Thanks for posting this well-considered article. I”ve become rather a booster of Vivien Leigh in recent years, as I see her so often dismissed as a “movie actress, implying that she lacked stage skills, or even that her career was linked mostly to her appearance and personal qualities. But she had genuine successes in classic stage roles (Lady Teazle in School for Scandal, and Titania, were others). And that Macbeth production must have been something quite special. When I spin alternate-reality fantasies, I like to imagine a world in which Olivier”s “fourth Shakespeare film was not Othello, but an adaptation of that Macbeth.
Thanks for posting this well-considered article. I”ve become rather a booster of Vivien Leigh in recent years, as I see her so often dismissed as a “movie actress, implying that she lacked stage skills, or even that her career was linked mostly to her appearance and personal qualities. But she had genuine successes in classic stage roles (Lady Teazle in School for Scandal, and Titania, were others). And that Macbeth production must have been something quite special. When I spin alternate-reality fantasies, I like to imagine a world in which Olivier”s “fourth Shakespeare film was not Othello, but an adaptation of that Macbeth.