...and unwell. Interesting that you cannot acknowledge that there are two people In any affair, you are uniformed and insulting, to a woman who cannot defend herself
I won't deny she's a great actress and pretty... but it's odd that people keep commenting on just how beautiful and classy she was, and how actress aren't like that today... when she left her husband and child, stole two other women's loves, was crazy and ruthlessly ambitious...
Of course GWTW Has made the most money. So that means GWTW kicks Harry Potters butt. Don't mean to be mean its just that people talk how HP is such a great movie and all, but I just couldn't get into it. Nothing against HP or anything. We all have things we like :)
@FanofBewitched most people do not compare gone with the wind to harry potter which is 8 movies in total. people usually compare titanic and gone with the wind. i can understand lord of the rings and harry potter comparisons but it makes no sense to compare GWTW a story focus more so on a romance with HP a completely different genre
wow the woman playing melanie is fucking beautiful still!!!!! she must be like 70 yrs old and she is just stunning and with what seems without tons of plastic surgery (which nowadays makes people look like aliens that cant blink anymore) what a lucky woman to be aging that gracefully
i love how graceful, elegant and modest they were. vivien should have never come between married couple and plus she was super famous and successful so he probably felt beneath her. that would was dangerous cause the man's ego is hurt.
I think we can all agree on Vivien's beauty, but Olivia D. was stunning herself. Even in this documentary, at an advanced age, she is still a remarkably attractive woman.
Vivien was a gorgeous woman. My favorite scene of Scarlett is when she wore that red dress & unbelievably stunning! That massive staircase Rhett carried Scarlett up those stairs has to be the most impressive staircase ever! Even better than the staircase at 12 oaks. Olivia as Melanie was perfect and when you think about the movie GWTW, it's really about the relationship between two women Scarlett & Melanie the strength of Southern Women in the days where Men displayed strength not women.
This documentary may not mention it, but there's also a wonderful film she did called Waterloo Bridge. A serious drama. She had the ability to play much more than "kittenish" roles.
@hihosilverlining2 birth of a nation was a silent movie that came out in 1915. It is very racist film. It was made by D.W. Griffiths. It is also considered by many historians and film historians as the movie that revived the KKK.
that cleopatra comparison wasn't accurate...cleopatra met ceasar when she was in her teens and the film depicts just that with vivien acting a like a kittenish flirtatious teenager (vivien...superb!!) but cleopatra (1960) was all about her with an emphasis on anthony who she met when she was older and liz taylor was perfect giving off a more mature sexuality with a more calculating ambitious nature (Hello!!! she was the queen of egypt!!)
she and scarlet are very different, at least to me. and these movie critics are such idiots, i can't believe i used to admire those suck up your ass, bloody wannabes.
That's how you do an acceptence speech. Short sweet and to the point.
Unlike today's winners who basically pat themselves on that back and sound so pathetic, desperate, self congratulatory, and smug with those fake tears. Then go on and on thanking everyone who they ever met. While your at home saying shut up and get off the stage!
What a fabulous job in putting together this documentary. It's so complete and polished. It really captures your attention to get to the following part. Just a great job chronicling this wonderful career of an amazing woman and actress. Sad though so little was known about treating manic depression and the decline of her life, ending it at such a young age. Thank you for providing this documentary for us!
Olivia de Havilland ruled in "Gone with the Wind." However it was Captain Blood that put her on the map. She is about to be 94 years old. Vivien Leigh was very innovative, but crazy. I don't know how the two got along in "Gone with the Wind," but they made it.
She did not play the role of Scarlett O'Hara she played her own life. She and Scarlett were one and the same person. Her character and her beauty and her actions and motives in life are the same as Scarlett's. No wonder she got an oscar for the role.
I honestly believe she was the most beautiful and brilliant actress ever. But how on earth did the director expect Vivien to run, slide on the floor and jump up some stairs without getting hurt? He was a very foolish man!
wow to think that in "Gone With The Wind" she fell down the stairs and had a "miscarriage" it happened to her years later it happened to her in real life...
she was upset, because for the first time, she was actually excited about having a baby, and she wanted to have a baby. She felt that she hadn't been a very good mother to bonnie and that with the new baby she could try again, and really put her heart into it. Plus, she was just beginning to realise her true feelings for Rhett, missing him, caring about him, and she thought the baby could mend their relationship, to start anew. Then Rhett was mean to her, and she was hurt so she was mean back.
my bad :P But you have to admit your comment kind of applies to Scarlett's situation too
I guess no matter what the circumstances, it's a woman's maternal instinct to be heartbroken when they lose a baby. Obviously every women doesn't feel like that, but maybe Vivien did
Wow! Vivien Leigh's acceptance is truly indicative of a proper English speaking woman. She was so articulate and well spoken-I dare say there are no actresses that are "fit enough to wipe her boots" in their communication delivery.
