Someone in Hollywood once said: "Vivien Leigh was so beautiful, there was no reason for her to be so talented. And she was so talented, there was no reason for her to be so beautiful."
I never understood that. For me personally she never was as beautiful as Ava Gardner or Grace Kelly or a big amount of other women. But a true talent indeed.
Same 😢 I watched in my 20s and found her irritating but now it’s just heartbreaking. I paid closer attention this time around. It was really hard to digest this one. Too much like home life. Blanche def deserved better… even if she was lying to her sister. She just wanted to be loved and make her world pretty again.
Vivien gives us the two most important female roles in history. Her perfomance as Blanche is a Master Class in acting. In the final close up she is amazingly beautiful.
That's true but also two of the most important film performances in history male or female. It's crazy how despite her limited filmography, she pulled all-time great turns with Gone With The Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
It breaks my heart that they'll never be another like Vivien Leigh. She died long before I was born and yet no other actress has me completely spellbound by their beauty and talent.
EXACTLY how I feel about getting to NEVER meeting Marlon 😥 I would've LUVED to meet him! 😳 when he was at this age he was SOO talented and SOO HEARTSTOPPINGLY BEAUTIFUL! 😏🔥🥵
@@davidstevenson9496 Part of the allure of Vivien Leigh is her duality. She was very fragile, physically and mentally, but she also had remarkable resilience. She's has mesmerized me and inspired me since I first saw her in GWTW when I was a child. My evaluation of that film, and book, has matured and evolved, but I still love Vivien's portrayal of Scarlett. Between Scarlett and Blanche, her place in Hollywood's pantheon is forever assured.
the most perfect performance I have even seen. So incredibly nuanced, brave and perceptive. The way she varies the tone of her voice and the use of body language is sublime. Bravo Vivien 👑
She is the greatest actress who ever lived. She won 2 Oscars for the greatest performances ever given. She was a highly accomplished stage actress, and won a Tony almost as an afterthought. Her beauty and talent were off the charts
I so agree - I think Vivien Leigh's two Oscar winning performances - as Scarlett in GWTW and Blanche in ASND - are the two best performances ever captured on film. And she was wonderful in all her other movies. I only wish her Lady Macbeth had been realized as a movie - have a feeling it would have been Oscar # 3!
She has such a different charisma here than in real life... a different way to look, to move, to speak, a completely different voice... It's like something possessed her body. One word: ACTRESS!
The hardest thing of all is to deliver Tennessee's sheer poetry and have it completely come from character. When Vivien speaks about 'old love letters yellow with age' or of Tarantula Arms where I brought my victims..." It is BLANCHE completely not 'acting'. Vivien is the only one who managed this.
If wisdom came _that much earlier,_ would you be able to _enjoy_ your youth, or would such early wisdom turn you into a young curmudgeon? A bitter youth? I have to imagine these things like maturation progress as they do for a reason. Even if that reason is only biological or evolutionary in nature. 😁
I have seen many actresses play Blanche, Jessica Lange, Blythe Danner, etc., but no one has come cose to the realism and pathos Vivien Leigh brought to the role.
Her performance was indeed truly astounding, but I it seems to me that casting an obviously gorgeous woman in this role is wrong. It is impossible to believe that 1) such a beautiful and refined woman has had to resort to a life of degradation just to get by, and 2) that someone so incandescently beautiful is nevertheless, somehow, so unattractive that a man is shocked and repelled by seeing her in full light! On the stage, given the distance between performer and audience, it would not have seemed so blatantly ridiculous. To explain Blanche's poverty and fragility, the viewer can construct a backstory that she is the mentally shattered survivor of years of abuse -- but the incompatibility of Leigh's vibrant beauty with idea of Blanche being shockingly over the hill remains. We do have one of the great screen performances of all time, though.
Tennessee Williams was a master story teller about how terrible and miserable it is to be a woman. The misery of Blanche in Streetcar; how terrible it was to be a cripple in The Glass Menagerie; how terrible it was to be ruined and lied to in the Rose Tattoo. Always about the unfortunate state of life a woman usually finds herself. He was a gay man and understood what it means to be female in a male world.
