 In 1953 Leigh recovered sufficiently to play The Sleeping Prince with Olivier ; and , in 1955 , they performed a season at Stratford @-@ upon @-@ Avon in Shakespeare 's Twelfth Night , Macbeth , and Titus Andronicus . They played to capacity houses and attracted generally good reviews , Leigh 's health seemingly stable . John Gielgud directed Twelfth Night and wrote , " ... perhaps I will still make a good thing of that divine play , especially if he will let me pull her little ladyship ( who is brainier than he but not a born actress ) out of her timidity and safeness . He dares too confidently ... but she hardly dares at all and is terrified of overreaching her technique and doing anything that she has not killed the spontaneity of by overpractice . " In 1955 Leigh starred in Anatole Litvak 's film The Deep Blue Sea ; co @-@ star Kenneth More felt he had poor chemistry with Leigh during the filming . 
