Vivien Leigh, “I don’t think men are all that important!”

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  • čas přidán 6. 02. 2019
  • Vivien Leigh answering to New Yorker critic Kenneth Tynan in 1958 #vivienleigh #oldhollywood #50s #moviestar #actress #classichollywood #metoo

Komentáře • 300

  • @janined5784
    @janined5784 Před rokem +546

    I love it when she laughed at his question! That man is so full of his own imagined importance. What a scream.

    • @WVgirl1959
      @WVgirl1959 Před 7 měsíci +9

      Isn't that the truth.❤

    • @kohlach437
      @kohlach437 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@WVgirl1959❤❤😂😂😂😊

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 Před 2 měsíci

      Isn’t he an over the top screwball, trying to play Rhett Butler for the world. Where do they find these nut jobs.

    • @lnl3237
      @lnl3237 Před 2 měsíci +12

      She was so restrained. Kept thinking of her line as Scarlett O'Hara, "Oh, if I just wasn't a lady, what wouldn't I tell that varmint!"

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Wasn’t he what we call a narcissist?

  • @Lena-dear
    @Lena-dear Před rokem +474

    He got it completely wrong, I'd say a star is someone who can convince everyone in the audience that they need her, not the other way round!

  • @luvleeana
    @luvleeana Před 3 měsíci +29

    A gay man asking an incredibly skilled actress a question like that was comical.. and she laughed at the insinuation… loved her❤❤❤

    • @VenusEvan_1885
      @VenusEvan_1885 Před 2 měsíci

      And she lied, men were very important to her, infact she left her child for a man 😂🤣

  • @christiejensen1606
    @christiejensen1606 Před 2 měsíci +41

    Miss Vivien Leigh was ahead of her time

  • @wendyramirez3350
    @wendyramirez3350 Před 2 měsíci +22

    In love with his own voice, he doesn't even look at her...

  • @laurasteinmetz7684
    @laurasteinmetz7684 Před měsícem +12

    Obviously HIS definition of a 'star' is a beautiful woman who needs him.

  • @sarahprovencher2244
    @sarahprovencher2244 Před 6 měsíci +10

    She was unequivocally beautiful even then

  • @luanasouza3245
    @luanasouza3245 Před rokem +210

    "My goodness, Ken!" 😂😂😂

  • @WVgirl1959
    @WVgirl1959 Před 7 měsíci +50

    A star is one that can convince you that they are the person they are portraying.

    • @abhiwagh2312
      @abhiwagh2312 Před 3 dny +1

      That's a good actor, not a star, star is the one with the most popularity or charisma, style , or some characteristic that is attractive about them which pulls more and more people to the theatres. In her case it is her lively and innocent eyes that he is describing that sort of makes men believe that she needs them in a heroic way to save her from her distress and be her saviour , same way beauty and the beast was something that appealed to women, made them believe as a saviour, who wanted to save someone like the cursed prince from his distress and sorrow.

  • @ahlivetuhsidamaro150
    @ahlivetuhsidamaro150 Před rokem +67

    It seems to me that this guy was closeted gay at the time and trying to convince himself and other women that women are not important.

    • @miovicdina7706
      @miovicdina7706 Před 4 měsíci +4

      Good observation

    • @Sean-dl8ym
      @Sean-dl8ym Před měsícem +3

      I thought the same thing! Or feeling envious of the women who could get all these men to desire them

    • @Eidann63
      @Eidann63 Před 26 dny

      Definitely a possibility.

    • @karinlawrence6500
      @karinlawrence6500 Před 11 dny +2

      The root of Tynan's envy of Vivien Leigh was his desperate wish to be Larry's Lady Olivier.

  • @jamesfreeman2258
    @jamesfreeman2258 Před rokem +443

    She answered with class and decisively what is surely a egoistic male question.

  • @consciousnessrenaissance7804
    @consciousnessrenaissance7804 Před 8 měsíci +20

    She was 100% right

  • @YuLi-gx2ep
    @YuLi-gx2ep Před rokem +120

    He is being so rude to deminute and depreciate actresses work like this

  • @kellie-nd1yp
    @kellie-nd1yp Před rokem +62

    She was ahead of the times! Bravo 👏👏👏👏Viven !

  • @martinstace8201
    @martinstace8201 Před 8 měsíci +21

    He is so obnoxiously camp...Vivien totally wipes the floor with his ego.

  • @garypatterson2055
    @garypatterson2055 Před rokem +43

    She was said to be an articulate and sharp witted lady. Great actress and beauty of her time. He didn't know that he's conversing with a tiger. Also Vivien Leigh was unwell in this interview. ❤

  • @clotasantana62
    @clotasantana62 Před rokem +104

    That dude could not read the room. She laughed at his comments like - the audacity! And a very, very good actress. She was there to be interviewed and you can see the shift in her face when he mentions and compares other actresses.

