</i> being acted onstage, was a pitiful glow compared to the roaring blaze Larry and Vivien were generating backstage.<br />
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As the conflagration spread, fanned by the winds of gossip, Vivien's husband, a London lawyer named Herbert Leigh Holman, got downwind of it and what he smelled seemed more like something out of Denmark than out of a Chanel bottle. Mrs. Olivier, the charming Jill, also sensed that more was in the wind than dramatics, but before any action was taken, Jill found herself jilted and Holman found himself minus a wife.<br />
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Because when <i>Fire Over England</i> folded, Larry and his new-found love loaded their make-up kits on a Cunarder, crossed the Big Pond, and set up housekeeping in Hollywood. Behind them they left Larry's son, Tarquin, and Vivien's daughter, Suzanne.<br />
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To romantic souls, only great devotion could have caused two such notable public figures to commit desertion. Certainly the love they bore for one another served to prove it. They were so enslaved by Eros that three years passed before either of them appeared to notice they hadn't been married. In the meantime, Larry had introduced Vivien to David O. Selznick, who was then on a talent hunt for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; she tested for the role and the rest is history. Both Vivien and Larry went onward and upward with the Arts, success dogging their every footstep.<br />
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To Hollywood they were a perfectly matched couple; they were both talented and easy to look at, even if they did seem, at the time, to have eyes only for each other.<br />
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<i>I never saw a happier couple,</i> Katharine Hepburn, echoing the sentiments of the Oliviers' circle, remarked when the couple were finally married. The wedding, which caught most of Hollywood by surprise, took place at Ronald Colman's ranch at Santa Barbara, long a favorite spot where the British elite wold meet to eat, munch crumpets and compare bankbooks.<br />
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The honeymoon was scarcely over when Vivien, a ball of fire on screen as well as off, was stricken with TB and sent to a sanitarium in Switzerland. During the years she remained there, Larry visited her regularly and, to all appearances, was a perfect model of an upright husband.<br />
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But he also had his career to consider. Triumph followed on triumph for him and, as always happens, beautiful women heaved themselves whole-heartedly at him. They got short shrift for all their short breaths. Larry seemed determined to surround himself with males for protection and for companionship. Thus, if Vivien did hear stories of the way sirens schemed to play offstage Juliet to her romantic Romeo, Larry's friends could assure her it was just so much nonsense.<br />
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<i>Naturally, Vivien had her fears for Larry,</i> a friend of the couple recalls. <i>What woman wouldn't worry about another female taking her man away from her? But when she realized that Larry welcomed the company of men-- when he didn't have her around-- she was persuaded their marriage was still valid.</i><br />
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Once she was released from the sanitarium, Vivien again fitted perfectly into the pre-togetherness picture the loving couple had conjured up for themselves. When WWII broke out, they worked tirelessly in the war effort, entertaining British troops anywhere they were sent. These laudable patriotic efforts, however, taxed Vivien's strength and prevented her full recovery, something that was not immediately evident.<br />
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At cessation of hostilities, the Oliviers resumed their separate careers, Larry to make it big with his movie and stage version of <i>Hamlet</i> and Vivien to soar to triumph as a nymphomaniac in the film rendition of <i>A Streetcar Named Desire. </i><br />
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Playing the role of a pathetic woman whose sexual desires eventually bring her to an insane asylum was no easy part for the actress. A thing like that called for consummate skill and Vivien, doubtless realizing this, threw herself feverishly into the role. The ways it absorbed her was the wonder of the Oliviers' circle, many of whose members commented on how Vivien lived with it. She often startled friends with the gestures, voice and lines of Blanche, the lady who couldn't leave sex alone, When the picture was released, Vivien was established as one of the finest actresses in Hollywood.<br />
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Instead of resting on her laurels, and unaware that she was not fully recovered from her TB bout, Vivien meekly consented to go on tour with Larry in two Caesar plays, Shaw's <i>Caesar and Cleopatra</i> and Shakespeare's <i>Antony and Cleopatra.</i><br />
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<i>Vivien was always ready to do anything Larry wanted, </i>a friend recalls. <i>Although she knew she was an accomplished actress, she meekly accepted his direction. He picked her movie roles and in general told her what to do. Vivien always felt that the male partner should dominate.</i><br />
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Surprisingly, she did a complete about face. When the tour of the two Caesars ended, Paramount asked her to do a movie with Larry based on the book <i>Elephant Walk</i>, a story of a faded beauty who rules a Ceylon plantation.<br />
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Olivier turned thumbs down on the deal, and intimated that his refusal included Vivien also. For once, she defied him, but not completely. Although Olivier became reconciled to Vivien's rebellion, he insisted that an old friend of the couple, a young actor named Peter Finch, go along to keep her company. Olivier's attitude had one Hollywood wit wondering whether Larry thought that Dana Andrews, Vivien's co-star, and a herd of elephants featured in the picture, weren't enough to keep her from feeling lonesome. Less charitable people called it just plain jealousy on Olivier's part.<br />
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Whatever the actor's misgivings, trouble brewed, bubbled and boiled over.<br />
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Although Finch was on hand as family friend and protector in Ceylon, Vivien soon showed him he was only one of a number of handsome young men who could offer solace on their own. She began to be plagued with insomnia, and when her fears and tautness became evident to Andrews the star suggested that Vivien see a psychiatrist, <i>I don't believe in them</i>, she said curtly.<br />
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It soon became evident that what she preferred was Yoga, and we don't mean Berra.<br />
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It was Eastern philosophy. The guy who introduced it to her was an actor friend of Peter Finch named John Buckmaster.<br />
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Buckmaster taught Vivien the finer points of the Oriental cult and also spent many nights sitting outside her bedroom in a trance. Some unsung wit on location once had the presence of mind to snap a memorable picture of Vivien, legs crossed in traditional Yoga posture, with a snake curled around her shoulder.<br />
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<i>Larry could have saved himself a lot of heartache if he'd seen this picture earlier,</i> a press agent says, <i>but he was sure that with Finch chaperoning her, Vivien was in good hands.</i><br />
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The only trouble was that Finch, Buckmaster and Vivien made it a very cozy threesome. And, meanwhile, Vivien's ordinarily sunny disposition turned to arrant rudeness and temper tantrums.<br />
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She cried on the set. Twice she forgot her lines. On several occasions she locked herself in her dressing room and refused to come out. Behind the closed door, she listened impassively to the importunities of the company manager, while outside, his face a placid mask of contentment, Buckmaster sat cross legged, lost in Nirvana. But then the day arrived that Vivien began answering conversations in Elizabethan English, the company knew the end was near. Before long Vivien collapsed, sobbing and screaming.<br />
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When Olivier flew over to take her home, he found that Finch had long since left town after refusing to talk to his friends of the press, and that Buckmaster had suffered a breakdown the day after Vivien's collapse.<br />