Vivien was certainly not without her faults; her mental illness impaired her in many ways, apparently making her difficult to work with. But, she was an amazing actress and a truly beautiful woman.
Were the Nubians Caucasian? Where they of Middle Eastern decent? No. The Nubians were South of Egypt and they were factually of African decent, as were the earliest Egyptians. It is well documented that Nubians ruled Egyptian at certain periods. So therefore your response is flawed. Cleopatra may have been a Greek and African "mix", but that certainly does not negate the vast influence that African people had over Egypt.
first off: cleopatra was pure greek. her familly descended form one of the generals of alexander the great, and intermarried so as not to get mied with the egyptians of the time.
second: do not categorize the whole continant of africa into one race (black). there is a reason why people refer to north africa and south africa seperately. egypt that touches the mediteranian is definetly part of north africa which was a mixture race neither black or white. i can bet your not egyptian or visited.
I think they're spot on about Vivien working well on screen with the camera. Her use of facial expressions is stunning, and I think that's something that shows on screen but not necessarily on stage.
It is highly unlikely that Cleopatra was black african. She came from the Greek Ptolomeys who ruled Egypt in its last Pharoic phase. However, in earlier dynastys this was probably true.
You're extremely wrong. Egyptians were indeed black, African. They had rulers from their neighboring country of Nubia during a certain time period. All busts and statues show people with african features, not caucasian or any other race. Please get your facts straight. This has nothing to do with Vivian Leigh or performance which was good, but it irritates me how people spread incorrect information about Egypt.
Egypt straddles two regions, Africa and the Middle East. The people migrated from various ethnic groups over its history and prehistory, thus it was something of a "melting pot," a mixture of many types of people with many skin tones, some certainly from the Sub-Saharan regions and others from more Mediterranean climes. It is impossible to categorize these people into the tidy "black" and "white" terms of today's racial distinctions.
But to totally deny that Black Africans ruled in Egypt is completely false. It is widely known in Egyptology that peoples of Nubia which is directly south of Egypt as well as people of Axum (modern day Ethiopia) ruled in Egypt during various periods of time. Again, look at portraits and sculptures of Egyptians and it is quite obvious that they had more "African" features. People of the middle east did not occupy Egypt until 500 ad.
The modern Egyptians and the ancient have a shared genetic connection of 99.9. Based on DNA testing done over the last 20 years. So it was a crossroad of cultures. But they pretty much looked like they do today.
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rich coming form someone who does it.
i'm egyptian who lives there. egyptians are NOT black. stopr being racist and realise that not all of africa consists of black people. its a complete mixture there.
some egyptians are black. my father is egyptian, from aswan & he most certainly is black. some egyptians look more meditaranean, some look mixed, some black.
you are right. if anyone looks at the early pharoahs from 3rd-10th dynasyys they will see these guys have definate african features (Djoser, huni, kheti) of the aerly kingdom. Only the later pharaohs of the middle & late kingdom (tutankhamun, nefertiti, amenhotep) began to have caucasian features, with the heavy migration of mediterranean peoples & arabs.
So nice to see Olivia De Havilland as she is also such an amazing actress. GWTW is still the best movie ever made by far.
Vivien's mother was Irish and from the description of Scarlett from the book was strikingly identical to Vivien. Margeret Mitchell seemed very satisfied with her casting.
at 6:10 is that queen elizabeth???
TheHipster15 1 week ago
Vivian leigh died 1967 of TB she was beautifull woman olivia dehavliand said she had a lovely personality i have 3 book ok her
gabrielle068 2 months ago
4:41! She is THE most beautiful woman to ever walk the planet!
