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First Name

Vivien

Last Name

Leigh

Birthday

1913-11-05

Height

63.5

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Green

Hair Color

Brown - Dark

Birthplace

Darjeeling, India

Zodiac Sign

Scorpio

Died

1967-07-08

Place of Death

London, England, UK

Cause of Death

Tuberculosis

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Claim to Fame

Gone With The Wind

Nationality

English

Gender

Female

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Actor/Actress, Soundtrack

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Profile Bio Text

Vivian Mary Hartley was born on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India, a strange place for one of the world`s most celebrated actresses to be born. She was to live in this beautiful country for the next six years. Her parents wanted to go home to England but because of World War I they opted to stay in India. At the end of the war the Hartleys headed back to their home country, where Vivien`s mother wanted her daughter to have a convent education. She was one of the youngest in attendance, and it was not a happy experience for her. One of the few consolations was her friendship with a classmate who also became a successful actress, Maureen O`Sullivan While there her mother came for a visit and took her to a play on London`s legendary West Side. It was there that Vivien decided to become an actress. At the end of her education, she met and married Herbert Leigh in 1932 and together had a child named Suzanne in 1933. Though she enjoyed motherhood, it did not squelch her ambition to be an actress. Her first role in British motion pictures was as Rose Venables in 1935`s The Village Squire (1935). That same year Vivien appeared in Things Are Looking Up (1935), Look Up and Laugh (1935) and Gentlemen`s Agreement (1935). In 1938, Vivien went to the US to see her lover, Laurence Olivier, who was filming Wuthering Heights (1939) (she had left Herbert Leigh in 1937). While visiting Olivier, Vivien had the good luck to happen upon the Selznick brothers, who were filming the burning of Atlanta for the film, Gone with the Wind (1939), based on Margaret Mitchell`s novel. The role of Scarlett O`Hara had yet to be cast and she was invited to take part in a screen test for the role. There had already been much talk in Hollywood about who was to be cast as Scarlett. Some big names had tried out for the part, such as Norma Shearer, Katharine Hepburn and Paulette Goddard. In fact, most in the film industry felt that Goddard was a sure bet for the part. However, four days after the screen test, Vivien was informed that she had landed the coveted slot. Although few remember it now, at the time her casting was controversial, as she was British and many fans of the novel it was based on felt the role should be played by an American. In addition, the shoot wasn`t a pleasant one, as she didn`t get along with her co-star, Clark Gable. The rest, as they say, is history. The film became one of the most celebrated in the annals of cinema. Not only did it win Best Picture during the Academy Awards, but Vivien won for Best Actress. Already she was a household name. In 1940, she made two films, Waterloo Bridge (1940) and 21 Days (1940), though neither approached the magnetism of GWTW. That same year saw Vivien marry Olivier and the next year they appeared together in That Hamilton Woman (1941). By the time of the filming of Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), her life had begun to unravel. She had suffered two miscarriages, contracted tuberculosis, and was diagnosed as a manic depressive. However, she gave another excellent performance in that film and her public was still enthralled with her, although the film was not a financial success. She rebounded nicely for her role as Blanche DuBois for her second Oscar-winning performance in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) opposite Marlon Brando in 1951. She wasn`t heard from much after that. She made a film in 1955 (The Deep Blue Sea (1955)). In 1960, her marriage fell apart, as Olivier left her to marry actress Joan Plowright. She appeared on-screen again until 1961 in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), co-starring Warren Beatty. Vivien`s final turn on the screen came in Ship of Fools (1965), and that was a small part. She died at the age of 53 after a severe bout of tuberculosis on July 7, 1967.

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High School

Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, England

University

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (King`s College London)

Full Name at Birth

Vivian Mary Hartley

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Bust (inches)

Waist (inches)

Hips (inches)

Cup Size

Count - Awards

Distinctive Feature

Her green eyes, Her hair., Her beautiful face., Her beautiful body., Cat like smile, Raised right eyebrow

Weight

117

Father

Ernest Hartley (banker and horse trainer for the Indian army in WWI)

Mother

Gertrude Yackjee (Irish)

Friend

Rachel Kempson (the mother of Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave), Kay Kendall, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, David Niven, Sir John Gielgud, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Sunny Alexander, Bobby Helpmann, Noel Coward, Maureen O'Sullivan

Pets

Jupiter (Dog) [1940], Sebastian (Dog), Siamese cats (Cat), New Boy (Cat - Siamese, given to her by Laurence Olivier), Poo Jones (Cat - Siamese), Tissy (Cat - Tabby cat, stray cat until Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier found it), Armando (Cat - Siamese cat), Nicholas (Cat), Christmas (Cat), Snow (Cat), Cleopatra (cow), Sabina (cow)

Favorite Colors

Green, Red

Favorite Places

France

Favorite Foods

French Cuisine

Favorite Colors

White

Favorite People

Charles Dickens (Author)

Biography (Print)

Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh [1987] (Alexander Walker), Vivien Leigh: A Biography (Michelangelo Capua), Vivien Leigh A Biography (Anne Edwards), Vivien Leigh (John Russell Taylor), Vivien: A Love Affair in Camera (Angus McBean), Vivien Leigh: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts) (Cynthia M. Molt), Darlings of the Gods: One Year in the Lives of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (Garry O'Connor), Love Scene: The Story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (Jesse Lasky)

Biographical Movie

Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love [2001]

Portrayed In

"The Carol Burnett Show" [1967], Gable and Lombard [1976], The Scarlett O'Hara War [1980], Darlings of the Gods [1989]

Friend

Tennessee Williams

Favorite Colors

Blue

Age

Friend

Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Olivia DeHavilland

Wikipedia Text

Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for her performances as "southern belles": 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. She won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway version of Tovarich (1963).

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