• The Double Life of Vivien Leigh

    Tops MagazineFebruary, 1955 The London audience that jammed the theatre to see Vivien Leigh enact the role of Blanche in the sizzling play version of A Streetcar Named Desire will never forget her starkly realistic portrayal of a sex-ridden woman.…

  • Screen Album, 1940

    The 1940 summer edition of Screen Album promised to have 100 new pictures and 1,000 new facts, inside its covers, of the day’s leading actors and actresses. Both Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier were featured. They each received one full…

  • The Knight Was Made For Love

    Confidential March, 1961 by John Blough About the only thing missing in the recent divorce of Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh to make it the most adroit comedy of manners in many years was a credit line for Noel…

  • Little Miss Echo

    Must She Always Be Little Miss Echo? by Hubert Cole, originally published in 1940 I doubt that anybody would deny that the biggest screen role– of the past ten years has been that of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the…

  • The Versatile Laurence Olivier

    Article originally published in 1941 Versatile Laurence Olivier Stars With Vivien Leigh In “21 Days Together” Laurence Olivier, whose latest success is as Larry Darrant in “21 Days Together,” was born on May 22nd, 1907, in Dorking, Surrey, where his…

  • How Shakespeare’s Skull Was Stolen

    How Shakespeare’s Skull Was Stolen is a rather titillating story, first published in 1879, by a literary magazine called The Argosy. The story takes place circa 1794, some 178 years after William Shakespeare’s death. It was published anonymously by someone…

  • Darjeeling, India and the Birth of Vivien Leigh

    I was born in one of the most romantic places in the world–Darjeeling–although I have only confused impressions of its beauty, and of the gaiety of life there, for my father, who was a stockbroker, brought the family back to…

  • The Loves of Clark Gable

    From Modern Screen, 1931by Walter Ramsey Almost since the day Clark Gable’s first picture was shown in Hollywood, he has been asked to give his views on women, love, marriage and divorce. His answer has always been “No!” But in…

  • Kenneth More on the Well Endowed Actress

    British actor, Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield’s latest movie costar, said Sunday that bust size, rather than measure of talent, has become the gauge for an actress’ success at the box office. More said Miss Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren…

  • Clark Gable Takes a Selfie

    Article by Harrison Carroll, 1948 This week I walk along the row of portable dressing rooms on the “Command Decision” set. Signs upon the doors proclaim the names of famous occupants: Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford and…