Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance (A&E Biography - 2000)

[Music] admired for her talent and remembered as one of the biggest stars in the golden age of hollywood in 1939 the major studios here in hollywood were turning out a bumper crop of classics the wizard of oz dark victory mr smith goes to washington but the main topic of conversation on these back lots was the upcoming epic gone with the wind according to a gallup poll taken at the time more than 50 million americans couldn't wait to see it but as the picture neared its first days of filming the most important part was still not cast who would play scarlett o'hara david oselznick reached far beyond the list of likely candidates to vivian lee the role was perfect for her and it's impossible to envision anyone else in it but lee was never comfortable on these back lots and movie sets as she put it in her understated way i loathe hollywood the day after her death in 1967 vivian lee received the highest honor given by london theaters the lights lining the city's west end theater district went dark for one hour there was nothing of the star thing about her no she was a trooper and it shone through there was no one upsmanship ever know about that lady what she was always told was you're such a beautiful woman and what she wanted to be told was that she was a great actress she was special sorrow brought her stature and she certainly had something special the woman best known for her portrayals of american southern belles was born vivian mary hartley on november 5th 1913 in darjeeling india her father ernest hartley had left england in search of his fortune and had prospered as an exchange broker in calcutta it was there that he met his wife gertrude yaki an irish beauty born and raised in india vivian said that she was part indian i think the part was much smaller than people have presumed because of mrs hartley's um [Music] maiden name vivian might have had armenian ancestry or she might have had parsi indian ancestry it's all got a little bit muddled in the passing of time the hartleys enjoyed a privileged existence in colonial india and doted upon their only child vivian was never lonely gertrude's vivid imagination ensured that she would always be entertained but the happy days in india didn't last long at age six vivian was sent to england to begin her formal education at the convent of the sacred heart in rohampton oh the school was apparently just awful they had to uh take baths and wear their clothes in the baths they had special like suits that they would wear or nightgowns in the baths and it was very very strict and cold and one of those awful english convent schools vivian missed her parents but as the youngest girl in school found comfort in the nuns who pampered her she also made many friends including future actress maureen o'sullivan and was voted by her classmates the prettiest girl in school she wasn't vain at all and i think she she felt that it was almost made people a little bit inhibited you know and so she would do everything that she could to make people feel at ease and uh she uh there was no vanity about her she was meticulous about everything she was meticulous how she looked what she wore what she said how she behaved to people vivian cultivated a wide range of interests at school including ballet greek mythology and playing the cello unlike most girls there she had ambitions beyond marriage vivian always wanted a career and i think my mother kind of wanted a career but nothing like the seven-year-old vivienne when she came to that school told my mother right then and there she was going to be famous the ambitious teen never forgot seeing legendary actresses eleanor aduza and elizabeth bergner perform on stage she said she saw both these women and they they shaped her her future she decided that's what she wanted to be that's when it happened at 15 vivian left row hampton to pursue a more itinerant education for the next three years she attended convent schools and finishing schools in italy france and germany the cosmopolitan young woman who emerged relished her youth but was anxious to pursue her dream of acting she enrolled at the royal academy of dramatic art in may of 1932. that same year while visiting a friend in the country she met a handsome lawyer named lee holman he was actually very much on the rebound from something else at the time but when vivian wanted something she was extremely determined about it 19 year old vivian soon won the affection of the 32 year old holmen the two were married in a catholic ceremony on december 20th 1932. but her first love remained acting and vivian continued at the royal academy of dramatic art her training was briefly interrupted when she gave birth to a daughter suzanne suzanne was brought up by her grandmother and riven i never thought was cut out to be a mother at all she was not maternal in the sense that women become maternal maybe she'd had her daughter too soon i don't know before suzanne celebrated her first birthday her mother earned her first film role in things are looking up she had one line lee hellman didn't want her to go into acting but in because in a sense this was like um you know this in a sense it was another escape it was the first escape was like from the parents and the second escape in a way was from lee into this world of acting she borrowed from her husband to create a stage name vivian lee and continued to get small parts in secondary british films but her dream was to perform on the london stage in 1935 vivian lee became an overnight sensation in only her second play the mask of virtue in which he played a prostitute pretending to be a model of innocence but that heart-shaped face was so beautiful and i think she could have modeled for anybody the rest of her life but i think the talent shone through because she wasn't uh about to hang hang back she had she had a mission in life and that was to be an actress