In December 1939, the New York Times wrote, " Miss Leigh's Scarlett has vindicated the absurd talent quest that indirectly turned her up.

Broadbent has worked with Stephen Frears ( for television and in The Hit ( 1984 )) and Terry Gilliam ( in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 )) before establishing himself in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet ( 1990 ).

Leigh has an older sister, Carrie Ann Morrow, who was credited as a " technical advisor " in Georgia, and on whom Leigh's character Sadie Flood was reputedly based.

" Of the precedent of ' idiosyncratic, character-driven film-making ' in Renoir's Boudu, Michael Coveney has observed: " Both Naked and Boudu explore the tension between the domesticated and the anarchic ( this is a central theme, probably the theme running through Leigh's work ), and focus this tension in the tragi-comedy of a central character.

He came to believe that Leigh's interpretation, in which Lady Macbeth uses her sexual allure to keep Macbeth enthralled, " made more sense [...] than the usual battle-axe " portrayal of the character.

In 1980, Blethyn made her television debut in Mike Leigh's film Grown-Ups ; then, after a modest number of guest spots in several productions, in the mid-1980s she garnered leading roles in the short-living sitcoms Chance in a Million and The Labours of Erica.

Team Polizei, suffering from both Ed Leigh's sabotage and accident damage in Thailand, did not participate in the Thailand leg and made a surprise visit to the Burmese border, where pictures were taken with border guards who thought Team Polizei were UN inspectors.

Leigh's experiences have driven him to champion this cause, becoming a keynote speaker at several conferences, including the “ New Developments in Sports-Related Concussions ” conference hosted by the worldwide leader in traumatic brain injury research, the University of Pittsburgh Medical College Sport Medicine Department.

In February 1940, Jill Esmond agreed to divorce Olivier, and Leigh Holman agreed to divorce Leigh, although they maintained a strong friendship for the rest of Leigh's life.

She joined Olivier for a European tour with Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company.

In 1958, considering her marriage to be over, Leigh began a relationship with the actor Jack Merivale, who knew of Leigh's medical condition and assured Olivier he would care for her.

In his autobiography, he discussed the years of problems they had experienced because of Leigh's illness: " Throughout her possession by that uncannily evil monster, manic depression, with its deadly ever-tightening spirals, she retained her own individual canniness – an ability to disguise her true mental condition from almost all except me, for whom she could hardly be expected to take the trouble.

Biographer Suzanne Finstad notes that a " turning point " in her life as an actress was upon seeing the film A Streetcar Named Desire: " She was transformed, in awe of Kazan and of Vivien Leigh's performance ... became a role model for Natalie.

She had small roles in three of her father's films: Stage Fright ( 1950 ), in which she played a jolly acting student named Chubby Bannister, one of Wyman's school chums ; Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), playing Barbara Morton, future sister-in-law of Guy Haines ( Farley Granger ); and Psycho ( 1960 ), playing Janet Leigh's plain-Jane office mate, Caroline, who generously offers to share tranquilizers that her mother gave her for her wedding night.

Leigh sued Warner Bros. in November 1997 for copyright infringement over their shots of the Bird Girl replica in the cemetery, which were similar to Leigh's original cover photograph.

Serkis joined director Mike Leigh's ensemble for two film productions, and appeared in the 1999 romantic comedy Loop alongside Susannah York.

The film received excellent reviews and won Best Supporting Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and Boston Society of Film Critics for Leigh's performance as the tough, hard-drinking neighborhood prostitute Tralala, who is gang-raped in the story's tragic climax.

Temptress Moon premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where it was in competition for the Palme d ' Or that eventually went to Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies.

The film's large cast followed Leigh's lead and agreed to work for much lower than their usual salaries.

Leigh's novel Dark Water's Embrace won the Spectrum Award in 1999, and was on the long list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award that year.

It is hoped that the new stadium will be the cornerstone of Leigh's application for a Super League franchise in the coming years.