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Hollywood's great, shrivelled, golden heart went all out to Larry and Vivien in this moment of dire distress and every studio wondered anxiously whether Vivien would work again. After all, she was box-office. Their fears were groundless. Six months later Vivien was her happy self again and had returned to the London stage where she played opposite her husband, now Sir Larry, in <i>The Sleeping Prince</i>.<br />
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Then an unfortunate recurrence of her old malady sent her back to the Swiss sanitarium. When <i>The Sleeping Prince</i> became a movie, retitled <i>The Prince and the Showgirl</i>, Marilyn Monroe played the role created by Vivien. It was one of Larry's most disappointing productions and, definitely, the biggest turkey Monroe ever turned in in the name of Art. As if Larry didn't have enough woe trying to forget his mishaps with MM, Vivien was released from the sanitarium, but, instead of rushing to her husband, she headed for America where she made a sensational announcement.<br />
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She was, she told the press, expecting a baby. Whether this news- which proved erroneous- had a jarring effect on Sir Larry, busy pitching cinematic woo with Monroe, has never been recorded. Later, after Vivien had discovered she wasn't pregnant, another slight touch of unusual domesticity brought the wrath of the British press down on her head.<br />
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To everyone's astonishment except Sir Larry's (who later claimed he sanctioned the arrangement), Vivien got in touch with her ex-husband, Barrister Holman, and went vacationing in Italy with him and their daughter Suzanne, then 23.<br />
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Proper Britishers fumed at the scandalous holiday and a lady member of Parliament huffed that it was <i>a terrible example for people in high places to set before our children.</i><br />
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If anyone expected Vivien's informal vacation to break up the Oliviers, or introduce what the French call a ménage à trois to proper British households, they were disappointed. The Oliviers were in business as usual. This was obvious when Larry finished a walking tour of Scotland with his son and returned home.<br />
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He and Vivien embarked on a Shakespeare kick in the Bard's birthplace. Togetherness seemed in order again, even when Vivien returned to the States to star in the Broadway production of <i>Duel of Angels</i>. Prior to departure, however, she incurred Olivier's displeasure, and aroused the delight of the British press, when she slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings and made her TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress in Thornton Wilder's <i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i>.<br />
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Chortled the London Daily Herald: <i>Well, it if isn't granny in tights.</i><br />
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More circumspectly, the London Daily Mail gasped: <i>Legs!</i><br />
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Olivier just subsided into moody silence, an obvious picture of a man conditioned to problems. Besides, he had another problem, no one seemed to know about, Vivien in particular. Larry, it seems, was in love again.<br />
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The object of his affection was a shy English actress with dark, close cropped hair and round, rag doll eyes. Her name was Joan Plowright and she came to Sir Larry's attention as the bright hope of the English Stage Company. He promptly signed her to play his daughter in <i>The Entertainer</i>. This was followed by a role opposite him in <i>Rhinoceros</i>. The daughter of a Lincolnshire newspaper editor, Joan broke into show business as an amateur, got into the Old Vic on a scholarship and then toured the countryi n repertory.<br />
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Just as he had with Vivien, Sir Larry saw her on a stage and flipped. Vivien, meanwhile, appearing in New York, was keeping busy after hours with one of her co-players, a handsome young actor named John Merivale, son of the noted Gladys Cooper and the late Philip Merivale.<br />
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Then Vivien got the word that Sir Larry wanted to wed Joan Plowright. Keeping the traditional stiff upper lip, Vivien announced:<i> Lady Olivier wished o say that Sir Laurence has asked for a divorce in order to marry Miss Joan Plowright. She will naturally do whatever he wished.</i><br />
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Said Sir Larry: I<i>t is too private an affair to discuss just now. I must think.</i><br />
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Still thinking, Olivier came to New York in <i>Becket</i> hard on the heels of his lady love who had arrived a week earlier to open in <i>A Taste of Honey</i>. Finally, what he had been thinking about came out in court: Vivien had cheated in Ceylon (with a person unnamed) and in London with another person also unnamed; Larry had cheated with Joan, who had cheated on her husband, who had cheated with another person, unnamed, in Helsinki.<br />
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Obviously, a four way confession of sin like this, if made earlier, would have prevented Olivier from obtaining a knighthood, whatever his merits as an actor. But since it happened after honors had been granted to him, there wasn't much anyone could do about it.<br />
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The recent turn of events may have left Sir Larry in a daze, but there'll always be the Knight.<br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-38040699861289101332017-01-27T17:18:00.001-08:002017-02-07T15:26:58.747-08:00Fashion Friday: Laurence Olivier's KnighthoodIn 1947, while Laurence Olivier was filming Hamlet, he received a letter asking him if he’d be interested in a knighthood. Even though he wasn’t suppose to mention the letter to anyone, he couldn’t resist and called his wife, Vivien.<br />
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Vivien was in Paris, being fitted for her costumes for <i>Anna Karenina.</i> Felix Barker, in his book<i> The Oliviers</i>, summed up their exchange: "<i>You won’t take it, of course?" she asked with mock innocence. "Of course not!" he answered, and promptly sat down and wrote to say that he would be honored to accept.</i><br />
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Olivier’s impending knighthood was officially announced on June 11, in the King’s Birthday Honors List, for his stage and screen contributions. In his appointment book for July 8, he marked the upcoming investiture as the following: <i>Buckingham Palace, 10:15.</i> He drew a sword on the page beneath the date.<br />
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The ceremony took place on Tuesday, July 8, at Buckingham Palace. Afterward, Olivier shared with the reporters, covering the event, that being knighted had <i>unnerved him more than a first night. I was nervous. I like to have a 'dummy run' before I do anything. There wasn’t any rehearsal [for being knighted]. </i>Olivier's nervousness did not show. In fact, he looked very confident as he walked up to the King and knelt down on one knee.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sir Laurence Olivier and his friend, Sir Malcolm Sargent, were knighted at the same ceremony.</td></tr>
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The black morning jacket featured black-braiding, which is a silk trim. The braiding can be seen around the jacket's collar, lapels, front pocket, sleeves and tails. The interesting thing to note is that the silk trim, at the bottom of the sleeve, gives the appearance of a turn-back cuff, for an extra touch of elegance. </div>
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Vivien dressed quite elegantly in simple black. She wore a wide-brimmed hat with a veil that covered her face. Her black suit featured a nipped in waist, slanting pocket flaps and oversized pearl buttons, at the jacket's closure and cuffs. The frilly, ruffled collar of her white blouse peeks out from the suit's jacket. Vivien and Larry's biographers report that she wore no jewelry for the occasion, but as we can see in these pictures, that's not true. Vivien wore small earrings, which look flower-shaped, and a strand of pearls. </div>
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<li>Olivier was a blonde when knighted. He was in the middle of filming<i> Hamlet</i>, so his hair had been bleached blonde for the role.</li>
<li>Alexander Korda closed down the <i>Anna Karenina</i> set for the investiture.</li>
<li>Olivier, at 40, was the youngest actor to be knighted. </li>
<li>He'd been skipped over the Honors List before, due to his divorce and subsequent remarriage to a divorced woman.</li>
<li>Olivier was the fourth most popular British actor when knighted. The top three actors were James Mason, Stewart Granger and Ray Milland. </li>
