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...caught her imagination early. What she saw on the screen she became in real life -at least for the rest of the day. After the weekly Weissmuller, she and her two brothers played Tarzan in the sumac ("I was an ape"). As the movie-madness grew, she became Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month of 1942 she sat through...
Adams House: Andrew T. W. De Hirsch, of New York City, and Leigh B. Trevor, of Galesburg...
Famous Film Festival (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Part I of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh...
...picture begins as Vivien Leigh, with a slug of gas and a Seconal chaser, is trying to end her life. When the neighbors break in and save her, she lapses into a flashback about life with hubby (Emlyn Williams), a prominent figure on Her Majesty's Bench. One day he introduces Vivien to a RAFfish type (Kenneth More), and her heart is soon shot down in flames. She runs away with More, only to discover that he is actually just a big wonderful boy, and that what he instinctively wants her to be is a mother...
...Highest: Vivien Leigh, at ?50,000 ($140,000) a film...