Vivien Leigh came to the Pocket Playhouse on Sunday October 22, 1961 escorted by fellow actor John Merivale. Yes, the same stage actress and famous film star who played ‘Scarlett’ in the block buster ‘Gone With the Wind’. She came to a performance of ‘The Sleeping Prince’ (she had created the stage role in London) with Noeline Brown and Edward Lansdowne in the featured roles. We became good friends and I visited her backstage at the old Theatre Royal. The full story of her visit to the Pocket Playhouse is recorded in ‘Encounters With Rainbows’ published privately and presently unavailable.
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