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-73551532806041715892017-01-20T16:38:00.002-08:002017-01-21T02:30:59.732-08:00Fashion Friday: That Hamilton Woman<i>That Hamilton Woman!</i> is a 1941 movie about the real-life romance of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. René Hubert, the man tapped to be the costume designer for the film, was no stranger to Vivien. He had previously worked with her on three movies: <i>Fire Over England, Dark Journey </i>and<i> A Yank at Oxford.</i> René was born in Switzerland, in 1895.<br />
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When it came to fashion, René's motto was that a woman should dress her personality, then everything else would fall into place. <i>Your clothes must never overshadow you. You must triumph over them, for beauty's greatest asset is the lack of self-consciousness.</i> René designed many sets and costumes for revues/plays in Europe, including designs for Max Reinhardt. By the age of thirty, his most famous client was Gloria Swanson, whom he began designing for in 1925. During his career, Rene received two Oscar nominations for costume design: <i>Desiree</i>, 1954 and <i>The Visit</i>, 1964.<br />
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<i>That Hamilton Woman!</i> opens at the British Embassy in Naples. We catch our first glimpse of Vivien as the young Emma as she arrives in Naples, along with her mother, at the home of Sir William Hamilton.<br />
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Vivien wears a large hat, based on one from a George Romney painting of Emma Hamilton. The hat features oversized black bows on top and a streaming, grey chiffon, scarf wraps around Vivien's chin. She wears a floor-length grey cape, with a multi-tiered capelet. Beneath the cape she wears a matching grey, chiffon dress cinched at the waist with a black sash. The close-fitting, long sleeves of the dress end in a small ruffle at each wrist.<br />
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Sir William arranges to dine alone with Emma on her first night in Naples. The costume for this scene is a sweet dress made from a light, pink organza. The dress features elbow length sleeves, with banded ribbon midway through the sleeves and a low, ruffled collar, which extends to the shoulders, covering the bodice. A large, pink bow sits in the center of the ruffled collar.<br />
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Vivien wears a super-cute, three piece, sailor outfit, which reflects the colors of the British flag (red, white and blue). The gown features a long, pleated, chiffon dress. The skirt portion is highlighted by light blue stripes. The dress is topped off with a red, double-breasted waistcoat made from red moire (a silk fabric with a wavy pattern). Over the waistcoat, Vivien wears a short, bolero jacket made from blue silk. <br />
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Brass buttons are lined up in neat little double rows, running down both the vest and the jacket. The nautical theme continues with Vivien's jewelry. She wears an anchor necklace and anchor earrings. Her white collar also features gold anchors; one pinned to each side. Vivien's curls are crowned by a straw hat, with an upturned brim, trimmed in blue ribbon.<br />
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Next up is the costume I've dubbed the <i>opera gown</i>. This particular ball gown is only shown briefly as Emma and Nelson attend the opera. Later, at an inn, we catch a fleeting glimpse of the dress beneath Emma's cape. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a full length photograph of the gown by itself.<br />
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The ball gown is made from blue satin, which is draped over side hoops, leaving the front and back more or less flat (which I'm sure Vivien appreciated after wearing those wide hooped skirts in <i>GWTW</i>!). Pink chiffon roses are sewn onto the dress, contrasting with the blue satin. The leaves and stems for the roses are embroidered directly onto the gown's fabric in a silver thread and are embellished with tiny rhinestones. The underskirt is a heavy satin, with diamond shapes studded with more rhinestones. The entire outfit is topped off by an enormous hat, adorned with pink chiffon roses and ostrich feathers.<br />
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Vivien stuns in this next costume, which is another glamorous ball gown. The gown features a tight fighting, silver bodice with short sleeves. The skirt flounces out over side hoops for a dazzling effect, especially when Vivien, as Emma, runs through the palace in search of Nelson! The black chiffon skirt features a large, silver pattern with an overlay of black netting, studded with diamantes.<br />
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The<i> Now I've kissed you through two centuries </i>ball gown was auctioned off a few years ago by Christie's, selling for $7,800 USD. From Christie's website: <i>A full-length formal gown of black velvet, the v-shaped neckline trimmed with black lace, the bodice and skirt embellished with rhinestones and bugle beads in the form of feathers and bows. The dress was subsequently adapted for later use.</i><br />
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Eugne Joseff was the jewelry designer for <i>That Hamilton Woman</i>. In the movie, Vivien wears this gorgeous, faux diamond and emerald necklace. The necklace was originally created by Joseff for Greta Garbo to wear in the 1936 movie, <i>Camille</i>. Greta complained that the weight of her cape caused the leaves of the necklace to pierce her skin, so she refused to wear it. Joseff brought the piece out of storage for Vivien to wear as we see in these pictures.<br />
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Another of Vivien's costumes that went on the auction block is this gorgeous overcoat. The outfit was sold at Sotheby's in 2002 for around $8,000 USD. Looking at the black and white photos, one would never guess that the coat was a gorgeous green color.<br />
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The top of the coat features a multi-tiered capelet, while the sleeves end in oversized cuffs. The extra large, black buttons run almost the entire length of the overcoat. A black belt is cinched into place around the close fitting waist. In the picture above, a frilly cravat stands its ground, held in place with a large cameo brooch.<br />
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One part of the publicity campaign for <i>That Hamilton Woman!</i> were costume reproductions. These modern day replicas were available to the general public at fine department stores.<br />
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One of my personal favorites, from <i>That Hamilton Woman!</i>, is this gorgeous gown. I don't have a description of the dress as viewed in the movie, but I do have a description of the replica made for the public. The replica gown was made from white crepe. The crepe drapes over the bodice Grecian style and the shoulders feature toga like knots. The bodice and the detachable shawl feature an embroidered design, embellished with diamantes.<br />
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And finally, we come to a costume worn by Laurence Olivier as Horatio Nelson. This costume went on the auction block in 2011, selling for $19,000!<br />
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As Nelson, Olivier wears several different naval uniforms. This particular one can be seen, in the movie, when Vivien comes aboard Nelson's ship. It's a long, navy colored jacket with a cream vest and white shirt beneath. The white shirt features ruffles in the front and at the wrists. The jacket, as pictured above, is missing its gold epaulettes from the shoulders.<br />
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This last picture shows the real Nelson's naval uniform. Nelson wore it in the Battle of Trafalgar, where unfortunately, he was killed by gunfire. The gentleman in the picture is pointing to the bullet hole in Nelson's jacket.<br />
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For more on <i>That Hamilton Woman!</i>, please check out this previous post:<br />
<a href="http://vivienleighlegend.blogspot.com/2017/01/21-cool-things-about-that-hamilton-woman.html" target="_blank">21 Cool Things About <i>That Hamilton Woman!</i></a><br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-74024398187650180722017-01-12T12:57:00.001-08:002017-02-22T13:33:13.818-08:0021 Cool Things About "That Hamilton Woman!"Here's a list of 21 cool things about <i>That Hamilton Woman, </i>starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, that I have put together in celebration of the film.<br />
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1. The movie's based on the real life love affair of Emma Hamilton (April 26, 1765 to January 15, 1815) and Horatio Nelson (September 29, 1758 to October 21, 1805). The two first met in 1793, two years after Emma's marriage to Sir William Hamilton.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson</td></tr>
