Sotheby's offers intimate glimpse into the marriage of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in rare footage - after revealing Gone with the Wind star's private belongings are to go on sale
- Sotheby's will sell Gone with the Wind star's personal belongings on Sept 26th
- To mark sale, auction house has released footage of Leigh and Laurence Olivier
- The pair, married for 20 years, can be seen frolicking by a pool in their swimwear
- Items on sale include £15,000 mirror, Leigh's Gone with the Wind book and monogrammed luggage set amongst art, jewels and personal diaries
- Surprisingly affordable, fans will be able to snap up several items for under £100 including a pair of Leigh's leather gloves which have a guide price of £50
Auction house Sotheby's has announced it will sell Hollywood icon Vivien Leigh's personal belongings including her £2.6million Wiltshire home, a £15,000 mirror and the actress' own signed copy of Gone with the Wind.
To mark the sale, the auction house has released never-seen-before footage from home videos of Leigh with her one-time husband Laurence Olivier.
The cinematic legends can be seen frolicking by the pool and playing with their pet dog during the footage, which offers a rare insight into one of the most talked about marriages in Hollywood history.
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Leigh and Oliver were wed in 1940 after a whirlwind love affair that saw them both leaving their respctive marriages.
Their own union lasted for twenty years but came to an end in 1960, just seven years before Leigh died of TB aged just 53.
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The Sotheby's sale, to be held on September 26th, will include items given to the pair on their wedding day, including a goblet gifted from Katharine Hepburn, who was one of only four guests at the union, which took place at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara.
The silver cup is expected to fetch between £8,000 to £12,000.
For those with deep pockets, Leigh's beloved home, in the Wiltshire village of Zeals, is the headline buy.
Manor Farm House, currently owned by Leigh's grandchildren, includes 'a six to seven bedroom manor house set around a courtyard of beautiful Medieval stone barns' and will go on sale for £2.6million.
Elsewhere in the collection, there are show-stealers galore including The Notley Mirror, an 18th-century carved giltwood mirror with a guide price of around £10,000 to £15,000.
For fans of Leigh's most famous role, as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind in the 1939 classic, there's the actress' own personal copy of the book, signed by its author Margaret Mitchell.
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