Vivien Leigh: The Best Actress...Twice


© Candice Livingston

1939 and 1951 were eventful years in Vivien Leigh's career. At the 12th and 24th Academy Awards ceremonies held on these two years, Leigh took home a Best Actress award. The first was for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind and the second for her powerful role as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. In both films, Leigh plays a southern woman from a wealthy family who faces hard times and difficult situations.

Memorable Quotes from Gone With the Wind:

Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that?
Cathleen: Who?
Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling? The nasty dark one.
Cathleen: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
Scarlett: He looks as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.

Rhett: With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Scarlett: Great balls of fire! Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

Scarlett: I don't want Tara. Plantations don't mean anything when...
Gerald: You mean to tell me Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, because it's the only thing that lasts.

Rhett: How fickle is woman.

Pa: It will come to you, this love of the land.

Rhett: A cat's a better mother than you.

Scarlett: I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Rhett: Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?
Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee! Fun for men you mean.

Scarlett: You waltz divinely Cap'n Butler.
Rhett: Don't you start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you.
Scarlett: What do you want?
Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you take that southern belle simple off your face. Someday, I want you to say the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you.
Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Cap'n Butler, as long as you live.

Rhett: I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Scarlett: Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
Rhett: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett: I am very drunk, and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over.

Rhett: Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you.

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