and a good one you know that i'm in love with you don't you no i won't talk like that i promise you i i won't even mention the word love there's something else i want to talk to you about not love please please listen to me by that time another young actor had already made a name for himself in england lawrence olivier's resounding success in the 1934 stage production of theater royal had caught the attention of 20 year old vivian lee she was first introduced to him in the savoy grill room when he was having lunch with my mother she was dining with her husband lee hellman and had taken a great fancy to my father and was absolutely determined she was going to marry him my father said as soon as he said eisenhower he felt darkly disturbed this very moral man then he was everybody knew everybody in london knew whether it was the thing to do or not i don't think in 30s england it mattered everybody was doing it or cole porter would say let's do it let's fall in love and that's exactly what vivian and larry did in august of 1936 with olivier's wife about to give birth vivian and larry began filming alexander corda's fire over england a love story set amidst a battle in elizabethan times we were right to be happy everyone the right to be happy michael everyone yes that is why we can't be michael michael yes dearest of course we have a right to be happy husband and wife sitting by the fire listening to the crackle yes i think people did root for them which is very sad for jill elizabeth for his first private i suppose for um vivian's husband and that's the way things happened in 1937 vivian made three films for alexander corda including 21 days her second pairing with lawrence olivier [Music] the film was so bad the producers released it three years later and then only because the actors had become famous in may the young lovers traveled to denmark to perform hamlet at cronberg castle in elsinore upon their return vivian and olivier left their respective spouses and shared a london flat the two were inseparable when olivier agreed to do wuthering heights in america for director william weiler vivian asked to play kathy opposite olivier's heathcliff wyler said no but offered her a smaller part well she said i'll play kathy or i'll play nothing i said look i tried to talk her into it i said look vivian you're not you're not yet known in america someday you may be a great star but you you're not yet known and for a first part you will never get anything better than isabella i made this deathless prediction i guess she showed me gone with the wind margaret mitchell's epic tale of love and war was the best-selling american novel of 1936. that same year producer david o selznick bought the film rights to the book and began a much publicized search for the story's heroine scarlett o'hara back in england vivian lee had read the best seller and knew she was perfect for the part here's news for which you've been waiting names of the winners in our scholar to hara contest first here are the names of the six actresses who received the largest number of votes for the role betty davis first catherine hepburn ii miriam hopkins third margaret sullivan fourth joan crawford fifth and barbara stanwick state headlines i don't care what city you and headlines would be in the paper about gone with the wind and the casting of it the country wanted clark gable they were torn about scarlet i mean there was many choices as there were actresses quiet [Applause] oh ashley i was wondering where you're keeping yourself and the india like this more than a year ago i revealed that paul had got it and made tests for the role of scott of the hera and that the david o'sells it could sign it a contract today an executive of the selznick organization tipped me off that miss goddard is definitely set for the role an official verification will be made within two weeks but when selznick began filming the burning of atlanta on december 10 1938 he still had no scarlet o'hara vivian lee had submitted her name for consideration as early as 1937 but was not a serious contender for the park when you imagine that this young english actress not so well known in the united states was pitching herself against betty davis and company for this role but she told me later that she really had no doubt that she would get it a confident vivian followed lawrence olivier to hollywood in november of 1938 he was there to film withering heights she was there to meet david o selznick through his brother myron who was also olivier's american agent myron selznick brought vivian lee to meet david on that first night of shooting upon introducing her myron said hey genius meet your scarlett o'hara selznick and the director george cucor were impressed vivian had the same dark hair green eyes and magnolia white skin as described by margaret mitchell they tested her immediately 25 year old vivian lee beat out thousands of women for the most coveted role in film history she signed a seven-year contract with david selznick and began filming gone with the wind in january of 1939 but i was so impressed with vivian lee as an actor i would see them because it was being rewritten all the time so there were new pages being given out and scarlets would have endless pages every scene would be filled with her dialogue i would see her take these new scenes i swear she would read them put them aside and become scholarly she said i was it was so tiresome she said because it was new technicolor the cameras were huge and the lighting was so terribly bright and i must have lost pounds and she said because i wanted to finish it gave scarlett that i think energy and restlessness that was needed for the part why didn't you hate you coward you're afraid to marry me you'd rather live with that little fool who can't open their mouth except say yes no and raise a path of minnie mouse breath just like things like that oh you didn't tell me i mustn't you led me on you you made