Introduction
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once saw her at a banquet, was in awe of her beauty, loved her but wanted to say goodbye, leaving only one sentence to her: "She is a masterpiece of God, I can just look at it from a distance." " evaluation. Vivien Leigh. Li, the first British woman in the history of cinema to win an Oscar, is a British national treasure film actor, an excellent stage actor, and a British lady who has not met in a hundred years. Let's get to know this beauty with Niu Niu today and see how her growth experience has shaped her into another "gone with the wind".
1. The first British Oscar queen
In 1913, a man originally named Vivian. Hartley's girl was born in Darjeeling, British India. Vivien Leigh grew up in high society, with outstanding looks and quite popular with the audience. Two years after Vivien Leigh's birth, World War I broke out, leaving her entire childhood spent in war.
Vivien Leigh childhood photos
In order to allow this noble lady to be trained by the formal education system, after the end of the First World War, her parents endured the pain of love and sent Vivien Leigh to England to receive a complete British education.
Vivien Leigh began her boarding life at Woldingham School at the age of 6, and planted the seeds of the British lady's stage dream in this 700-acre building, which takes only 30 minutes by train to London.
At this boarding school, Vivien Leigh received a lady's education in high society, generalized classical works, dabbled in piano, violin and other instruments, and made friends. More importantly, the school adheres to strict rules and regulations, adheres to the curriculum of small class teaching, and actively guides students to establish a correct outlook on life and values of educating people, so that Vivien Leigh has learned the character of self-discipline, so that her future acting career will be deeply affected by this character.
As a British actress, two of the most famous roles in her film history are playing Southern American women.
At that time, "Gone with the Wind" was being filmed, and after more than 6,000 people screened, the producers auditioned the nearly 200 female stars selected one by one, but they still could not find the Gone with the Wind who fell into the world. After the 25-year-old Vivien Leigh learned of this news, the friends helped contact the producer to audition, and at the scene of the first meeting, Vivien Leigh was immediately photographed by the producer and determined that she was the Scarlett they were looking for. Scarlett's lady-educated ladylike temperament, the cunning character traits in her ability, and the stubbornness and self-sufficiency in her bones are all reflected in this British lady.
Years later, Mirren recalled this amazing glimpse, still unable to help but marvel, "I saw Scarlett who I had been looking for for a long time, coming out of the book alive. ”。
Stills from Gone with the Wind
The 26-year-old Vivien Leigh became famous overnight, and won the Oscar crown in anticipation, becoming the first British actress to win an Oscar. Since then, the "Broken Soul Blue Bridge" and "Butterfly Dream" that she participated in have also become well-known classic films.
Stills from "Soul Break Blue Bridge"
2. Lady education
Vivien Leigh began boarding at the age of 6 at Wodingham School, which was founded in 1842 and is one of the oldest girls' schools in the UK. In 1946, the school moved to its current location, in Madden Park. The school is a traditional British private girls' school for girls aged 11-18. There are currently about 600 students enrolled in the school, including boarding and day students. The school is about a 50-minute drive from Heathrow Airport.
Although the school has a strong Catholic overtone, the school does not restrict enrollment for religious reasons or impose religious ideas on students. On the contrary, the school warmly welcomes students from different backgrounds, cultivates students' ability to develop holistically, and encourages students to play to their strengths and strengths in different fields.
In terms of teaching quality, the school's academic performance is also very good. In 2021, the school's GCSE performance is excellent, with an A-A* ratio of up to 80%. The A-Level results are also excellent, with the A-A* ratio reaching 90%.
The school is excellent in both arts and sciences, not only in science, economics and mathematics, but also in the humanities and linguistics, and most of the graduates can successfully enter the top universities in the UK. The school also provides special assistance to students who are committed to oxford and cambridge examinations.
