like 'love letters yellowed with age...'

I get madder at Larry for her sake!

Same 😢 I watched in my 20s and found her irritating but now it’s just heartbreaking. I paid closer attention this time around. It was really hard to digest this one. Too much like home life. Blanche def deserved better… even if she was lying to her sister. She just wanted to be loved and make her world pretty again.

Definitely true!

she really is

I never understood that. For me personally she never was as beautiful as Ava Gardner or Grace Kelly or a big amount of other women. But a true talent indeed.

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M T i think you are right!

Totally agree! She just had an incredible magic about her looks that a lot of other female actresses didn’t have. Although some of them stunningly beautiful, Vivien had this almost childlike beauty about her that couldn’t be replicated. Liz Taylor and Hedy Lamar were I think the closest to Vivien in terms of beauty! Viv was and always will be my absolute favourite! Love her so much!

Fidlide, beaauty, beauty, beauty, ill het so bored i could scream! She was great!

That's true but also two of the most important film performances in history male or female. It's crazy how despite her limited filmography, she pulled all-time great turns with Gone With The Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

She's my favourite. She's a great talent and also my ideal of feminine beauty.

EXACTLY how I feel about getting to NEVER meeting Marlon 😥 I would've LUVED to meet him! 😳 when he was at this age he was SOO talented and SOO HEARTSTOPPINGLY BEAUTIFUL! 😏🔥🥵

@@SexySkoChick That is What I think--tho Vivien I'd be afraid to break--she was a person ready to go Under--sadly...

@@davidstevenson9496 Part of the allure of Vivien Leigh is her duality. She was very fragile, physically and mentally, but she also had remarkable resilience. She's has mesmerized me and inspired me since I first saw her in GWTW when I was a child. My evaluation of that film, and book, has matured and evolved, but I still love Vivien's portrayal of Scarlett. Between Scarlett and Blanche, her place in Hollywood's pantheon is forever assured.

Working on stage and mental illness prevented her from winning more she only did 10 hollywood films 1 oscar for every 5 films

It would have been so amazing to see her as Lady Macbeth!

Depois da vivien os outros são apenas outros, te amo vivien

And bipolar disorder

The hardest thing of all is to deliver Tennessee's sheer poetry and have it completely come from character. When Vivien speaks about 'old love letters yellow with age' or of Tarantula Arms where I brought my victims..." It is BLANCHE completely not 'acting'. Vivien is the only one who managed this.

She was possessed.......beyond anything we know.............!!!!!

If wisdom came _that much earlier,_ would you be able to _enjoy_ your youth, or would such early wisdom turn you into a young curmudgeon? A bitter youth? I have to imagine these things like maturation progress as they do for a reason. Even if that reason is only biological or evolutionary in nature. 😁

Yes, Marlon Brando saw that coming and worried about her. He wrote that in his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me. He also said he felt Vivien's was the best, most authentic Blanche (even though he highly respected his Broadway co-star Jessica Tandy's talent).

@@blanchefan aww! I love how he looked out for her like that! 😳🤗 I love Marlon 😳🔥😏🥵

@@blanchefan correct jessica tandy only played supporting g role in films like the valley of decision as peck wife greer garson was the main actress

No ...you don't...

Charlize theron in monster reminded of this performance

She played 3 Southern women in her career

I totally agree. it's been so many years and no actress has the magic that vivien had, and the beauty, and the class

Till to this day, I haven’t yet to see anyone play Blanche as amazing as Vivian Leigh!

A well-meaning but sort of racially insensitive had us watch GWTW in fourth grade. I was so in love with her.

@@TheJazsinger 2 then where comes 3

That's in part because she was much more alike the character in real life than the others-

Ann Margaret did a good job...

