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Once again, filmgoers have the chance to rereview two such fabled Hollywood performances: Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Since its gala 1939 premiere in Atlanta, G.W.T.W. has been seen by more than 295 million people and earned $75 million in rentals for MGM. This month MGM re-released it for the fifth time, and already has advance bookings (at an average of $3 per reserved-seat ticket) totaling...
Died. Vivien Leigh, 53, brilliantly versatile actress; after a long siege of tuberculosis; in London. A fragile (5 ft. 3 in., 100 Ibs.) British beauty, she spun to international fame in 1939, when David O. Selznick chose her to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; that part won her an Oscar, as did her Blanche DuBois in 1952's A Streetcar Named Desire. No movie could match the historic 1951-52 London and Broadway stage performances of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra with Laurence Olivier, her longtime lover, second husband and most ardent...
...MARY B. LEIGH-HUNT Hollywood
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). When a songwriter (Peter Falk) hits it big and a society girl (Janet Leigh) just as suddenly runs into hard times, their mutual tax man recommends a merger for the best tax break. The momentous question: will their compatibility extend beyond IRS Form...
...York, months of concentrated rehearsals, out-of-town playing of previews will precede it. The theater, as you have occasionally pointed out, is in a sad state. But what is the state of journalism that forms a judgment before the play is presented? CHERYL CRAWFORD AND MITCH LEIGH...