Of course, the one time Vivien Leigh played someone “normal,” she went insane. Leigh specialized in portraying mad women: Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and the deranged and damaged Blanche du Bois from “A ...

Leigh made her first stage appearance at the age of three, reciting "Little Bo Peep" for her mother's amateur theater group, as the Hollywood Walk of Fame said. The family relocated to England when ...

The 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire — based on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer-Prize winning play of the same name — follows Blanche DuBois as she leaves her small town in Mississippi to move in with ...

This month Turner Classic Movies celebrates the career of actress Vivien Leigh by broadcasting 13 of her movies and two documentaries. The film that gave her one of the great roles of all time, “Gone ...