Vivien Leigh
Pub. Date
[2005], c1939
Formats
Description
An epic story of the South's fight to maintain its way of life during the Civil War years. Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in order to save herself and her family.
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After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
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Snows of Kilimanjaro: Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Anna Karenina: A married woman finds true love in a man who isn't her husband.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A young man dreams, after reading Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, that he himself travels to King Arthur's court.
Tale of two cities: A British barrister falls in...
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Dark journey (originally released in 1937, 77 min.) also stars Conrad Veidt and features Leigh as a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy during World War I.
Fire over England (originally released in 1937, 92 min.) also stars Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey and James Mason and features Leigh as an English courtier in love with a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I.
Sidewalks of London (a.k.a. St. Martin's Lane) (originally...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Scarlett is a woman who is strong and has vitality. She deals with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, and the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Ashley Wilkes is the man she has wanted for so long, but he is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. At a Twelve Oaks barbeque, Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself. There she meets Rhett Butler. That is the first day of the Civil War....
Pub. Date
2011, p1951
Description
Brando plays Stanley Kowalski to Vivien Leigh's Blanche Du Bois in a study of contrasting characters and value systems--new versus old: modern culture vs. the old South; Caesar returns from a triumphant battle to Rome only to fall into the assassination plot set by Brutus, Cassius, and Casca; a comedy about an interpreter sent to Japan after World War II; Southern Gothic based on an army base in Georgia about a sexually repressed army officer whose...
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Restoration: Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until an affair leads to scandel, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless.
An ideal husband: A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past.
Her magesty, Mrs. Brown: John Brown is a lowly servant who looks after Queen Victoria's horses. Yet when circumstances bring them together, the result is a passionate friendship.
Tom & Viv: A...
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