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Duel of Angels. Vivien Leigh is brilliant in Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's gloved, sheathed, cynically scented prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 16, 1960 | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Duel of Angels. Vivien Leigh is brilliant in Christopher Fry's adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's gloved, sheathed, cynically scented prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...with great adroitness, and Roger Furse's sets and Dior's gowns enhance the provincially elegant atmosphere. If much of the acting is simply competent and Mary Ure in the difficult role of the pure woman suggests mere marble rather than flesh on which ice has formed, Vivien Leigh's errant lady is conceivably the high point of her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

WELL, IF IT ISN'T GRANNY IN TIGHTS, leered the London Daily Herald. LEGS, panted the Daily Mail. What excited Fleet Street was a novel slice of cheesecake: pert, serious Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and a grandmother at 45. Last week trim Lady Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Suzanne Farrington, 24, daughter of Vivien Leigh (by her first marriage), and Robin Farrington. 30, insurance broker: a son, Actress Leigh's first grandchild; in London. Name: Neville Leigh. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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