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2. <i>That Hamilton Woman </i>wasn't the first (or last) time that Emma and Nelson’s story would receive the big screen treatment. In order of year, the films are:<br />
1919, <i>The Romance of Lady Hamilton</i>, with Malvina Longfellow and Humberston Wright</div>
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1921, <i>Lady Hamilton, </i>with Liane Haid and Conrad Veidt</div>
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1929, <i>The Divine Lady, </i>with Corinne Griffith and Victor Varconi</div>
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1941,<i> That Hamilton Woman </i>(also known as <i>Lady Hamilton</i>), with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier</div>
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1968, <i>Emma Hamilton, </i>with Michele Mercier and Richard Johnson</div>
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1973, <i>The Nelson Affair</i> (also known as <i>Bequest to the Nation</i>), with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch</div>
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3. In <i>The Nelson Affair</i> the part of Nelson was played by Peter Finch, whom Olivier had discovered in Australia, in 1948. Finch repaid Olivier by cuckolding him. He was also Vivien’s co-star in <i>Elephant Walk</i>, a movie in which she, unfortunately, wasn’t able to complete. </div>
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4. They agreed to do <i>That Hamilton Woman</i> for monetary reasons. In the spring of 1940, Leigh and Olivier invested heavily in their stage production of <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>. The play was not a success and had many difficulties, including harsh reviews from critics. The play opened in San Francisco, traveling to Chicago and New York, where it finally closed, leaving Leigh and Olivier broke. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh as Nelson and Emma in <i>That Hamilton Woman</i></td></tr>
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5. <i>That Hamilton Woman</i> was Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s first movie together as man and wife. It was also their third and final screen pairing. Their first two movies were <i>Fire Over England</i> and <i>21 Days</i>.</div>
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6. Upon returning to Hollywood to film <i>That Hamilton Woman</i>, the Oliviers rented a house on Cedarwood Drive, which came with a giant sheep dog named Jupiter. Jupiter was lucky enough to accompany them to the set on an almost daily basis.<br />
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7. During one of the fight scenes, Olivier's wig caught on fire. A flame from one of the torches dropped down from an extra, landing on top of his head. Luckily, Henry Wilcoxon (playing Captain Hardy) was able to snatch the wig from Olivier's head and put out the fire before any damage occurred to Olivier.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Wilcoxon in action as he whips the wig from Laurence Olivier' s head.</td></tr>
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8. When asked about Olivier playing a character with only one arm and one eye, Vivien replied, <i>What does it matter? Larry can do more with one eye than most men can do with two!</i></div>
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9. Gladys Cooper played Olivier’s wife in the film. In real life, Gladys was married to Philip Merivale, Jack Merivale's father. Jack would later become Vivien’s post-Olivier boyfriend. </div>
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10. Hazel Rogers styled Vivien's hair for <i>That Hamilton Woman. </i>She also worked on Vivien’s hair for <i>Gone With the Wind </i>and would later work with her on <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>.<br />
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11. Vivien’s costumes were designed by Rene Hubert. During the publicity campaign leading up to the various premieres, the costumes could be seen decorating the windows of department stores such as Hudson's Bay and Bonwit Teller. They were then housed back in Hollywood, where they would either be rented out or re-used in other movies. </div>
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12. Another part of the publicity campaign included Vivien dressing up as Emma based on the portraits of George Romney. Romney painted the real Emma Hamilton somewhere around the two dozen mark. Vivien recreated at least five of these portraits; however, she wasn't the first actress to do so. Corinne Griffith also recreated a few of Romney's paintings of Emma for her film, <i>The Divine Lady,</i> back in 1929.<br />
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13. Vivien wears this gorgeous, faux diamond and emerald necklace (pictured below) in <i>That Hamilton Woman. </i>The necklace was originally created for Greta Garbo to wear in the 1936 movie, <i>Camille</i>. Greta complained that the weight of her cape caused the leaves of the necklace to pierce her skin, so she refused to wear it. Eugene Joseff, the jewelry designer for both <i>Camille </i>and <i>That Hamilton Woman</i>, brought the piece out of storage for Vivien to wear.<br />
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14. The set designer was Vincent Korda, brother of Alexander Korda and the interior designer was Julia Heron. Artwork, tapestries and statues were imported from overseas to decorate the lavish sets. Vincent's creations included the British embassy in Naples, which took up an entire sound stage and featured a courtyard; Emma's bedroom, with that gorgeous bed she reclines in; the royal Naples palace; and Emma's London home. </div>
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15. Joesph Breen, of the Production Code Administration, refused to give his approval to the movie as it didn't show Emma and Nelson sorry for their adulterous lifestyle. Korda added the scene of Nelson's father lecturing him, to satisfy Breen and receive approval.<br />
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16. The Oliviers missed the premiere of <i>That Hamilton Woman </i>as they’d left the United States for England at the end of December, 1940. On leaving the U.S., Vivien said, <i>I know London is not the safest place in the world right now, but it is still my home and that's where I want to be.</i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier in <i>That Hamilton Woman</i></td></tr>
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17. The Hollywood premiere was held at the Four Star Theater on Wednesday, March 19, 1941. Tickets for the sold out show were $5 each, with the proceeds going to the British Royal Air Force Development fund. Many members of the production and cast attended the premiere, including: Vincent Korda, Alexander Korda, Merle Oberon (who was married to Korda at the time), Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper, Alan Mowbray, Halliwell Hobbes, Henry Wilcoxon and Norma Drury.<br />
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Many of Hollywood's big names also came out for the premiere, including: Sonja Henje & husband Dan Topping, Olivia de Havilland, David Selznick, Samuel Goldwyn, William Wyler, Claudette Colbert, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Joan Bennett, Charlie Chaplin, Greer Garson, Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford. <br />
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18. <i>That Hamilton Woman</i> premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 3, 1941. It broke the box office record for Easter Week.<br />
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19. England was at war with Germany and Alex Korda's number one motive for making this movie was propaganda. For doing this, Korda was ordered to appear before a Senate committee on charges of attempting to incite America into war. The hearing was cancelled and a second one was scheduled for December 12, 1941. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on December 7th, Korda's hearing was dismissed.</div>
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20. The movie was reportedly one of the favorite movies of two world leaders: Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. According to one of his assistants, Churchill had watched the movie approximately 6 times by the end of 1941.<br />
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21.<i> That Hamilton Woman</i> received four Oscar nominations, winning for Sound Recording, at the 14th Annual Academy Awards, held in 1942. The nominations were for the following :<br />
<b>Art Direction</b> (Black & White) -- Art Direction: Vincent Korda; Interior Decoration: Julia Heron<br />
<b>Cinematography</b> (Black & White) -- Rudolph Maté<br />
<b>Special Effects</b> -- Photographic Effects by Lawrence Butler; Sound Effects by William H. Wilmarth<br />
<b>Sound Recording </b>-- General Service Sound Department, Jack Whitney, Sound Director (Winner)<br />
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<i>Screen Guide</i>, February 1941<br />
