(With her own daughter by Leigh Holman, Vivien was at a loss: being a mother was a part she hardly even tried to get a handle on.) And she had her friends. the best were men with no sexual attraction for her, like Noel Coward and her first husband: with them it was possible to keep up a decorous, unblemished make-believe., The voice, too, would have been Vivien Leigh’s if she had read the amende honorable I intend to make now, to wit, that as a comedienne she was the most elegant, skilful and enchanting of any I have ever seen, and that as a serious actress her performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone with the Wind, had made her quite likely to have , Vivien Leigh won her first of two Academy Awards in 1940 for her portrayal of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. The ceremony was held in the famous Coconut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles., Myron Selznick, Larry’s Hollywood agent, whisked Vivien straight over to his brother, David, and the great search for Scarlett O’Hara was over. As I said, Vivien Leigh is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen outside an art gallery, and remember, I’ve seen her in dusty jodhpurs, slacks, in a kitchen dress., While many, including Vivien Leigh, envisioned that the outcome of Selznick’s epic would be disastrous, de Havilland stipulates that she knew they were making something special. I was lucky enough to interview Olivia de Havilland whilst writing Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait., For Vivien Leigh is a modern rather than a classic. And she is eclectic in her choice of music – from jazz to Beethoven – in her subtle blend of furniture, and in her friends. “Although I love it here”, she said as she pointed out the bard that is recorded in the Doomsday Book and the old mill where her books and records are stored, “I get restless..