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

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.

That same year audiences in the U. K. and the U. S. watched her hypnotic performance as nursemaid and royal confidante Ftatateeta, to Vivien Leigh's Queen Cleopatra, in the screen adaptation of George Bernhard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ).

During the shooting, Leigh's name was first changed to ' Jeanette Reames ', then to ' Janet Leigh ' and finally back to her birth name ' Jeanette Morrison ', because ' Janet Leigh ' resembled Vivien Leigh too much.

Her role as Vivien Leigh's earthy friend Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales in the screen version of Tennessee Williams ' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone ( 1961 ) brought Lenya an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress.

It was to be Vivien Leigh's last film and Christiane Schmidtmer's first US production.

" Kanin and Katharine Hepburn were the only witnesses to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's wedding in California on August 31, 1940.

According to Rattigan, this is based on the true story of actress Vivien Leigh's attempt to leave her husband and actor Laurence Olivier and fly off with her lover, the actor Peter Finch, only to be delayed by a fog at Heathrow.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

They included: receptionist Donna Parmar's breaking patient confidentiality and her sacking from the Mill ( 2007 ), Dr. Nick West's car crash and later death ( 2008 ), and receptionist Vivien March's rape in 2008, which caused a stir in the media and received recognition at The British Soap Awards in 2009.

She made strenuous efforts to get Vivien back, efforts that did not end until the latter's death.

Above all, Vivien romanticized death.

Vivien died in Paris on the morning of 18 November 1909 at the age of 32 ; the cause of death was reported at the time as " lung congestion ", but likely resulted from pneumonia complicated by alcoholism, drug abuse, and anorexia nervosa.

These poems are: Maugis d ' Aigremont ( story of the youth of Maugis ), Mort de Maugis ( story of the death of Maugis ), Vivien de Monbranc ( story of the brother of Maugis ), Bueve d ' Aigremont ( story of the father of Maugis, Bueve d ' Aigremont, brother to Girart de Roussillon and Doon de Nanteuil ).

Graham left the family in 1948 for Catherine Walston, but in accordance with Roman Catholic teaching ( Vivien was a convert, and Graham converted in order to marry her ), the couple were never divorced and the marriage lasted until Graham's death in 1991.

These poems are: Maugis d ' Aigremont ( story of the youth of Maugis ), Mort de Maugis ( story of the death of Maugis ), Vivien de Monbranc ( story of the brother of Maugis ), Bueve d ' Aigremont ( story of the father of Maugis, Bueve d ' Aigremont, brother to Girart de Roussillon and Doon de Nanteuil ).

On 12 October 1933, she gave birth to a daughter, Suzanne, later Mrs. Robin Farrington, who, decades later, would make Vivien Leigh a grandmother three times over.

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The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

Korda attended her opening-night performance, admitted his error, and signed her to a film contract, with the spelling of her name revised to " Vivien Leigh ".

The papers of Vivien Leigh, including letters, photographs, contracts and diaries, are owned by her daughter, Mrs. Suzanne Farrington.

She received her first Oscar nomination for the role, but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind.

The role went to her Gone with the Wind co-star, Vivien Leigh, who won her second Academy Award for her role.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

Merchant took her stage name as a composite of the actress Vivien Leigh and her brother, who was a merchant seaman ( cited by Michael Billington ).

Ashamed of his temper, he hangs his crowned shield in a tree, where Vivien and her squire discover it, and then Balin himself.

Having boasted to King Mark that she will return with the hearts of Arthur ’ s knights in her hand, Vivien begs and receives shelter in Guinevere ’ s retinue.

During this time, Finch's closeness to the Olivier family led to an affair with Olivier's beautiful but increasingly unstable wife, Vivien Leigh, which began in 1948, and continued on and off for several years, ultimately falling apart due to her deteriorating mental condition.

When Barney spent the second half of 1901 in the United States, Vivien chose not to follow ; upon Natalie's return, she refused to see her.

This included sending mutual friends to visit Vivien ( in order to plead on her behalf ), as well as flowers and letters begging Vivien to reconsider.

* 2002, UK, Oxford World Classics ( ISBN 0-19-284031-2 ), pub date 30 April 2002, paperback ( edited by Edward A. Bloom with annotations by Vivien Jones )

* The New York Times, Vivien Raynor, " Dancing Fairies, Cavorting Pigs: Illustrations for Children ’ s Books " August 8, 1993, p. 16

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier ( 5 November 19138 July 1967 ) was a British actress.

Vivien Merchant ( born Ada Thompson ; 22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982 ) was an English actress.

A special edition of the game was subsequently released in July 2007, featuring Cole as the lead heroine Vivien.

There are persistent rumors that Kaye was either homosexual or bisexual, and some sources claim that Kaye and Laurence Olivier had a ten-year relationship in the 1950s while Olivier was still married to Vivien Leigh.

The true attribution of these works is uncertain, however ; some scholars believe they were written solely by Vivien.

The UK has had a large impact on modern cinema, producing some of the greatest actors, directors and motion pictures of all time including, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, David Lean, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, John Gielgud, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Throughout his illustrious career, Richard Garrick performed along with some of the brightest actors and actresses in stage and film history, including James Arness, Ed Begley, Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, James Dean, Julie Harris, Brian Keith, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Victor Mature, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Patricia Neal, Donald O ' Connor, Maureen O ' Sullivan, Anthony Quinn, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Jean Simmons, Richard Todd, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, John Wayne, Dennis Weaver and Richard Widmark.

Alain Ostmont, the general secretary of MILS, stated in response to these allegations in an interview that Vivien did not travel much for MILS, but that he undertook travels for humanitarian organizations which he chaired at the same time, and that this had been confused by some reports.

The character was also portrayed by Vivien Leigh both in the London stage production which was directed by her then-husband Laurence Olivier ( some key moments were censored ) and later, when she was cast in the 1951 film adaptation.

The money for the construction was not paid by Zuma himself ; instead it was paid in installments by Bohlabela Wheels, Fakude PZN, and some in cash by Durban businessman Vivien Reddy, both in person by him and on one of his company's cheques.