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Vivien Leigh - news / articles


  • 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


  • Anna Karenina
  • Anna Karenina review by A customer from lanarkshire, scotland
    Rated - 2 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...  
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • A Streetcar Named Desire review by Irfan Lamba from England, Reading
    Rated - 5 stars Brando in his spectacular role as the dashing and brutal Stanley Kowalski 2 December 2004
    ...o improvise is clearly evident and is part of what makes this film so great. Vivien Leigh is also magnificent in her Oscar Winning Performance as Blance Dubois. This fil...  

Vivien Leigh - filmography


  • Ship Of Fools on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Simone Signoret,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (66%)
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  • A Streetcar Named Desire (2 discs) on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Marlon Brando,  Kim Hunter
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: 15
    Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy ...
    Rate this: 4.0 (76%)
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  • Anna Karenina on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Ralph Richardson,  Kieron Moore
    Director: Julien Duvivier
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (57%)
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  • That Hamilton Woman on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Laurence Olivier
    Director: Alexander Korda
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (66%)
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  • Waterloo Bridge (1940)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Robert Taylor
    Director: Mervyn LeRoy
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 (70%)
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  • Dark Journey on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Conrad Veidt
    Director: Victor Saville
    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.
    Rate this: 3.0 (58%)
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Vivien Leigh - downloads


  • A Streetcar Named Desire for Download (1951)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Marlon Brando,  Kim Hunter
    Director: Elia Kazan
    Certificate: 15
    Buy from: £9.99
    Run time: 119 minutes
    Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy ...
    Rate this: 4.0 (76%)
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  • Caesar And Cleopatra for Download (1945)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Jean Simmons,  Vivien Leigh
    Director: Gabriel Pascal
    Certificate: U
    Buy from: £4.99
    Run time: 122 minutes
    In this film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's lavish epic, the venerable Julius Caesar (Claude Rains) meets Cleopatra (Vivian Leigh) under the Sphinx in ancient Egypt. Although the Roman Emperor finds her childishly innocent, she is capable of seizing the throne from her brother and cold-...
    Rate this: 3
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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
That Hamilton Woman - 3.5 stars
Waterloo Bridge - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


A Streetcar Named Desire - 4.0 stars
Gone With The Wind - 3.5 stars
That Hamilton Woman - 3.5 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars
Waterloo Bridge - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Romance Classics - 2.0 stars
St Martin's Lane - 3.0 stars
Dark Journey - 3.0 stars
Ship Of Fools - 3.5 stars
Waterloo Bridge - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Kim Hunter - 2 times - show films
Evelyn Keyes - 2 times - show films
Victor Jory - 2 times - show films
Rudy Bond - 2 times - show films
Leslie Howard - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors


Elia Kazan - 2 times - show films
Victor Fleming - 2 times - show films
Sam Wood - 2 times - show films
George Cukor - 2 times - show films
Stanley Kramer - 1 times - show films