Thread by @dean_frey

Remembering Vivien Leigh on her birthday 🎂
📷 Roddy McDowall, New Haven, Connecticut, 1967
George Cukor said she was a “consummate actress, hampered by beauty”.

Alfred Bendiner's 1940 drawing of that year's 4 acting #Oscar winners: Robert Donat, Vivien Leigh, Hattie McDaniel, Thomas Mitchell
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Today we're celebrating Leigh's birthday 🎂

Here are some shots of Vivien Leigh from Anatole Litvak's The Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan's play, c. 1955. Ernst Haas was one of the best of the on-set still photographers.

And a colour shot of Vivien Leigh from The Deep Blue Sea set, by the master of colour photography Ernst Haas.

Vivien Leigh & Karl Malden in Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951. Jack Albin was the on-set still photographer.
Leigh won her 2nd #Oscar for this role. Also, Victoria native Richard Welsted Day won one of his 7 Art Direction #Oscars for Streetcar as well. #YYJ

Vivien Leigh for Waterloo Bridge, by Laszlo Willinger, 1940
This is stunning: glamorous & sexy.

Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh & Terence Rattigan go for a stroll.
An amazing photograph by by D. H. White, for Daily Herald
vintage press print, 27 September 1953
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Vivien Leigh with her #Oscar for Gone With The Wind, 1939
📷 Peter Stackpole for Life magazine

Vivien Leigh as Lavinia in Peter Brook's 1955 production of Titus Andronicus
📷 Angus McBean, 1955

Vivien Leigh with Laurence Olivier in London
📷 George W. Hales, 1941

Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier in a great portrait by Philippe Halsman, 1951

Vivien Leigh by Cecil Beaton, October 17, 1944
This was on the set of Caesar and Cleopatra
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Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh & Claire Trevor at a tennis match in LA
📷 William Grimes, 1938
Leigh had something that not every glamorous Hollywood movie star possessed: cool.

Vivien Leigh by Paul Tanqueray
vintage bromide print, 1942
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Vivien Leigh by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, 1952
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Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Angus McBean
bromide print, October 1949
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