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Late Queen and David Attenborough named greatest British cultural figures
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Acting Icon Dame Maggie Smith Has Died at 89
The formidable dowager Violet Crawley, Maggie Smith’s scene-stealing character in Downton Abbey, made Smith a bona fide celebrity. “It’s ridiculous. I led a perfectly normal life until Downton ...
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The year was 1936, and Vivien Leigh was a stage actress, married to a barrister and the mother of a small daughter. Olivier was a stage star, married to the distinguished actress Jill Esmond. Yet when Vivien saw Olivier on stage all thoughts of their respective commitments instantly evaporated. he vowed to have him and, after pursuing him with a determination worthy of Scarlett O’Hara, she did.
Apr 4, 2011 · By Kendra + April 4, 2011. The BBC recently unveiled their Desert Island Discs archive online. The programme, in which famous personalities name 8 records/songs and a luxury item they’d take with them on a desert island, started in 1942 and is still broadcast today. Vivien Leigh appeared on the programme on September 9, 1952.
Aug 9, 2013 · This was where Vivien Leigh played Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth in 1945 before she fell ill with tuberculosis. 9. Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In 1942, Vivien Leigh made her return to the British stage after her successful sojourn in Hollywood. The play was George Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma and it was staged at the Theatre Royal ...
In the biography Vivien Leigh by Hugo Vickers, the author mentions an account David Niven wrote about Vivien’s complete nervous breakdown in Hollywood, 1953. Niven disguises Vivien’s name as “Missie” so as not to reveal her identity (most likely out of respect for their friendship while Vivien was alive). Here is his account of that ...
Mar 5, 2016 · Recently, Lena did some extended research into Durham Cottage, the Oliviers’ love nest in Christchurch Street, Chelsea, west London. Laurence Olivier bought the house (the former coach cottage belonging to the larger Durham House next door) as a London base for he and Vivien Leigh. Using quotes from biographies and excerpts and rare photos ...
In the letter below (also from Tarquin Olivier’s book), Vivien describes her sadness at the thought of having to sell Notley in 1960. Notley- Feb 19 1960. …Ernest was fond of you as always. It has been a most wretched and miserable time.…Larry’s play opened in Boston to fair reviews. He has had a very horrid time poor darling as Tottie ...
Three years ago, she formed her own company, Vivien Leigh Ltd., to produce plays, in addition to Laurence Olivier Productions of which she is still a director. Her first investment for Vivien Leigh Ltd. was ‘Roar Like a Dove’ which was an outstanding success. She also invested in ‘Taste of Honey’, ‘Make me an Offer’, and ‘The ...
Odious people. Souvenirs I suppose.. Seeing the Memorial Programme one knew that inevitably she had gone. Just ‘Vivien Leigh’ in neat black letters, a fine rain falling in Trafalgar Square, pigeons wheeling above a dense, silent, crowd… the soft organ and the whispering, shuffling, feet of us, her late friends. So bloody final. Complete ...
Apr 2, 2011 · By Kendra + April 2, 2011. In 1966, Elaine Dundy (ex-wife of Kenneth Tynan) interviewed Vivien Leigh backstage at the National Theatre in Washington DC during the run of Ivanov. The article, in which Dundy describes being snubbed by a curiously closed-off Vivien, ran in The Village Voice. This is the companion piece to the previously ...
Jul 1, 2013 · Olivia de Havilland remembers Vivien Leigh. The divine Olivia de Havilland celebrates her 97th birthday today. She is one of our greatest living film legends. Her career was quite extraordinary. A two-time Academy Award winner, she starred opposite many of the most popular leading men in Hollywood history, worked with some of the most acclaimed ...
