Vivien Leigh News

"Frankly, my dear, 1939 was a very good year." Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh go for the love in "Gone with the Wind." Saluting 1939: All this month, TCM will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of 1939 with "39 From 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year." The series includes a documentary and classic films from several genres.

Karl Malden is gone. He died on July 1, 2009, at the age of 97, The New York Times has reported.

A popular, talented and gorgeous but mentally unstable leading lady... A newspaper strike preventing opening night reviews from being published... A musical where both the leading man and leading lady were insecure first time musical comedy performers... Put this all together and you have Tovarich , a quirky, but lovable, 1963 Broadway show about ...

Opportunity knocked while Plano couple Kimela and Rick Robertson were on a Florida vacation last year.

Born to a Shan mother and Thai father, the restaurant's owner, Vivienlay Wongwatcharadet -her name was inspired by actress Vivien Leigh of "Gone with the Wind" fame - is proud to present the aromatic dishes she's been enjoying since childhood.

WOMEN writers seem to have a special knack of penning epic romantic novels packed with passion and incident, that instantly capture the reading public's interest.

Eileen Ward-Cutts doesn't worry that someone might compare her performance in New Harmony Theatre's stage production to Vivien Leigh's movie version of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." Even in a role as iconic as Blanche's, "it really doesn't matter who's played it," says Ward-Cutts. "Every interpretation is going ...

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh: still smoldering 70 years later. Seventy years after Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel, "Gone with the Wind," was turned into a cinematic blockbuster, author and critic Molly Haskell has written a new book about why, frankly, we should give a damn about Scarlett and Rhett and the tale of Tara in 21st century ...

It digs into Fleming's heavily debated contributions to the twin immortals of 1939 and what it unearths is fascinating, indeed.

We had the bumper celebration of cameos a few weeks ago; now, let's turn the spotlight on those assists without which the star turns wouldn't score as well Great s port ... Karl Malden with Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Nineteen thirty-nine was the golden year of Hollywood as many box office hits and classics were made.

Victor Fleming with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable on the set of "Gone with the Wind," in 1939, the year he also made "The Wizard of Oz." Howard Hughes, whose acumen outside certain areas of expertise was rarely sound, once said something intelligent about the relative merits of two movie directors.

It was politically incorrect, racially retrograde, offensive to so many. It had five directors, more than 15 writers and an unwieldy budget.

At a time where Selznick did not have the support nor the funding to create such a huge period drama, it all came down to finding the perfect 'Scarlet O'Hara' in Vivien Leigh.

In nearly four hours of "Gone With the Wind" colour and the camera's sweep provide some memorable moments.

Modern acting began here, with Elia Kazan's "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951. Within the walls of the Kowalski squat in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Vivien Leigh's classic Hollywood acting style squared off against Marlon Brando's revolutionary hyper-realism. We know who eventually walked away victorious, but for two hours these two styles ...

Posted by Michael H. Kleinschrodt, DVD columnist, The Times-Picayune March 25, 2009 4:30AM The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival continues this weekend, and organizers want to give festival-goers a little homework.

Mani Ratnam made use of only one. There are many exquisite properties by the Hooghly that are just waiting for film crews to move in The shooting for Mani Ratnam's film at Saheb Kuthi and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on the Hooghly Few things are as dazzling as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Beautifully simple and heartfelt. Warner Bros. has released MGM's 1940 Waterloo Bridge , the hyper-romantic remake of the earlier 1931 filmed version .

Clark Gable as Rhett plants one on Vivien Leigh's unreceptive Scarlett. Molly Haskell revisits "Gone With the Wind" in "Frankly, My Dear," a slim but rich volume from Yale University Press that persuasively ...