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…
Fashion Friday: A Top Ten List
Vivien Leigh loved fashion. She enjoyed clothing and all the accessories associated with dressing like a true star. She had a great sense of style and had a lot of fabulous fashion moments throughout her lifetime. To celebrate her style…
Fashion Friday: Selections from 1949
In 1949, Vivien Leigh decided to tackle the role of Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire. Her director and producer was also her husband, Laurence Olivier. The couple put up £10,000 to produce the play.…
Fashion Friday: Gone With The Wind’s Honeymoon Necklace & Lovebird Dress
In Gone With the Wind, Vivien Leigh’s costume jewelry was created by Eugene Joseff. Joseff worked with his longtime friend, Walter Plunkett (Gone With the Wind’s costume designer) to create the perfect pieces for Vivien to wear onscreen. Joseff began his…
Fashion Friday: Harper’s Bazaar, 1940
In 1940, Vivien Leigh appeared in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar as a fashion model. For Vivien, modeling designer clothing was nothing new. She’d been appearing in fashion magazines since the 1930s. The photographer for this particular shoot was George…
11 Things About Vivien Leigh & the Oscars
Vivien Leigh only made nineteen movies during her thirty-three year career, as she preferred standing on the stage to standing in front of a camera. During her career, she took home two Oscars for Best Actress: one in 1940 and…
Fashion Friday: The Costumes of Anna Karenina
For this week’s Fashion Friday post, I’ll be taking a look at several of the costumes that Vivien Leigh wore in Anna Karenina. Based on Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, Vivien filmed Anna Karenina at Shepperton Studios in 1947; the film…
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…
Fashion Friday: Laurence Olivier’s Knighthood
In 1947, while Laurence Olivier was filming Hamlet, he received a letter asking him if he’d be interested in a knighthood. Even though he wasn’t suppose to mention the letter to anyone, he couldn’t resist and called his wife, Vivien.…
Fashion Friday: That Hamilton Woman
That Hamilton Woman! is a 1941 movie about the real-life romance of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. René Hubert, the man tapped to be the costume designer for the film, was no stranger to Vivien. He…