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  • Vivien Leigh 'greatest-ever beauty' - 7 September 2006
    Vivien Leigh has been named as the greatest British beauty of all time in a new poll. -The Oscar-winning Gone With the Wind actress, who died in 1967, beat other Hollywood A-listers including Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Christie to the top spot. -Leigh is best known fo

Vivien Leigh - what members say


  • Gone with the Wind
  • Gone with the Wind review by from East Midlands, England :
    Rated - 5.0 stars fiddle - dee - dee 3 January 2005
    ... says lots for the calibre of the story and acting on display. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh are one of the greatest screen pairings in the history of cinema, the number of...   Read customer review
  • Anna Karenina
  • Anna Karenina review by A customer from lanarkshire, scotland
    Rated - 2.0 stars I agree 17 September 2006
    ...I have to agree with the reviewer below, I am also a Vivien Leigh fan but I found this film dull and boring. Perhaps I have been spolied with the Kevin McKidd version which...   Read customer review

Vivien Leigh - filmography


  • Ship Of Fools on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Simone Signoret,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Vivien Leigh and Simone Signoret headline a stellar cast in the acclaimed drama about German exileswho are not allowed to anchor at American ports. In the high class section are several well-to-do people, while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 148 members
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  • A Streetcar Named Desire on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Marlon Brando,  Kim Hunter
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 4,057 members
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  • Anna Karenina (1947)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Ralph Richardson,  Kieron Moore
    Director: Julien Duvivier
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Vivien Leigh stars as Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's enduring tragic heroine. Anna leaves her socialite husband behind for a more exciting military officer. In search of a meaningful relationship as well as an exciting and more adventurous life, Anna goes through a string of emotions when she becomes the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 264 members
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  • That Hamilton Woman on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Laurence Olivier,  Henry Wilcoxon
    Director: Alexander Korda
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    That Hamilton Woman tells the tale of a lower-class girl named Emma Hart who rises out of poverty through her own determination, beauty and will power. Soon after, she weds Lord William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Lady Hamilton's life takes a dramatic turnwhen she meets Admiral ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 215 members
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  • Waterloo Bridge (1940)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Robert Taylor
    Director: Mervyn LeRoy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 53 members
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  • Dark Journey on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Conrad Veidt
    Director: Martin Ritt,  Victor Saville
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Spy thriller set during the First World War starring Vivien Leigh as a fashion boutique owner and special agent, and Conrad Veidt as an aristocratic German deserter, whose lives become entwined.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 84 members
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Vivien Leigh facts

5 most recent films

Ship Of Fools - 3.5 stars
A Streetcar Named Desire - 4.0 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - Caesar and Cleopatra - 3.0 stars
That Hamilton Woman - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Gone With The Wind - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
A Streetcar Named Desire - 4.0 stars
Gone with the Wind - 4.0 stars
Waterloo Bridge - 3.5 stars
That Hamilton Woman - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Terence Rattigan Collection - 3.5 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - Caesar and Cleopatra - 3.0 stars
St Martin's Lane - 3.0 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars
Dark Journey - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ann Beach - 6 times - show films
Kenneth More - 6 times - show films
Michael Redgrave - 6 times - show films
Jean Kent - 6 times - show films
Olivia De Havilland - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Cukor - 7 times - show films
Victor Fleming - 7 times - show films
Anthony Asquith - 7 times - show films
Sam Wood - 7 times - show films
Anatole Litvak - 6 times - show films