What other roles should Vivien Leigh have played?

In Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Of course

Mrs. Robinson.

Catherine Trammel in Basic Instinct

Let's limit this to her actual years of life please.

Ophelia to Larry's Hamlet.

I see her as a guest character in "I Love Lucy," a frumpy woman mopping up the hallways for the Mertzes. Named Ida Nesselrode. Lonely. So Lucy fixes her up and Fred and Ricky go apeshit for her and Ricky gets her a job at the Tropicana as a tobacco girl.

Lucy gets jealous and comic mayhem ensues when she sneaks into the club to sabotage Ida's gig with exploding cigars. And of course Fred and Ricky get it when their cigars explode, leaving their faces all blackened.

It all ends well because Ida ends up marrying one of the conga drummers.

[quote] I would think she would have been great as Martha in an early 60s movie

Martha Washington?

Martha Jefferson?

Martha "Superman's Mother" Kent?

Martha "Batman's Mother" Wayne?

Martha Graham?

Martha Reeves?

Martha Hyer?

"The Snake Pit."

So much more realistic than that prissy Olivia.

R7, obviously she meant in a remake of "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers."

Quit playing dumb.

In the early 1960s???

Baby Jane.

Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard. (Wrong era?)

Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"?

She aged SO badly ..."ship of fools" is all I can think of as an example of her 'older' years and I don't think I'd want to see any more of THAT. I'd have loved to see her in any number of films during her prime, however, say 1939-1949 - it was a huge career mistake for her to dump Hollywood in order to chase after Olivier on the stage. After GWTW she likely would have had her pick of all the top films/roles in that decade and done well in all of them.

She might have made an interesting Melanie in GWTW, but the studio knew they needed a marquee name like mine in the lead role.

R4 Miss OP is determined for this thread to die before 30 posts.

I would have liked to see her in the Charles Grodin part in 1988’s “Midnight Run.”

Gypsy.

The Nutty Professor

Private Lives or Brief Encounter

Caged

Fanny Skeffington

[quote]What other roles should Viven Leigh have played, limited to her actual years of life, please, and restricted to appropriate character eye colour, hair texture, AND intelligence quotient, and proximity to Baron Olivier's oeuvre and the address of her psychotherapist AT THAT TIME, and please note I am asking for other roles she SHOULD have played, not ones that she COULD have played, MAY have played if she weren't bum-blinking-cray-cray AT THE TIME, MIGHT have played if only she were not playing something else at that very moment, or WOULD have played if only someone would have hazarded the risk in ASKING her agent to approach her; and for Jesus' Blood's sake get the precise week right when the filming or rehearsals SHOULD have started, ensuring that her calendar WAS OPEN the night of the premiere SHOULD have been scheduled.

You know, just my usual simple thread idea sent to you from my room in the Incurable OCD Ward at the Sunnydale Sanitarium & Rest Centre in Old Stoole, Kent. Posting helps keep me from eating my cuticles down to the tendons.

NOW GET IT RIGHT. SO MUCH DEPENDS ON IT. VIVIEN CANNOT BE LET DOWN AGAIN!!!

Brief Encounter

Casablanca

[quote] Brief Encounter

In contrast to reading R23.

She isn't right at all for Martha in Virginia Woolf. THAT character should have been played by Shelley Winters (in the movie).

For Martha, in Virginia Woolf, I think Elizabeth Taylor's voice (kind of coarse-sounding) was perfect. VL's would not have been as good.

OP, I like this thread, but enough with the CAPS and exclamation points.

Laura...All About Eve...Sunset Boulevard....Casablanca...Rebecca (as Rebecca, of course....not the 2md Mrs D)

I hate old movies. Give me Transformers any day

Miracle on 34th Street. She would have made a great Santa Claus.

Strait-Jacket or The Snake Pit---she probably could have drawn of life experience for either.

Madame Bovery--she could have drawn on her long experience with TB.

She would have been too actress-y for Virginia Woolf.

"Wait Until Dark"

Pussy Galore.

Darling

Beth Jarrett

Loretta Lynn

Mame Dennis (in the musical)

Sophie's choice

"Ship of Fools" was Vivien's final film, and I think she turned in a decent performance in it.

She might have been a good Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" if she had been younger.

Belle Rosen

If she had lived maybe Margaret White in Carrie but nobody could top Piper Laurie's iconic performance. (Fun fact: Joan Fontaine was offered the role and turned it down - thank heavens).

Dawn Davenport in "Female Trouble".

Margo Channing

Vicki Lester

Anna Leonowens

Mame Dennis

Violet Venable

Alexandra Del Lago

Helen Lawson