{"id":259,"date":"2018-05-11T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2018-05-18T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:56:08","slug":"vivien-leigh-and-the-star-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=259","title":{"rendered":"Vivien Leigh and the Star Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">A study day organised by the Film Studies Department at<br \/>\nQueen Mary University of London, 7 March 2015<\/h5>\n<p>The day was all about investigating the relationship of star studies to the star archive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith Lodwick and Kate Dorney,\u00a0<\/strong>curators of the Vivien Leigh archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum talked about the treasures in the archive, such as costumes, scripts, photos and letters, as well as demonstrating how they inform us about Leigh\u2019s screen and stage performances. Watch a video about the V&amp;A&#8217;s Vivien Leigh archive <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/153750725\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=431\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-455 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Scrapbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for treasures from the V&amp;A archive gallery (\u00a9 Victoria and Albert Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles Drazin\u00a0<\/strong>talked about his work on Alexander Korda \u2013 a close friend and mentor of Leigh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-460 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Korda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for Alexander Korda and Vivien Leigh gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucy Bolton\u00a0<\/strong>spoke about the popular perceptions of Leigh, as evidenced in\u00a0<em>My Week with Marilyn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_465\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=463\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-465 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Marilyn-and-Leigh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for Vivien Leigh in My Weekend with Marilyn gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Terence Pepper <\/strong>and<strong> Clare Freestone<\/strong> in conversation with Lucy Bolton, discussed Vivien Leigh and other star Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-473 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TheEuropeanScene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for star portraits at the NPG gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was also a roundtable discussion about researching the star archive, with <strong>Charles Drazin<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Glancy<\/strong> and <strong>Sue Harris<\/strong>, chaired by <strong>Pauline Small<\/strong>, author of <em>Sophia Loren, Moulding the Star.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-389\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0116_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-389\" src=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0116_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for round table gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read Sarah Culhane&#8217;s write up of the day at <a href=\"https:\/\/womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/25\/vivien-leigh-and-the-star-archive-a-study-day\/\">Women&#8217;s Film &amp; Television History Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7208_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7208_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study day organised by the Film Studies Department at Queen Mary University of London, 7 March 2015 The day was all about investigating the relationship of star studies to the star archive. Keith Lodwick and Kate Dorney,\u00a0curators of the Vivien Leigh archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum talked about the treasures in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/?page_id=259\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vivien Leigh and the Star Archive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":397,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbc.sllf.qmul.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}