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Edwards is a veteran author; her nine books include a historical novel about Emily Dickinson, a biography of Judy Garland, and a soon to be published work on Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett in the movie. Says Edwards: "All my books are about survival, and Scarlett was an absolute master of the art. I also consider myself a great survivor. In fact, I think of myself as Scarlett O'Hara." There are some parallels. Edwards' father was born into a wealthy family, but was unable to earn a living after the money ran out in the 1930s...
...Waltons TV show, Richard Thomas, and Wife Alma, a former grade-school teacher. "I was expecting a girl," said Dad, adding that he would probably keep trying. At the same time, in London, Jason Lawson took his first bow as well. He is the son of Actor Leigh Lawson and former Disney Pollyanna Hayley Mills, who is still awaiting her divorce from British Film Producer Roy Boulting. "I feel married both emotionally and physically to Leigh," said Hayley, "and that is what is most important...
Streetcar remains classic, not so much for the vehicles provided in Blanche and Stanley Kowalski, but for the way Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando take personal possession of them. Only Leigh could have pulled off all those "I don't want realism, I want magic" lines with such charm. And Brando, in his first major role, delivers a lecture on the Napoleonic Code itself worth the price of admission. Neither role is burdened with too much realism; but, like Blanche, Williams works best with magic and myth. Or, to cop another duBois-ism, "50 per cent of this film...
That may be why, as one Atlantan observes, Britons Vivien Leigh and Leslie Howard were able to affect such convincing Southern accents for their roles in Gone With the Wind...
...most people smoke cigarettes--and employs illegal methods; but on the other, he cares deeply about people, unlike his self-righteous and priggish antagonist, the Mexican detective Vargas (Charlton Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters in the film are marvelous: Janet Leigh as Heston's hopelessly passive young wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor as the owner of a strip joint, Joseph Cotten as a detective, but best of all, Marlene Dietrich as madam, Welles's former lover...