<i>Charmed Lives</i> by Michael Korda<br />
Various newspaper articles<br />
Oscar info from <a href="http://www.oscars.org/" target="_blank">AMPAS</a><br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-208216129153748922016-11-05T07:48:00.000-07:002018-11-05T03:54:46.770-08:00Seven Things About Vivien Leigh To celebrate Vivien Leigh's birthday today, I've put together this fun list of seven cool things in regard to Vivien and her work. Vivien Leigh led an incredible life, so obviously, there are far more than just seven fun things to know. However, what I tried to do here, was list a few things not widely known. Hope you enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh in <i>Dark Journey</i></td></tr>
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1. When it came to the lead female role in <i>Dark Journey</i>, Vivien Leigh wasn't the first choice to play Madeleine. Miriam Hopkins was originally scheduled to play the French spy opposite the sly role of Conrad Veidt. She dropped out due to differences with the film's director, Victor Saville. Instead, Miriam starred in, <i>Men Are Not Gods,</i> which Vivien was rumoured to have been the lead actress.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ivor Novello and Vivien in <i>The Happy Hypocrite</i></td></tr>
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2. Vivien Leigh and Ivor Novello treaded the boards together, for the first time, in <i>The Happy Hypocrite</i>, in 1936. But they also appeared onstage together, for a second time, for a one week performance during the Annual Garden Theater Party.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in<i> Gone With the Wind</i></td></tr>
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3. Vivien Leigh hated tea! Even though she was British and born in the tea capital of the world, Darjeeling, Vivien didn't enjoy the drink. She even remarked once that she thought the tea-time ritual was a waste of time!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A scene from <i>Sidewalks of London </i>showcasing the borrowed jewelry.</td></tr>
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4. In <i>Sidewalks of London</i>, Vivien's character, Libby, gets to wear some awesome jewelry. The bracelet, earrings and ring were on loan from Boucheron of Bond Street. The cast and crew (including Vivien) all thought these pieces were costume jewelry. They didn't know they were the real thing until after the movie was finished. Producer Erich Pommer and Boucheron didn't want the jewelry to disappear during filming.<br />
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5. While Vivien was in Hollywood making <i>Gone With the Wind</i>, she learned how to play the accordion. According to Hugo Vickers' biography, she became proficient enough to play <i>Swanee River</i> and <i>Banjo On My Knee</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in <i>That Hamilton Woman</i></td></tr>
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6. Most Vivien Leigh fans already know that <i>That Hamilton Woman</i> was one of Winston Churchill's favorite movies. By the end of 1941, Churchill had purportedly watched it approximately half a dozen times. Coincidentally, it was also one of Joseph Stalin's favorite movies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A studio portrait of Vivien Leigh</td></tr>
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7. While Vivien Leigh was in Hollywood, she developed a fondness for college football, American-style. Her favorite team was UCLA. When they didn't make the Rose Bowl tournament that year, Vivien was very disappointed. One Hollywood magazine even called her <i>a demon fan</i> when it came to football!<br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-28712958945969064362016-10-14T13:01:00.001-07:002016-10-14T13:01:52.388-07:00Fashion Friday #13: The Lady of the CamelliasIn 1961, Vivien Leigh embarked on a world tour, leading the Old Vic Company in three different plays with stops across three continents: Australia, South America and North America. One of the plays performed was <i>The Lady of the Camellias</i>.<br />
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In <i>The Lady of the Camellias</i>, Vivien plays a nineteenth-century courtesan named Marguerite Gauthier. The play was based on the book <i>La Dame aux Camélias</i>, by Alexandre Dumas fils (the son of Alexandre Dumas, writer of novels such as <i>The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask</i>). The character of Marguerite was based on Marie Duplessis, a real life courtesan that Dumas knew and loved. Sadly, Marie died of consumption (tuberculosis) at the young age of 23.<br />
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Over the years, <i>La Dame aux Camélias</i> has been adapted for the stage, ballet and film. The story also inspired Verdi's opera, <i>La traviata. </i>It's most famous film rendition is Greta Garbo's<i> Camille</i>, made in 1936 and co-starring Robert Taylor.<br />
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The costumes and sets for the Old Vic's production in 1961 were designed by Carl Toms. Mr. Toms really did his research. The time-frame of the play was moved from the 1840s to 1865. This put Vivien back into those hooped skirts she wore as Scarlett O'Hara in that little movie called <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. For <i>The Lady of the Camellias, </i>Vivien wore six different costumes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh with her co-star, Jack Merivale (Photo by Anthony Buckley)</td></tr>
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The play opens in April, 1865, and in Act I, Vivien makes a stunning entrance on stage in a white opera cloak. One first hand account says that <i> A gale of admiring gasps always sweeps through the theater as Miss Leigh enters in a </i><i>floor length cloak of frothy white ostrich feathers over her billowing white ball gown. </i>I think I'd gasp out loud, too!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vivien Leigh as Marguerite (Photo by Athol Shmith)</td></tr>
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Beneath her opera cape, Vivien wore a hooped, white ball gown. The gown was adorned with ribbon and white camellias. The white flowers meant that Marguerite was ready to receive her gentlemen callers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Vivien Leigh in <i>The Lady of the Camellias</i> by Athol Shmith, 1961</td></tr>
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The upper part of the bodice, or corsage as it was called in the 19th century, is trimmed in silk, ending in a tied bow. The bodice also features short, puffed sleeves, while the scooped overskirt is caught up with flowers and bows. All in keeping with ball gowns of the mid-1860s. The bottom of the dress ends in cartridge pleats.<br />
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The next costume, from <i>The Lady of the Camellias,</i> is a two piece ensemble with a short jacket. Jackets were actually very common in the 1860s. There were many different styles of ladies' jackets, which all came with their own names, such as the Pauline, the Senorita, the Zouave, the Eustache, the Robe, the Home jacket and many more.<br />
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Vivien's jacket is made from black velvet. The collar and lapels are turned back and trimmed with an<i> ivory gauze </i>featuring what appears to be a fluted ruffle. The same ruffle is also seen on the jacket's cuffs. The coral coloured, silk vest and jacket are made together as one piece. The second piece of the ensemble is the pleated, hooped skirt, which is also made from the same pink silk as the vest.<br />
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Vivien's dress as it appeared on the auction block. The dress was actually auctioned off twice. It made its auction debut back on December 17th, 1993, selling for just $459. Then it hit the auction block once more in 2012 as part of the Hollywood Legends sale. This time it sold for $3,200. <br />
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Next on the list is this black and white, evening gown. The dress features a low scooped bodice trimmed in a white, fluted ruffle, with an overlay of sheer, black material. The bodice's white sleeves are short, with pleated, black, sheer layers covering them. The top of the sleeves are caught up with tiny flowers at the shoulder.<br />
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The pictures above and below are drawings of Vivien as Marguerite, by the costume and set designer, Carl Toms. Here we can see the entire dress from the front along with a partial view of the back. Ball gowns in the 1860s were adorned in many ways (lace, ruffles, pleats, flowers, ribbons, bows, etc). I can't really tell, from this bottom image, if those are suppose to be white ruffles or pleats, cascading down the backside of the gown. Either way, it's a stunning effect!<br />
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Next, we have another masterful example of Carl Toms' creative genius for Vivien in the role of Marguerite. He's imagined Marguerite in a summer dress, also consistent with the time period of the play.<br />
