Vivien Leigh Articles

Turner Classic Movies‘ look at Arabs in Hollywood movies continues this evening with six movies. Why exactly Gabriel Pascal’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) is one of the six, I don’t know. Caesar was a Roman-born emperor; Cleopatra, a descendant of Greek royalty, was an Egyptian queen long before the Arab conquest of Egypt. Now, I may be puzzled about [...]

At Viv and Larry, a site dedicated to Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, there are two great photos showing Leigh and Deborah Kerr on the set of Bonjour Tristesse, a 1958 drama Otto Preminger filmed on the French Riviera for Columbia Pictures. Jean Seberg and David Niven co-starred with Kerr. A smaller version of one of the images is reproduced on the right. Kerr is [...]

Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind (top); Greer Garson, Robert Donat, Goodbye Mr. Chips (middle); Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Love Affair (bottom) Turner Classic Movies‘ homage to the Best Picture Oscar nominees of 1939 continues this evening with three more entries: Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind, Sam Wood’s Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Leo McCarey’s Love Affair. If you haven’t watched all three [...]

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (top); Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair in Delbert Mann’s Marty (middle) Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: The Attack of the Small Screens is the next chapter of Turner Classic Movies‘ seven-part Moguls & Movie Stars documentary, which will be shown twice tonight, at 5 and 8 p.m. PT. The appropriately titled "The [...]