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November 05, 1913 - July 07, 1967
Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913 in Darjeeling, India. Her parents, Ernest and Gertrude, were both rich. Little Vivian soon became a spoiled child, so it was her mother's decision to send her off to an all-girl's school in Roehampton, England called Sacred Heart Convent in when she was six years old.
When she was 19, December 30, 1932, she met a young man named Leigh Holman. Gertrude was against this marriage, because in her opinion her daughter was too young, but love doesn't wait. Vivian then joined a drama workshop, the RADA, and acted there until she had a daughter, Suzanne, in 1933. This was only a short rest from acting to her. She said her first line in a movie in 1934 entitled "Things Are Looking Up". In August 1935 she got an agent, Alexander Korda. Korda decided that, she had to change her name and Vivien Leigh was born.
Leigh is best known for her Academy Award winning portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939) After playing Blanche DuBois in the 1949 London staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, she won her second Oscar for the 1951 film version.
She was married twice, once to Herbert Leigh Holman in December of 1933, they had a daughter Suzanne Holman Farrington born Oct 12, 1933.Vivian and Herbert divorced in 1940. Her second and most public marriage was to Lawrence Olivier, August 31,1941, they then divorced Dec 2, 1960. Some of her other films included: Fire Over England (1937) Waterloo Bridge (1940) That Hamilton Woman (1941) Anna Karenina (1948) A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) The Deep Blue Sea (1955) The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) Ship of Fools (1965).
Vivian Leigh died from complications of tuberculosis, on July 7,1967, at age 53, in Eaton Square, London England, her ashes were scattered at Tickerage Mill, England.
