Carla Gugino *is* Vivien Leigh

She almost looks similar but she doesn’t have the magnetic quality and charm.

Agreed. She doesn’t have that Hollywood glamour aspect.

She couldn't do worse than Julia Ormond in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN.

God, that was dreadful!

I love Carla Gugino!

Is she a spic?

A very jealous Taraji posting at R5

I think Carla Gugino is extremely glamorous and charming. I'm looking forward to this.

If she sings “cookie time” then the movie will be a smash!

I think she has mystery and exudes a bit of danger. Watch her in a Mike Flannagan production. If the project has the right director she'll turn a compelling performance. Vivian Lee was NUTS.

Carla is the right age.

Viola Davis was busy.

.....

It should have been me.

#hollywoodissowhite

^Shut up, baldy.

(oops, wrong thread.)

I look forward to seeing photos of her in costume, hair and makeup.

I really like Carla Gugino but I'm not interested in seeing something about Vivien Leigh and I don't think I'm alone in this.

[quote]I'm not interested in seeing something about Vivien Leigh

Why is that?

You’re not alone, r17.

Between David Niven’s autobiography where he writes of Leigh’s psychotic episodes ( he doesn’t name who he is writing about but years ago somebody here at the good old DL identified her as his subject) I know enough about Leigh’s mental and emotional fractures.

Add in her superb performance as Blanche Dubois and the combination I describe here is more than I need to know.

R17 = Joan Plowright

She does look like her.

I look forward to this. Have there been movies about bipolar disorder? Cannot name any off the top of my head right now. The challenge could be not to overact the manic phase. It's easy to just play it as over-caffeinated.

This seems like a good casting choice.

I was under the impression (from a biography) that by 1966 Vivien was on Lithium and that her bipolar tendencies weren't still manifesting themselves (at least not as much).

R19 In Stewart Granger's autobiography (Sparks Fly Upward) he has a chapter about him and Niven going to the house Leigh was staying in in LA and trying to help her when she was having one of her episodes.

She is 👁talian.

Yup, r24.

It' been decades since I read Niven's book (I think he wrote two memoirs) but he did say he was accompanied by another famous actor. I can't remember if he identified the actor but I'll take Granger's, and your word for it.

I do remember Niven wrote about how Leigh's face was breathtakingly beautiful was and that when she on her best behavior, she was captivating.

R26...

Why does everyone named Vivian have mental problems?

Vivian Vance didn't!

Vivien did. Vivian didn't.

Vivian Vance did have mental problems. She regularly saw a psychiatrist and she stuck with Phil Ober even though he abused her.

I was not named VIVIAN!

Fun fact: her father was Bruce Leigh.