These photographs capture the drawer display at Topsham Museum which contains several original artefacts that connect Vivien Leigh to Topsham.
The drawer contains:
The drawer contains:
- a signed theatre programme for the play School for Scandal;
- a photograph of Vivien Leigh and Leigh Holman from the 1930s;
- a photograph of the pair on their wedding day in 1932;
- a black and silver accessory with osprey feathers;
- photographs of Suzanne Holman and Leigh Holman outside No. 25 The Strand in 1940;
- envelopes addressed to Suzanne Holman when she was staying at No. 25 The Strand in 1939;
- a photograph of Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind wearing the nightdress costume;
- postcards send to Suzanne Holman from Vivien Leigh and her grandmother Gertrude Hartley when she was staying at No. 25 The Strand;
- an ivory patch box inscribed with Vivien Leigh's name from 1949;
- a plastic carrier bag containing a reproduction of the silk nightdress from the set of Gone with the Wind discovered at the Museum in 1992.
Subject | Vivien Leigh |
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Source | Topsham Museum |
Date | 2019-06-25 |
Format | Photograph |
Type | Research process |
Coverage | 1930s-1960s |