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Vivien Leigh
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After diction lessons, Vivien Leigh successfully added the right touch of molasses to her clipped English delivery. She was ... coached (first officially and later privately) by George Cukor, Selznick's original choice to direct Gone With The Wind. She battled constantly with Victor Fleming (the director who replaced George Cukor after three weeks), failed to make friends with her co-star Clark Gable, threw tantrums on the set and off, and won an Oscar.
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Vivien Leigh stars as a middle-aged actress whose husband dies on their way to an Italian vacation. Electing to remain in Rome, Leigh's trip takes an unexpected turn when she falls for a young gigolo (Warren Beatty). Touching romantic drama, based on a story by Tennessee Williams... stars Jill St. John, Lotte Lenya. 104 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.
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Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of Larry on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, actor John Merivale. As the illness got worse some reconciliation was taking place and in June of 1964 Sir Laurence visited her briefly and they spent some time together talking and taking walks by a nearby lake.
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Vivien came to NEWS CENTER from KSDK-TV in St. Louis where she was the Illinois Bureau Chief. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter at KABB/KRRT-TV in San Antonio. She ... worked as bureau chief at KRGV-TV (serving the Rio Grande Valley), and as a news writer for KURV-AM radio in Edinburg, Texas.
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For much of her life, Vivien Leigh suffered from mental illness. After a breakdown in the 1950s she was sent to Netherne Hospital in Surrey for a week and underwent the controversial ECT treatment.
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Leigh explained that she played "as many different parts as possible" in an attempt to learn her craft and to dispel prejudice about her abilities. She believed that comedy was more difficult to play than drama because it required more precise timing, and said that more emphasis should be placed upon comedy as part of an actor's training. Nearing the end of her career, which ranged from Noël Coward comedies to Shakespearean tragedies, she observed, "It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."[45]
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