A question for the group, that has bugged me maybe because I don't really understand it- in many biographies it says Vivien acted like a man.. i.e that she...
Hmm might do. I still have yet to see 'Ship of fools', 'Dark journey' 'the deep blue sea' and '21 days' -I haven't come across it in any video library so far....
I lie, I just saw 21 days on DVD at a video store yesterday! Also A streetcar named Desire, 2 DVD edition going for $9.99 so I might get that - it says it's...
Hello, I've been updating Vivienforever recently, just to let you know there are some new links to explore and a couple of new databases - just click on the...
I know what you mean about the cover art: the only way I could get a copy of 'Streetcar' the first time I went looking for it was as a Brando box-set! I don't...
We've been discussing the character of Blanche du Bois lately. I was thinking some more about this, and it's interesting Phil, how you say you can identify...
It's not that..it's just I think streetcar was more Vivien's movie than Brando's. I think both should have been on the cover. I have to say he is (or was,...
Hi all, For those bookworms who like to read check out the bibliographies I've added to the database section of Vivienforever. You can also add any titles you...
I must confess I don't know anything about Brando as a man, so can't really judge. At least the contemporary view on the film was much the same as yours - ...
Wow, the parallels really are startling. I guess that's what makes 'Streetcar' so powerful as a play - the verisimilitude in the way Blanche's frailties are...
Marlon Brando was a complicated man. From what I have read he had numerous love affairs, illegitemate children,(who got involved with crime) owned an island in...
I think Tenessee Williams really understood women - or at least, women who must live in a men's world like in many of his plays. Another recurring theme in his...
I just want to add the many parallels I find in the relationship between Scarlett and Rhett and Vivien and Laurence Olivier. Both Rhett and Larry were quite...
Hello, Borrowed this from the libary and watched a bit of the 'special features' today..have to confess they were a bit boring as all they did was talk about...
One thing I never understood was why/how Vivien got tuberculosis. Actually I don't know too much about the disease, is it contagious or is it something like...
You know when you watch something again and again then you start picking holes in it, Well I put on the DVD to listen to the commentary which just about ...
hmm, well Kim Hunter never really tells us what makes Stella tick on the DVD in her interview, unlike Karl Maden, who said the key to Mitch was 'he hates his...
I finished reading this book 'Made for each other' fashion and the academy awards last night. I was a bit disappointed actually because there were no colour...
TB is a bacterial infection, so yes, it's contagious. As I understand it it has a latent phase, when your immune system is still fighting the infection, in...
Actually you don't need to borrow/buy the book you can just read the entire chapter here http://www.vivandlarry.com/vivarticle12.html There are about three...
I really out to read up a bit more about this disease. If it was contagious - then she would not be allowed to be in contact with other people, is that...
'This war talk's spoiling every party this spring, I get so bored I could scream!' says Scarlett in GWTW. Just continuing the thread about the similarities...
A friend at work is an actress so we went to see her in a theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream. She played Hermia. Shakespeare isn't...
Hi. Well... seeing great actors playing on stage is an extraordinary and breathtaking event. I only can imagine what it's been like seeing great English actors...
Hi Evelyn,  I do like The Tempest. I'm not sure if I have a favourite play, but that is one of the best I've read. What part do you think Vivien could have...
Check out this website, it is Debbie Reynold's museum of movie memorabilia. She has Vivien's costume from a Streetcar name Desire plus lots of other costume...
I just received this book today! It the autobiography of Tamara Tchinarova Finch, Peter Finch's wife. She was a ballet dancer in the Ballet Russe, and married...
Hi everyone, Just wondering if any of you are from the South (U.S of A) and what you think about Vivien's portrayal of Southern belles. Are Scarlett and ...
