VIVIEN LEIGH
ACTING
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, British India) was an English actress renowned for her roles in Hollywood and British theater.
She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, portraying Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), both performances that solidified her place among the greatest actresses of classic cinema.
Leigh was the only child of Ernest Hartley, a British broker, and Gertrude Yackjee, who had Anglo-Indian and Armenian ancestry.
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
Gone with the Wind 1939
Ship of Fools 1965
Fire Over England 1937
Caesar and Cleopatra 1945
Anna Karenina 1948
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 1961
That Hamilton Woman 1941
Waterloo Bridge 1940
21 Days Together 1940
Dark Journey 1937
Storm in a Teacup 1937
St. Martin's Lane 1938
A Yank at Oxford 1938
The Deep Blue Sea 1955
Look Up and Laugh 1935
Hollywood: The Selznick Years 1961
That's Entertainment! III 1994
Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland 2004
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976