Photos from the personal collection of Vivien Leigh
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Marilyn Monroe receives farewell kisses from Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as she returns to the US following the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
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Propaganda
Mickey Rooney (Babes in Arms, Girl Crazy)—no propaganda submitted
Laurence Olivier (Hamlet, Rebecca, Pride and Prejudice)—no propaganda submitted
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Vivien, dear Vivien - an exquisite actress, thoughtful, fearless, gracious, and enormously kind. A lovely little pink cloud floating through the lives of all her friends, hovering over the setting sun, and thinking of everyone but herself.
Olivier was a first-rate actor and a second-rate person. Larry always wanted to be a big movie star, and while he was considered the greatest actor on the stage, he was never in the first rank as a star in the movies. Then Vivien comes along and gets Scarlett O’Hara. Wins the Academy Award. Biggest picture ever made. Suddenly Larry says, ‘Oh darling, we really must get you out of Hollywood now. Let’s go off and do Shakespeare together.’ Now Vivien could do anything, but he was clearly trying to keep her in her place, which was billed beneath him. Then a few years pass and Vivien returns to make Streetcar. And she’s brilliant. Wins the Academy Award. Most talked-about movie of the year. And suddenly Larry says, ‘Oh darling, we really must get you out of Hollywood now. Let’s go off and do Shakespeare together.’ Small man. Giant actor. Very small man.
– KATHARINE HEPBURN on VIVIEN LEIGH and LAURENCE OLIVIER
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REBECCA (1940) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
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Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in Romeo and Juliet, which ran for a month at the 51st St. Theater (later the Mark Hellinger; now a church) in 1940. Dame May Whitty played Juliet's nurse, Edmond O'Brien was Mercutio, and Cornell Wilde was Tybalt. Olivier produced, directed, and (lavishly) designed the production in addition to starring in it. The critics were not kind: "Much scenery: no play," said Brooks Atkinson in the Times. Time magazine said that Leigh “looked like a poem but had no sense of poetry.” Leigh and Olivier were several years into a passionate romance that would, a few months after the play, result in marriage.
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Tony Curtis & Sir Laurence Olivier in Spartacus, 1960. The "Oysters and Snails" scene was cut in the original release for its suggestion of homosexuality.
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Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in a scene from the stage production of "Romeo and Juliet", 1940 - via x
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Big Stupid Here: when you say drag king photo of laurence olivier.........
everyone loves to roast the original poll pic i had for laurence olivier. why i can't imagine.
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The way this photo makes me YEARN
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Breathtaking Vivien Leigh as Emma Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman 1941 🤍
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