Vivien Leigh
The memory she leaves with me is in her last film, Ship of Fools, where she played the alcoholic passenger on a liner who suddenly snaps out of her memories of a tragic past and, all alone on the deck, does a gay gallant Charleston. It seemed to sum up visually the lines she had uttered twenty six years before in Gone With The Wind—Scarlett’s promise to herself: “I won’t cry to-day—I’ll cry tomorrow.” That was the motto Vivien Leigh carried through life, too.
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in London on a train to Denmark in order to perform in their theatrical production of ‘Hamlet’, 1937.