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Vivien shines in this lovely gown. Note the difference in color between Carl's illustration and Vivien's actual dress. Either the color of the dress was changed to the yellow pictured below or the photo below was colorized.<br />
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The gown features long, puffed, bishop sleeves made from a semi-sheer material. The sleeves originate in pleats at the shoulder and end in cravat cuffs at the wrist. At the top of the dress is a cravat (necktie) collar. The collar and cuffs were made to match each other. The gown also features a floral/leaf design, repeated throughout the fabric. The print is more visible in the color photo, than in the black & white ones.<br />
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Bobby Helpmann, Vivien's good friend, directed her in <i>The Lady of the Camellias</i>. On Vivien playing the role of Marguerite, he said: <i>It has come just at the right moment in her career. Edwige Feuillère and other French actresses are apt to overstress the grande dame aspect of the character and forget that she was a great courtesan. Miss Leigh blends the two aspects to perfection and has never looked lovelier than in the costumes Carl Toms has designed for her. She</i> <i>is a far greater actress than many people are ready to admit. Once she has made </i>The Lady Of The Camellias<i> her own on this tour, I want to see her play it in the West End, and score what may well turn out to be the most spectacular success of her career.</i><br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-85054086149338967692016-10-07T09:54:00.002-07:002017-06-09T00:31:49.181-07:00Fashion Friday #12: Gone With the Wind's 21st Anniversary<i>Gone With the Wind</i> celebrated its 21st anniversary in March, 1961. The celebrations were held in Atlanta, Georgia, in conjunction with the Civil War Centennial. Newspapers around the world ran headlines such as <i>Scarlett turns 21</i>. The three day event took place from Wednesday, March 8th to Friday, March 10th.<br />
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The luminaries began to pour into Atlanta on Wednesday. Olivia de Havilland, David Selznick, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, George Murphy and several MGM business associates arrived together on a<i> Gone With the Wind Delta Special </i>flight. Thomas Mitchell, whom we all remember as Scarlett’s Pa, was too ill to attend the festivities. There was a large parade, with Olivia de Havilland in the lead car-- an open convertible-- that traveled down Peachtree Street.<br />
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Vivien didn’t arrive in Atlanta until the following day. After crossing the ocean, her plane landed first at Idlewild Airport (now JFK). Vivien’s chosen outfit for the day was a two-piece tweed suit. The fawn colored suit featured large buttons and a fur collar. Her hat and shoes matched her suit perfectly in color. She topped her outfit off with a pair of dark sunglasses.<br />
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Unfortunately, when Vivien landed in New York, she agreed to a small press conference. The first reporter, who asked her a question, definitely asked her the wrong question. The journalist asked Vivien what part she played in <i>Gone With the Wind.</i><br />
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Her response: <i>Have you seen the picture? Have you read the book?</i> When the fellow confessed that he had not done either, Vivien replied, <i>Since you are not informed, gentlemen, there is no sense in continuing.</i> But the reporter asked another question, <i>Do you mind telling me what film you are going to do next?</i><br />
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<i>The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and I’m not playing the Roman spring! </i>Then she swept from the room in true Scarlett O’Hara style. According to Dorothy Kilgallen, her response was <i>far saltier</i> than what she was actually quoted in the papers.<br />
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Vivien arrived in Atlanta on Thursday. Joseph Baird of The Christian Science Monitor wrote: <i>Miss Scarlett O’Hara of </i>Gone With the Wind <i> fame came home after 20 years of wandering in foreign parts, and the people took her to their hearts like a long lost daughter.</i><br />
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After disembarking, she received a bouquet of red roses from Mayor Hartsfield. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, who was in Atlanta for the special occasion, also greeted Vivien at the airport. On the list of activities for the day was a visit back to the Cyclorama with Olivia de Havilland. Vivien had originally toured it on her first visit to Atlanta. Also on the list was a scheduled press conference. For this event, Vivien wrapped herself in a mink coat and capped her head in an amazing --you either love it or hate it (I love it!)-- hat.<br />
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This was a much easier press conference as all these reporters knew whom she’d played in the movie. Vivien called herself <i>a middle-aged Scarlett</i> and discussed her upcoming world tour with the reporters on hand. One question that Vivien was asked, <i>How did you, as a British actress, manage a convincing Southern drawl?</i> She replied, <i>I just studied it for two weeks</i>. She was also asked about walking away from that press conference in New York. She said she <i>felt sorry for him because he had never read such a marvelous book. I love the book and I love Scarlett.</i><br />
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On Thursday night, a costume ball was held at the Biltmore Hotel, hosted by the Governor of Georgia, Ernest Vandiver. Antebellum skirts swooshed through the hotel as ladies dressed up in crinoline dresses and the men dressed up as Confederate soldiers and gentlemen of days past. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, recited part of Stephen Vincent Benet’s Pulitzer Prize winning, epic poem about abolitionist John Brown, titled <i>John Brown’s Body.</i><br />
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Vivien wore an original ball gown, specially created for the 21st anniversary gala. One source that I have says the dress was made from satin, while another says it was made from silk. In either case, the white gown had a billowing skirt, which trailed behind Vivien when she walked. The dress featured a green velvet waistband with flowing ribbons down the backside of the skirt.<br />
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The very fitted bodice showed off the gown’s gorgeous embroidery. Green-blue sprays of flowers were embroidered onto the gown and peppered with pearls and rhinestones. Vivien’s accessories for the evening included a three strand pearl necklace with a diamond drop pin around her neck, while diamond hair barrettes adorned her coiffure. She topped the gown off with long gloves and a fox fur wrap, both white to match her dress.<br />
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David Selznick wore a traditional tuxedo, while Olivia de Havilland glowed in a gold ball gown. She accented her sleeveless, lace evening dress, with elbow length gloves.<br />
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The next evening <i>Gone With the Wind</i> re-premiered at the Loew’s Grand theater-- the same theater where the epic movie had its original premiere back in 1939. George Murphy played Master of Ceremonies.<br />
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On a special platform, Vivien told the crowd that <i>It’s wonderful… it’s wonderful to be back</i>. Her gown of choice for the evening was a sleeveless, white number with a small bow on the bodice. The ball gown featured sheer layers over the skirt, gathered in the back, for a cascade effect. She paired her dress with long white gloves, pearls and a brooch.<br />
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David Selznick presented a leather bound copy of the <i>Gone With the Wind</i> script to Mayor Hartsfield (who had also been mayor in 1939), along with portraits of Margaret Mitchell and Clark Gable. The portraits were unveiled by Vivien Leigh (for Gable) and Olivia de Havilland (for Mitchell).<br />
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Thanks for joining me for this week's Fashion Friday post!<br />
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Sources:<br />
<i>Boxoffice Magazine,</i> March 1961<br />
<i>Radie's World</i> by Radie Harris<br />
<i>The Christian Science Monitor,</i> March 13, 1961<br />
