Vivien Leigh Wins Best Actress: 1952 Oscars
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- Vivien Leigh wins Best Actress for A Streetcar Named Desire at the 24th Academy Awards. Ronald Colman presents the award; accepted by Greer Garson and hosted by Danny Kaye.
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One of the most deserving Best Actress Oscars ever. Vivien Leigh was absolutely astonishing.
Vivien was very lucky to act in two of the greatest female characters in movie history. And be flawless in both.
She did them because of her talent... She deserved them.
please tell me the two characters.
@@ahmadhasan8355 Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" & Blanche in "A Streercar named Disire"
@@ivonnemendeville4639 Yes but there are many undiscovered talents out there so luck must also play a part in her getting the role :)
Flávio Franco I doubt that LUCK had much to do with it! Focus & dedication to her craft. But I guess in the end, landing the parts does have some luck involved.
One of the most deserving oscars of all time.
I just scrolled down to make the same comment..never was an actress more deserving of that statue.
She was stunning indeed. Vivien Leigh, a terrific actress
You can say that again! One of the toughest roles in all of theater. No one should attempt it again. That's how good it was.
Definitely!!!
@@bawoman And her other OScar is also one of the most deserving ones. She's got two. Amazing.
RIP and long live Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967), aged 53
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Vivien was brilliant in this movie and richly deserved the Oscar!
WHEN THE STARS WERE STARS!!!!!
So Blanchett, Streep, Winslet, etc. are not stars? Leigh was a bi-polar mess who was addicted to drugs and died young. Yes, when starts were stars...
dohaperson1 , the actors you mentioned are among my favorites , but there once was a day when a magnificent group of people were not only artists - but beings of legend for their color and charm and if they slept around or were addicted to whatever it took to get them through the night , it's not my business - what is my business is to love them for all they gave and respect them for the high price they paid for it !
IMO Streep is a pig for what she said about President Trump ! - I will never again watch that pos imo ! Anyway, she is overrated !
You're an idiot !
Frances Van Siclen did she fucking lie? No.
Still today, I still haven’t seen any actress that can play Blanche DeBouis better than Vivien Leigh.
Who better to accept it in her absence than Greer Garson? Beautiful, classy, evergreen actress.
A most deserving Oscar!!!!. Think in this..Vivien gaves us Scarlett and Blanche, the two most important female roles in movie history and for both she wins the Oscar. What an actress!!!!!!-
I'm agree with you 100% and beyond...if it were posible...
@@russelllangworthy8855 she carried a 4 hours-long film on her back. When meryl attempted to do that in Out Of Africa (and it wasn't even 3 hours-long) she lost the award.
@@russelllangworthy8855 I agree with you but in streetcar she did carry the whole cast karl malden said it
@@johnchipol7716 Never saw it.
You can see clips in you tube or the whole film in a mxq box
Well deserved!! She took my breath away with her A-MA-ZING performance. I love the movie, Marlon was great too but she was , oh my god OUTSTANDING!!!!
Steeeellaaaaaaa.... 😊
Celebrities then, even with their issues, still had so much more personal class in public, and their dirty laundry was not aired. What a pleasure to see class and elegance without the mess we see today. Wonderful. We need to re-learn the courtesies and public niceties that seem to be missing from today's society of instant gratification and the lack of discretion that seems to be so much fun for so many.
Point taken, but the ceremony, just by looking at this clip seemed quite stodgy and overly formal.
I loved the magazine's that aired their dirty laundry like Photoplay and other tell all's, it made them seem larger than life.
elsangrecaliente perhaps, but only because they did not have to tools to do so. We have “social media” ....it changed everything.
in time
No, it's because they had class.
Today, there are no public niceties, but there are also no morals or ethics.
Greer Garson looked absolutely stunning!
The vid title should really be greer garson accepts vivien leigh's best actress oscar
Vivan Leigh was amazing she won two oscars and I loved her as Scarlett O Hara. Bravo Vivan!
Ronald Colman and Greer Garson together: the stars of "Random Harvest." Such a romantic story/film; one of my favorites!!
Mine too!
Not many ladies have won multiple Best Actress Oscars. This was a well deserved second Academy Award 👏 for Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh has great acting in A Streetcar Named Desire.
what do u mean streetcar
Steeelaaaaaa!!!!!!!
