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  • She strongly resembled the young Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's; but there was also an air of cool composure that recalled Vivien Leigh, at the height of her beauty, as Scarlett O'Hara.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • She strongly resembled the young Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's; but there was also an air of cool composure that recalled Vivien Leigh, at the height of her beauty, as Scarlett O'Hara.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • She strongly resembled the young Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast At Tiffany's; but there was also an air of cool composure that recalled Vivien Leigh, at the height of her beauty, as Scarlett O'Hara.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • She invited Joe to come alone, without Kenneth, to a grand party at which he was to meet theatrical luminaries such as Vivien Leigh, Emlyn Williams and Harold Pinter.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • In 1940, the list of Academy Award winners was leaked to the LA Times, so Bette knew going in to the ceremony that she had lost the Best Actress Oscar to Vivien Leigh for Gone With the Wind.

    Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies Joshua Kors 2011

  • But he replaced his wife, Vivien Leigh, in the showgirl role with the magical Marilyn, who was also a first-time producer on the film, through her new production company.

    Marshall Fine: Review: My Week with Marilyn Marshall Fine 2011

  • In 1940, the list of Academy Award winners was leaked to the LA Times, so Bette knew going in to the ceremony that she had lost the Best Actress Oscar to Vivien Leigh for Gone With the Wind.

    Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies Joshua Kors 2011

  • His book is worth reading for the section on Hemingway alone – and for the blinding insight that the tics and twitches of Travis Bickle and Clyde Barrow and the other crazies of the American new wave owe a lot to Vivien Leigh's Blanche DuBois.

    Modernist America by Richard Pells – review 2011

  • The show draws from a real-life drama: in 1940, just before the Oscar ceremony, the Los Angeles Times published a leaked list of Oscar winners, revealing that Davis, nominated for the medical drama Dark Victory, would lose the Best Actress trophy to Vivien Leigh, star of Gone With the Wind.

    Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies Joshua Kors 2011

  • The show draws from a real-life drama: in 1940, just before the Oscar ceremony, the Los Angeles Times published a leaked list of Oscar winners, revealing that Davis, nominated for the medical drama Dark Victory, would lose the Best Actress trophy to Vivien Leigh, star of Gone With the Wind.

    Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jessica Sherr, Star of Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies Joshua Kors 2011

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