This view is also symbolised by Job Leigh's inability to care for Margaret as a baby in the chapter " Barton's London Experience ".

Flitcroft left Leigh Genesis after revealing to the media that he and many of his players had not been paid at Leigh for some time, and moved to Leigh's rivals, Chorley F. C.

In the close season of 2009, Jansen joined up with former team mate Garry Flitcroft, then manager of NPL Division One North side Leigh Genesis and played for them in the 2009 – 10 season, but when Flitcroft left to take over the reins at Leigh's rivals Chorley in May 2010, Jansen soon followed along with a number of other Genesis players.

He was also considered but eventually passed over for the role of Janet Leigh's lover, Sam Loomis, in the classic thriller, Psycho ( 1960 ).

Lara then infiltrates Sophia Leigh's cosmetics factory, and makes her way through a system of air ducts to reach Sophia Leigh's office for the final confrontation.

He also starred in " When We Are Married " at London's Garrick Theatre and in Mike Leigh's movie for the 2012 Olympics, " A Running Jump ".

Julie Burchill attacked the film in The Sunday Times, saying that Leigh's characters talked like lobotomized Muppets ; they talked, she said, " sub-wittily, the way Diane Arbus's subjects look.

Dorian Leigh's 15-years-younger red-headed sister, Suzy Parker, also shot numerous Revlon magazine ads in the 1950s.

Leigh's friends suggested she take a small role in the film Things Are Looking Up, which marked her film debut.

The director, George Cukor, concurred and praised Leigh's " incredible wildness "; she secured her role as Scarlett soon after.

In 2006, Olivia de Havilland responded to claims of Leigh's manic behaviour during filming Gone with the Wind, published in a biography of Olivier.

After viewing Leigh's screen test, Selznick noted that " she doesn't seem right as to sincerity or age or innocence ", a view shared by Hitchcock and Leigh's mentor, George Cukor.

The New York press publicised the adulterous nature of the beginning of Olivier and Leigh's relationship and questioned their ethics in not returning to England to help with the war effort.

" While most of the blame was attributed to Olivier's acting and direction, Leigh was also criticised, with Bernard Grebanier commenting on the " thin, shopgirl quality of Miss Leigh's voice.

The success of the tour encouraged the Oliviers to make their first West End appearance together, performing the same works with one addition, Antigone, included at Leigh's insistence because she wished to play a role in a tragedy.

Containing a rape scene and references to promiscuity and homosexuality, the play was destined to be controversial, and the media discussion about its suitability added to Leigh's anxiety, but she believed strongly in the importance of the work.

B. Priestley denounced the play and Leigh's performance ; and the critic Kenneth Tynan commented that Leigh was badly miscast because British actors were " too well-bred to emote effectively on stage ".

The reviews there were also mostly positive, but the critic Kenneth Tynan angered them when he suggested that Leigh's was a mediocre talent that forced Olivier to compromise his own.

They played to capacity houses and attracted generally good reviews, Leigh's health seemingly stable.

In his autobiography, Olivier described his " grievous anguish " as he immediately travelled to Leigh's residence, to find that Merivale had moved her body on to the bed.

Vivien Leigh's death certificate gave her date of death as 8 July, but some references give the date 7 July.

Discussing the subsequent film version, Pauline Kael wrote that Leigh and Marlon Brando gave " two of the greatest performances ever put on film " and that Leigh's was " one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke both fear and pity.

Kenneth Tynan ridiculed Leigh's performance opposite Olivier in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus, commenting that she " receives the news that she is about to be ravished on her husband's corpse with little more than the mild annoyance of one who would have preferred foam rubber.

In a survey of theatre critics conducted shortly after Leigh's death, several named it as one of her greatest achievements in theatre.

Known as The Laurence Olivier Archive, the collection includes many of Vivien Leigh's personal papers, including numerous letters she wrote to Olivier.