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Watch the trailer for the Carl Bean documentary 'I Was Born This Way,' about the singer-turned-minister who inspired Lady ...
Oscar winner Susan Sarandon, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh and Channel 4 international ... letter urging the BBC to broadcast the delayed documentary “Gaza: Medics Under Fire.” ...
FremantleMedia, UK production company Mainstreet Pictures and Game of Thrones’ star Natalie Dormer have linked up to develop a drama based on the life of British Hollywood actress Vivien Leigh. The ...
By that I mean not only Brando, but also Vivien Leigh in the film as Blanche (a part originated onstage by Jessica Tandy). Leigh’s interpretation was described by Pauline Kael as “one of those ...
Written in 1947 and adapted to the big screen in 1951 in the Academy Award-winning film starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, the themes of desire, illusion, trauma and power remain ...
But that was far from the case in the early 1950s, writes Lyndsy Spence in her new biography of the actress, Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh, which reveals many details about ...
Olivier was still married to his second wife, Gone with the Wind actress Vivien Leigh, when he met Plowright (his first union to Jill Esmond had ended in 1940), though the relationship had long been ...
Every woman has to do that at some stage in her life... All I do know is that I want to lose myself in work,” Vivien Leigh said. She could go anywhere she wanted, to the places she and Larry ...
Two months later, she was in a mental asylum. A new biography, “Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh,” by Lyndsy Spence (Pegasus Books, out Tuesday) chronicles Leigh’s ...
Naked and quite mad, she alternately sobbed like a child then snarled like a caged animal: In the concluding extract from a dazzling new biography, how Vivien Leigh's marriage to Laurence Olivier ...