Welcome to the Silver Screen Oasis, Ms. Bean. It is a pleasure having you here. What is the lowdown on Ms. Leigh's relationship with her daughter, her only child? What was her relationship like with Hattie McDaniel who played the fabulous Mammy? Is is true that she was turned off by Clark Gables fa...

Kingrat, here are my answers to your other two questions: 3. In Fire Over England neither Vivien Leigh nor Laurence Olivier has the "look" that I associate with their later careers, and neither gives the kind of performance that would make them famous in later films. Did Vivien or one of h...

Kingrat, here are my answers to your other two questions: 3. In Fire Over England neither Vivien Leigh nor Laurence Olivier has the "look" that I associate with their later careers, and neither gives the kind of performance that would make them famous in later films. Did Vivien or one of h...

Thank you so much for meeting with us at SSO. Your book is on my wish list for Christmas. I'm enjoying your insights to the previous questions. 1. I agree with you that Leslie Howard's lack of commitment shows in GWTW, whereas Viven Leigh and Olivia De Havilland give their all. To me, the central r...

Thank you so much for visiting us here at The Silver Screen Oasis. Viven Leigh is one of my favorite actresses. We are lucky and grateful, indeed! According to the British Film Institute, there is no known print of Gentlemen's Agreement, 1935, produced by the British & Dominions FIlm Corporatio...

Interestingly, I have always thought that Vivien Leigh was aware of her own beauty, and quite capable of using it to her own ends, but she also appeared to have a very scrupulous professional conscience. The level of quality that she demanded of herself and the roles that she chose to take for film...

Congratulations on your book, Ms. Bean! I have it in my Que and will be chatting it up and endorsing it (and you) in my Hollywood Book Chat group on facebook. I was looking at some of it on Amazon, and I was actually startled to see a caption for an image you credited as taken by Vivienne (Florence...

Welcome to the Oasis, Ms. Bean. :D I don’t have a specific question for you, but I want to say that Vivien Leigh is one of the most remarkable actresses of the classic era and beyond; she did sooooo much with her eyes in expressing deep emotion. She dug deep to bring out so much and as a viewer I c...

Welcome, Ms. Bean! Where to start! Vivien is my favorite actress and has been since I was a little girl. When I (briefly) pursued acting myself she was always my inspiration. Her, what I can only clumsily call her 'emotional commitment' to her roles together with that God-given face that registered...

Ms Bean, One of her films that she did - I did see this film in Vancouver Canada about 2 years ago and I was stunned to see her play Cleopatra - in Caesar and Cleopatra a 1945 film starring Claude Rains as Julius Caesar and Vivian Leigh as Cleopatra. I never knew that she did played Cleopatra in th...

Welcome, Ms. Bean! Thank you so much for coming to visit at the Oasis. We are so happy to have you here! And I want to thank you also for creating such a beautiful book. It's only once in a long time that such a lovely tribute comes to classic movie fans. Can you tell me a bit about Maureen O'Sulli...

Thank you so much for having me here, Moira! What a great question to start things off. Although Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait is a coffee table book, I wanted to include new information, including reminiscences from those who knew her, in the text. Sadly, many of Vivien's close friends and act...