Gone With the Wind
1940
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Vivien Leigh (/ l iː / 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 role she had also played on stage in London's West ...
- Actress
- List of awards and nominations
- 1935–1967
- Suzanne Farrington
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.
Vivien Leigh. Actress: A Streetcar Named Desire. If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...
- Actress, Writer, Soundtrack
- November 5, 1913
- 4 min
- July 7, 1967
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. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, please contact the Crisis Text Line by texting ...
- Sandra Mardenfeld
Vivien Leigh. Actress: A Streetcar Named Desire. If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...
- November 5, 1913
- July 7, 1967
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Oct 9, 2017 · Vivien Leigh took her first major step into the public eye when she was cast as Henriette in the 1935 play The Mask of Virtue. Leigh’s performance led to film offers that quickly transformed the ...
Aug 8, 2021 · T he Observer Magazine’s cover story of 31 July 1977 on Vivien Leigh (‘The double life of Miss Leigh’) mostly aligned itself with the view of Kenneth Tynan, one of her fiercest critics, who ...
