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Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh Sale Price: $8.79  |
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) [Blu-ray] Sale Price: $23.99 |
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Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Sweaty, brutish, mumbling, yet with the balanced grace of a prizefighter, Brando storms through the role--a role he had originated in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated play... |
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Damn You, Scarlett O'Hara: The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Sale Price: $17.45 |
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The scandalous love affair of “The Royal Family of the British Stage” was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Co-authors Roy Moseley (the couple’s "honorary" godson and long-standing friend and personal assistant) and Darwin Porter tear away the velvet curtain previously draped over the reputations of this famous team, exposing with searing insights the depths of their sexual excess and interpersonal anguish... |
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Vivien Leigh Paper Dolls (Dover Celebrity Paper Dolls) Sale Price: $3.90 |
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A Vivien Leigh figure and 28 costumes from a dozen films — including Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire — all in full color on heavy stock, provide an incredibly life-like rendering of the enchanting actress and recapture a part of the shimmering magic that marked her entire career... |
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Sale Price: $1.98 |
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An ageing starlet is off to vacation in Rome with her husband when he suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome where she leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace... |
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Love Scene: The Story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh Sale Price: $49.78 |
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When Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh went to Elsinore, Denmark, in the summer of 1937 to play in Hamlet, he was thirty, she was twenty-three and they were madly in love. They were also married--but not together or apart, married to each other or to other people, they would be bound by this love. |
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Scarlett O'Hara, Vivien Leigh Standup # 650 Sale Price: $29.95 |
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Scarlett O'Hara, Vivien Leigh,in Red Dress from the classic movie "Gone with the Wind." Life-size standup measures 5'4". |
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Waterloo Bridge Sale Price: $11.90 |
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/27/2009 Rating: Nr |
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Vivien Leigh A Biography Sale Price: $25.95 |
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Biography of the actress, Vivien Leigh. |
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Vivien Leigh: A Biography Sale Price: $24.72 |
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Vickers makes use of hundreds of interviews to convey a portrait of the controversial actress. He portrays a woman more believable than in previous accounts. |
Where on earth is my "play on words" taking me with this one?
I remember so well those taunting words.
"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields."
New Orleans, Streetcars, Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh and a film steeped in controversy and symbolism.
What, you may be ask, does the Tennessee Williams screenplay of "A Streetcar Named Desire" have to do with lifetime relationships?
I'm glad you asked. The answer may surprise you.
When the character, Blanche, made the above statement, although full of symbolism, her message was clear.
She had been on the "desire" streetcar long before ever arriving in New Orleans, and it had only taken her to a life of bewilderment and death (Cemeteries). Elysian Fields was the supposed place of "paradise" she so longingly sought. As the movie progresses, you soon discover that where this streetcar had taken her was anything but paradise.
Sound familiar?
Have you ever been on a streetcar like this?
Are you on it now?
Think about it!
The fires of passion and sex burn hot in the world around us. Chasing desire seems to be a common theme in the world today. Music videos, the Internet, TV shows, movies, magazines and books often have one common theme, the feeding of desire.
We have made sex more about recreation than relationship, and heat-scars abound as more and more get caught in the web of deception that chasing desire creates.
What, you may be wondering, is a "Heat-scar"?
* Children disillusioned by parental infidelity - Heat-scar!
* Teenagers and College students buying into the craze of "Girls Gone Wild" actions being where body dignity is found - Heat-scar!
* The lonely and heart-broken housewife struggling to find intimacy and measure up to the blonde bombshells of her husband's pornography enthusiasm and addiction - Heat-scar!
* Women struggling to be valued by our culture as more than sex objects - Heat-scar!
* Men struggling so much with the strongholds of lust and desire that they can't walk by a display of magazines without feeling the tug - Heat-scar!
And then along comes someone like me stating, "It is better to be wanted for a lifetime of nights and not just a night of a lifetime." Along comes someone like me extolling value in the marriage union. Along comes someone like me with a message that "turning-on" may be elevated over and over again in the world around us, but "tuning-in" is where it is really at.
"Tuning-in" to the longing of the human heart for intimacy.
"Tuning-in" to the longing of the heart for companionship.
"Tuning-in" to the longing of the heart for love, acceptance, compatibility and oneness.
This is why I often say that a suggestive music video may awaken desire, but it does nothing to satisfy the cry of the heart for intimacy, love, acceptance, compatibility and oneness.
How about you? Is your focus in life and relationships more about "Turning-on" or "Tuning-in"?
Your answer may determine if you, too, are in danger of being burned by "A Heat-scar Named Desire."
(C)Copyright 2005 advice-for-lifetime-relationships by Stanley J. Leffew
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED!
Stanley J. Leffew is the Author of, "How To Be Wanted For a Lifetime of Nights and Not Just a Night of a Lifetime". His website is based on this same theme. Find out for yourself why leading-with-the-body in life and relationships feeds desire but fails to satisfy the longing of the heart for love, companionship and intimacy by visiting http://advice-for-lifetime-relationships.com.
Vivien Leigh,s smile best i,ve seen GWTW?
When see smile the cutest i ever saw so beautiful she was
i agree bec absolutely stunning , i always thought she looked similar to liz taylor another beautiful woman x
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