Leigh made her first stage appearance at the age of three, reciting "Little Bo Peep" for her mother's amateur theater group, as the Hollywood Walk of Fame said. The family relocated to England when ...

Are legendary romances – like the one traced in Stephen Galloway's new Hollywood biography “Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century” (Grand Central Publishing, 342 ...

heroine Scarlett O’Hara in David Selznick’s film of Gone with the Wind. Thousands of actresses were screentested for this coveted role but Leigh’s characteristic willpower and tenacity eventually paid ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late in Stephen Galloway’s “Truly, Madly,” a workmanlike and ultimately sorrowful dual biography of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, comes an anecdote that could stand as a fractal representation of ...

Mia Farrow's first uncredited role was in 1959's "John Paul Jones" (a movie directed by her father), and she was raised around old Hollywood royalty, including Vivien Leigh and Joan Crawford. In a ...