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Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 - July 8, 1967) was an English actress. She is most famous for playing Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind in 1939, and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951. Leigh won Academy Awards for both of these roles.
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Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English actress. She won two Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had ... played in London's West End.
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Vivien Leigh didn't make many films, but she made movie history with her portrayal of Scarlett in Gone With the Wind (1939, opposite Clark Gable), winning her first Oscar. Leigh's affair and marriage to actor Laurence Olivier was just as famous as her ambitious effort to play the lead in what was then -- and maybe still is -- Hollywood's biggest event. Her appearances in film were few and far between, but she won another Oscar in 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire (with Marlon Brando). Her marriage to Olivier ended in 196O, and Leigh's final years were spent battling manic-depression and tuberculosis.
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Vivien Leigh is coquettish Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, Clark Gable is gambler-rogue Rhett Butler, in one of the best-loved films of all time. Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel co-star in this epic of love and loyalty in the Civil War South. This grand-scale adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's best-seller won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. 4 hrs. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; documentaries; premiere footage; audio commentary; featurettes; interview; bonus short "The Old South" (1940); theatrical trailers. Four-disc set.
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Born in India in 1913, Vivien Leigh achieved stardom in one of Hollywood's most famous ever films. Having appeared on the English stage and fallen in love with Laurence Olivier, filming Fire Over England in 1937, she would follow him to America. Leigh happened to meet the Selznick brothers who asked her to audition for the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind and the rest is part of film history. She would win an Oscar for her role in the film and another in 1951 for her part in A Streetcar Named Desire alongside Marlon Brando. She appeared in few other films, before she died aged 53 of tuberculosis.
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Vivien married Leigh Holman, a barrister, in 1932 at the age of 19. He was 32 at the time - 13 years older than her. They were married for 8 years until 1940. Leigh looked coincidentally like Leslie Howard/Ashley Wilkes - the one man Scarlett O'Hara couldn't have. Leigh Holman remained her friend for life after their divorce and they continued to corespond once she became involved with Laurence Olivier. She took the name 'Leigh' from him for her stage name of 'Vivien Leigh' in 1935, although up to this time her married name was Mrs.Vivian Leigh Holman.
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