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Feb 28, 2022 · Leigh died in 1967, at the age of 53, after a bout with tuberculosis, a disease she had since 1945, according to an obituary in The New York Times. She has been in rehearsals for a West End performance in "A Delicate Balance" at the time.
Vivien Leigh ( / liː / LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Vivien Leigh was a British actress who achieved film immortality by playing two of American literature's most celebrated Southern belles, Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois.
Dispatches from London gave no official cause of death. However, Miss Leigh was stricken a month ago with a recurrence of tuberculosis, an illness that had plagued her for nearly a quarter of...
After clawing her way back from the brink of death, Leigh planned to revive her film career in 1944, only to star in flop after flop. Leigh couldn't get a role she desperately wanted in her husband's movie Rebecca, then she unwisely turned down the lead in Pride and Prejudice.
The death of Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) The private setbacks for Leigh worsened her already compromised well-being, leading to angry outbursts, excessive despair, and breakdowns.
LONDON, July 8 Vivien Leigh, the stage and screen actress, was found dead in her London apartment this morning. Theater lights in the West End were blacked out for an hour tonight in tribute to...
Jul 8, 2022 · The cause of death, cardiac arrest, would have been a consequence of tuberculosis that had afflicted her for years. One of the obituaries of the time described her as an actress “of considerable skill and courage”, rightly anticipating her face would never be forgotten.
Jul 7, 2012 · Vivien Leigh’s death was shocking in its unexpectedness. The last few weeks of her life had been spent on mandatory bed rest. Friends and loved ones poured in to 54 Eaton Square to visit, noting that her bedroom resembled the Chelsea Flower Show– a rose bower fit for a queen.
Jun 10, 2020 · On the announcement of Vivien's death, every theatre in London's West End extinguished its marquee lights for one hour.
