In 2009, the famed Madame Tussaud’s wax museum finally opened a branch in the film capital of the world. It sure took them long enough! I’ve been to three other Madame Tussaud’s museums (in London, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas), and they’re pretty fun. The ticket prices are a bit high, but they let you stay there as long as you want, take photos, and even hang all over the wax figures. It’s a wonder they don’t let you take a piece home for yourself, haha!
I’d wanted to go to the Hollywood branch since it opened mainly because they have figures of Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh from Gone with the Wind, but I kept putting it off because I figured there were better things to do with my $25. Yesterday I went up to meet with my friend Mark Mayes, and our main goal was to go see the Noel Coward exhibit at AMPAS. With plenty of time to kill afterword, we drove around downtown, and then decided to go up to Hollywood Blvd and give Madame Tussaud’s a try. If you’ve seen Mark elsewhere (such as on the vivien-leigh.com blog), you know he’s a huge old movie fan, and I knew that if I was going to go geek out in a wax museum, he’d be the perfect person to do it with. Nerds unite!
I have to say that the Hollywood museum has the most life-like figures out of any of the other Madame Tussaud’s that I’ve been to. Some of the people completely missed the mark, but the Vivien Leigh figure was the best, hands down. It looks so much like her–at certain angles! I can’t say the same for the Clark Gable one, though.
Movies and mayhem, here’s a sample of what ensued on our adventure:
That was really cool. The figures look just like Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable! How awsome is that:D thanks for sharing!
Looks like fun! I see the Bette Davis one in the background of the Viv one! And I lol irl at ‘The Graduate’ one!
The Viv one looks amazing but I’m sorry to say that the Clark Gable one is a travesty. That looks nothing like him at all!
I’m gonna have to pay this place a visit!
Looks like so much fun!
I literally lol’d at the Katharine Ross and Graduate ones.
The Vivien Leigh model looks incredibly life like… however, the Clark Gable one looks like, well, wax.
haha I love The Graduate pic. And Clark Gable just looks scary… The idea of wax museums really creep me out, but I guess it’d be fun to check out Madame Tussaud’s some time.
Viv looks like surreal…
But YOU are ral and amazing!! always surprising us…and make nice stuff. THANKS, very very much!!
the hair on that ingrid bergman figure looks like it should be on that chick from the oc not someone from the 1940s.
tiger!kendra. wildlife fear you and hbic vivien leigh.
Fear me and the HBIC! FIERCE! haha
PS, did you mention at some point getting to see the UK restored version of The Red Shoes when you were in London? My friend mark got a copy and showed me a clip from it. I was floored. Moira Shearer’s hair was on FIRRRE
You look like you’re having so much fun!! I love these pictures!!
Wax Ingrid Bergman looks like Taylor Swift!
what if it…is Taylor Swift and they just made a huge mistake?