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<br />Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-80506133173681521212016-09-23T22:34:00.000-07:002018-11-13T16:22:55.057-08:00Fashion Friday #11: A Streetcar Named DesireVivien Leigh arrived back in the United States on August 1st, 1950, at the Idlewild Airport (now JFK), in New York. She was on her way to Hollywood to begin filming <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>. Vivien had originated the role of Blanche on the London stage and would now play her in the movie version. After meeting up with her new director, Elia Kazan, the two of them traveled by transcontinental train to California, stopping off in Wisconsin for a quick visit with her good friends, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.<br />
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Vivien Leigh and Elia Kazan arrived in Pasadena on August 6th. Vivien stepped off the train, looking as young and relaxed as the day she started <i>Gone With the Wind,</i> with a huge smile on her face and white sunglasses in her hands. “Gadge and I have gone over the script line by line in New York and on the train coming out here,” Vivien told reporters. Gadge was Kazan's nickname.<br />
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The outfit Vivien chose, to meet and greet everyone, was a two-piece silk ensemble, gray with yellow polka dots, with a full skirt and topped off with a jaunty little hat. She wore the same outfit on multiple occasions, a habit she started with the rehearsals for the London stage version of <i>A Streetcar Named Desire.</i><br />
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When asked whether or not she and Olivier would be staying in the states for an extended duration, she replied, “Our stay must be limited because we have to return to England to prepare for the great national drama festival, which is the centenary of one held in 1851. It is an event that will fulfill itself in all branches of entertainment, and we both hope to contribute to it as notably as possible. Therefore it will require much time and effort in preparation. Mr. Olivier could not accompany me, because he was concerned in England with the opening of a new play, but as soon as the London premiere is held, he will fly to Hollywood. I expect his arrival next Sunday. He has signed, of course, for a picture at Paramount, the adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s <i>Sister Carrie</i>.”<br />
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Olivier arrived in Hollywood a week after his wife, on August 13th, accompanied by Vivien’s daughter, Suzanne Holman. Vivien and William Wyler greeted the pair at the airport. Olivier showed off his new mustache for his upcoming movie, <i>Carrie</i>. After embracing, Vivien told reporters, “I can’t get used to his mustache. He felt he had better wear it until Mr. Wyler had determined whether or not it would be right for the picture.” Olivier admitted to not liking the mustache. The couple also admitted to reporters that they “would like to tour America sometime on the stage…”<br />
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“I never see Larry when he’s writing and directing, so I’m delighted that he’ll just be acting in <i>Carrie Ames</i> for Willie Wyler and Paramount. Even with both of us busy, we may have some time together.”<br />
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Another person brought over from the play's Broadway production was costume designer, Lucinda Ballard, who would later receive an Academy Award nomination for her costume designs for the movie. One of the things I most enjoy about Blanche's clothing is that Lucinda seemed to have captured Blanche's very being with her designs. She used soft feminine lines with delicate layers of silk, chiffon, lace and ruffles, reflecting Blanche's fragile state of mind and flirty girlishness.<br />
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The first costume from <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> is this blue number. The blue chiffon gown has what appears to be a faded covering of pink chiffon, with a ruffled collar and cuffs. Blue silk trim runs through the ruffled collar, ending in a bow at the bodice. The trim also runs through the sleeves' ruffled cuffs.<br />
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Vivien wears this gown in several scenes throughout the movie. Here she's pictured with Karl Malden.<br />
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Here's another photograph of Vivien wearing the blue dressing gown, captured in a light-hearted moment during a break in filming. She's posing with Gary Cooper, whom I cropped out to get a close-up view of Vivien's costume.<br />
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The second costume from <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> is this pink dressing gown. This particular robe was auctioned off a few years ago as part of the Debbie Reynolds collection. The pink and ivory silk gown features embroidered silk flowers on the chiffon sleeves with a ruffled collar, cuffs and bottom trim. The auction's catalog noted that the gown was in very fragile condition and that its original color had been hot pink.<br />
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It's also the outfit she wears when she tells Karl Malden (in that incredible scene) she wants magic, not realism. <i>I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that's sinful, then let me be punished for it!</i><br />
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Here's a screenshot of Vivien, again in the pink gown, and Karl together right before he turns on the lights! Both Vivien and Karl won Oscars for their performances: she for Best Actress and he for Best Supporting Actor.<br />
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-75129481461874196202016-09-16T12:30:00.000-07:002016-10-16T06:47:17.261-07:00Fashion Friday #10: House of BalmainOn Tuesday, October 25th, 1960, Vivien Leigh arrived in Cherbourg with her companion and fellow actor, Jack Merivale, aboard the Queen Elizabeth liner from New York. The two were fresh off the stage from co-starring in the play, <i>Duel of Angels</i>. Vivien stepped off the Queen Elizabeth wrapped in a pale mink coat, with pearl and gold bracelets visible at the cuffs. Vivien’s fur baby, Poo Jones, also accompanied the couple.<br />
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Upon disembarking, the couple were asked about their romance. <i>You know I never discuss my private life, </i>she said. <i>John and I-- why, I've known him for 25 years, since we were both young things, struggling to make our names in London. He is a wonderful person</i>. Jack was asked about a possible marriage between the two of them. <i>Good heavens! That's very flattering, but I'm not going to say anything about it.</i> The couple left Cherbourg for Paris in Vivien's blue Rolls Royce.<br />
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While in Paris, they stayed at the Hotel Raphael-- in separate rooms, of course. The couple visited one of Vivien’s favorite designers, Pierre Balmain. Her purpose in visiting was twofold: 1) Balmain would be creating her clothes for <i>The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone</i> and 2) she wanted something new for her personal wardrobe. At the House of Balmain, Vivien tried on approximately a dozen dresses. She finally settled on a dress with a matching coat, after Jack gave his approval of the outfit by saying, <i>That’s the one, darling. You look wonderful.</i><br />
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Jack and Vivien attended the opening night of the ballet, <i>La Belle Au Bois Dormant</i> (aka <i>Sleeping Beauty</i>), on Thursday night. The play was produced by the Marquis de Cuevas and held at the Theater des Champs-Elysees. Cuevas was quite ill and attended the show’s premiere in a wheelchair.<br />
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Vivien wore her new ensemble from Balmain’s to the premiere, while Jack wore a classic tuxedo. Vivien's matching coat and dress were both made from the same red patterned, satin, material. The coat featured a collar with lapels, which ended just at the dress’ bodice. The coat’s sleeves were three-quarters in length. The evening dress featured a wrapped bodice, with a low cut V.<br />
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Vivien Leighhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04652488095767236905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2552065453381985917.post-27631097743416330632016-07-19T11:43:00.001-07:002016-07-20T02:07:02.887-07:00Little Miss EchoMust She Always Be Little Miss Echo?<br />
by Hubert Cole, originally published in 1940<br />
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I doubt that anybody would deny that the biggest screen role-- of the past ten years has been that of Scarlett O’Hara in <i>Gone With the Wind</i>. It would be strange wouldn’t it, if the girl who eventually got the role after so much heated competition, should eventually be killed by it?<br />
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That, I believe, is just what is happening. Miss Leigh, having scored one success with Scarlett, is going to echo and re-echo the role down the ages until everybody is thoroughly sick and tired of it. Unless something is done to stop it.<br />
