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by Anne Edwards


  Opened in New York, February 25, 1938; London, April 1, 1938

  Produced by Michael Balcon

  Directed by Jack Conway

  Sceenplay by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Walter Ferris, and George Oppenheimer

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Elsa Craddock), Robert Taylor (Lee Sheridan), Lionel Barrymore (Dan Sheridan), Maureen O’Sullivan (Molly Beaumont), Griffith Jones (Paul Beaumont), Edmund Gwenn (Dean of Cardinal), C. V. France (Dean Snodgrass), Morton Selten (Cecil Davidson), Edmund Breon (Captain Wavertree), Norah Howard (Barmaid), Edward Rigby (Scatters)

  ST. MARTINS LANE, Associated British Picture Corporation (U.S. title Sidewalks of London)

  Opened in London, October 18, 1938; New York, February 15, 1940

  Produced by Erich Pommer

  Directed by Tim Whelan

  Screenplay by Clemence Dane

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Libby), Charles Laughton (Charles), Rex Harrison (Harley), Larry Adler (Constantine), Tyrone Guthrie (Gentry), Maire O’Neill (Mrs. Such), Basil Gill (Magistrate), Claire Greet (Old Maud), Helen Haye (Selina)

  TWENTY-ONE DAYS, London Films, Denham Productions (U.S. title 21 Days Together)

  Opened in London, January 7, 1940; U.S.A., May 16,1940

  Produced by Alexander Korda

  Directed by Basil Dean

  Screenplay by Basil Dean and Graham Greene from the play The First and the Last by John Galsworthy

  Photography by Jan Stallich

  Designed by Vincent Korda

  Film editors, William Hornbeck, Charles Crichton, and John Guthrie

  Music by John Greenwood

  Musical director, Muir Mathieson

  Sound by A. W. Watkins

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Wanda), Laurence Olivier (Larry Durrant), Leslie Banks (Keith Durrant), Francis L. Sullivan (Mander), Robert Newton (Tolley), Hay Petrie (John Aloysius Evans), Esme Percy (Henry Walenn), Victor Rietti (Antonio), Morris Harvey (Alexander Macpherson), Meinhart Maur (Carl Grunlich), Lawrence Hanray (Solicitor), David Home (Beavis), Wallace Lupino (Father), Muriel George (Mother), William Dewhurst (Lord Chief Justice), Frederick Lloyd (Swinton), Elliot Mason (Frau Grunlich), Arthur Young (Asher), Fred Groves (Barnes), Aubrey Mallalieu (Magistrate)

  American distributor, Columbia Pictures

  GONE WITH THE WIND,* David O. Selznick Production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  Opened in Atlanta, Georgia, December 15, 1939; London, April 17, 1940

  Produced by David O. Selznick**

  Directed by Victor Fleming* (additional scenes by George Cukor, Sam Wood, William Cameron Menzies, and David O. Selznick)

  Screenplay by Sidney Howard* (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oliver Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Jo Swerling, and David O. Selznick also worked on the screenplay and contributed to the final version), based on the book Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

  Designed by William Cameron Menzies**

  Art director, Lyle Wheeler*

  Photography by Ernest Haller, A.S.C.* (associate, Ray Rennahan)

  Technicolor associates, Ray Rennahan, A.S.C., Wilfrid M. Cline, A.S.C.

  Music by Max Steiner (associate, Lou Forbes)

  Special effects by Jack Cosgrove (associate for fire effects, Lee Zavitz)

  Costumes by Walter Plunkett

  Scarlett’s hats by John Frederics

  Interiors by Joseph B. Piatt

  Interior decoration by Edward G. Boyle

  Film editor, Hal C. Kern* (associate, James E. Newcom)

  Scenario assistant, Barbara Keon

  Recorder, Frank Maher

  Makeup and hair styling by Monty Westmore (associates, Hazel Rogers, Ben Nye)

  Dance directors, Frank Floyd, Eddie Prinz

  Historian, Wilbur G. Kurtz

  Technical advisers, Susan Myrick, Will Price

  Research by Lillian K. Deighton

  Production manager, Raymond A. Klune

  Technicolor supervision by Natalie Kalmus (associate, Henri Jaffa)