Pretty impressive to win awards for roles in 2 of the greatest films of all time
Streetcar was NOT one of them. Could have been but they changed the ending in favor of "the code" therefore altering the entire message of the story. Shameful. Even Tennessee Williams was appalled.
And as two of the most iconic characters!
@@infonutAhora esta en DVD sin
censura 😅
When men and women had such class and finesse then. Today is just cursing and mocking each other and you can’t tell them apart anymore. What a shame.
Ronald Colman had such a cool voice. 100% suave and classy.
What a brilliant performance! I love Vivien Leigh!
She’s in a class all her own.
That was truly when Hollywood stars actually had talent & grace. Gone but not forgotten.
Many of you probably know that Greer Garson and Ronald Colman co-starred in "Random Harvest" nine years before, in 1942. It's one of the greatest romantic dramas -- highly recommended -- and they are wonderful in it together.
Yes i have the dvd it's one of the best melodrama too bad it was not better known.
totally agree with you , one of my favourite movies
Absolutely classic watch it recent with my mum been her all time fav
Thank you
Greer was top box office hit from 1939 to 1945 nominated 5 times out of 6 mrs miniver my fav
Greer Garson is one of the most graceful ladies that has ever walked amongst us
One of the most important moments of her life and she wasn't there to accept it. She struggled with TB for over 20 years before it finally took her life. She was one of the most talented and beautiful actresses as her time. She and Hedy Lamarr seemed to be overshadowed by the Blonde Bombshells of that day whether they had talent or not. This was a much deserving award for her.
Can't believe it was 1952 and they still didn't have a cure for it.
Well she was on stage in Anthony and Cleopatra that night … or maybe it was a double-billed Caesar and Cleopatra + Anthony and Cleopatra, I forgot. She wasn’t sick at that time. Also, I don’t think Vivian Leigh was overshadowed. She preferred the stage anyway, and especially in those days, blond bombshells hardly had the chance to star in films as prestigious as hers …
Yes well neither were American either Vivian was British Hedy was Hungarian originally.
This is when the Oscars was full of honesty and elegance. What an amazing movie to pass on. A lot to think about from then to now. Mammy it’s still my favorite Actress in this glorious movie. If you get a chance please watch this with your daughters and granddaughters They will surely appreciate it. God bless to all
This Oscar is now on display as part of the collection at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, having been donated by her family.
Mrs. Leigh was such a great actress
Sweet, tragic Vivien...her portrayal of Blanche is one of the best performances by any actor, EVER! She was brilliant, I cry every time I watch it, so moving especially the ending. RIP pretty lady.
That role was written for her....as was Atticus Finch for Gregory Peck🤔
@@DOA-321 True! Mr. Peck was outstanding
If only this woman were still alive...RIP Ms. Leigh :-(
Interesting that the two roles Vivian Leigh won for were Southern Belles, and she was British. She was flawless in both, and deserved both oscars.
No bad language no violence these are the real actors
A streetcar named desire is technically a little violent for a movie of the 1950s. The depicted a rape.
When the Oscars had class and no one used bad language. I miss those days.
The only curse ever uttered at the Oscars was Melissa Leo when she won supporting actress for The Fighter so honestly don't know what you mean
I miss the good old days too.
Today every sentence uttered on film and TV has the F-word in it; and in every form - noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Miss the old days too.
No one with green hair 🙄
Best ever.
There'll never be another Danny Kaye - They just don't make them like that anymore...
He was all over television when I was a child and always so subtle in his comedy.
@@melissaupton2097a subtle comedian he was not - but catch him in a tender scene and you'll see what a great actor he was
She played such a vulnerable character in Streetcar, very few actresses would know how to play Blanche other than in a exaggerated over the top manner so to speak. She really dominated this movie and is the heart of it. Brando in my opinion played it well, but over the top(as they say). She gave us Scarlett, and Noone but Leigh could play her so well that you felt Leigh's Scarlett was not a character but really existed. The same is true of Blanche in Streetcar. She was also unparalleled in the movie Ship of Fools.
Vivian Leigh is the greatest actor/actress of all time.
It's hard to imagine how the world got along before I was born.
Joseph Wagner the more you think about it, the easier it gets.