    • @joycegibbs5267
      @joycegibbs5267 Před měsícem +1

      he did that deliberately to get a reaction. Kenneth was a naughty bit 😂

  • @tusharkumar8750
    @tusharkumar8750 Před 11 měsíci +48

    She's one of the rare species in Actors who can overshadow Marlon Brando in a movie, I watched "A Streetcar Named Desire" and man 🙌🙌🙌

    • @Daisnap
      @Daisnap Před 8 měsíci +11

      She was brilliant in Streetcar. Spine-tinglingly raw.

    • @irinacapsa6412
      @irinacapsa6412 Před 6 měsíci +3

      She did not overshadow Brando in Streetcar named desire-he was alluring- couldn't take my eyes off him

    • @anurag684
      @anurag684 Před 6 měsíci

      She did. She entirely did ​@@irinacapsa6412

    • @ViolettaD1485
      @ViolettaD1485 Před 2 měsíci +5

      ​@@irinacapsa6412I'd say they played off each other perfectly. The right love-hate chemistry.

    • @abhiwagh2312
      @abhiwagh2312 Před 3 dny +1

      ​​@@irinacapsa6412agree. Marlon is too alluringly charismatic to be overshadowed.

  • @GdHr-oz5ph
    @GdHr-oz5ph Před 8 měsíci +19

    Wow. She was cool.❤

  • @ahlivetuhsidamaro150
    @ahlivetuhsidamaro150 Před rokem +73

    Thank you for saying that Vivian!!!!!

  • @blpellicore4937
    @blpellicore4937 Před rokem +161

    Omg who IS this guy? He's like a character straight out of an SNL skit.

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp Před rokem

      Chauncey Pooftah Innatailpipe.

    • @burizaemon9305
      @burizaemon9305 Před rokem +9

      he's a clown....
      joking, he's a famous journalist from UK. Famous with controversial issues, tho...

    • @MacNif
      @MacNif Před rokem +11

      He was the status quo then

    • @blackswan4486
      @blackswan4486 Před 8 měsíci +6

      He was the first person to say fuck on television.

    • @engineeringartist4801
      @engineeringartist4801 Před 8 měsíci +10

      His best William F. Buckley Jr. impression.

  • @charlieputhstan
    @charlieputhstan Před 4 měsíci +4

    I often confuse Kenneth Tynan (the interviewer) with Bosley Crowther and Rex Reed.
    All 3 were mean and evil, especially in their film and theater reviews of female actresses.
    I'm glad they're all dead.
    But Vivien and her work will always be timeless.
    She's a true star and that's why we're all adoring her today.
    Long Live the English Rose, Lady Olivier
    ❤❤❤

    • @kathleenvargovich9539
      @kathleenvargovich9539 Před 20 hodinami

      Oh dear! For everyone that died a thousand rose up to take their place.

  • @jaimechapman9366
    @jaimechapman9366 Před rokem +33

    Queen. ❤

  • @nagolhayze9366
    @nagolhayze9366 Před rokem +24

    Ken seems obsessed by men ... 🤦‍♂️

  • @politecat4236
    @politecat4236 Před rokem +18

    The guy is Kenneth Tynan who criticised Vivien unjustly all thru out her stage career and only admitted he went too far after her death. Tynan adored Olivier but had no love for Vivien his wife and an equal but diffirent kind of talent!

    • @saarlooswolfhund6237
      @saarlooswolfhund6237 Před 8 měsíci +9

      Because Tynan had an love affair with Olivier and he hated his wife

    • @politecat4236
      @politecat4236 Před 8 měsíci

      @@saarlooswolfhund6237 man I need some sources

    • @marymcsherry1965
      @marymcsherry1965 Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​@@saarlooswolfhund6237 Yes, Olivier was bisexual and had affairs with Danny Kaye, Marlon Brando and Noel Coward among others

  • @fabion.7457
    @fabion.7457 Před 3 měsíci +4

    Crazy how in the past actors sounded like they were acting even in real life

    • @dora1980
      @dora1980 Před 2 měsíci

      They do that nowadays too, it didn't happen only in the past.

  • @HC-cb4yp
    @HC-cb4yp Před rokem +116

    "I don't think men are that terribly important..." That's MY kind of "feminism."

    • @arthurmaestrini4350
      @arthurmaestrini4350 Před 10 měsíci +8

      Vivien wasn't a feminist. Actually one of her greatests friends were Winston Churchill. Feminism is not exclusively about the 'women's rights'.

