Did Vivien Leigh ever talk about working with Brando and Kazan and the making of "Streetcar?"

It's actually spelled Gadge. Leigh took a train cross country from NY to LA with Kazan prior to filming to discuss the film and Blanche. She had a lot of admiration for Brando's acting ability and was even a fan of his imitation of Olivier.

[quote] I know Brando thought

How do you know that?

[quote] Apparently

In other words, I am making this up.

R2, Brando wrote about it in his memoir.

[quote] But what about Gage?

What about Gadge?

[quote] Brando wrote about it in his memoir.

Which one? Give us a link. Don't give us your hazy fantasies and vague memories.

Wow, there are some lazy queens on DL. Brando wrote ONE memoir. Here's a link, you lazy ass.

Brando didn't like her. Leigh had an affair with Kazan.

[quote] Leigh had an affair with Kazan.

Who says that?

'The beast of mendacity in us, the beast that tells mean lies'

Tennessee Williams

'Person - to - Person' in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New York: The New American Library, 1955)

Brando and Leigh got along all right. She was very fastidious and always smelled fresh; Brando would rib her about her compulsion to be clean and fragrant at all times. She said something to him like "Don't you like to smell nice?" And he said something like, naw, all he'd do to stay clean was to throw up a glob of spit and run under it. At any rate, there was no real friction between them. And Leigh was very amused by Brando's imitations of her husband Laurence Olivier. Apparently he could do impressions of Olivier "perfectly."

R11 Fabricated by Mr Donald Spoto, fabulist.

[quote] She said something to him like… … …

[quote] And he said something like, naw… … …

And I know this because I was the chambermaid listening in at the keyhole seventy years ago.

One very quick Google brought up this article which at least cites to Brando’s autobiography(ies). Some of the statements attributed to Brando here are verified. I didn’t check the article’s actual sources.

[quote] And I know this because I was the chambermaid listening in at the keyhole seventy years ago.

Actually, I read it in some bio of Vivien Leigh. At least I think it was a bio of Leigh. Anyway, that was the gist of it. I can't remember the exact words. It was a long time ago.

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[quote] vague memories

R15

[quote] I can't remember

I know it’s sacrilege, but I prefer Jessica Lange’s Blanche to Leigh’s.

Sorry.

No love for Ann-Margret, r17? She would have been a good Maggie the Cat.

Eh. I find her kind of fake in most things. I mean, she’s a professional and she’s good in a few movies, but her Blanche doesn’t make me feel either one thing or another.

It’s competent.

So excited for Billy Porter's inevitable turn as Blanche Du Bois.

Why would you say that?

In Richard Schickel's biography of Kazan (2006), he states that Kazan claimed to have had an affair with Leigh during the filming of the movie. In 2009 the critic David Thomson wrote that Kazan had an affair with Kim Hunter during the Broadway run of "Streetcar".

[quote] Kazan claimed to have had an affair with Leigh

A vile claim.

As if the fastidious Vivien would allow that foul-smelling, hairy-backed toad touch her.

Vulgar people take pleasure in traducing the reputation of those who can't defend themselves.

Wouldn’t the most gifted soap star be one who went on to more challenging work? Like Julianne Moore, or even Kathleen Turner?

It would appear I’m in the wrong thread.

To her great credit Leigh made a secondary career out of being chronically dickmatized.

Leigh was a nympho. She slept with every guy she encountered.

R17 you are fucking retarded. That is all.3

Kazan was rumored to have affairs with Kim Hunter and Julie Harris. I am a huge Kazan/Brando fan and have never heard about Viv till now and I still think Brando and her reallly did screw. Brando not bedding the wife of one of his "rivals" out of respect? Haha...sure thing.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Leigh fucked Kazan or Brando. She had a strong sexual appetite and she was the most desirable woman alive during the '40s and early '50s. Knowing what Brando's cock felt like inside her would have added dimension to her portrayal of Blanche.

R26 You don't know who you're talking about. You're displaying your ignorance

R27 You don't know what you're talking about. You're displaying your gullibility believing in fantasies.

R30 You're displaying your ignorance about people you've never met. And you're displaying your sexual fantasies

Leigh was the most beautiful, sensual woman of her time until Elizabeth Taylor reached maturity. It's little wonder everyone wanted to bang her. I read a book that described her as "the 1940 jerk off dream of every red-blooded American man." I'd think that was very limiting as everyone who saw GWTW wanted to fuck her.

[quote] bang

That is a crude word.

[quote] dream of every red-blooded American man

Vivien was English.

[quote] I read a book that described

You've forgotten the name of that book, haven't you.

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[quote] gossip site with your ignorance

gossip is ignorance.

R33, you need to make some friends. Surely, there's someone who doesn't hate someone as miserable as you seem to be.

R35 you silly twat lecturing about gossip on a gossip site. Laughable fool.

What I read in an interview with Karl Malden is that Marlon liked Vivien Leigh better because her Stella was sexier but Malden thought Tandy was more vulnerable and heart breaking.

R38 its in the extra's of the dvd release. In an interview Malden liked Jessi better and considered her sexier, but Brando felt the opposite. I think he always saw Tandy as more school marmish.

R39, Malden criticized Leigh for being (as he put it) rude to his wife.

R39 really? Did not know that. I knew the Broadway Streetcar cast had lingering resentments towards Leigh because they loved Tandy (except Brando who seemed to get along with her better than the rest despite what any have specced ). Even Kazan the asshole still referred to Leigh as not terribly talented. Fuckwad.

Olivier said the same. That she was not talented on stage. That films were where she shined.

[quote] Vivien was English.

Who starred in one of the first American films you could consider a blockbuster.

R42, Olivier NEVER SAID THAT. He was one of her biggest fans. It's been widely written about the first time he watched GWTW in a private screening and was incredibly impressed and fantastically jealous of her talent as a screen actress. He was just as admiring of her stage work, particularly her divisive Lady Macbeth which has only grown in stature over the years. Oh, to have seen it live...

[quote] Oh, to have seen it live...

I have spoken to two eldergays who did see it. Sixty-five years ago.

None of us have.

R45, what did they say about her performance?

She was tiny.

Tiny of stature, tiny high-pitched voice.

Larry wore a large fake nose. Larry's nose arrived on stage, then she arrived, then the rest of Larry arrived.

R47, LAME, not to mention inaccurate and BORING.

Snort

Leigh's Blanche is the greatest performance in cinema history. End of discussion. She owns the medium.

r50 what medium ?

Film, you horse's ass

^^ Oh, dear. Somebody missed his martini.

R32 Leigh's wasn't a sexy siren in the mold of Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth the kind that men would masturbate over. Who told you that 'load' of twaddle?

She was better in GWTW, but you do you r50

[quote]I have done my best to avoid talking about my 20-year relationship with Laurence Olivier for almost two decades, writes SARAH MILES.

I would too, Sarah.

I can't give you a source for this, but I'm sure I read once that Brando had Leigh and Olivier (separately) on the same day at some house party. David Niven, maybe? It could well have been after the filming of Streetcar, though.

[quote] I can't give you a source for this

R57 No, you can't.

It's all adolescent fairy tales.

It sounds like something that fat whore Darwin Porter would write. He's svum. On the other hand Old Hollywood wss the most sexualised environment on the planet. Far more than today

[quote] svum

scum

[quote] Old Hollywood wss the most sexualised environment on the planet

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