Stars such as Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Russell appeared in adverts for the pieces and the availability of the collections in shops such as Woolworth made it possible for ordinary women to own and wear such jewelry.

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.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Cukor spent many hours coaching Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland prior to the start of filming Wind, but Clark Gable resisted his efforts to get him to master a Southern accent.

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.

The novel is the basis of the Academy Award – winning 1939 film starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

In 1937 Tyrone Guthrie directed the play at Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet and Vivien Leigh as Ophelia.

* 1967 – Vivien Leigh, English actress ( b. 1913 )

Olivier's makeup was so thick and stylised for that production that Vivien Leigh was quoted as saying " You hear Macbeth's first line, then Larry's makeup comes on, then Banquo comes on, then Larry comes on ".

Vivien Leigh played Lady Macbeth.

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

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.

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 ".

Not for anyone's ear but your own: it's narrowed down to Paulette Goddard, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett and Vivien Leigh ".

She defended Leigh, saying, " Vivien was impeccably professional, impeccably disciplined on Gone with the Wind.

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

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 film ) | A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )

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* December 15 – The film Gone with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard, premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

* November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress ( Gone With The Wind ) ( d. 1967 )

** Vivien Leigh, English actress ( b. 1913 )

The film popularized Method acting with Brando's role as the earthy and unmannered Stanley Kowalski opposite the classical dignity of British actress, Vivien Leigh, as his sister-in-law.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 film ) | A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )

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

He was a prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson.

He also acted on stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh ( appearing as an extra in Olivier's 1948 film Hamlet ) and appeared as Geoffrey Maddocks (' The Colonel ') in the British television series Follyfoot from 1971 to 1973.

* 1951, Laurence Olivier as Antony and Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in a production that played in repertory with George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra at the St James's Theatre and later on Broadway.

It was originally intended that the main roles should be played by Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, who had scored quite a success with Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince.

But Gielgud didn't always have the magic touch, staging a disappointing revival of Twelfth Night with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of Macbeth with Ralph Richardson in 1952.

A 1948 performance of The Imaginary Invalid on the factory floor of O ' Brien's Glass Factory in Sydney brought him to the attention of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, then touring Australia with the Old Vic Company.

It starred Vivien Leigh as Emma and Laurence Olivier as Horatio.

In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud, A.

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.

She divorced him and, in 1961, married Laurence Olivier after the breaking of his 20-year marriage with the actress Vivien Leigh.

In the 20th century it was the marital home of actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.

Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh ( the last two met at the hotel ), Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Richard Harris ( who lived at the hotel for the last several years of his life ; while being carried out on a stretcher before he died, he joked, " It was the food ".

Vivien Leigh made her West End debut in the Ambassadors, starring in The Mask of Virtue ( 1935 ); this was the play in which Laurence Olivier first saw her perform.

Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh took over the management of the theatre in 1950, opening with Christopher Fry ’ s new play, Venus Observed.

Gielgud directed a production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with Laurence Olivier as Malvolio and Vivien Leigh playing both Viola and Sebastian in 1955.

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

He starred alongside such screen legends as leading ladies Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, and actors Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Colman, Maurice Chevalier and Gary Cooper.

In 1955, Vivien Leigh played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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.