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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913–July 7, 1967) was an English actress who was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. She and her parents later moved to England, where young Leigh grew up. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England, along with fellow actress-to-be Maureen O'Sullivan.

She was married in 1932 to Herbert Leigh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1933.

Leigh's career began on the stage. Her first play was The Green Sash, though it was Mask of Virtue that really brought her to stardom. In 1935, she began her film career with such movies as The Village Squire, Things are Looking Up, and Look Up and Laugh. Leigh is best known, however, for her role of Scarlett O'Hara in the American film Gone With the Wind (1939), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1940, Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married British theatre star Laurence Olivier. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair. At the time, both were married (Olivier to actress Jill Esmond who was pregnant when the affair began).

In 1944, the actress was diagnosed as having a tuberculosis patch on her left lung. Though she continued her career with such plays as Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, and the 1946 film Caesar and Cleopatra, her illness was getting worse. In 1951, however, Leigh won a second Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

By the early 1960s Leigh had suffered two miscarriages, and the severity of the tuberculosis was incapacitating. She had also been plagued by manic-depression for some time, which was believed to be a factor in the failure to cure her ailment. In 1960, she and Olivier divorced on supposedly friendly terms. Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, actor John Merivale. Joan Plowright, third wife and widow of Olivier, later claimed that during much of Olivier's marriage to Leigh he was having a longterm homosexual relationship with the American actor Danny Kaye.

The actress died of chronic tuberculosis in her London home. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, near Blackboys, Sussex, London, England.

Leigh has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6773 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

  • Things Are Looking Up (1934)
  • The Village Squire (1935)
  • Gentleman's Agreement (1935)
  • Look Up And Laugh (1935)
  • Fire Over England (1937)
  • Dark Journey (1937)
  • Storm In A Teacup (1937)
  • Twenty-One Days (1937)
  • A Yank At Oxford (1938)
  • St. Martins Lane (1938)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939)
  • Waterloo Bridge (1940)
  • That Hamilton Woman (1941)
  • Caeser and Cleopatra (1945)
  • Anna Karenina (1947)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
  • The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
  • Ship of Fools (1965)



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. In 2001 she opened an herbal medicine shop, selling products from the garden of her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Leigh has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6773 Hollywood Blvd. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Cinderella Liberty, The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two and Only When I Laugh. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, near Blackboys, Sussex, London, England. Chapter Two, in fact, was based on her relationship with Simon. The actress died of chronic tuberculosis in her London home. Louis, Missouri, she was married to playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, and starred in several movies based on his works, including The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, Only When I Laugh, The Cheap Detective and Max Dugan Returns.

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By the early 1960s Leigh had suffered two miscarriages, and the severity of the tuberculosis was incapacitating. In 1951, however, Leigh won a second Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Though she continued her career with such plays as Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, and the 1946 film Caesar and Cleopatra, her illness was getting worse. In 1944, the actress was diagnosed as having a tuberculosis patch on her left lung.

At the time, both were married (Olivier to actress Jill Esmond who was pregnant when the affair began). The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair. In 1940, Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married British theatre star Laurence Olivier. Leigh is best known, however, for her role of Scarlett O'Hara in the American film Gone With the Wind (1939), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 1935, she began her film career with such movies as The Village Squire, Things are Looking Up, and Look Up and Laugh. Her first play was The Green Sash, though it was Mask of Virtue that really brought her to stardom. Leigh's career began on the stage. She was married in 1932 to Herbert Leigh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1933.

She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England, along with fellow actress-to-be Maureen O'Sullivan. She and her parents later moved to England, where young Leigh grew up. Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913–July 7, 1967) was an English actress who was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. Ship of Fools (1965).

Stone (1961). The Roman Spring of Mrs. The Deep Blue Sea (1955). A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).

Anna Karenina (1947). Caeser and Cleopatra (1945). That Hamilton Woman (1941). Waterloo Bridge (1940).

Gone With the Wind (1939). Martins Lane (1938). St. A Yank At Oxford (1938).

Twenty-One Days (1937). Storm In A Teacup (1937). Dark Journey (1937). Fire Over England (1937).

Look Up And Laugh (1935). Gentleman's Agreement (1935). The Village Squire (1935). Things Are Looking Up (1934).