Vivien Leigh acting is so sublime in "Gone with the Wind" and a "Streetcar named Desire" many say her characterization of Blanche DuBois seized her into madness after filming; reminiscent of her character's mental break down.
Yes, Marlon Brando saw that coming and worried about her. He wrote that in his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me. He also said he felt Vivien's was the best, most authentic Blanche (even though he highly respected his Broadway co-star Jessica Tandy's talent).
Vivien Leigh as Scarlet Ohara in GWTW and her performance in Streetcar .... the years have passed but she still remains the greatest actress of them all. GWTW as in 1939 and Streetcar in 1951 and it's now 2016 thats quite feat.
I played Stanley in college back in the 60s. Watching this brings back the memories. It was a huge moment in my young life. Brando and Leigh were just electric in this movie.
I have seen great performances of great actors and actresses but i truely agree with your statement..i just thought so when i first saw the movie..the emotional depth put in this charactor make other performances around this charactor look like a insult..evn though they are good in normal ways
I agree with you dear; but we just have to see Tennessee's great play live every once in a while; the character of Blanche is compelling and magic (to use your word) enough to support fine actresses who may lack Vivien's transcendent talent.
I always wondered if Jessica Tandy on stage was as good. All I had to do was listen to Tandy in a rare recording of the scene about Stanley handling her 'love letters yellow with age'. Just one line and there was doubt. Viv totally nailed it and made the difficult poetic words come alive as the words of a living person, Tandy was 'doing an interpretation'.
yes he WAS 😳 ditto 100 percent 😂 lol I have ALWAYS wondered how Vivien did it on the set of the movie because Brando was REALLY hot 😍 and I like fell for him HARD while watching the film 🥵
the definite best part that no one can get correct is that she doesn't have the strongest southern accent. Back in the day it was the English tongue mixed with the new reminiscents of american talk. this was the accent that we had!
I had always wondered how Vivien compared to the original Blanche on the stage, Jessica Tandy. I found a recording of Tandy doing the 'trunk' scene with Stanley and when she said "old love letters yellowed with age..." I KNEW at once that Vivien was SO much better. Tandy read it well but only Vivien could make the full ache of age and loss come alive in those few words. Tennessee Williams' poetry, difficult to perform properly, she makes her own words.
Not a proper comparison because Tandy had to yell the words to the back of the playhouse. There's just no way to compare the intimacy of a microphone and film production acoustics to live theater acoustics.
@@janetoss this was a radio microphone production for Tandy so though you make a good point it doesn't apply here. Microphones were not standard in theatre til the 1960's.
No one could have done a better job than Vivien did, was thinking that there must have been some raw emotion behind her act, turns out she suffered from bipolar disorder...
That's because Blanche was from Mississippi, and Scarlett was from Georgia, and the accents are different. Also, Blanche was "giving a performance" to escape her past, Scarlett was just living her life.
I think now this is just me Blanche and Stanley we're kind of highly attracted to each other 😂😱😳 and he was upset with her throughout because he wanted to do more with her but obviously since they we're related he couldn't but damn if Stanley we're attracted to me I just could NOT refuse Marlon was TOO GORGEOUS back then LIKE FOR REAL he was a STUD! 😳🔥😏🥵
Even though I'vee seen this movie many times in film classes, I never understood what was the deal with Blanche: was she crazy or schizophrenic? Why was she so off her rocker?
arguably she wasn’t really mad, she just lived in a fantasy world of her own because she was insecure about her past and her age. The rape at the end probably sent her into madness.
I have dealt with emotional alcoholics, that lack of reality is so common. Everything gets exaggerated and they do weave their own reality to avoid some truths they cannot cope with at the time. The deteriorating mental health. I think vivian leigh really captures the intensity as well as the occasional flashes back into a reality that she is avoiding. Beautifully tragic.
noemistephanie93 she drove her husband to shoot himself in the head after she finds out he was gay....and she can’t live with the guilt which eats at her for the past 17 years.....and Stanley raping her , while her sister is giving birth, finally pushes her over the edge.
