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