me believe you wanted to marry me house call it be fair i never had any time you did it's true you did i i hated think of anything bad enough vivian wanted to do justice to the heroine created by margaret mitchell and worked tirelessly on her performance she was so convincing as scarlett o'hara people often confuse her with the role scarlett was petulant and determined and and wanted wanted things vivian was was more intelligent than scarlet and vivian was more logical i think and and probably wouldn't have got things wrong in the way that scarlett did two weeks into filming selznick replaced george cucor with victor fleming a no-nonsense director who also happened to be one of clark gable's best friends vivian wrote home saying george cucor was my last hope of ever enjoying the picture it was true that both of vivian and olivia havilland would call qcor and uh they would tell them what scenes were coming out there what they were going to shoot the next day and he would virtually direct them over the telephone look at me and try to tell me the truth did you say yes because of my money oh well yes party partly well you know rhett manny does help and of course i am fond of you fond of me well if i said i was madly in love with you'd know i was lying but you've always said we had a lot in common yes you're right my dear i'm not in love with you any more than you are with me heaven help the man whoever really loves you lawrence olivier saw vivian only twice during the last four of the six months she spent filming gone with the wind david selznick forbade the adulterers to be seen together in case the gossip columnist discovered their affair the force separation was difficult for vivian who had to endure hours of color test and speech lessons in addition to long days of shooting vivian completed filming gone with the wind in june not wanting to go through another long separation from larry she insisted on testing for a part in his next film david selznick's rebecca and vivian said i wanted to do it because i would be working with larry and she insisted on testing for it she was totally wrong too strong for this little woman's companion i can't help being shy but i do hate people looking me up and down as though i were a prize cow who looks you up and down everybody what does it matter if they do gives them some interest in life but why should i be the one to supply all the interest and have all the criticism well because life at mandel is the only thing that interests anybody here what a slap in the eye i must have been to them then i suppose that's why you married me because you knew i was dull and quiet and inexperienced and that there'd never be any gossip about me vivian lost the part to olivia de havilland's sister joan fontaine galla days in dixie streamlined wings of the wind bring hollywood to atlanta for a history-making world premiere of the motion picture epic gone with the wind gone with the wind premiered on december 15 1939 vivian flew to atlanta for the screening accompanied by lawrence olivier who was allowed to attend as publicity for his upcoming selznick film rebecca they say that when he saw gone with the wind he was amazed astounded you know full of admiration and absolutely furious because he realized that actually she was extremely good and she was very very good on film who will win the academy awards attention grows and grows little else is thought of little else disgust need i say it is a privilege and an honor to announce this winner miss vivian lee in gold ladies and gentlemen please forgive me if my words are inadequate in thanking you for your very great kindness if i were to mention all those who've shown me such wonderful generosity through gone with the wind i should have to entertain you with an oration as long as gone with the wind itself at 26 vivian lee had won an academy award for best actress gone with the win won a total of nine oscars eclipsing all other films that year including wuthering heights for which lawrence olivier was nominated for best actor he always put down films and told her he said we belong on the stage and i think he was a little put out about her being so valued as scarlet o'hara well he was doing wuthering heights but all the attention went to gone with the wind and he said now when we get finished you and i we're going to new york and we're going to do romeo and juliet and i'm going to teach you to be the best julia ever lawrence olivier and vivian lee not only starred in romeo and juliet but they also invested 96 000 of their own money in the production the play opened on broadway on may 9 1940 to mixed reviews advance publicity promised theatergoers they would see real lovers make love in public but bad word of mouth forced the play to close after only 35 performances he had just done uh wuthering heights and she had just done gone with the wind and the critics slated that production and criticized her and her voice and him and his acting and what wouldn't we all give to see that production how bad could it be the lovers had failed on broadway but found happiness in their private lives after years of waiting vivian and larry were finally granted divorces from their respective spouses vivian remained friendly with lee holman who retained custody of their daughter she didn't talk about her relationship with suzanne i know she loved her daughter but i think there was a a feeling of guilt there you know i mean she left her husband and her daughter newly divorced vivian and larry drove up the california coast to the san ysidro ranch near santa barbara they were married shortly after midnight on august 30th 1940 with catherine hepburn and garson kanan as witnesses the newlyweds spent their honeymoon on ronald coleman's yacht as she described her wedding night and i was surprised after they got married in santa barbara she says now we were legit we were legitimate we were husband and wife and we all night long vivian lee had