Leigh earned two Academy Awards for Best Actress over the course of her career, as well as a BAFTA Award. In 1960, the actress received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On November 5, 1913, ...

“Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh.” By Alan Stracha. I.B. Tauris. Playing two of the greatest female roles ever offered in film – Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind” and Blanche DuBois in “A ...

Of course, the one time Vivien Leigh played someone “normal,” she went insane. Leigh specialized in portraying mad women: Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and the deranged and damaged Blanche du Bois from “A ...

Vivien Leigh skyrocketed to fame as Scarlett O’Hara in "Gone with the Wind" – but just a few years later, she found herself in a mental institution. The two-time Oscar winner’s tumultuous life is the ...

Carlton shines a spotlight on actress Vivien Leigh this week in the second programme of the eight-part series, Legends, which talks to the intimate friends and professional colleagues of some of the ...

Carla Gugino has found her next project, and it will allow the actress to step into the shoes of one of the biggest performers in the history of the industry. According to Variety, the Fall of the ...

IN FEBRUARY 1940 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh attended the 12th Academy Awards ceremony. Olivier was nominated as best actor for his performance as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights”; Leigh won ...

Gugino will play the ‘Gone with the Wind’ star in a movie that explores her struggle with bipolar disorder as she starts work on a 1960s Broadway role. For a new movie role, she’ll be taking on a real ...

Dr Uther Charlton-Stevens, author of Anglo-India and the End of Empire (Hurst Publishers, UK, Oxford University Press, USA, 2022) with Merle Oberon in her breakout role as Anne Boleyn in The Private ...