I don't know if anybody gonna read this comment but yes lol Theres a video on TH-cam of an interview with Leigh And the interviewer asked her why does she keep been casted with southern belle roles And she responds I have no idea I must have lived there in some past life So yeah....lol
Someone in Hollywood once said: "Vivien Leigh was so beautiful, there was no reason for her to be so talented. And she was so talented, there was no reason for her to be so beautiful."
Definitely true!
she really is
I never understood that. For me personally she never was as beautiful as Ava Gardner or Grace Kelly or a big amount of other women. But a true talent indeed.
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M T i think you are right!
The older I get, the more incredible, riveting, sad, layered and moving I find Vivien's performance to be.
like 'love letters yellowed with age...'
I get madder at Larry for her sake!
Same 😢 I watched in my 20s and found her irritating but now it’s just heartbreaking. I paid closer attention this time around. It was really hard to digest this one. Too much like home life. Blanche def deserved better… even if she was lying to her sister. She just wanted to be loved and make her world pretty again.
1:50 that scene itself was Oscar worthy. Her voice changed completely. Just amazing.
Vivien Leigh does not have a bad angle and her profile is incredible.
Vivien gives us the two most important female roles in history. Her perfomance as Blanche is a Master Class in acting. In the final close up she is amazingly beautiful.
Fidlide, beaauty, beauty, beauty, ill het so bored i could scream! She was great!
That's true but also two of the most important film performances in history male or female. It's crazy how despite her limited filmography, she pulled all-time great turns with Gone With The Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
It breaks my heart that they'll never be another like Vivien Leigh. She died long before I was born and yet no other actress has me completely spellbound by their beauty and talent.
She's my favourite. She's a great talent and also my ideal of feminine beauty.
EXACTLY how I feel about getting to NEVER meeting Marlon 😥 I would've LUVED to meet him! 😳 when he was at this age he was SOO talented and SOO HEARTSTOPPINGLY BEAUTIFUL! 😏🔥🥵
@@SexySkoChick That is What I think--tho Vivien I'd be afraid to break--she was a person ready to go Under--sadly...
@@davidstevenson9496 Part of the allure of Vivien Leigh is her duality. She was very fragile, physically and mentally, but she also had remarkable resilience. She's has mesmerized me and inspired me since I first saw her in GWTW when I was a child. My evaluation of that film, and book, has matured and evolved, but I still love Vivien's portrayal of Scarlett. Between Scarlett and Blanche, her place in Hollywood's pantheon is forever assured.
I cry my eyes out every time I see this movie. Masterpiece.
the most perfect performance I have even seen. So incredibly nuanced, brave and perceptive. The way she varies the tone of her voice and the use of body language is sublime. Bravo Vivien 👑
She is the greatest actress who ever lived. She won 2 Oscars for the greatest performances ever given. She was a highly accomplished stage actress, and won a Tony almost as an afterthought. Her beauty and talent were off the charts
Depois da vivien os outros são apenas outros, te amo vivien
Vivien Leigh was probably a dream come true for one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century.
I so agree - I think Vivien Leigh's two Oscar winning performances - as Scarlett in GWTW and Blanche in ASND - are the two best performances ever captured on film. And she was wonderful in all her other movies. I only wish her Lady Macbeth had been realized as a movie - have a feeling it would have been Oscar # 3!
Working on stage and mental illness prevented her from winning more she only did 10 hollywood films 1 oscar for every 5 films
It would have been so amazing to see her as Lady Macbeth!
She has such a different charisma here than in real life... a different way to look, to move, to speak, a completely different voice... It's like something possessed her body. One word: ACTRESS!
And bipolar disorder
The hardest thing of all is to deliver Tennessee's sheer poetry and have it completely come from character. When Vivien speaks about 'old love letters yellow with age' or of Tarantula
Arms where I brought my victims..." It is BLANCHE completely not 'acting'. Vivien is the only one who managed this.
She was possessed.......beyond anything we know.............!!!!!
I agree with you. She was just the greatest of them all. So sensitive, so emotional... so beautiful
The greatest motion picture actress ever, and breathtakingly beautiful.
I read this & saw this in college & it went right over my head. It's a shame that wisdom doesn't come along until it's too late to matter.