    • @Victory_to_Ukr
      @Victory_to_Ukr Před 8 měsíci +6

      Said with that “Scarlett O’Hara” facial expression. 🎉

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@arthurmaestrini4350 Exactly.

    • @alexos8741
      @alexos8741 Před 6 měsíci +4

      She left her child for a man 😂

    • @levimatthew8911
      @levimatthew8911 Před 5 měsíci

      Ya what did men ever do in the world?🤦

  • @jeanneann1
    @jeanneann1 Před 7 měsíci +10

    Vivien Leigh is now my favorite actress. 😂

  • @beni2380
    @beni2380 Před 6 měsíci +6

    What a pri k. I love how she just laughed 😂

  • @hyzercreek
    @hyzercreek Před rokem +14

    You're taking her quote out of context. She didnt say men aren't important. She said not only men are important. She said men women and children are important.

  • @nicolem5626
    @nicolem5626 Před 10 měsíci +8

    He doesn’t know what seduction is.

  • @saarlooswolfhund6237
    @saarlooswolfhund6237 Před 8 měsíci +12

    The level between Vivien and this narcissistic man is like the golden sun vs a worm

  • @notrealatall196
    @notrealatall196 Před rokem +17

    Not "she needs me". The audience feels like that they want her. Hes too egoistic to admit that.

  • @mitraavesta7548
    @mitraavesta7548 Před rokem +179

    What the hell
    She doesn't need men , men needs her

    • @elsestrell4168
      @elsestrell4168 Před 8 měsíci +2

      👏👏😊

    • @JTD472
      @JTD472 Před 8 měsíci +4

      It’s still a silly question, but that was his point. Men being convinced they need her. He’s not saying she needs to work for it or anything, just that her charm and looks and star quality convince men they need her.

  • @personunknown491
    @personunknown491 Před rokem +16

    I love all our icons like Brando, Dean, Marylin, Gene Kelly but this was simply one of the most ELOQUENT way to completely insult someone lol that I've ever witnessed and I'm in love 🥲

  • @beesnort3163
    @beesnort3163 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Love that she shut that idiot down!

  • @frankiebowie6174
    @frankiebowie6174 Před 8 měsíci +6

    She’s right- a star needs the admiration of men, women and children. Witness Mae West and Marilyn Monroe. Women admired them as much as men did. Perhaps for different reasons 😊

  • @jasonmanuel590
    @jasonmanuel590 Před rokem +9

    Its the year 2023 I'm watching streetcar dires she blowing my mind she is billance

  • @teachersilviamontufo
    @teachersilviamontufo Před 3 měsíci +2

    Amazing artist❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @doubleseven1078
    @doubleseven1078 Před rokem +16

    Ewwww this guy just ewwwww - NO WONDER she went OFF on him. She's a literal MASTER.

  • @marieminshull1400
    @marieminshull1400 Před rokem +43

    She aged really well

    • @walkingwithheather
      @walkingwithheather Před 8 měsíci +6

      She didn't live long enough to 'age'.

    • @trancos7641
      @trancos7641 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@walkingwithheather well 56 is not young

    • @ViolettaD1485
      @ViolettaD1485 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Didn't get all those procedures, took mature roles in _Ship of Fools_and _Roman Spring,_ rather than trying to pretend she was still ingenue material.

    • @chercee
      @chercee Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@trancos7641 She was only 53.

  • @lrose1046
    @lrose1046 Před rokem +12

    I adore her!

  • @allthatjazz9000
    @allthatjazz9000 Před 6 měsíci +2

    I miss when people spoke and looked like this!!! Now it's all "for meeeeeeeeee like iiiiiiiiiaaaaaii like personallyyyyyyyyy like... like I feeeeeeeel like"

  • @torbergman6977
    @torbergman6977 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Well someone's envious 😁😂😂. ❤️ Vivien.

  • @jeffscop
    @jeffscop Před 8 měsíci +7

    I have NO fucking idea what he is talking about.

  • @gilliesrebecca8101
    @gilliesrebecca8101 Před rokem +21

    Beautiful, just beautiful

  • @walkingwithheather
    @walkingwithheather Před 8 měsíci +4

    Love Vivien.

  • @esraaelbassuony7051
    @esraaelbassuony7051 Před 2 lety +63

    I didn't know that men can smoke in front of women at that time 😳
    I always thought it as a bad thing for men to do
    SIR YOU ARE NO GENTLEMAN

    • @Marcel_Audubon
      @Marcel_Audubon Před rokem +1

      Nonsense

    • @jelena7440
      @jelena7440 Před rokem +15

      What do you mean in front of women? At the time everyone smoked, both men and women.

