Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

This biography, produced in 1990, is clearly the best available work on the incomparable Vivien Leigh. Clips are shown from home movies in colonial India (her birthplace) as well as many of her earlier British works. Having seem most of her movies, this sketch catches the best scenes particularly of some of the weaker ones (Anna Karenina, Cleopatra, and Mrs. Stone). True Vivien Leigh fans will know all of the bigger names like Gone With the Wind, Streetcar, and Waterloo Bridge. Certain things were conspicuously left out, probably to appear sympathetic to her medical problems and personal issues.

Jessica Lange hosted this thing, and she seemed sort of flip or sarcastic. Her face is always cocked to one side with an inappropriate smirk. I don't buy Jessica Lange, yankee from Minnesota, as a die-hard fan either, especially with her demeanor here. At any rate, this bio is part of a GWTW Special Edition and well worth the watch.