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Wow!! Every now and then you’ll find a gem at the auction sites and this is one of them- Vivien Leigh’s Personally Owned and Worn Pearl Chocker!! COA and all. Amazing. Right now the necklace is at $50.99 with 2 bids and a little less than 3 days to go.
If you are interested you [...]

So cool! TallulahDahling from YouTube has just added the first 4/7 parts of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier performing Rebecca on Lux Radio Theatre 1950.

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 [...]

So besides being really, really, REALLY ridiculously good looking, Kendra from VivandLarry.com is also very savvy with creative content and has uploaded Waterloo Bridge in its entirety onto YouTube in 11 parts.
BRAVO!
Watch Waterloo Bridge Now

They’re dropping like kittens this summer! First Evelyn Keyes, then Fred Crane, and now Hazel Warp, who served as Vivien Leigh’s stunt double as Scarlet O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind,” has died.
A spokeswoman at Evergreen Healthcare in Livingston confirmed that Warp died Tuesday at Livingston Memorial Hospital. She was 93.
Warp was born in Harlowton [...]

When I started VivienLeigh.net my goal was to preserve, promote, and protect the legacy of Vivien Leigh.
Vivien Leigh is one of the most talented actresses to ever grace the screen and it startles me that today so few have ever heard of her.
I wanted to provide a open platform that allowed people to easily access [...]

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 [...]

Here’s the “Farewell Waltz” from Waterloo Bridge with Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.
For Those of you who care to sing-a-long, the lyrics are after the jump.

For purposes of site enhancements and partially curiosity, here’s a mid-morning poll:

As It Appears In the Original Atlanta Premiere Program:
A year has gone by since the night we stood watching the first few scenes being made for Gone With the Wind . It was an awesome spectacle–whole blocks of sets being consumed by flames as Atlanta buildings burned, and I was a little confused by the [...]