If wisdom came _that much earlier,_ would you be able to _enjoy_ your youth, or would such early wisdom turn you into a young curmudgeon? A bitter youth?
I have to imagine these things like maturation progress as they do for a reason. Even if that reason is only biological or evolutionary in nature. 😁
I have seen many actresses play Blanche, Jessica Lange, Blythe Danner, etc., but no one has come cose to the realism and pathos Vivien Leigh brought to the role.
That's in part because she was much more alike the character in real life than the others-
Ann Margaret did a good job...
Gillian Anderson did an incredible job
Jackie Striegel 🤣
Her performance was indeed truly astounding, but I it seems to me that casting an obviously gorgeous woman in this role is wrong. It is impossible to believe that 1) such a beautiful and refined woman has had to resort to a life of degradation just to get by, and 2) that someone so incandescently beautiful is nevertheless, somehow, so unattractive that a man is shocked and repelled by seeing her in full light! On the stage, given the distance between performer and audience, it would not have seemed so blatantly ridiculous. To explain Blanche's poverty and fragility, the viewer can construct a backstory that she is the mentally shattered survivor of years of abuse -- but the incompatibility of Leigh's vibrant beauty with idea of Blanche being shockingly over the hill remains. We do have one of the great screen performances of all time, though.
this one of the best performances ever put to screen
Tennessee Williams was a master story teller about how terrible and miserable it is to be a woman. The misery of Blanche in Streetcar; how terrible it was to be a cripple in The Glass Menagerie; how terrible it was to be ruined and lied to in the Rose Tattoo. Always about the unfortunate state of life a woman usually finds herself. He was a gay man and understood what it means to be female in a male world.
J kK You made me tear up. It’s so true. That is why his work will always be classic.
Bollocks.
Vivien Leigh acting is so sublime in "Gone with the Wind" and a "Streetcar named Desire" many say her characterization of Blanche DuBois seized her into madness after filming; reminiscent of her character's mental break down.
Yes, Marlon Brando saw that coming and worried about her. He wrote that in his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me. He also said he felt Vivien's was the best, most authentic Blanche (even though he highly respected his Broadway co-star Jessica Tandy's talent).
@@blanchefan aww! I love how he looked out for her like that! 😳🤗 I love Marlon 😳🔥😏🥵
@@blanchefan correct jessica tandy only played supporting g role in films like the valley of decision as peck wife greer garson was the main actress
There are fine actors, and then there are great actors. Leigh shows what a great one is.
You simply don't see performances like this anymore, sad to say.
No ...you don't...
Charlize theron in monster reminded of this performance
Vivien Leigh as Scarlet Ohara in GWTW and her performance in Streetcar .... the years have passed but she still remains the greatest actress of them all. GWTW as in 1939 and Streetcar in 1951 and it's now 2016 thats quite feat.
She played 3 Southern women in her career
I totally agree. it's been so many years and no actress has the magic that vivien had, and the beauty, and the class
Till to this day, I haven’t yet to see anyone play Blanche as amazing as Vivian Leigh!
A well-meaning but sort of racially insensitive had us watch GWTW in fourth grade. I was so in love with her.
@@TheJazsinger 2 then where comes 3
What a beautiful and great actress was Vivien Leigh!
Blanche's voice goes deeper once she talks about Hotel Flamingo with Mitch, she doesn't do the "young" voice for the first time in the movie.
I played Stanley in college back in the 60s. Watching this brings back the memories. It was a huge moment in my young life. Brando and Leigh were just electric in this movie.
It is the greatest performance of any actor or actress in the history of film,
I tend to agree. Just unbelievably brilliant.
I have seen great performances of great actors and actresses but i truely agree with your statement..i just thought so when i first saw the movie..the emotional depth put in this charactor make other performances around this charactor look like a insult..evn though they are good in normal ways
@@sadhuskat2087 Shriley Booth Comeback little Sheba ties her
@@jameswalton3930 what dear?
Without question!
A greatest actress and a beauiful woman.
Such a sad story too.
that's true acting
pure ART
I played her in high school. 18 years ago. I remember every word.