Her Oscar win for GWTW was richly deserved!
sanjac07 4 months ago 3
That footage of her Oscar speech, I've never seen such a beauty.
youaaa 6 months ago
...and unwell. Interesting that you cannot acknowledge that there are two people In any affair, you are uniformed and insulting, to a woman who cannot defend herself
juliusmaloney 7 months ago
...and unwell. Interesting that you cannot see that there were two people in the affai
juliusmaloney 7 months ago
I won't deny she's a great actress and pretty... but it's odd that people keep commenting on just how beautiful and classy she was, and how actress aren't like that today... when she left her husband and child, stole two other women's loves, was crazy and ruthlessly ambitious...
GoldiGirlProducts 7 months ago 2
Of course GWTW Has made the most money. So that means GWTW kicks Harry Potters butt. Don't mean to be mean its just that people talk how HP is such a great movie and all, but I just couldn't get into it. Nothing against HP or anything. We all have things we like :)
FanofBewitched 7 months ago
@FanofBewitched most people do not compare gone with the wind to harry potter which is 8 movies in total. people usually compare titanic and gone with the wind. i can understand lord of the rings and harry potter comparisons but it makes no sense to compare GWTW a story focus more so on a romance with HP a completely different genre
fleurgi 2 months ago
Wasn't she paid something like 25,000 for this part?
alvastarr1 7 months ago
wow the woman playing melanie is fucking beautiful still!!!!! she must be like 70 yrs old and she is just stunning and with what seems without tons of plastic surgery (which nowadays makes people look like aliens that cant blink anymore) what a lucky woman to be aging that gracefully
ducrozet74 9 months ago
@ducrozet74 She's 94 now:)
FanofBewitched 8 months ago
Remarkable!
Britfan06 10 months ago
i love how graceful, elegant and modest they were. vivien should have never come between married couple and plus she was super famous and successful so he probably felt beneath her. that would was dangerous cause the man's ego is hurt.
Mandinko23 11 months ago
Elizabeth Taylor reference
OnStagewwhs 11 months ago
Eewwwww.
bruniman 1 year ago
I think we can all agree on Vivien's beauty, but Olivia D. was stunning herself. Even in this documentary, at an advanced age, she is still a remarkably attractive woman.
lapetiteombre 1 year ago 2
@dtwan1234 stupid nigger like you makes other blacp people look bad.
willy517 1 year ago
Vivien was a gorgeous woman. My favorite scene of Scarlett is when she wore that red dress & unbelievably stunning! That massive staircase Rhett carried Scarlett up those stairs has to be the most impressive staircase ever! Even better than the staircase at 12 oaks. Olivia as Melanie was perfect and when you think about the movie GWTW, it's really about the relationship between two women Scarlett & Melanie the strength of Southern Women in the days where Men displayed strength not women.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
Larry was gay.
secondhouseontheleft 1 year ago
legendary actress in every way.true beauty.
fanofmussic 1 year ago
leaving her child makes her ugly
well as the historian said she was crazy
oh great, the mis is so she wouldn't leave another child tsk tsk
ednuk 1 year ago
leaving her child makes her ugly
well as the historian said she was crazy
ednuk 1 year ago
leaving her child makes her ugly
ednuk 1 year ago 6
This documentary may not mention it, but there's also a wonderful film she did called Waterloo Bridge. A serious drama. She had the ability to play much more than "kittenish" roles.
xander7ful 1 year ago 2
my gosh, she was timeless. So classic. We sure dont have actresses like that anymore.
margaritasalt1 1 year ago
birth of a nation??? Isn't that that racist film by the KKK from the 50s or 60s ??
hihosilverlining2 1 year ago
@hihosilverlining2 birth of a nation was a silent movie that came out in 1915. It is very racist film. It was made by D.W. Griffiths. It is also considered by many historians and film historians as the movie that revived the KKK.
sanjac07 1 year ago
@hihosilverlining2 It was based on the book by Thomas F. Dixon.
sanjac07 1 year ago
that cleopatra comparison wasn't accurate...cleopatra met ceasar when she was in her teens and the film depicts just that with vivien acting a like a kittenish flirtatious teenager (vivien...superb!!) but cleopatra (1960) was all about her with an emphasis on anthony who she met when she was older and liz taylor was perfect giving off a more mature sexuality with a more calculating ambitious nature (Hello!!! she was the queen of egypt!!)
thalialuvmx 1 year ago
She's a very eloquent speaker.
sanjac07 1 year ago
she and scarlet are very different, at least to me. and these movie critics are such idiots, i can't believe i used to admire those suck up your ass, bloody wannabes.