  CAST: Vivien Leigh* (Scarlett O’Hara), Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Hamilton Wilkes), Hattie McDaniel* (Mammy), Thomas Mitchell* (Gerald O’Hara), Barbara O’Neil (Ellen O’Hara), Evelyn Keyes (Suellen O’Hara), Ann Rutherford (Carreen O’Hara), Butterfly McQueen (Prissy), Victor Jory (Jonas Wilkerson), Oscar Polk (Pork), Isabel Jewell (Emmy Slattery), Ona Munson (Belle Watling), Zack Williams (Elijah), Fred Crane (Brent Tarleton), George Reeves (Stuart Tarleton), Alicia Rhett (India Wilkes), Rand Brooks (Charles Hamilton), Carroll Nye (Frank Kennedy), Marcella Martin (Cathleen Calvert), Howard Hickman (John Wilkes), Laura Hope Crews (Aunt Pittypat Hamilton), Harry Davenport (Doctor Meade), Leona Roberts (Mrs. Meade), Jane Darwell (Mrs. Merriwether), Albert Morin (Rene Picard), Mary Anderson (Maybelle Merriwether), Terry Shero (Fanny Elsing), Eddie Anderson (Uncle Peter), William McClain (Old Levi), Jackie Moran (Phil Meade), Cammie King (Bonnie Blue Butler), Mickey Kuhn (Beau Wilkes), Ward Bond (Tom, a Yankee Captain), and with Cliff Edwards, Ed Chandler, George Hackathorne, Roscoe Ates, Eric Linden, John Arledge, Tom Tyler, William Bakewell, Lee Phelps, Paul Hurst, Ernest Whitman, William Stelling, Louis Jean Heydt, Robert Elliott, George Meeker, Wallis Clark, Irving Bacon, Adrian Morris, J. M. Kerrigan, Olin Howland, Yakima Canutt, Blue Washington, and Lillian Kemble Cooper

  WATERLOO BRIDGE, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  Opened in New York, May 17, 1940; London, November 17, 1940

  Produced by Sidney Franklin

  Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

  Screenplay by S. N. Behrman, Hans Rameau, and George Froeschel, based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Myra), Robert Taylor (Roy Cronin), Lucile Watson (Lady Margaret Cronin), Virginia Field (Kitty), Maria Ouspenskaya (Madame Olga Kirowa), C. Aubrey Smith (the Duke)

  LADY HAMILTON, Alexander Korda Films, Inc. (U.S. title That Hamilton Woman)

  Opened in New York, April 4, 1941; London, July 30, 1941

  Produced and directed by Alexander Korda

  Screenplay by Walter Reisch and R. C. Sherriff

  Photography by Rudolph Mate

  Designed by Vincent Korda

  Set decoration by Julia Heron

  Costumes by René Hubert

  Film editor, William Hornbeck

  Music and musical director, Miklos Rozsa

  Sound by William H. Wilmartin

  Production assistant, André De Toth

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Emma Hamilton), Laurence Olivier (Lord Nelson), Alan Mowbray (Sir William Hamilton), Sara Allgood (Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon), Gladys Cooper (Lady Nelson), Henry Wilcoxon (Captain Hardy), Heather Angel (Street Girl), Halliwell Hobbes (Reverend Nelson), Gilbert Emery (Lord Spencer), Miles Mander (Lord Keith), Ronald Sinclair (Josiah), Louis Alberni (King of Naples), Norma Drury (Queen of Naples), George Renavent (Hotel Manager), Leonard Carey (Orderly), Alex Craig (Gendarme), and George Davis

  American distributor, United Artists

  Won Academy Award for sound recording

  CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA, United Artists

  Opened in London, December 11, 1945; New York, September 6, 1946

  Produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal

  Screenplay based on the play by George Bernard Shaw

  Decoration and costumes by Oliver Messel

  Art director, John Bryan

  Music by Georges Auric

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Claude Rains (Caesar), Flora Robson (Ftatateeta), Francis L. Sullivan (Pothinus), Basil Sydney (Rufio), Cecil Parker (Britannus), Stewart Granger (Apollodorus), Raymond Lovell (Lucius Septimius), Antony Eustrel (Achillas), Ernest Thesiger (Theodotus), Michael Rennie (First Centurion), Esme Percy (Major Domo), Stanley Hollo way (Belzanor), Leo Genn (Ben Affris), James McKechnie (Wounded Centurion), Felix Aylmer (First Nobleman), Valentine Dyall (First Guardsman)

  ANNA KARENINA, London Films

  Opened in London, January 22, 1948; New York, April 28, 1948

  Produced by Alexander Korda

  Directed by Julien Duvivier


  Screenplay by Julien Duvivier, Guy Moran, and Jean Anouilh from Leo Tolstoy s novel

