THAT HAMILTON WOMAN! (1941), produced and directed by Alexander Korda, was to be Leigh's final film with then-husband Laurence Olivier.  Although their on-screen pairings were few, Leigh and Olivier collaborated on numerous stage productions over the course of their 20-year marriage -- some co-starring the two, and others starring Leigh and directed by Olivier.

Leigh as fading Southern belle Blanche Dubois struggling with Marlon Brando in Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, the film which won Leigh a second Best Actress Oscar in 1951.

Multimedia Clips from A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951):

"Original Theatrical Trailer" with Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter (a .MOV file courtesy AMC).

"Streetcar" (clip) by Alex North (a .MP3 file).

Memorable Quotations:

• "Is there something wrong with me?" --as Blanche Dubois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
• "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action." --as Blanche Dubois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
• "Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing I've never been guilty of." --as Blanche Dubois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
• "Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." --as Blanche Dubois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
• "I never lied in my heart!" --as Blanche Dubois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
• "When the time comes when nobody desires me for myself, I'd rather not be desired at all." --as Mrs. Stone in THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS. STONE.

Further Reading:

• Vivien Leigh: a biography by Michelangelo Capua (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2003).
• Vivien Leigh: a bio-bibliography by Cynthia Marylee Molt (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992).
• Vivien Leigh: a biography by Anne Edwards (New York: Simon and Schuster, c1977).
• Love scene: the story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh by Jesse Lasky, Jr., with Pat Silver (New York: Crowell, c1978).
• Lovers: great romances of our time through the eyes of legendary writers by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999).

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