I'm watching old movies to travel back in time.
@Gus W Only people who think life was better back then is hetero white dudes.
Gus W bruh, he’s not lying at all. Chances are your exactly what he’s talking about.
The world got along? do you know how many countries were colonized in that period of time?
Great Viv.
One oh greatest performances in all times!
Vivien, Blanche, Kazan, Williams... GIANTS!
It's so sad that she is not here (
Greatest performance by an actress
It would have been great if Vivien Leigh could have been there in person to receive her second Best Actress Oscar but at least it was accepted for her by a classy and Oscar-winning actress ( for Mrs. Miniver) Greer Garson. It's ironic that Miss Leigh didn't make as many movies as most other actresses but she genuinely deserved both of her Best Actress Oscars. Her performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire are two of the most unforgettable portrayals in the history of motion pictures and the movies she won them for are real classics. It's also interesting that she won both of them for playing Southern women, since she herself was from England. For some reason, British actresses have always excelled at playing Southern characters. What a beautiful and unforgettable actress!
yeah, because they are both colonial people :P
@@lyrilljackson 🤣🤣🤣
Bette Davis was very good at playing Southern characters too, even though she was a New England Yankee. Perhaps the southern accent and characteristics are so far removed from Brits and Yankees that it’s easier to play a character so completely different than one’s self.
Of course, we need to distinguish that they are not modern Southern characters. That twang is much different than Scarlett O’Hara
@@wotan10950 Can you imagine imagine Bette Davis playing a southern Belle with a ding-dong daddy and even worse giving a Bette Davis performance as Blanche in Streetcar. Oh, the horror!
Both of Leigh's Oscar wins for Gone with the Wind and Streetcar were both well deserved wins!
Wish she was also nominated for That Hamilton Woman and Ship of Fools. I still haven't seen Anna Karenina, but I'm planning on it.
Gosh, Danny Kaye was a very handsome man...and immensely talented too.
Greer Garson looked stunning in her Dior gown! Such a beautiful style icon, she was!
Vivien Leigh, the best actress, ever.
Elizabeth Bennet accepting an award for Scarlett O'Hara
Vivian Leigh one of my favourite actess😍
Those were the days when such events were classy.
A legendary star 🌟 accepting for another legendary star 🌟.
Just finished watching A Streetcar Named Desire. I never truly realized how talented Vivien Leigh was as an actress. Her performance, to say the least, is unforgettable. Better than Gone with the Wind, in my opinion.
Gone With The Wind lasts 4 hours long.......
And she's on screen for 90% of that time. She deserved it for both. Both of her Oscar winning performances are amongst the best ever.
Her performance in GWTW is more steady drawn out strong-willed female character portrayal requiring much restraint, but in this she was free to "go nuts" as her character descends into madness.
Two very different characters. Both amongst the best Oscar winning performances ever.
Too bad she wasn't there
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fei xu oh yes, oh yes, right, yes yeap!
She was in New York doing stage play with her husband she heard she had won by radio
Vivien Leigh's Blanche du Bois was an amazing, if imperfect, performance. A few of her choices are a little ridiculous but her highs are so VERY high, she more than compensates for them. She was a formidable force against Brando's Stanley, but frilly and vulnerable as she dared to be without sacrificing believability. Leigh clearly understood the complexity of her character, the sad paradoxical nature within her. The scenes she played with Karl Malden are particularly memorable. And in that bit with the newsboy, she is more revelatory than anywhere else in the film. Brilliant. This was a superior performance to that other, equally famous Southern belle of hers, Scarlett O'Hara.
Scarlett remains a tough act to follow.
People complain about how her performance compared to Brando was arch and theatrical, as if she were pretending and he were "being natural". A person like Blanche Dubois would act arched and mannered, would she not? Lol. 😀
I saw no imperfect performance in Leigh's Blanche.
OMG I was named after her. Now I know why my father loves her so much...😁🤪
The handsome Ronald Colman handing out the award to the beautiful Greer Garson for lovely Vivien Leigh. Ronald Colman had the loveliest speaking voice in the history of cinema - they don't come much better than this.
Agreed!
