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Vivien Leigh: Daughter
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Vivien LEIGH The wedding between Leigh and Vivien took place on December 20th 1932, at St. James's Cathedral. Shortly after they returned from their honeymoon in Austria, Vivien obtained Leigh's permission to return to RADA and she continued to study acting. A year passed and Vivien gave birth to a daughter on October 10th 1933, naming her Suzanne. At this point, things seemed to have settled into domestic life for Vivien. Her destiny would not remain domestic for long ... she had just heard of the chance for a small part in a new film entitled Things are Looking Up…Copyright
In February 1940, Jill Esmond agreed to divorce Olivier, and Holman ... agreed to divorce Leigh, although they maintained a strong friendship for the rest of Leigh's life. Esmond was granted custody of Tarquin, her son with Olivier, and Holman was granted custody of Suzanne, his daughter with Leigh. On August 30 Olivier and Leigh were married in Santa Barbara, California, in a ceremony attended only by their witnesses, Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin.
In 1932 she married Herbert Leigh Holman when she was only 19, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, one year later. John Betjeman, the future Poet Laureate, wrote about her at this period describing her as,
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