    • @esraaelbassuony7051
      @esraaelbassuony7051 Před rokem +16

      @@jelena7440 sorry I had no idea .. I'm Egyptian, and it was very bad and Impolite for man to smoke in front of women or old people at that time

    • @jelena7440
      @jelena7440 Před rokem +1

      @@esraaelbassuony7051 oh, my apologies than. I had no idea.

    • @user-px3cv8sp8g
      @user-px3cv8sp8g Před rokem +7

      In some movies it is depicted that men had a separate room where they went to smoke and drink, but during the time when this interview was filmed, almost everyone smoked and it was believed to be healthy. 😂

  • @jaxh3449
    @jaxh3449 Před 5 měsíci +11

    She was so beautiful ❤️

  • @matthewgilmore4307
    @matthewgilmore4307 Před měsícem +3

    Ken Tynan projecting

  • @krisammeter3865
    @krisammeter3865 Před rokem +4

    What a Pratt!

  • @trippyhop
    @trippyhop Před 3 měsíci +4

    Kenneth Tynan hated her so much, and I’ve never understood why that is.

    • @dora1980
      @dora1980 Před 2 měsíci

      I think he was in love with her although he knew she was married.

    • @karinlawrence6500
      @karinlawrence6500 Před 11 dny +2

      Tynan envied Vivien Leigh. For years he seethed with envy because he longed to be Lady Olivier.

  • @sofysixx
    @sofysixx Před 5 měsíci +2

    Hermosa Vivien.❤

  • @zenw1464
    @zenw1464 Před 8 měsíci +2

    This man has it backwards. She and Garbo radiate an attraction that makes people want them.

  • @snootybaronet
    @snootybaronet Před 6 měsíci +2

    Today Ken would be arguing that Dylan Mulvaney is the ideal of womanhood, not Monroe, Garbo or Leigh.

  • @uggggggghhhhh
    @uggggggghhhhh Před měsícem +3

    Lmfao i kove that shes so dumbfounded by his question

  • @madisona3907
    @madisona3907 Před rokem +7

    Who was that interviewer? Tool

    • @MrBulky992
      @MrBulky992 Před 8 měsíci +2

      I think he was the first person to say the "f" word on TV and it has been down hill ever since.

  • @havenhurstgroup
    @havenhurstgroup Před rokem +8

    That guy was really addicted to nicotine ! Sucking on that cig!

  • @gugurama9777
    @gugurama9777 Před rokem +10

    Its incredible, they air a program with a host talking and.. smoking??!? :)))

    • @Ann-st8et
      @Ann-st8et Před rokem +3

      Thats how it was back then. Perfectly normal. Being an ex smoker of 19 years, thank goodness it isn't anymore! 🚬

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Před rokem +4

      Most people smoked when this was filmed.

  • @kaylynnanson6231
    @kaylynnanson6231 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Ken got it backwards. A star can convince everyone that they are worthy of love and adoration. They're captivating. That's still the point today.

  • @rickyparrilla2426
    @rickyparrilla2426 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Viven Lee played Scarlet O'Hara so damn good that every interview I see her in I think she's a real bitch when she isn't. That's a great actress for you! Lol.❤

  • @user-sx6xb5nq9l
    @user-sx6xb5nq9l Před rokem +7

    She is born from natural actress

  • @maryshannon7551
    @maryshannon7551 Před měsícem +2

    The question reveals more about him than Vivian Lee.

  • @DonnaBiegler
    @DonnaBiegler Před měsícem +2

    Something about the cadence of her speech reminds me of Princess Diana in this interview.

  • @vanessaoconnor1539
    @vanessaoconnor1539 Před měsícem +1

    Omg she was just beautiful talented just classy

  • @2ToyBoys
    @2ToyBoys Před 11 dny +1

    Vivien Leigh...that smile.

  • @shafinkhan7570
    @shafinkhan7570 Před 5 měsíci +2

    She didnt mean it that way. The way the caption is emplying.

  • @suziecreamcheese211
    @suziecreamcheese211 Před 7 měsíci

    Look at how he holds that cigarette.

  • @mimosa27
    @mimosa27 Před 6 měsíci +2

    We miss you, Vivian

  • @fido652
    @fido652 Před 2 měsíci +3

    He's pushing for something vulgar. A brilliant mind- and such a ghastly person.

  • @eviemarie73
    @eviemarie73 Před měsícem +2

    Hehe she did more in one movie than Garbo did in all of hers!