achieved worldwide acclaim as scarlett o'hara and had finally become mrs lawrence olivier but maintaining her newly acquired status would prove to be more difficult than her struggle to attain it [Music] in 1939 england entered world war ii and the oliviers felt they should do their patriotic duty at home vivian returned to england with her husband ignoring her seven-year contract with david selznick say if she just wanted to capitalize on her so-called reputation you know as a film star then um she could have gone on and played lots of different parts like a lot of those hollywood actresses did and life would perhaps be a lot easier for her but she was always wanting to strive to learn new things and to take on different roles and of course particularly always wanted to be with be with olivia i mean she liked being with olivier in life and she liked acting with olivier on stage whenever possible vivian returned to her first love the theater for a production of george bernard shaw's the doctor's dilemma it opened in london on march 4th 1942. she was there for about a year and a half people used to go around to see scarlett o'hara and on the film then immediately they'd realize that you could go and see the actress in the flesh um you know on the london stage so that of course ran and ran and ran i think she was accepted as a popular and efficient little actress but she wasn't she wasn't one of the great sarah banhacks or anything like that i i don't think she was a critics actress she was a she was a people's actress [Applause] in 1943 lawrence olivier escorted his first film triumph as both an actor and director with his version of henry v and went from matinee idol to serious filmmaker he and vivian bought an english country home natalie abbey which had been endowed by henry v it was a very happy place with a strange kind of exhausted sexuality to it the rooks made this sorrowful sound and the trees were noble and overextended at the end of their lives beginning to die back and it was a bit damp which is sexy too in a way the rivers and the mystic fields they lived completely differently i mean they lived on the whole they lived very very social lives and she loved having people around her they had parties and they told jokes and all these actors you can imagine i mean no coward douglas fairbanks larry and viv my father and mother and they would have these wonderful parties and i can tell you the jokes were bawdy she would try to keep the guests up and going and she was you know a wonderful hostess but very very she she couldn't relax she was an insomniac always then he had to sit up with her and he was not an insomnia she only needed about three or four hours a night very difficult for him [Music] in 1944 david selznick loaned vivian to director gabriel pascal to star in bernard shaw's caesar and cleopatra it's the story of a girl who was a queen but who stopped at nothing to get her own way even with a man who had conquered her during filming vivian discovered she was pregnant she had hopes that a child would bond her and olivier for the rest of their lives but while filming this scene vivian slipped and fell two days later she lost the baby larry's baby whose dream of course and i think that's what made her manic depression come forward bipolar disorder is one of the disorders which we call diseases of mood and it is characterized by shifts in mood ranging from severe deep pervasive depression to um euphoric eyes but they were always in troubles because she had this illness which i didn't really know about which took to her her whole life she was always having miscarriages and having moments when she wasn't quite all there was all kept very much from the public anxious to get back to work vivian signed on to do thornton wilder's the skin of our teeth with lawrence olivier directing she received good reviews but had to leave the play after 78 performances one friend noticed that she had become strangely over tired and alarmingly thin doctors discovered a tubercular patch on one of her lungs after spending six weeks in the hospital she retreated to notley abbey for nine months of recuperation [Music] vivian's illness as well as olivier's singular commitment to work had already caused problems in the marriage the oliviers found comfort in separate projects he in hamlet and she in a remake of the tolstoy classic anna karenina you see her what if he is i don't think of him he doesn't exist anymore why should we have to whisper what does it matter the only thing that matters to me in the world is your love critics said vivian failed to portray the feelings of love necessary for the character and the film was considered a beautiful failure vivian's film career seemed on the downturn as her husband star continued its meteoric rise at 40 lawrence olivier became the youngest british actor to be knighted by the king when he had this marvelous success and she felt she had to keep up with him it was a big strain for her and she was always feeling good he didn't think her very good olivier beyond the stage there wasn't it's very hard really to know what he was or who he was whereas vivian was a much more rounded much more interesting person as a whole um because you know she she read everything and could talk about anything and you know that was a great friend of people like kenneth clark and bernard berenson and all sorts of very interesting people the oliviers now considered the royalty of english theater consented to do an eight-month tour of australia and new zealand in his autobiography olivier wrote somewhere somehow on this tour i knew that vivian was lost to me there was a lot of conflict in that marriage and i think she she wanted him constantly with her and to be she i think she wanted to direct him in a way and yet he was her mentor just at the time when the myth of the oliviers is a sort of great love story and everything was taking off in the popular imagination was probably the