  Photography by Henri Alekan

  Special effects by W. Percy Day and Cliff Richardson

  Designed by André Andrejew

  Film editor, Russell Lloyd

  Costumes by Cecil Beaton

  Music by Constant Lambert

  Musical director, Dr. Hubert Clifford

  Sound recording by John Cox

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Anna Karenina), Ralph Richardson (Alexei Karenin), Kieron Moore (Count Vronsky), Sally Anne Howes (Kitty Shcherbatsky), Niall MacGinnis (Levin), Martita Hunt (Princess Betty Tverskoy), Marie Lohr (Princess Shcherbatsky), Michael Gough (Nikolai), Hugh Dempster (Stepan Oblonsky), Mary Kerridge (Dolly Oblonsky), Heather Thatcher (Countess Lydia Ivanovna), Helen Haye (Countess Vronsky), Austin Trevor (Colonel Vronsky), Ruby Miller (Countess Mezhkov), John Longden (General Serpukhovskoy), Leslie Bradley (Korsunsky), Michael Medwin (Doctor), Jeremy Spenser (Giuseppe), Gino Cervi (Enrico), Frank Tickle (Prince Shcherbatsky), Mary Martlew (Princess Nathalia), Ann South (Princess Sorokina), Guy Verney (Prince Makhotin), Beckett Bould (Matvey), Judith Nelmes (Miss Hull), Valentina Murch (An-nushka), Theresa Giehse (Marietta), John Salew (Lawyer), Patrick Skip-with (Sergei)

  American distributor, Twentieth Century-Fox

  A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Warner Brothers

  Opened in New York, September 20, 1951; London, March 2, 1952

  Executive producer, Elia Kazan

  Produced by Charles K. Feldman

  Directed by Elia Kazan

  Screenplay by Tennessee Williams from his own play; adaptation by Oscar Saul

  Costumes by Lucinda Ballard

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Blanche DuBois), Marlon Brando (Stanley Kowalski), Kim Hunter (Stella Kowalski), Karl Maiden (Mitch), Rudy Bond (Steve), Nick Dennis (Pablo), Peg Hillias (Eunice), Richard Garrick (Doctor), Anne Dere (Matron), Edna Thomas (Mexican Woman)

  Vivien Leigh won an Academy Award for her performance

  THE DEEP BLUE SEA, London Films

  Opened in London, August 24, 1955; New York, October 13, 1955

  Executive producer, Alexander Korda

  Produced and directed by Anatole Litvak

  Designed by Vincent Korda

  Screenplay by Terence Rattigan from his play

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Hester Collyer), Kenneth More (Freddie Page), Emlyn Williams (Sir William Collyer), Eric Portman (Mr. Miller), Moira Lister (Dawn Maxwell), Arthur Hill (Jackie Jackson), Miriam Karlin (Barmaid), Heather Thatcher (Lady Dawson), Dandy Nichols (Mrs. Elton)

  American distributor, Twentieth Century-Fox

  THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE, Warner Brothers

  Opened in New York, December 29, 1961; London, February 15, 1962

  Produced by Louis de Rochemont

  Directed by José Quintero

  Production designed by Roger Furse

  Music by Richard Addinsell

  Screenplay by Gavin Lambert from the novel by Tennessee Williams

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Karen Stone), Warren Beatty (Paolo), Coral Browne (Meg), Lotte Lenya (Contessa Gonzales), Jeremy Spenser (Young Man), Jill St. John (Barbara Bingham), Ernest Thesiger (Stefano), Paul Stassino (Barber), Bessie Love (Bunny), Carl Jaffe (Baron), Cleo Laine (Singer), Elspeth March (Mrs. Barrow)

  SHIP OF FOOLS, Columbia Pictures

  Opened in New York, July 29, 1965; London, October 20, 1965

  Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer

  Photography by Ernest Laszlo

  Screenplay by Abby Mann, based on the novel by Katherine Anne Porter

  Music by Ernest Gold

  CAST: Vivien Leigh (Mary Treadwell), Simone Signoret (La Condesa), Oskar Werner (Dr. Schumann), José Ferrer (Rieber), Lee Marvin (Tenny), Michael Dunn (Glocken), Heinz Ruhmann (Lowenthal), George Segal (David), Elizabeth Ashley (Jenny), José Greco (Pepe), Charles Korvin (Captain Thiele),. Christine Schmidtmer, Lilia Skala, Barbara Luna, Alf Kjellin, John Wengraf, Werner Klemperer, and Gila Golan

  Vivien Leigh won the French Étoile Crystal award for her performance

  AWARDS

  Academy Award, 1939, Gone With the Wind, Best

  Actress Academy Award, 1951, A Streetcar Named Desire, Best Actress

  Knight’s Cross of the Légion d’Honneur, 1957

  Étoile Crystal, French, for her performance in Ship of Fools

  COURT ACTIVITIES

  Presented, as Mrs. Leigh Holman, Tuesday, June 13, 1933, by Mrs. Alwyn Boot

  Accompanied Laurence Olivier to Court for his investiture, Tuesday, July 8, 1947

  Footnote

  * indicates Oscar winners; **special award

 

 

 


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