“She asked her assistant if the two of us could be alone so we could chat about old times,” recalls Mickey, 88, exclusively to Closer. Vivien generously gave her time to the 18-year-old actor. Eleven years earlier, he’d appeared in Gone With the Wind as Beau Wilkes. Streetcar’s last surviving cast member, Mickey Kuhn, who played a sailor, was also delighted to work with Vivien again. “Everyone was touched and moved by her will to be good,” said director Elia. They were the power couple of the time, like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, but actually better actors,” says Staggs, who notes that Vivien, who would suffer from mental illness later in life, was at the peak of her skills when Streetcar was filmed. If the other actors felt upset about the casting, they hid it well.
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