time when it was beginning to crumble inside and had to be sustained as a myth i mean this is one of the things which quite often happens in these famous theatrical partnerships [Music] eleven years after margaret mitchell introduced scarlett o'hara to the world american playwright tennessee williams wrote a story about another southern belle blanche dubois an older woman who suffers a mental breakdown as her world crumbles around her a streetcar named desire opened on broadway in 1947 starring jessica tandy as blanche and newcomer marlon brando as stanley kowalski the play was a hit sought after by companies wanting to produce it in other cities in the same single-minded way vivian lee pursued the role of scarlett o'hara she now set her sights on playing blanche dubois in the london production of streetcar she won the part and convinced lawrence olivier to direct the play and she would of course take it all very seriously she would read all around the part and absorb as much as she could and then of course she would always listen to olivier whatever he had to say on the matter um was gospel as far as she was concerned a streetcar named desire opened on october 11 1949 and ran for a total of 326 performances it was terribly killing for her to do that every night to come apart that mental collapse on the stage she did it night after night larry was very criticized for letting her do that because of her mental problems and he thought that it might actually help her confront them which she had so far refused to do at that time they had no civilized cure i mean she had electrodes on her temples and burn marks where they had been this is the story of a woman blanche dubois who wanted so much to stay a lady in august of 1950 36 year old vivian lee flew to hollywood to star in the film version of a streetcar named desire i sort of accepted it that they would choose vivian to play blanche over jessica because i think they were reasonably sure the film would be an artistic success but they also wanted it to be a financial success and at that time jessica was really not known to film audiences and of course vivian was except for vivian the film's cast was made up entirely of actors who had performed the play in new york director elia kazan found working with his new star challenging why you're so sensitive about your age because of hard knocks my vanity has been given she was sitting in the chair and i was sitting on the arm of the chair it was a very emotional scene indeed and it went on and on i mean take after take have to take so i went to elia uh and uh asked him you know am i covering her am i doing something that that's making the scene difficult and he said oh no no no it's going just fine no problem at all he said i'm just terribly curious to see if she can drop a teardrop on exactly the same syllable every time i don't think she had a great talent but she had a great determination she would do anything to be good she was tough it's a tough character and also she was very upset in her own personal life and i think it worked out well let's turn the light on this one here with this paper thing what did you want to do that for so that i can take a look at you good and plain of course you don't really need to be insulting no just realistic i don't want realism i want magic magic yes yes magic i try to give that to people i do misrepresent things i don't tell truth i tell what all to be truth and if that is simple then let me be punished for it don't turn the light on i enjoyed making the film of streetcar and desire i think particularly because i'd had the opportunity of playing it for nine months in the theater and therefore i'd had ample opportunity of studying it very very soundly moreover i love everybody i was working with and i enjoyed that but i've i've really been very lucky because i've enjoyed almost every bit of work i don't mean to say that i've been satisfied with what i've done but i've always found it interesting [Music] vivian lee won her second academy award for best actress she was not present to accept the award she and olivier were performing on broadway alternating shakespeare's anthony and cleopatra with shaw's caesar and cleopatra [Music] the constant work coupled with her exacting performance in streetcar put vivian's health in jeopardy when she flew to salon to begin working on the film elephant walk the exotic location and tropical climate exacerbated her already delicate state of mind you can tell when she's going to hit the high again almost within a month and the demands of every kind gets more and more and more powerful and sometimes petulance yes sometimes rages but on the whole it was all very forgivable because she was so enchanting and it was heartbreaking to see you didn't feel angry with her she was beasted too because you knew she couldn't help it she fell apart uh uh desperately when she went into elephant walk and then she went uh she went to crazy uh sad and they replaced her immediately it was 54 i think when a boa c strutter cruiser touched down at london airport nurses were waiting to take care of actress vivian lee who was returning home from hollywood suffering from an acute nervous breakdown on hearing of his wife's illness sir lawrence olivier flew immediately to her side and has brought her home for a complete rest we wish miss lee a speedy and complete return to help at the time no one used the term manic depression the disease was little understood and treatment was crude vivian received a series of electroshock treatments electroshock therapy was used for a period of decades really basically to correct a whole bunch of psychiatric illnesses but really what it was used for at that point in time was to treat severe agitation and psychosis and she was awfully thoughtful and sweet and wonderful to people who looked after her if she behaved badly in the nursing homes and places she would always write to the moment she got home and apologized