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 ...

A dress Vivien Leigh wore in Gone With The Wind has sold at auction for $137,000 (£91,000). The dress, worn by Leigh when she played Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film, was sold by Heritage Auctions in ...

heroine Scarlett O’Hara in David Selznick’s film of Gone with the Wind. Thousands of actresses were screentested for this coveted role but Leigh’s characteristic willpower and tenacity eventually paid ...

In early 1949, the Oliviers were sitting at home in England when Vivien spoke up. “It came like a small bolt from the blue, like a drop of water,” Larry (as Laurence was known) recalled in his 1982 ...

Are legendary romances – like the one traced in Stephen Galloway's new Hollywood biography “Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century” (Grand Central Publishing, 342 ...

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 ...

Mia Farrow's first uncredited role was in 1959's "John Paul Jones" (a movie directed by her father), and she was raised around old Hollywood royalty, including Vivien Leigh and Joan Crawford. In a ...

IN FEBRUARY 1940 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh attended the 12th Academy Awards ceremony. Olivier was nominated as best actor for his performance as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights”; Leigh won ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. All books are on sale Tuesday. 1. "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, ...

Late in Stephen Galloway’s “Truly, Madly,” a workmanlike and ultimately sorrowful dual biography of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, comes an anecdote that could stand as a fractal representation of ...