The charming headdress worn by Vivien Leigh was designed by Oliver Messel for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Old Vic in 1937. Titania was played in this production by Vivien Leigh who, crowned with ‘stars’ and with the gauze ribbons falling down her back, looked the epitome of an imperious Victorian fairy queen. A. E. Wilson reported that she was ‘like an exquisite picture from some Victorian lady’s keepsake’. Messel, was a good friend of Leigh and kept this headdress as a prized possession, storing it in a box.

Photographed by Bert Stern on the set of ‘Cleopatra’ [1963]

Cleo and Rikki being adorable while moonstruck in 2x17 “Moonstruck” {part 1}

Vivien Leigh & Robert Taylor in Waterloo Bridge.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy, 1940.

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I can’t believe we won’t see more of Ellie, Homer and their friends on the big screen :( It’s so disappointing that the sequels won’t be made …

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Women of Film + Vivien Leigh
“I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don’t pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.”

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Mary Pickford, Mildred Harris Chaplin, Mary, Dorothy, and Lillian Gish.