For anyone London-based or London-bound, Vivien’s second Oscar presented here is in the Theatre & Performance section of the Victoria & Albert Museum, such a thrill when I found it there! 😍
Watch her in a street car named desire along side Marlon Brando she was unforgettable mind blowing good
Such a bold move to take that character who is so washed out looking and vulnerable she had so much range.
It is still the greatest performance ever!!!!
My all time favorite actress
Yes the India born Vivian Leigh(1913-1967)won two Oscars in her cinematic career.
The first was for Scarlett O Hara in "Gone With The Wind" in 1940 and twelve years Vivien won her second Oscar for her role as Blanche de Dubious in "A Street Car's Name Desired" in which she starred with Marlon Brando.
Though a two time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh's personal life and marriage to Sir Laurence Olivier from 1940 to 1960 was an unhappy one.Vivien was plagued by manic depression and in 1954 in Ceylon she had to be replaced by Elizabeth Taylor in "Elephant Walk" because of illness and mental exhaustion.
Vivien finally divorced from Olivier in 1961 and never remarried.Her death in 1967 really did affect Olivier emotionally as he lamented that he too was responsible for Vivien's predicament.
Vivien was not born in India. She went to India when she was very little
@@elisabethdakak878 it
is a fact.Vivien Leigh was born on 5 November 1913 Darjeeling India.
You sent,he should never have left Vivien, they both loved each other all their lives, l think he was embarrassed by her condition and antic's but he a lot more worse things than the did,in my apinion we would have had Vivien a lot longer ,he would have got her in to hospital when her coughing got worse,he knew her more than anybody else.
@@lawrencesait3432 now we all know that Vivien Leigh's illness was attributed to biopolar disorder.
For me (and many others) the BEST actress of all the times.
Ella es increíble, se lo merecía, como es posible que alguien que desgraciadamente no pude conocer, me caiga tan bien
Very deserving win for Miss Leigh. I wished I had seen Jessica Tandy as Blanche
[who won a Tony Award].
Get the hook for the always annoying Danny Kaye.
My parents saw Tandy as Blanche on Broadway.
Yes. The role went to Vivien Leigh because the studio and the producers considered her a big star than Jessica Tandy. Jessica wasn't a Hollywood name at that time.
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I love Danny Kaye.
It went to Vivien because Jessica wasn't pretty enough for screen, only stage.
We Miss U Scarlett
Vivien was brilliant in the two most impacting female roles. Well deserved and gracefully accepted for Vivien by Grier Garsen on her behalf. Elegant, eloquent and simply lovely too is Grier Garsen. None of the freaky, wanna be, behaviour and dressed in a lovely gown, not half undressed as so many today.
Had she done more films, I think she'd've been the first actress to win three oscars.
She could have won for Ship of Fools, and The Roman Spring of Mrs.Stone.
@@sedekiman or Anna Karenina
65 years ago - amazing.
The way they announced the production companies like they’re somewhat responsible for actors was so weird.
Легенда золотой эпохи кинематографа! БРАВО, АКТРИСА!
Una grande entre las grandes la recuerdo memorablemente por "Lo que el Viento se llevó" (Gone with the Wind)
Leigh died in 1967. In 1993, her only child, Suzanne Farrington, auctioned off her 'Gone With the Wind' Oscar for $510,000. Wow!
Everybody was so classy in public. Can we go back to that please.
Classy and talented group of ladies....Hepburn, Winters, Leigh...
Greer Garson, so gracious, charming and dignified...When did it happen that women of her stature completely disappeared from the face of the earth?
they're still around, sadly they're just not "in fashion" much nowadays, guys too..truly the Golden era
She born in India....In Darjeeling, West Bengal state... and had her schooling in st Paul's cathedral school...
Tandy is a legend..so is vivien but what delight is to watch blanche in vivien leigh s performance cant imagine anyone else..best performance by an actress ever
An extraordinary legend indeed RIP
Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor were the only "Great Beauties" who gave tour de force performances that would win them two Oscars each. (In Vivien Leigh's case deservedly.) Interestingly, it was Greer Garson--shown escorting Bogart off the stage with his Oscar for the African Queen--who first advised that screen legend to consult a doctor about his rasping cough which was later diagnosed as cancer.