The admissions officer led Ms. Niu Jian'er on a tour of the school
In addition, the school is also an outstanding art school, and there are often large-scale artistic activities such as choirs, orchestras, stage plays and so on. In addition to the main course, the school offers a number of practical and unique courses: archery, tennis, horse racing, ballet, pottery, drama, fencing, golf and even 'Own your business' club activities that encourage students to start their own businesses and exercise their business acumen on campus. This series of courses and club activities provide a stage for students with athletic, musical or artistic talents to develop their talents.
School theatre
It is worth mentioning that the location of these activities and courses is not limited to the United Kingdom, and will occasionally go to Europe and the United States to perform exchange performances, so students can fully feel the cultural differences of different countries while participating in art activities, and can look at the differences of the world with a pluralistic and compatible heart, and explore the hidden colors of all corners of the world. Of course, this is also one of the reasons why Vivien Leigh, a typical British woman, successfully won two Oscars by portraying two southern American women.
3. Won the Oscar for Best Actress again
For Vivien Leigh, the personality of pursuing the ultimate and constantly breaking through herself since she was a child made her give up her advantages and follow her second husband Oliver to the path of theatrical performance.
Vivien Leigh used love and stoic character to interpret a stage dream. Although theatre performance was not Vivien Leigh's strength, she had been educated in drama courses in British schools since she was a child, and she quickly achieved high-profile excellence in this field.
But her husband Oliver was awarded the Knighthood of the Queen of England for his outstanding contributions to the theatrical stage, a degree unsurpassed. "To love him is to surpass him", these short seven words, gradually became Vivien Leigh's inner demon, so that her mental state was often on the verge of an abnormal state.
To make matters worse, in 1944 she accidentally fell on the set of Cleopatra and lost the child in her belly. The miscarriage directly led to her first complete mental collapse, and the miscarriage indirectly paved the way for her second Oscar-winning role.
But Vivien Leigh did not interrupt her acting career, but became more active in her work. At the age of 38, Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her role as a woman in the South of the United States by playing another woman in the Southern United States with her Brandine of Desire StreetCar. Unlike Scarlett, Brandet is a character of utter tragedy, wretched, angry, jealous, and hysterical.
Vivien Leigh in "Desire StreetCar"
Alongside actor Marlon Brando, she said: "She and Brando are similar, especially when she is in a trance, if someone else is playing the role, then she lives in the role. In the way of destroying her own spiritual world, she gives back her own suffering to the soul of the fictional character, and then integrates the character's pain into her own real world. Scarlett once again succeeded in shaping another classic symbol in the history of world cinema, but behind this success, it ushered in the fragmentation of her own life.
Vivien Leigh's insanity has reached a point where her lover can no longer tolerate the broken relationship. In October 1958, Oliver finally filed for divorce from Vivien Leigh. Vivien Leigh, who has suffered from illness and divorce, is still beautiful when she is over 50 years old. The traces of time on her body, the pain of life's thousands of hammers and hammers, have not been spared because of her beauty, but her charm is still there, and she is still the British lady in front of the screen.
Vivien Leigh died in 1967 at the age of 54. Her mother's epitaph was inscribed with the following words: "Death, you can boast that a beautiful woman has been given to you." "In fact, if you look closely at Vivien Leigh's life, why not be another beautiful person in a troubled world." They are all beautiful, capable and strong, and two epoch-making women have met again in different time and space.
End
Vivien Leigh spent her life composing the legend of another troubled beauty. Whether it is love, or acting career, as long as it is what she likes, she will do her best to pursue, must be the ultimate, deeply affected by British education.
The first divorce and family breakdown did not make her despair about life, but made her return to the film career again, and became famous and won the Oscar in one fell swoop; the second marriage misfortune, let her suffer from the circulation, in the state of near destruction of the spiritual world, she once again created another classic symbol in the history of world cinema, with "Desire StreetCar" to win the second Oscar in her life.
This is just like her character Scarlett, at the end of the movie, Scarlett stands on the steps, in despair and then ignites hope: Tara Manor, my home! I want to go home. Someday I will get him back! After all, tomorrow is a new day! “Tara! Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all.”