She was amazing. What a talent.
" I don't want realism I want magic..."
Don't we all? Vivien gave us magic.🥺
Blanche Dubois wanted magic; Vivien Leigh WAS magic. No one can touch her. I don't even know why they try.
I agree with you dear; but we just have to see Tennessee's great play live every once in a while; the character of Blanche is compelling and magic (to use your word) enough to support fine actresses who may lack Vivien's transcendent talent.
@@blanchefan Well put.
The most beautiful woman in Hollywood.
Best performance ever. By an actress or an actor.
It was her fault, that I became a filmmaker. ;)
La mejor Mary Dubois.❤❤
Vivian Leigh was one of the most beautiful actresses of 20th century and extremly talented. Loved her...
She was so good in this role; maybe because it somewhat mirrored her own life - Rip Viv !
She's ALWAYS good .. in ALL her parts!!!...
amazing performance by Vivien Leigh!
Waterloo Bridge, still my favorite VL movie !
It's my second favourite, but I can tell you that you have such a great taste.
Brilliant performance! The perfect Blanche Dubois. Academy award winner.
Amazing and beautiful actress 🌹
So talented, and so beautiful. In Caesar and Cleopatra, as a young Cleopatra, is was outstanding
Her outburst at 1:48 is phenomenal. Wow.
I was so madly in love with her as a child I wanted to be Scarlet OHara until I was in my 20s.
Absolutely brilliant performance - apex all the way
I always wondered if Jessica Tandy on stage was as good. All I had to do was listen to Tandy in a rare recording of the scene about Stanley handling her 'love letters yellow with age'. Just one line and there was doubt. Viv totally nailed it and made the difficult poetic words come alive as the words of a living person, Tandy was 'doing an interpretation'.
Tandy, it was said, was too dry in the part.
Vivian was also great as Anna Karenina.
A performance badly underrated by too many critics.
she s my modele in life, the person i respect the most with my parents.
Vivien's acting is superb and Marlon Brando is so incredibly beautiful!
yes he WAS 😳 ditto 100 percent 😂 lol I have ALWAYS wondered how Vivien did it on the set of the movie because Brando was REALLY hot 😍 and I like fell for him HARD while watching the film 🥵
I like how you played the "Unforgiveable" scene at the end and twice within the video as it is my favorite scene in the movie.
She had the most beautiful and expressive eyes. 1 of my favourites.
So 3-dimensional. Her filmography are current and realistic. Truly legend... AND BEAUTIFUL. She looks like a combination of Audrey and Grace Kelly
מאוד אהבתי אותה, בכל הסרטים. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the definite best part that no one can get correct is that she doesn't have the strongest southern accent. Back in the day it was the English tongue mixed with the new reminiscents of american talk. this was the accent that we had!
What about the other actors? They don't even sound southern except for the actress playing the minor character Eunice.
I definitely agree with your statement about Leigh!
"Who ever you are... I've always depended on the kindness of strangers" .
👌
Damn.She's good.💫
The scene where she is confronted by Mitch is the greatest scene in film history
I had always wondered how Vivien compared to the original Blanche on the stage, Jessica Tandy. I found a recording of Tandy doing the 'trunk' scene with Stanley and when she said "old love letters yellowed with age..." I KNEW at once that Vivien was SO much better. Tandy read it well but only Vivien could make the full ache of age and loss come alive in those few words. Tennessee Williams' poetry, difficult to perform properly, she makes her own words.
Not a proper comparison because Tandy had to yell the words to the back of the playhouse. There's just no way to compare the intimacy of a microphone and film production acoustics to live theater acoustics.
@@janetoss this was a radio microphone production for Tandy so though you make a good point it doesn't apply here. Microphones were not standard in theatre
til the 1960's.
Fabulosa..👏👏
No one could have done a better job than Vivien did, was thinking that there must have been some raw emotion behind her act, turns out she suffered from bipolar disorder...
Superb
Deliberate cruelty is not forgettable ❤
Q escenas !!!!
Terribles!!!
Beautiful and a great actress ♥️♥️♥️♥️
So wonderful Vivien leigh ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A masterpiece...called desire...!!! They were real actors..!!!
