# The best Vivien Leigh movies

Scarlett O'Hara, Blanche DuBois and Lady Hamilton: two Oscars and the films that made Vivien Leigh a legend, according to Gold Derby and Filmmaking Lifestyle.

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- Jun 17, 2023 · gareth_cinephile
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## Top 12

1. **Gone with the Wind (1939)** (226 · ▲241 ▼15) — Victor Fleming. Scarlett O'Hara; her first Oscar.
2. **A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)** (184 · ▲206 ▼22) — Elia Kazan. Blanche DuBois opposite Marlon Brando; her second Oscar.
3. **That Hamilton Woman (1941)** (177 · ▲192 ▼15) — Alexander Korda. Emma Hamilton and Lord Nelson, with Laurence Olivier.
4. **Waterloo Bridge (1940)** (145 · ▲162 ▼17) — Mervyn LeRoy. A ballerina and an officer in wartime London.
5. **Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)** (131 · ▲146 ▼15) — Gabriel Pascal. Cleopatra, from George Bernard Shaw.
6. **Anna Karenina (1948)** (116 · ▲138 ▼22) — Julien Duvivier. Tolstoy's heroine.
7. **The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)** (113 · ▲133 ▼20) — José Quintero. An ageing actress in Rome, from Tennessee Williams.
8. **Ship of Fools (1965)** (91 · ▲123 ▼32) — Stanley Kramer. Her last film, aboard a liner to Germany.
9. **Sidewalks of London (1938)** (81 · ▲104 ▼23) — Tim Whelan. A street performer, with Charles Laughton.
10. **A Yank at Oxford (1938)** (79 · ▲106 ▼27) — Jack Conway. With Robert Taylor.
11. **Fire Over England (1937)** (76 · ▲108 ▼32) — William K. Howard. A lady-in-waiting at the court of Elizabeth I.
12. **The Deep Blue Sea (1955)** (65 · ▲97 ▼32) — Anatole Litvak. A woman leaving her husband, from Terence Rattigan.

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