Vivien Leigh
by Viktoria Jakovleva
Birth Name: Vivian
Mary Hartley Date of Birth:
November 5, 1913 Birth Place:
Darjeeeling, India Date of Death: July
8, 1967, London, England
At the age of six, she was sent to the
Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England.
Her later education Vivien completed in Europe.
At 18 she enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.
An Education
Marriage
At 19 she married barrister Leigh Holman, whose name she used to create her stage name.
A year later she had a daughter, Suzanne.
Vivien was offered a small part in her first film
“Things Are Looking Up”(1935). She played a school girl and had only one line, but it was a start.
In 1937, Vivien Leigh left her husband for Lawrence Olivier.
The Beginnings of a Career
Success came when she got the part as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind (1939).
Big Break
Anna Karenina (1948) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Sidewalks of
London(1938)
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