She looked better with her natural dark hair, just saying.
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Blanche felt like I would feel in a homeless camp. Even though no better than them the feelings still stays. Can't help it. Remember how much I had.
History will rank SC her greatest performance.
Ha hecho dos de los papeles mas memorables de la historia del cine.
Seguramente el talento y la belleza vayan más unidos de lo que parece. Aunque no para todas las personas.
Blanche has to be one of the saddest and most despicable characters ever.
her accent was stronger here than in GWTW.
That's because Blanche was from Mississippi, and Scarlett was from Georgia, and the accents are different. Also, Blanche was "giving a performance" to escape her past, Scarlett was just living her life.
Never more beautiful than in WB
Imagine if she lived longer.
What a woman, what a script.
와 눈빛..
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I think now this is just me Blanche and Stanley we're kind of highly attracted to each other 😂😱😳 and he was upset with her throughout because he wanted to do more with her but obviously since they we're related he couldn't but damn if Stanley we're attracted to me I just could NOT refuse Marlon was TOO GORGEOUS back then LIKE FOR REAL he was a STUD! 😳🔥😏🥵
I need to rewatch but I don't think they are attracted to each other. More like they triggered one another insecurities very very dangerousely.
Brando is incredibly hot in this movie though. Brando, not Stanley, who is an awful character
Stop bothering my Blanche!!!
Hey, it's senator Lindsey Graham!
what kind of accent does she speak?
i love it
Southern Mississippi belle
The Lady...
she sounded more british in gwtw, here her southern accent is stronger, very little british left over.
I think my mother was Blanche Dubois.
You know the sailor in beginning is Ashley and Melanie’s son beau lol
i don't want realism i wan't magic... yes, yes, magic
Al di sopra di qualsiasi commento......che non Le renderebbe mai giustizia
0:09 Who's he?
the boy she asks for direction in the beggining of the movie .
I knew that, but I wanna know the name of the actor.
Actually he is Melanie's son in Gone With The Wind, you can search for it in imdb
Must been terrible for someone under a bad treatment for bipolar condition to perform this for 300 times , such extreme range of emotions
Even though I'vee seen this movie many times in film classes, I never understood what was the deal with Blanche: was she crazy or schizophrenic? Why was she so off her rocker?
arguably she wasn’t really mad, she just lived in a fantasy world of her own because she was insecure about her past and her age. The rape at the end probably sent her into madness.
I have dealt with emotional alcoholics, that lack of reality is so common. Everything gets exaggerated and they do weave their own reality to avoid some truths they cannot cope with at the time. The deteriorating mental health. I think vivian leigh really captures the intensity as well as the occasional flashes back into a reality that she is avoiding. Beautifully tragic.
noemistephanie93 she drove her husband to shoot himself in the head after she finds out he was gay....and she can’t live with the guilt which eats at her for the past 17 years.....and Stanley raping her , while her sister is giving birth, finally pushes her over the edge.
A Streetcar Named Desire does not include any hint that a male character may have had a same-sex relationship.
In the play, it is very strongly implied that the man Blanche Dubois loved when she was young (and who died) was a homosexual.
Seems very much like the Scarlet role.
I think that this would be Scarlet in the near future, you know if she wouldn't have aged of course, almost like a weird time travel kind of thing
I don't know if anybody gonna read this comment but yes lol
Theres a video on TH-cam of an interview with Leigh
And the interviewer asked her why does she keep been casted with southern belle roles
And she responds
I have no idea
I must have lived there in some past life
So yeah....lol
😂
Marlon brando ' s voice was awful
Other than the great Marlon Brando, everyone in this movie was so over the top and theatrical.
Not really, most of the men were relatively calm. I’m pretty sure it was done intentionally.
Well this was a theater play originally.
Nah, Marge did it better.
@@terrihilder8217 Marge Simpson! In an old episode, she performs as Blanche in an imaginary musical based on this movie.
@@terrihilder8217 what are you saying? You know who Marge Simpson is?
Oh, brother! Such overacting!!
You should watch the entire movie to understand that character, it's not like the others in the movie