Vivien Leigh Chronology Of Stage And Film Performances
The following provides a chronological list of the stage and film performances given by the British actress Vivien Leigh.
Although successful as a film star, she preferred the theatre, and worked more extensively in this medium, therefore her theatre performances are listed first.
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“Every single night I’m nervous.”
—Vivien Leigh (1913–1967)
“I have come to believe ... that the stage may do more than teach, that much of our current moral instruction will not endure the test of being cast into a lifelike mold, and when presented in dramatic form will reveal itself as platitudinous and effete. That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)
“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)