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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


  • Stewart Granger Collection - Caesar And Cleopatra
  • Rated - 2 stars Perfect rainy day matinee 30 April 2004
    ... strongest aspects of the film are the central performances of Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh. She looks terrific and speaks wonderfully; he is a mixture of aloofness and co...  
  • 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 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: 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 90 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
    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 ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 2,914 members
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  • Anna Karenina on DVD (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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 228 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 123 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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 38 members
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Vivien Leigh - watch online


  • Caesar And Cleopatra to Watch Now (1945)
    Starring: Vivien Leigh,  Claude Raines,  Stewart Granger
    Director: Gabriel Pascal
    Certificate: Certificate: U (TBC)
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    Run time: 129 minutes
    An all star cast and magnificent production values combine in this classic love story of the Queen of Queens. As Rome invades Egypt, Julius Caesar stumbles across a frightened young girl at the Sphinx. The girl turns out to be Cleopatra. He promises to make her a Queen and marches on the Council ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 3 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

A Streetcar Named Desire - 4.0 stars
Gone With The Wind - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Gone With The Wind - 3.5 stars
That Hamilton Woman - 3.5 stars
Ship Of Fools - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Waterloo Bridge - 3.5 stars
St Martin's Lane - 3.0 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - Caesar And Cleopatra - 3.0 stars
Anna Karenina - 3.0 stars
Dark Journey - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Clark Gable - 5 times - show films
Ona Munson - 5 times - show films
Leslie Howard - 5 times - show films
Barbara O'Neil - 5 times - show films
Harry Davenport - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Cukor - 5 times - show films
Victor Fleming - 5 times - show films
Sam Wood - 5 times - show films
Elia Kazan - 3 times - show films
Gabriel Pascal - 2 times - show films