Vivien Leigh Wins Coveted Role
After an intensive search that has gone on for months. Erich Pommer has at las* i~ Vivien Leigh, found a leading Jatlv to play opposite Charles Laughton in the new Pommer-Laugh-ton 1 Mayflower” production, “St. Martin': - . Lane.” Miss Leigh made her first important screen appearance for Erich Pommer in “Fire Over England.” The role of “Libby” in this new Laughton starring vehicle has been one of the most sought after parts of the season. Over the last three months, practically every actress of importance has been either considered or tested fop the role, while Erich Pommer, Charles Laughton and Tim Whelan, the director on the production, have visited every theatre and cabaret show in London, even travelling up to the Provinces in their search for the ideal “Libby.” Not only famous stage end screen actresses have been tried out in lests with Lauchton, but many un!.::own girls have been picked from the chorus or from the ranks of the film extras, to make a sareen test opposite the famous English stage and screen star
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 4
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179Vivien Leigh Wins Coveted Role Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 4
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