+ardis 4 Ingrid Bergman is not a great beauty to you? And at least hers were both deserved unlike taylor who had to nearly die to get an Oscar "for" butterfield 8.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Grace Kelly, Joan Fontaine, Loretta Young, Julie Christie, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren...
robb : add Sharon Tate who I think was the most beautiful actress ever, & what about Gina Lolobrigeda (sp) ..Briget Bardot, Marilyn Monroe.Ava Gardiner. all very beautiful.
And gene tierney to
ardis 4 Miss Taylor's performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was outstanding. Watch the movie and you'll see what I mean.
Marlon Brando deserved an Oscar for Streetcar. It's a shame...without him, the movie wouldn't be the same. He was amazing!!!
What a year!
I'm here for Ronald!
Iconic performance
Ja das waren noch Stars und grossartige Schauspieler 👏👏👏👏👏
Greer Garson's dress is to die for
I really really really love these old Hollywood Oscar snippets. Love these.
old? how so?
@@Marcel_Audubon Well, anything made over 10 years ago. That's how it is now. Maybe 5 is old. Nobody reads, so what people are familiar with is what they hear about, and "old" things aren't discussed on TV or in TikToks.
@@akrenwinkle you need to get out more sweetie, the world ain't defined by tiktok
@@Marcel_Audubon Right now, at this exact moment, an internet douche who thinks he/she's sophisticated is telling a total stranger "you need to get out more" or "you must be fun at parties." Also, no way are you French, not even Canadian. Also, I have cuff links older than you.
A gracious acceptance by Miss Garson.
Danny what a talent and icon ☺️🥰
OMG! This is wonderful!!! Thanks!!
Ann - Margret also played this famous role and was brilliant in the made for tv version receiving a Golden Globe Award
And Emmy Nomination for Best Actress ⭐️
time passess so fast
Aloha Vivien Leigh and Oscars !!!! Thank you for posting this 1952 Oscar Award with you Vivien Leigh winning
Best Actress 1952 !!!!! You were born for this top role as Scarlett O'Hara !!! Robert S.J. Hu Aug. 24, 2020.
Hepburn was GREAT in the African Queen, but Leigh was a sublime, ethereal, mesmerizing, incomparable work of fine art in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar". Only the likes of Marlon Brando could have matched her greatness, and did. Kazan, Malden, Hunter, everybody involved...just an incredible film - very intense. Only book I've read 3 times.
So many amazing actress mentioned in this video. Obviously there's Viv, but Greer is hideously forgotten these days - only Bette and her got five straight Best Actress nominations, still a record til now. Shelley Winters would definitely won had her nomination been in the supporting (though I don't necessarily think she's supporting - she's co-lead for me), though she'll win two Oscars in the future, both for supporting. If anyone is supporting, for me it's the actress from Detective Story tbh.
+Mr Brightside "the actress from Detective Story" deserves to be mentioned by name. She was the gifted Eleanor Parker who was nominated as best actress the previous year as well for a brilliant performance as a timid prisoner in Caged, a movie she carried. Highly acclaimed by critics but underappreciated by the public, she died just 2 or 3 yrs ago. Winters' Alice in A Place in the Sun was definitely a supporting role. Elizabeth Taylor was the leading lady in that film and Winters, though giving her best performance ever, did not have a single scene with her. But lets face it--the movie was really all about Montgomery Clift.
+TheChannel.TV yea sure good for you
+Mr Brightside yeah sure good for me what? What'd I say? What'd I say? Don't be such a little snot.
+TheChannel.TV Don't be such a little snot? Lmao did you read your own comment or what. So you think Winters is more of a supporting than Parker, and Parker is also very good in Caged, so good for you then, for I disagree on both. So yeah, we have different opinions, have a nice day then.
@@TheChannelTV-bt8em i love parker. She's my idol
I love Greer Garson's gown!
I loved the Blue Veil with Jane Wyman...great movie!
All of those movies were great!!!
Oh she was flawless, yes she was
Vivien una estupenda actriz y un Oscar más que merecido en ese año 1952 la Recordamos en peliculas como Lo que el viento se llevó y un tranvia llamado deseo Ricardo alegría Zambrano popayan Colombia.
An incredible list of great actresses in great performances. You don't get that anymore.
Actually only Leigh, Hepburn and Wyman had meaty Oscar roles that year. The other 2 were supporting roles. I wouldn't call it a strong year.
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