Gillian Anderson did an incredible job

Jackie Striegel 🤣

Her performance was indeed truly astounding, but I it seems to me that casting an obviously gorgeous woman in this role is wrong. It is impossible to believe that 1) such a beautiful and refined woman has had to resort to a life of degradation just to get by, and 2) that someone so incandescently beautiful is nevertheless, somehow, so unattractive that a man is shocked and repelled by seeing her in full light! On the stage, given the distance between performer and audience, it would not have seemed so blatantly ridiculous. To explain Blanche's poverty and fragility, the viewer can construct a backstory that she is the mentally shattered survivor of years of abuse -- but the incompatibility of Leigh's vibrant beauty with idea of Blanche being shockingly over the hill remains. We do have one of the great screen performances of all time, though.

Such a sad story too.

Don't we all? Vivien gave us magic.🥺

I tend to agree. Just unbelievably brilliant.

I have seen great performances of great actors and actresses but i truely agree with your statement..i just thought so when i first saw the movie..the emotional depth put in this charactor make other performances around this charactor look like a insult..evn though they are good in normal ways

@@sadhuskat2087 Shriley Booth Comeback little Sheba ties her

@@jameswalton3930 what dear?

Without question!

She's ALWAYS good .. in ALL her parts!!!...

J kK You made me tear up. It’s so true. That is why his work will always be classic.

Bollocks.

I agree with you dear; but we just have to see Tennessee's great play live every once in a while; the character of Blanche is compelling and magic (to use your word) enough to support fine actresses who may lack Vivien's transcendent talent.

@@blanchefan Well put.

It's my second favourite, but I can tell you that you have such a great taste.

Tandy, it was said, was too dry in the part.

A performance badly underrated by too many critics.

yes he WAS 😳 ditto 100 percent 😂 lol I have ALWAYS wondered how Vivien did it on the set of the movie because Brando was REALLY hot 😍 and I like fell for him HARD while watching the film 🥵

Not a proper comparison because Tandy had to yell the words to the back of the playhouse. There's just no way to compare the intimacy of a microphone and film production acoustics to live theater acoustics.

@@janetoss this was a radio microphone production for Tandy so though you make a good point it doesn't apply here. Microphones were not standard in theatre til the 1960's.

What about the other actors? They don't even sound southern except for the actress playing the minor character Eunice.

That's because Blanche was from Mississippi, and Scarlett was from Georgia, and the accents are different. Also, Blanche was "giving a performance" to escape her past, Scarlett was just living her life.

Southern Mississippi belle

I need to rewatch but I don't think they are attracted to each other. More like they triggered one another insecurities very very dangerousely.

Brando is incredibly hot in this movie though. Brando, not Stanley, who is an awful character

the boy she asks for direction in the beggining of the movie .

I knew that, but I wanna know the name of the actor.

Actually he is Melanie's son in Gone With The Wind, you can search for it in imdb

I think that this would be Scarlet in the near future, you know if she wouldn't have aged of course, almost like a weird time travel kind of thing

I don't know if anybody gonna read this comment but yes lol Theres a video on KZfaq of an interview with Leigh And the interviewer asked her why does she keep been casted with southern belle roles And she responds I have no idea I must have lived there in some past life So yeah....lol

arguably she wasn’t really mad, she just lived in a fantasy world of her own because she was insecure about her past and her age. The rape at the end probably sent her into madness.

I have dealt with emotional alcoholics, that lack of reality is so common. Everything gets exaggerated and they do weave their own reality to avoid some truths they cannot cope with at the time. The deteriorating mental health. I think vivian leigh really captures the intensity as well as the occasional flashes back into a reality that she is avoiding. Beautifully tragic.

noemistephanie93 she drove her husband to shoot himself in the head after she finds out he was gay....and she can’t live with the guilt which eats at her for the past 17 years.....and Stanley raping her , while her sister is giving birth, finally pushes her over the edge.

A Streetcar Named Desire does not include any hint that a male character may have had a same-sex relationship.

In the play, it is very strongly implied that the man Blanche Dubois loved when she was young (and who died) was a homosexual.

Not really, most of the men were relatively calm. I’m pretty sure it was done intentionally.

Well this was a theater play originally.

@@terrihilder8217 Marge Simpson! In an old episode, she performs as Blanche in an imaginary musical based on this movie.

@@terrihilder8217 what are you saying? You know who Marge Simpson is?

You should watch the entire movie to understand that character, it's not like the others in the movie