1913-11-05 ( 111 years old ) in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India]
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley, and also known as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her iconic 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 End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963).
After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937). Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that her physical attributes sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. Despite her fame as a screen actress, Leigh was primarily a stage performer. During her 30-year career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet, and Lady Macbeth. Later in life, she performed as a character actress in a few films.
At the time, the public strongly identified Leigh with her second husband Laurence Olivier, who was her spouse from 1940 to 1960. Leigh and Olivier starred together in many stage productions, with Olivier often directing, and in three films. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and for much of her adult life she suffered from bipolar disorder as well as recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, which was first diagnosed in the mid-1940s and ultimately claimed her life at the age of 53. Although her career had periods of inactivity, in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as the 16th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema.
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Movies
Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent
2020-01-03
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018-07-27
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009-07-02
Jornal Português (1938-1951)
2005-12-12
Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love
2001-09-13
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01
Glorious Technicolor
1998-12-07
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
1996-03-17
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
1990-10-22
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988-10-01
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976-05-16
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
The Extraordinary Seaman
1969-05-14
Ship of Fools
1965-07-29
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961-12-31
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961-12-28
The Skin of Our Teeth
1959-01-01
The Deep Blue Sea
1955-11-01
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951-09-19
The Screen Director
1951-03-12
Anna Karenina
1948-01-22
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945-12-11
That Hamilton Woman
1941-04-03
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940-07-31
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940-05-29
Waterloo Bridge
1940-05-17
21 Days Together
1940-01-07
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15
St. Martin's Lane
1938-10-18
A Yank at Oxford
1938-02-18
Dark Journey
1937-07-02
Fire Over England
1937-03-05
Storm in a Teacup
1937-02-25
Look Up and Laugh
1935-08-13
Things Are Looking Up
1935-06-09
The Village Squire
1935-04-14
Gentlemen's Agreement
1935-01-01
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