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A selection of Vivien Leigh’s heartbreaking scenes on the screen.
When she has these lamenting, melancholic moments she hits so damn hard.
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I am impressed by the remarkable number of different faces she has. In the stills you have been good enough to send me, she looks like a different person every time she is shown in a different mood.
- Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, in a letter to David O. Selznick (producer of the film) about Vivien Leigh as Scarlett
“You once said you loved me. If you still love me, Rhett…”
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“Fortunately at the end she seems to have had no idea how ill she was - she was full of plans preparing to rehearse a new play - and one can only hope she slept away her life without pain. She will not be forgotten - for her magic quality was unique. A great beauty, a natural star, a consummate screen actress and a versatile and powerful personality in the theatre.”
-Sir John Gielgud on Vivien Leigh and her death
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“There may have been, in her time, as beautiful a lady, but if there was, I never encountered her.” - Tennessee Williams
“Emphatically the top. In her or anybody else’s Time.” - Noel Coward
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‘She was always beautiful, always simply but exquisitely dressed, highly intelligent (she did The Times crossword daily, and her reading ranged from Confucius to Montaigne) and infinitely concerned with her work as an actress. These things are all part of the enigma - and the legend.”
-Felix BarkerVivien Leigh, one of the greatest beauties of her generation, the versatile actress, perhaps most well known for winning the most coveted role in cinema history, that of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind, died 44 years ago today.
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