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Vivien gives the appearance of physical fragility, but she's like a 300watt globe in a pastel paper lantern.
Below: The Oliviers were disappointed at not being in New Orleans together when she locationed there.
IT IS very easy to misunderstand Vivien Leigh. She looks like an imaginative painter's version of The Spirit of Water Lilies. She is long-stemmed and slender and her skin has the luminous look of moonlight in a still lake; there is no particular reason why anyone's eyelashes should be as long as hers, and her features are, in general, the sort of assembly turned out by the manufacturing angel on a day when he was bucking for a Christmas bonus.
Probably poems have been written about her. There remains no real reason why a versifier should confine himself to the June-moon routine when it is feasible to rhyme Leigh with holy gee, while introducing "alabaster" and "Dresden" in proper meter.
All of this has given rise to the Great Lady tradition. True, her first American film role, that of Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With The Wind" garnered the coveted Oscar; true, she has been one of the few actresses to bring Cleopatra to life, not as the red-haired temptress of the Egyptian court, but as playwright Shaw's spoiled, immature, but developing child queen . . . a terrifying difficult characterization; true, she has recreated for film and on stages many of Shakespeare's queens; true, she is Lady Olivier, which makes her somewhat paralyzing to those Americans who are m awe of titles. (Does one address the first Lord of the Admiralty as "your flagship," and Sir Cedrie Hardwicke as "your hardship?")
It is easy, we repeat, to misunderstand Vivien Leigh. Because she gives the appearance of physical fragility and spiritual wingedness, one can easily miss the fact that she is really a sixteen-cylinder motor installed in ectoplasm; that she is a three-hundred-watt globe installed in a pastel paper Japanese lantern; that she is a four-alarm fire in a chiffon factory.
She has humor, drive, imagination and, if the Lady will pardon the expression, guts. (Please turn to page 54)
Vivien, Kim Hunter are sisters in "Streetcar." Vivien also played the same role of Blanche in the London stage presentation.