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What made 1939 the watershed year was the release of several critically acclaimed movies, including The Wizard of Oz and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. However the most famous of the number, and perhaps the most famous movie of most, is Removed With the Blowing wind, and one of the very most remarkable aspects of the film is that the quintessential Southern belle was played out by Vivien Leigh, a United kingdom actress still relatively mysterious in Hollywood. Vivien was an accomplished stage actress and had already came out in foreign motion pictures through the 1930s, but she was a complete dark horse to have the iconic role she's still associated with, and it only came into being because of her persistence in getting ensemble for the role. 30 years after Removed With the Blowing wind premiered, one film critic credited Selznick's "motivated casting" of Vivien Leigh as Scarlett with the film's success. Another 30 years later, the same critic published that Leigh "still lives in our minds and stories as a strong force somewhat than as a static occurrence." While Removed With the Blowing wind made Leigh a huge name practically immediately, she prolonged to buck the usual development by doing Broadway and even appearing on stage in London through the 1940s, instead of focusing on movies. A lot of the was no doubt due to her famous marriage to Laurence Olivier, himself an accomplished stage and film acting professional. At the same time, Vivien became notorious to be difficult to utilize and unusually temperamental, a byproduct of bipolar disorder that frequently influenced her mood and occasionally kept her incoherently hysterical. Nevertheless, Vivien could recapture the magic in 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire, which cast her in the role of Southern belle just as before. Phyllis Harnoll praised Leigh's Blanche DuBois by saying that, in the London stage creation of the play, she showed, "proof greater power as an actress than she had hitherto shown". Actually, it was actually during her time as DuBois that she reached the pinnacle of her stage career. Also, her role in the movie was referred to as one "of the best performances ever placed on film" and "one of those rare shows that can truly be thought to evoke both dread and pity." Sadly, her life and career faced regular upheaval by both her mental and physical maladies, including tuberculosis, which resulted in a premature fatality in 1967. United kingdom Legends: The Life and Legacy of Vivien Leigh examines the life and career of one of Hollywood's most famous actresses.
