Leigh is so straight forward and simple in her performance she makes it look like anyone could do what she is doing - which is the sign of a true master.

Vivien Leigh was RIDICULOUSLY talented.

Can we just talk abt how goddamn amazing it is to see these actors, especially VIV to know ALL her lines without cuts? Damn.

@paulbadoo9326

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently her "sisters" in GWTW were amazed at how quick she learnt her lines. She would just look at pages and pages before shooting a scene and learn all the lines on the spot.

@takokvrivishvili9180

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulbadoo9326 yes she had a talent of memorising lines by reading them once or twice

@LouvonBrockdorff

13 күн бұрын

Thats what you do on stage 😅

Vivien was so gorgeous and how she can remember all those lines perfectly is amazing!

@christophepena2212

Жыл бұрын

She was a theater actress since she was 19 years old!!...an actor which know his lines....is the basis of the job!!!

The genius of the great Vivien Leigh is so brilliant that the missing part of the broadcast is almost irrelevant!

I must have watched these two acts a dozen times by now. Vivien Leigh is totally bewitching. She is so talented and so charming. We'll not see her like again.

Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest and most beautiful of actresses. Still love her Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche du Bois. We will not experience her like again.

What a talented performer ..notwithstanding her passing some 54 years ago, on 7th July, 1967 to be exact, the world has yet to discover someone as gifted as Lady Vivien Leigh in her very very unique ways...

Vivien has a very plesant speaking voice. Love Love Vivien!

She was genius

Thank you so so much for sharing. As always, Ms Leigh was great!!!👍👍👍

For those of you saying she wasn't convincing, honest question, have you read the play? Because I thought she makes a brilliant Sabina.

@casseyboo89

8 жыл бұрын

Same. Vivien did a great job

@unclealand

5 жыл бұрын

And it's a good play . . . till that final nonsense in act three.

RIP David McCallum 09/2023 - (here as Henry Antrobus)...

Vivien Leigh is hilarious when she breaks character and talks about how she hates the play and doesn't understand it. It's not an *easy* play but enjoyable.

@quinnmorlotti

4 жыл бұрын

that’s literally part of the script, she didn’t break character

What a gem of a performance! Thanks for the upload.

OH PLEASE CANT WE HAVE THE WHOLE PLAY?

So wonderful Vivien ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

This is remarkably good.

Viv was brilliant and just so charming to watch. Thank you so very much for posting this.

I loved the play.

I read this play when I was in my teens. Never got over it.

Vivien Leigh grande ❤

What a jewel! Thank you so much for uploading it.

Thanks for this

It's a shame that the third act of this version is lost.

Originally telecast on March 17, 1959.

I can picture Tallulah turning to the audience and saying, "I don't understand a word of this play!"

Vivien is brilliant - as is the whole cast. And is that young David McCallum playing the son?

@bingo1232

8 жыл бұрын

The kid... before U.N.C.L.E.!

@virginiaconnor8350

2 жыл бұрын

He was so cute then!

A wonderful adaptation of a great play. As relevant as ever with the Coronavirus. Alas, it seems part 3 is missing.

When I was in high school, I was a bit-player in The Skin of Our Teeth. To be frank, I don't think the director even knew what the hell he was doing. Many of us thought his interpretation was wrong. Ah, well!

Year this aired was never listed. It was 1959.

Does Act 3 exist? Sad there is no film recording of Tallulah.

Are these two parts the entire play? Or have there been many cuts?

What year is this performance? Sometime in the 60's?

@JudyGarlandRulez152

7 жыл бұрын

Suzie Wonder It was around '58 or '59.

@anaale1306

4 жыл бұрын

1959

1959

Ruth Dunning was incredible.

I came for Ducky

Monty Clift was the original telegraph boy.

@leonardodemelo3711

2 жыл бұрын

He played Henry…see original cast list

@MargotDarby

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonardodemelo3711 Correct. Utter slip-up. Monty was Henry, we have photographs! Dickie van Patten was the telegraph boy. How could one confuse the two?

im only here for theatre class.

Came here from bf5 Easter egg

At 05:59 is that really the cameraman's butt? JEEZ! And is Vivien Leigh deliberately doing a Una Merkel impression?

What kind of accent is that?

@operazine

5 жыл бұрын

"American"

@julianeaves1913

3 жыл бұрын

@@operazine Yes: I think the drama schools still train their young actors to produce this weird confect, 'General American' (to sit alongside General Motors, General Electric and wot not).

@youisastar3246

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianeaves1913 she does sound American but what's odd is her voice. She sounds old when she's supposed to be young, isn't she?

At least *something* good came out of Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". Terrible book that a true talent wasted 17 years on and Thornton Wilder plagiarized to write this play.

Vivien Leigh as an American housemaid!!! Not convincing!!! But charming!!!

@scotnick59

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed: but she IS interesting, which is better - in a way...

WTF was that? Drugs must have had a role.

@IanThaddiam

9 жыл бұрын

Robert Fernandez It's a very stylized play -- not realism by ANY means. Vivien Leigh was a goddess, but this was...not up her alley. Tallulah had to have been a friggin' hoot in this role, though.

@terrihilder8217

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanThaddiam No, I think Vivien did a fine job. It was up her alley.