and said she in july of 1956 while performing in noel coward's south sea bubble the 42 year old lee announced that she and sir lawrence were expecting a child she left the production on august 11th and the next day at her country home lost the baby it was perhaps the olivier's last chance at happiness in his autobiography olivier admitted that vivian's illness and his growing love for actress joan plowright made it impossible for him to stay married he asked vivian for a separation on her 45th birthday he was very patient i must say it was 15 years he suffered with her that disease which eventually busts up their marriage he couldn't go on and you know it was exhausting him suddenly being awakened in the middle of the night by being hit in the face with a towel or something if you you're playing a huge part you can't you can't cope vivian lee finally consented to a divorce in 1960. the day after lawrence olivier married joan plowright vivian hosted a wedding for her chauffeur she was still in love with larry and until the day she died she preferred to be addressed as lady olivier at 46 vivian lee had achieved great success as an actress but had lost the love of her life she was on her own for the first time in almost 30 years i thought she was really happy after larry and her party but she made the best of it you know i mean she wasn't going to go and kill herself or anything don't i mean she made the best of it i got to know her really well then and what courage she had and and what great love what a great love affair it was between her and larry and although it was over for him it was never over for her vivian became closer to her daughter suzanne who is now married with two sons she also enjoyed spending time with friends and working on her craft she performed on broadway in duel of angels with a handsome young actor john maryvale he was very gentle figure he liked to do the crossword with her he he he enjoyed her sense of humor he liked all sorts of things that she liked but he would have been the first to say that in no sense did he ever replace olivier in her affections in 1962 looking for a new challenge she attempted her first and only broadway musical well she wanted to try her hand at everything when musicals were really unbeginning to be on the up and up you know and so i think she said well i'll try one you know she was always very came she really was she said an actress knows how to move on stage and the next step is having to how to dance and she said i wanted to prove that i could do these things and she said and i she sang wonderful it was very low voice tavaric was a box office success vivian lee won a tony award for her performance as an exiled grand duchess forced to make a living as a maid her next project hid closer to home in stanley cramer's ship of fools vivian played an embittered divorcee on a ship full of unhappy people i can't settle for things bernard shaw said it didn't he but you can't get what you want better damn well settle for what you can get what did you want mrs treadwell a useful light someone to love me wherever ridiculous army wasn't it and what happened i chose the wrong man how many times you heard that said i wonder oh he was the most promising the most handsome he had the most glorious facade the facade was all there was he made me the best-known wife of the best-known skirt chaser in the community i made life hell for him in may of 1967 vivian became ill with what doctors diagnosed as a return of her tuberculosis instead of being treated in a hospital she chose to remain at home and i suppose she said she could be treated quite well at home and the doctor agreed and there was nobody to say look you're going to hospital and so she didn't her condition showed no signs of improvement after two months of rest on july 7 1967 after spending a day arranging flowers and entertaining friends vivian lee died of complications from tuberculosis she was 53 years old solaris rushed under very difficult circumstances to her room um and spent six hours with her whatever you read he spent a whole six hours during which time he was quite hysterical he was shattered jack rang him up and he went round then saw the body and he was absolutely shattered three months after her death family and close friends scattered vivian's ashes on the pond at tickeridge mill her last country home i think she'd be very pleased to think we're still talking about in our floor these years i'm sure that if vivian had lived that she would have gone on acting and entertaining and making the best of her life because that was her philosophy not to give in it's a good one scarlett o'hara's [Music] tomorrow is another day vivian lee of course was never very fond of hollywood but after her death one of the most emotional memorial services in her honor was held just a few miles from here director george cucor described it in four words an outpouring of love the world's love affair with vivian lee and her most famous movie continues when the american film institute ranked the greatest pictures of all time gone with the wind was number three behind casablanca and the godfather and while recent films such as titanic have made more money no film has ever sold as many tickets or been seen by more people around the world tomorrow dick powell he was america's number one song and dance man then transformed himself into a serious actor and leading producer dick powell when all premiere june continues thursday from paramount pictures in hollywood i'm harry smith i'll be back here tomorrow a e home video proudly presents the biography you've just seen for 14.95 plus shipping and handling to order call 1-800-423-1212 or visit our online store at biography.com now bill curtis goes inside the multiple minds of schizophrenics on investigative reports next on a e [Music] for the web's best bios log on to biography.com

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Published: Fri Aug 14 2020