Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh ca. late 1940s. Vivien Leigh movies: now controversial ‘Gone with the Wind,’ little-seen ’21 Days Together’ on TCM Vivien Leigh is Turner Classic Movies’ star today, Aug. 18, ’15, as TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series continues. Mostly a stage actress, Leigh was…

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson in That Hamilton Woman (1941). Vivien Leigh biography, movies, and photo exhibit among centenary celebrations [See previous post: “Vivien Leigh Turns 100: Centenary of One of the Greatest Movie Stars.”] From Nov. 30–July 20,…

Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh: Legendary ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ star would have turned 100 today Vivien Leigh was perhaps the greatest film star that hardly ever was. What I mean is that following her starring role in the 1939 Civil…

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…

1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees: Hattie McDaniel in Gone with the Wind, that year’s eventual winner. 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees on TCM Turner Classic Movies’ homage to the 1939 Best Picture Oscar nominees continues this evening, Feb. 12, ’11, with three more entries: Victor…

Pinky movie with a “black” Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters. Although absurdly miscast as a light-skinned part-white/part-black young woman whose grandmother is Ethel Waters, Jeanne Crain received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Elia Kazan’s 1949 socially conscious drama Pinky – one of the…

Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially Metro-Goldwyn – was formed through the amalgamation of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B.…

Vivien Leigh death on film: Tragic fate in Anna Karenina 1948. Turner Classic Movies’ Vivien Leigh series comes to a close on Tuesday, Sept. 28, with four movies from Leigh’s post-Gone with the Wind period, in addition to a rerun of Gene Feldman’s 1990 documentary…

Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest performers of the 20th century, is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month in September. That’s the good news. The bad news: TCM won’t be showing rarities such as 21 Days Together (1939), Leigh’s second and last…

Warren Beatty in Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton. Eleven Warren Beatty movies will be shown on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, Aug. 9, as part of TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars” series. Two of those Beatty vehicles are TCM premieres: Kaleidoscope (1966), a box…

Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw is tonight’s star on Turner Classic Movies. Major Barbara (1941), directed by Gabriel Pascal, and starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller, is on right now. I’ve watched it a couple of times, but I haven’t been…

Robert Taylor is April 2010’s Star of the Month on Turner Classic Movies. The Robert Taylor Tuesday evening has already begun: Camille (1937), in which he co-stars with Greta Garbo, is on right now. The little-seen (in the last several decades) Magnificent Obsession (1935), with…

Claude Rains, one of the finest actors of the studio era – in fact, one of the finest film actors of the 20th century – is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. What would I recommend? Well, whether on TCM or on…

How long is Gone with the Wind? Long enough for Clark Gable to watch Vivien Leigh grow from teenage belle to womanly Civil War survivor. “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939” is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…

Under Full Sail. Under Full Sail - Silent Cinema on the High Seas Flicker Alley (website) in association with the Blackhawk Film Collection has announced the release of “Under Full Sail – Silent Cinema on the High Seas,” a new DVD release featuring, as per…

Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge with Robert Taylor. Who is Vivien Leigh? If you don’t know and has access to Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. or Canada, you can find out for yourself this evening, Nov. 5. It’s Vivien Leigh night. The India-born British…