Vivien Leigh

. She died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer. Leigh has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6773 Hollywood Blvd. Her near-pathological fear of germs did not interfere with her career. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill, near Blackboys, Sussex, London, England. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and repeated it in nine more films. The actress died of chronic tuberculosis in her London home. She played Ma Kettle in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle.

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. She made six comedies with Wallace Beery in the 1940s. Leigh continued to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, actor John Merivale. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. In 1960, she and Olivier divorced on supposedly friendly terms. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the movie version of 1937, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. 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. She married Stanley LeFevre Krebs, who died in 1935.

By the early 1960s Leigh had suffered two miscarriages, and the severity of the tuberculosis was incapacitating. She began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles: her distinct voice was like chalk upon a blackboard. In 1951, however, Leigh won a second Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931. 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. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. In 1944, the actress was diagnosed as having a tuberculosis patch on her left lung. Born in Acton, Indiana as Mary Tomlinson, she attended Franklin College, in Franklin, Indiana. She adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, who was a minister.

At the time, both were married (Olivier to actress Jill Esmond who was pregnant when the affair began). Marjorie Main (24 February 1890-10 April 1975) was an American character actress who was best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair. The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm - 1957- Ma Kettle. In 1940, Leigh arranged for a divorce from Holman and married British theatre star Laurence Olivier. Friendly Persuasion - 1956. 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. The Kettles in the Ozarks - 1956 - Ma Kettle.

In 1935, she began her film career with such movies as The Village Squire, Things are Looking Up, and Look Up and Laugh. Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki - 1955 - Ma Kettle. Her first play was The Green Sash, though it was Mask of Virtue that really brought her to stardom. Ricochet Romance - 1954. Leigh's career began on the stage. Rose Marie - 1954. She was married in 1932 to Herbert Leigh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1933. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home - 1954 - Ma Kettle.

She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England, along with fellow actress-to-be Maureen O'Sullivan. The Long, Long Trailer - 1954. She and her parents later moved to England, where young Leigh grew up. Fast Company - 1953. Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913–July 7, 1967) was an English actress who was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation - 1953 - Ma Kettle. Ship of Fools (1965). Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair - 1952 - Ma Kettle.

Stone (1961). The Belle of New York - 1952. The Roman Spring of Mrs. A Letter from a Soldier - 1951. The Deep Blue Sea (1955). It's a Big Country - 1951. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). The Law and the Lady - 1951.

Anna Karenina (1947). Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm - 1951 - Ma Kettle. Caeser and Cleopatra (1945). Imperium - 1951. That Hamilton Woman (1941). Mr. Waterloo Bridge (1940). Malone - 1951.

Gone With the Wind (1939). O'Malley and Mr. Martins Lane (1938). Mrs. St. Summer Stock - 1950. A Yank At Oxford (1938). Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town - 1950 - Ma Kettle.