suicideblonde:

Olivia de Havilland and Vivien Leigh during the filming of Gone with the Wind in 1939

maudelynn:

Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra c.1945

“Fortunately at the end she seems to have had no idea how ill she was - she was full of plans preparing to rehearse a new play - and one can only hope she slept away her life without pain. She will not be forgotten - for her magic quality was unique. A great beauty, a natural star, a consummate screen actress and a versatile and powerful personality in the theatre.”

-Sir John Gielgud on Vivien Leigh and her death

Vivien Leigh photographed by Angus McBean

(Source: maryhartleys)

leighway:

One night Vivien attended an academic dinner wearing her Legion of Honour and became bored because nobody spoke English. Presently she gathered the members of the company to sit near her. After interminable speeches in Yugoslav, Vivien rose with an angelic smile and, in the knowledge and hope that they did not understand, recited her speech in a lyrical voice. However, far from delivering the polite reply they were expecting, out came a string of four letter words to the effect that she was having the most boring evening of her life, all said with a smile and greeted by cries of ‘Ya, Ya’.

— Vivien Leigh: A Biography by Hugo Vickers