  • @boogherghostgreenslimy529
    @boogherghostgreenslimy529 Před měsícem +2

    OUCH!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣That gorgeous Sigma woman just handed his ass to him!!! LOL!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @eduardodifarnecio2336
    @eduardodifarnecio2336 Před 2 měsíci +2

    It’s what he imagines straight men are thinking but she set him straight alright

  • @janawall3306
    @janawall3306 Před rokem +7

    When i was a child i thought elizabeth taylor was vivien leigh.

  • @babiegirl526
    @babiegirl526 Před měsícem +2

    its so hard to take him seriously omg

  • @allanhastings7688
    @allanhastings7688 Před 10 dny

    He didn't fathom how powerful a real lady is when the big screen released her beautiful & authoritive charm from the confines of local community.

  • @StephanieMitchell-yb4ll
    @StephanieMitchell-yb4ll Před měsícem +2

    Way ahead of her time

  • @conniepfannerstill817

    She had TB and when filming Elephant Walk in 1953 was hospitalized for a breakdown and had ECT electro shock treatment. She was a beautiful , talented actress , but had major heath issues. I loved her in Gone With The Wind.

  • @ToThoseWhoVanished
    @ToThoseWhoVanished Před rokem +4

    That's blanche Dubois.

  • @angelablackthorne3026
    @angelablackthorne3026 Před 3 měsíci +3

    That's how men respond to beauty. It's not anything the woman does! lol

  • @user-qu4pe3mt9m
    @user-qu4pe3mt9m Před 3 měsíci +1

    Love her

  • @alphazerotactical1518
    @alphazerotactical1518 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Hottest woman in history

  • @annaritaranalli1791
    @annaritaranalli1791 Před 4 měsíci

    Thanks

  • @teresadbrownbrown3785
    @teresadbrownbrown3785 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Beautiful lady

  • @oretteayton5262
    @oretteayton5262 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Umm…. I think what he meant was that a true actress can create an illusion basically. With regard to the idea of feeling needed, it simply reflects the male ego and desire to be the supporter. I don’t think his question was coming from a chauvinistic mindset, but rather the era…

  • @tonyhill1264
    @tonyhill1264 Před 17 dny +1

    " Oh Ken, you are soooo gay! What must your husband say?"

  • @angelablackthorne3026
    @angelablackthorne3026 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Her Received Pronunciation sounds so refined

    • @rebeccam4397
      @rebeccam4397 Před 3 měsíci +2

      It's Heightened RP, which is fading out of existence. The queen spoke that way and King Charles does somewhat, but Prince William does not.

  • @Birdmacher
    @Birdmacher Před měsícem +2

    Different take: Ken’s repressed and projecting his own fantasies onto her.

  • @freyareadstarot5277
    @freyareadstarot5277 Před 10 dny

    Miss Vivian was a Scorpio. Don't ever ask us the truth. He got owned!😂❤

  • @StLProgressive
    @StLProgressive Před 2 dny

    Talk about the patriarchy, wow. Love her answers.

  • @ayhamshaheed7740
    @ayhamshaheed7740 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Talk shows asked the most stupid questions back in the day😂😭 why tf would u have the need to ask a guest that lmao

  • @hughjanus5336
    @hughjanus5336 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Ken looks like Wallace of Wallace & Grommet fame.

    • @jM-bs3yc
      @jM-bs3yc Před měsícem +1

      Lol! I thought the same thing, only Wallace is nice, this guy is a creep.

  • @morganwhite2176
    @morganwhite2176 Před 13 dny +1

    He was saying something spot on, she missed it I think.

  • @cjpreach
    @cjpreach Před 3 měsíci +2

    This guy was so wrong. I've seen this whole interview. He said Vivien was TYPECAST because she played both Scarlett in GWTW and Blanche in Streetcar. How could he think that these two Southern females are the same? characters Goofball.

  • @lt7378
    @lt7378 Před 9 dny +1

    She thought a man was “important” when she split up her marriage -and his- to get Sir Lawrence Olivier.

  • @user-wb7dp4ln6x
    @user-wb7dp4ln6x Před 5 měsíci

    ❤😍❤❤❤

  • @Estela_2002
    @Estela_2002 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great interviewer 💙

  • @kathryneast6919
    @kathryneast6919 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Who is that guy??😂😂

    • @dora1980
      @dora1980 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I think he was a film critic.

  • @surrealistful
    @surrealistful Před 8 měsíci +1

    they are thag important. i love men.

  • @samuelchristopher5451
    @samuelchristopher5451 Před 5 měsíci

    That's What A Woman, A Bombshell with Acumen! Julie Newmar the Same, that Sharp witt and Dominatrix Vibe, What more could U Ask For!