ChrissieBana 1 year ago
That's how you do an acceptence speech. Short sweet and to the point.
Unlike today's winners who basically pat themselves on that back and sound so pathetic, desperate, self congratulatory, and smug with those fake tears. Then go on and on thanking everyone who they ever met. While your at home saying shut up and get off the stage!
sanjac07 1 year ago 3
What a fabulous job in putting together this documentary. It's so complete and polished. It really captures your attention to get to the following part. Just a great job chronicling this wonderful career of an amazing woman and actress. Sad though so little was known about treating manic depression and the decline of her life, ending it at such a young age. Thank you for providing this documentary for us!
louise4053 1 year ago
she was so beautiful no actress can even compare to the kind of beauty she had so classic and natural but stunning, she barely wore makeup!!!
phoenixlatina 1 year ago 2
Olivia de Havilland ruled in "Gone with the Wind." However it was Captain Blood that put her on the map. She is about to be 94 years old. Vivien Leigh was very innovative, but crazy. I don't know how the two got along in "Gone with the Wind," but they made it.
AMEwrestling 1 year ago
another victim of the best actress oscar award curse
milton2milton 1 year ago
She did not play the role of Scarlett O'Hara she played her own life. She and Scarlett were one and the same person. Her character and her beauty and her actions and motives in life are the same as Scarlett's. No wonder she got an oscar for the role.
Persiansweetcat1 1 year ago
Olivia De Haviland - wow
partyhat3 1 year ago
I honestly believe she was the most beautiful and brilliant actress ever. But how on earth did the director expect Vivien to run, slide on the floor and jump up some stairs without getting hurt? He was a very foolish man!
AfterTheWind 2 years ago
she had stunts do that for her, i think one of them just died last year at the age of 93
kikhazz 2 years ago
in GWTW, not in C&C
kikhazz 2 years ago
wow to think that in "Gone With The Wind" she fell down the stairs and had a "miscarriage" it happened to her years later it happened to her in real life...
ShaReeDuh 2 years ago 4
she was Egyptian and GREEK.
Macedonia is a fraud.
Shanniquitie 2 years ago
I think Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra was a very poor casting choice. She is far too English looking to be Cleopatra.
4lfclvr67 2 years ago
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I don't understand why she was so upset about the miscarraige, she already had a child that she chose to give up and have nothing to do with.
msjosephine2 2 years ago
she was upset, because for the first time, she was actually excited about having a baby, and she wanted to have a baby. She felt that she hadn't been a very good mother to bonnie and that with the new baby she could try again, and really put her heart into it. Plus, she was just beginning to realise her true feelings for Rhett, missing him, caring about him, and she thought the baby could mend their relationship, to start anew. Then Rhett was mean to her, and she was hurt so she was mean back.
kiikat 2 years ago
Oh no I was'nt talking about Scarlett , I was talking about Vivien Leigh's real life.
msjosephine2 2 years ago
my bad :P But you have to admit your comment kind of applies to Scarlett's situation too
I guess no matter what the circumstances, it's a woman's maternal instinct to be heartbroken when they lose a baby. Obviously every women doesn't feel like that, but maybe Vivien did
kiikat 2 years ago
Wow! Vivien Leigh's acceptance is truly indicative of a proper English speaking woman. She was so articulate and well spoken-I dare say there are no actresses that are "fit enough to wipe her boots" in their communication delivery.
lafemmeartiste 2 years ago 7
Puhleeze! Enough with the Egyptians or whoever! This is about Vivien.
verse47 2 years ago
Vivien was certainly not without her faults; her mental illness impaired her in many ways, apparently making her difficult to work with. But, she was an amazing actress and a truly beautiful woman.
nikkiexbaybee 2 years ago 7
Were the Nubians Caucasian? Where they of Middle Eastern decent? No. The Nubians were South of Egypt and they were factually of African decent, as were the earliest Egyptians. It is well documented that Nubians ruled Egyptian at certain periods. So therefore your response is flawed. Cleopatra may have been a Greek and African "mix", but that certainly does not negate the vast influence that African people had over Egypt.
