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Lovely Legend of the Silver Screen

Vivien Leigh

 

FASHIONSTATE.COM'S
VIVIEN LEIGH PHOTO ALBUM:
VIVIEN - THE GLITTERING 40s

 

A collection of photos
from some of her best-known performances.

 

"Waterloo Bridge" (1940)

Vivien Leigh as Myra Lester,
a beautiful ballerina whose lover gets
swept up into the horror of a World War.

 

Vivien with co-star Robert Powell as the
brave British officer Roy Cronin.

 

"That Hamilton Woman" (1941)
(aka "Lady Hamilton")

A German poster of "That Hamilton Woman",
in which Vivien Leigh stars as Emma Hamilton,
the scandalous lover of British hero
Lord Horatio Nelson.

 

"Caesar and Cleopatra" (1945)

Vivien plays a kittenish, spoiled
Queen of the Nile in a film adaptation
of George Bernard Shaw's comedy.

 

Cleopatra gets instruction in royal comportment
from her mentor and lover, Julius Caesar (Claude Rains).

 

Cleopatra plots the assassination
of her brother / husband's (!) prime minister
with Ftatateeta (Flora Robson),
"the Queen's Chief Nurse".

 

"Anna Karenina" (1948)

Beautiful Vivien as Leo Tolstoy's
ill-fated tragic heroine, Anna Karenina.

 

Anna's passionate nature and
her cold husband Karenin (Ralph Richardson)
make for an unhappy marriage.

 

OTHER VIVIEN LEIGH PHOTO ALBUM LINKS

VIVIEN - THE GLAMOROUS 30s
VIVIEN - THE GLORIOUS 50s
VIVIEN - THE GOSSAMER 60s
VIVIEN - GODDESS OF THE STAGE
VIVIEN - VISION OF LOVELINESS
VIVLING & LARRY - STAGE & SCREEN'S ROYAL COUPLE

 

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