Vivien Leigh Exhibition!!
So cool! The Mid Devon Star Reports:
IF you are visiting the Devon Record Office this month look out for the Vivien Leigh Exhibition. The exhibition, courtesy of Topsham Museum, features a replica of the nightgown worn by the actress in Gone with the Wind and original diaries held at the record office.
The diaries were kept [...]
Fred Cane From Gone With The Wind Dies
Fred Crane, who has died aged 90, played one of the Tarleton twins in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Article from The Telegraph:
As Brent Tarleton, one of Scarlett O’Hara’s handsome suitors, Crane delivers the first line of the film to Vivien Leigh in a scene on the front porch of the plantation house, Tara. His twin [...]
Church Burglary Damages Rare Copy of Gone With The Wind
The audactity!
Article via WSPA:
A first-edition copy of “Gone With the Wind” signed by author Margaret Mitchell was tossed into a creek by suspects in a church burglary, according to Haywood County investigators. The book was inside a safe stolen from Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church. Detectives say the suspects broke open the safe, [...]
Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier’s Fixer of Fixer Dies
Article via The Age:
PETER Hiley, who for 60 years devoted himself to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and, after their deaths, to their estates and families, has died, aged 87.
Hiley, who was born in London and educated at Eton, served in intelligence during World War II. In 1948 he was seconded by the British Council [...]
House Tied To Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Hits The Market
The International Herald Tribune is reporting that a Victorian house outside New York City where Vivien Leigh reportedly lived with Laurence Olivier during rehearsals for “Gone With the Wind” is for sale. They write:
The “Captain Coates House,” as it is known, was built in 1860 in Snedens Landing, a quiet enclave about 20 minutes from Manhattan, where [...]