PharaohMusic 2 years ago 3
first off: cleopatra was pure greek. her familly descended form one of the generals of alexander the great, and intermarried so as not to get mied with the egyptians of the time.
second: do not categorize the whole continant of africa into one race (black). there is a reason why people refer to north africa and south africa seperately. egypt that touches the mediteranian is definetly part of north africa which was a mixture race neither black or white. i can bet your not egyptian or visited.
firegoat 2 years ago
you are right. egyptians are mixed.
foxgirl100 2 years ago
ur right. my father can be considered nubian. he is from southern egypt & very dark skinned.
foxgirl100 2 years ago
I think they're spot on about Vivien working well on screen with the camera. Her use of facial expressions is stunning, and I think that's something that shows on screen but not necessarily on stage.
muffility12 2 years ago 6
It is highly unlikely that Cleopatra was black african. She came from the Greek Ptolomeys who ruled Egypt in its last Pharoic phase. However, in earlier dynastys this was probably true.
racingrubberbiker 3 years ago 6
You're extremely wrong. Egyptians were indeed black, African. They had rulers from their neighboring country of Nubia during a certain time period. All busts and statues show people with african features, not caucasian or any other race. Please get your facts straight. This has nothing to do with Vivian Leigh or performance which was good, but it irritates me how people spread incorrect information about Egypt.
PharaohMusic 3 years ago
Egypt straddles two regions, Africa and the Middle East. The people migrated from various ethnic groups over its history and prehistory, thus it was something of a "melting pot," a mixture of many types of people with many skin tones, some certainly from the Sub-Saharan regions and others from more Mediterranean climes. It is impossible to categorize these people into the tidy "black" and "white" terms of today's racial distinctions.
karyboberry 3 years ago 9
But to totally deny that Black Africans ruled in Egypt is completely false. It is widely known in Egyptology that peoples of Nubia which is directly south of Egypt as well as people of Axum (modern day Ethiopia) ruled in Egypt during various periods of time. Again, look at portraits and sculptures of Egyptians and it is quite obvious that they had more "African" features. People of the middle east did not occupy Egypt until 500 ad.
PharaohMusic 3 years ago 4
The modern Egyptians and the ancient have a shared genetic connection of 99.9. Based on DNA testing done over the last 20 years. So it was a crossroad of cultures. But they pretty much looked like they do today.
jgg59 2 years ago
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rich coming form someone who does it.
i'm egyptian who lives there. egyptians are NOT black. stopr being racist and realise that not all of africa consists of black people. its a complete mixture there.
firegoat 2 years ago
some egyptians are black. my father is egyptian, from aswan & he most certainly is black. some egyptians look more meditaranean, some look mixed, some black.
foxgirl100 2 years ago
you are right. if anyone looks at the early pharoahs from 3rd-10th dynasyys they will see these guys have definate african features (Djoser, huni, kheti) of the aerly kingdom. Only the later pharaohs of the middle & late kingdom (tutankhamun, nefertiti, amenhotep) began to have caucasian features, with the heavy migration of mediterranean peoples & arabs.
foxgirl100 2 years ago
Well, she probably wasn't a pale British woman. Doesn't stop it from being a good movie.
OonaCanute 3 years ago 6
Clark Gable should have won in the best actor category.
UofLCardFan08 3 years ago 6
how bigoted of you to point that out. What does it matter?
cda345 3 years ago
GOD her whole life is so scarlet, crazy, and independent, the husbands, and then she fell and lost a baby, JEZ
almira78 3 years ago 4
Frankly my dear,
I don't give a damn.
themightycelestial 3 years ago
LOL
guitargal595 3 years ago 2
My God, she is a classic beauty.
skylur44 3 years ago 51
So nice to see Olivia De Havilland as she is also such an amazing actress. GWTW is still the best movie ever made by far.
Vivien's mother was Irish and from the description of Scarlett from the book was strikingly identical to Vivien. Margeret Mitchell seemed very satisfied with her casting.
td2gether4ever 3 years ago 2
Olivia is so cool lol
mrjames9999 3 years ago 3
Vivien Leigh was the first British Actress to win an Oscar.
tscastro114 3 years ago
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Titsnic made more and was seen by more!
orpoo15 3 years ago
no, it wasn't seen by more, actually. titanic sucks
meladorimagpie 3 years ago 3
yes it was Tracy alright , he won consecutive best actor statuettes in the 30's
bilkomax 4 years ago
Wow is that Spencer Tracy giving the award? Way to go, Vivien!
me0709 4 years ago 2