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I am not blaming David O. Selznick, who cast Miss Leigh as Scarlett. The rot had set in some time before that. You can trace the Scarlett character back to <i>A Yank at Oxford.</i> That was the time when Vivien, having played two or three colourless ingénues in quota quickies, and then having been signed up by Alexander Korda with a fanfare of windy trumpets to play another colourless role in <i>Fire Over England</i>, first appeared as an unprincipled hussy.<br />
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She was, if you remember, the flirtatious wife of the elderly bookseller. She had so many affairs with the local undergraduates that her long-suffering husband at last decided to move his business. But, as she triumphantly announced, they were only moving to Aldershot. It was a very nice and naughty performance, that one in <i>A Yank at Oxford.</i> Her wide and innocent blue eyes contrasted attractively with her less innocent behaviour. She was a kitten with fully grown claws.<br />
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On the strength of that performance she was chosen to play the ambitious Cockney girl in <i>Sidewalks of London</i>. (It’s funny how blurbs of publicity follow Miss Leigh around-- as in the later <i>Gone With the Wind </i>campaign, there was a great deal of hullabaloo about finding an entirely new discovery, which ended up with Vivien Leigh getting the part.)<br />
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The girl in <i>Sidewalks of London</i> was as determined and unscrupulous as the bookseller’s wife in <i>A Yank At Oxford</i>. She was a little more open about it. She was at less pains to hide the fact that she would ride rough-shod over any obstacles, any ordinary feelings of kindness or gratitude.<br />
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And so we come to Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett belongs to the select few heroines in literature who are intensely interesting and intensely unsympathetic. She is an American Becky Sharp.<br />
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She has ambition without principles, strength of purpose without conscience. She was a greater, more detailed study of the girl that Vivien Leigh had already played in <i>A Yank at Oxford </i>and <i>Sidewalks of London</i>. It was as if those two previous roles had been nothing more than a preliminary tryout for the final one.<br />
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If, indeed, they had been that --and if the course of training had ended there-- all would have been well. A monster production like <i>Gone With the Wind</i> might conceivably call for two test pictures to give the leading lady practice. But the three pictures together, and the triumph that Vivien scored in the third, seem to be her undoing. She is typed as the tough girl; the outward seeming sweet young thing with the callous core.<br />
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That, I am convinced, is why she was cast opposite Robert Taylor in <i>Waterloo Bridge</i>. Somebody, looking round for a subject for Vivien’s next picture, said: “Heck, why not <i>Waterloo Bridge</i>? That was all about a prostitute, wasn’t it?”<br />
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And Vivien, who is allowed to have no moral scruples on the screen, was given the part. As it happens, the girl in the story isn’t primarily a prostitute-- and is even less of one than she was in the earlier version, made before the purity campaigners got such a firm hold on Hollywood.<br />
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Actually, Myra in <i>Waterloo Bridge</i> is a very charming young woman, though an extremely foolish one. She becomes a prostitute not through willfulness or lack of moral sense, but because she is rather stupid.<br />
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That role might have been the opportunity that Miss Leigh was waiting for. It might have been the lucky accident that would have formed a stepping stone from the past series of unsympathetic roles to a new future of more pleasant ones. It might have removed the threat that she is condemned to play Little Miss Echo for the rest of her screen career.<br />
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But I’m afraid it hasn’t. Here she is now, off again down the path of mottled morals, playing Lady Hamilton to Laurence Olivier’s Nelson in the new film Alexander Korda is producing in Hollywood.<br />
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I’m not quite sure why Korda should be making the film at this time. There is obvious publicity value in the teaming of Olivier and Vivien; there is obvious topical value in the story of a great British admiral; but there is also the strange emphasis (as far as one can judge from the advance pictures) on the intrigue with Lady Hamilton and Nelson’s strange conduct in Naples-- a very unsavoury phase of his career.<br />
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And I suspect that the primary reason why he chose the subject was that Miss Leigh is still under contract to him and he thought Lady Hamilton a sufficiently immoral character to suit Miss Leigh’s style. For Korda, like the rest of the producers, apparently now believes that Miss Leigh has only one style.<br />
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Perhaps he is right. He should know more about her work than I do. But <i>Waterloo Bridge</i>, at any rate, seems to suggest she can play a young woman of good impulses and healthy outlook as well as she can the other kind. It may not be entirely the fault of the producers and casting managers that Miss Leigh has travelled so far away from the sweet young thing that she used to be in her early stage and screen days.<br />
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Two years ago, for instance, she said in an interview: “Quite a number of people were surprised when I appeared as a vamp in<i> A Yank at Oxford</i>, and took an unsympathetic part in <i>Sidewalks of London</i>. But in both cases, I felt that the roles were interesting and out of the rut. Since the films have been completed and shown, the letters I have received have proved I was right. Most of these letters say how glad the writers are that I have not confined myself to pretty heroine characters.”<br />
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To that insignificant statement you can add the story, recently published, that long before <i>Gone With the Wind</i> was ever made-- and certainly long before Vivien was approached to play the principle role-- she gave a copy of the book to a friend and autographed it from Scarlett.<br />
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In itself, the incident means little, except that Vivien not unnaturally saw herself in a role which was bound to be one of the most important on the screen. But set beside what she said in the interview, it seems to point clearly to the fact that she herself had a preference for unsympathetic roles-- and believes that the film going public likes best to see her in such roles. I believe she has been misled-- both by herself and her correspondents.<br />
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There is no doubt she takes her career seriously and laudably aims at becoming a great actress. It is true that many great actresses have played unsympathetic parts and created great reputations in them. It is also significant that, in one of her earliest and worst films, <i>The Village Squire</i>, she played Lady Macbeth.<br />
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All the way through, perhaps by chance and perhaps by choice, she has veered toward near villainy, she has appeared as a cold and calculating hussy.<br />
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There have been patches when she was just a normal, nice young woman-- but she does not seem to have been particularly interested in those roles. Unfortunately, she has some reason to despise them, for they were parts of no great value: the lady-in-waiting in <i>Fire Over England</i>, for instance, and the heroine in <i>Dark Journey</i>-- though the film itself was pleasant enough.<br />
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So, by avoiding being “confined entirely to pretty heroine characters,” she seems to have dug herself into an equally treacherous rut. If I have accused her wrongly of willfully going unsympathetic on us, I am sorry. If, in fact, she is fighting against such typing, I am doubly sorry-- that she has had so little success recently.<br />
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There is a great deal of danger in stereotyping her in unpleasant parts. It is difficult-- probably impossible-- for a young actress to become great if she confines herself to unsympathetic roles. Unless Vivien Leigh breaks clean away from Scarlett O’Hara and all the other minor Scarletts, I fear she is going to find herself in the middle of a lot of grief.<br />
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