"OF COURSE I WANT TO DO A PLAY. OF COURSE I WANT TO DO A FILM. I READ AND READ BUT YOU KNOW HOW DAMN DIFFICULT IT IS TO FIND THE RIGHT THING. WHY HAVE YOU NO PART FOR A VETERAN ACTRESS WHO ADORES YOU?" 8 Autograph Letters Signed and 2 Typed Letters Signed ("Vivien"), 17 pp recto and verso, various sizes, mostly London, 1950s-1960s [many undated], to GEORGE CUKOR; plus a 1 p Typed Manuscript about Vivien Leigh's first impressions of George Cukor. Affectionate and effusive letters from Vivien Leigh to the man who originally directed her as Scarlett O'Hara, with much industry gossip, mutual congratulations, and discussion of plans for future work and travel. In part: "Rehearsals start on the 8th March for the play, and I am tremendously excited about it. It will be called 'La Contessa.' We have been through hundreds of other [title]s, but that really seems the simplest and best." She mentions her own and Cukor's projects, Spencer Tracy, Winston Churchill Margot Fonteyn Leigh sends Cukor a copy of what she wrote for Mrs Tanner, a reminiscence of being cast in Gone With the Wind: "'I guess we're stuck with you' said George on Christmas Day, 1938. This was his own particularly charming way of telling me I was to play Scarlett O'Hara. I was already under his spell, and indeed had been since our first meeting." In a 1959 letter she writes, "Oh, George, it is just twenty years since we spent that first wonderful Christmas morning with you. I wish with all my heart it was to be the same this year." See illustration.
"OF COURSE I WANT TO DO A PLAY. OF COURSE I WANT TO DO A FILM. I READ AND READ BUT YOU KNOW HOW DAMN DIFFICULT IT IS TO FIND THE RIGHT THING. WHY HAVE YOU NO PART FOR A VETERAN ACTRESS WHO ADORES YOU?" 8 Autograph Letters Signed and 2 Typed Letters Signed ("Vivien"), 17 pp recto and verso, various sizes, mostly London, 1950s-1960s [many undated], to GEORGE CUKOR; plus a 1 p Typed Manuscript about Vivien Leigh's first impressions of George Cukor. Affectionate and effusive letters from Vivien Leigh to the man who originally directed her as Scarlett O'Hara, with much industry gossip, mutual congratulations, and discussion of plans for future work and travel. In part: "Rehearsals start on the 8th March for the play, and I am tremendously excited about it. It will be called 'La Contessa.' We have been through hundreds of other [title]s, but that really seems the simplest and best." She mentions her own and Cukor's projects, Spencer Tracy, Winston Churchill Margot Fonteyn Leigh sends Cukor a copy of what she wrote for Mrs Tanner, a reminiscence of being cast in Gone With the Wind: "'I guess we're stuck with you' said George on Christmas Day, 1938. This was his own particularly charming way of telling me I was to play Scarlett O'Hara. I was already under his spell, and indeed had been since our first meeting." In a 1959 letter she writes, "Oh, George, it is just twenty years since we spent that first wonderful Christmas morning with you. I wish with all my heart it was to be the same this year." See illustration.
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