The Portrait Of A Lady

Vivien Leigh & The Stage

Vivien Leigh is a lady loaded with class. She just naturally tilts her chin up and looks down her pretty little nose and puts a regal gloss on every role she touches, from Camille to Cleopatra. Now, on Broadway in her first musical, Tovarich, she plays a grand duchess who is exiled from Soviet Russia and obliged to become a lady's maid in an American family. Miss Leigh, as you might expect, struts her royal stuff to perfection. But she pulls a big surprise when, dropping her decorum, she rips into a Charleston. She's so captivating that she makes it seem that Russia suffered an even greater calamity than Communism when it threw out an aristocratic honeybunch like Vivien.

Shedding her maid's uniform and her frivolity, Miss Leigh puts on dignity and a ball gown for a refugee party in Tovarich. Jean Pierre Aumont plays her royal spouse, who works as a butler but doesn't mind at all because he loves his wife so much.

2003 � Vivien Leigh & The Stage.

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