Word: vivien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SIDEWALKS OF LONDON:--Chiefly notable for the performance of the pre-GWTW Vivien Leigh. Added attractions: views of pre-war London, lead performance by a post-prime Laughton, and a distinctly pre- (or post) Hayes office clinch involving Miss Leigh and "Strangler Rex" Harrison. Highly recommended for all Leigh fans,--and their name is legion...
...autograph one copy of Gone With the Wind, Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara, had to sign her name 30 times. Reason: it was printed in Braille, filled 4,110 pages, 30 volumes...
Hollywood's swank Cocoanut Grove was aflutter with ermine wraps and shimmering gowns as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made its twelfth annual awards. To Robert Donat for his role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and to Vivien Leigh for her Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind went Oscars signifying the year's best performances by an actor and actress. Nobody was surprised. Academy selections of the best supporting actor and actress met with general approval: 1) Thomas Mitchell, for his whiskey-soaked doctor in Stagecoach; 2) Hattie McDaniel, for her sentimental performance...
Gone With the Wind (Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard; TIME...
Sidewalks of London (Mayflower). Cinema, in one of its narcissistic fits, has another look at how a star is born. This time the delivery which occurs among the buskers (London sidewalk entertainers), is less interesting than the star, who is Vivien Leigh. For Cinemactress Leigh Sidewalks of London (made a year or so before Gone With the Wind entered its delayed birth pangs) must have been a dress rehearsal. Liberty (Vivien Leigh), the saucy, thieving cockney orphan, who selfishly climbs to stardom with the help of Charles Laughton, is Scarlett O'Hara's little sister under the grease...