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  Vivien Leigh at Reel Classics
FIRE OVER ENGLAND (1937), a historical drama made in Britain for producer Alexander Korda, was Leigh's first of three films in which she appeared opposite actor Laurence Olivier whom she married in 1940.
In A YANK AT OXFORD (1938), made in Britain by MGM, Leigh plays a coy, flirtatious young bride who distracts American Robert Taylor and his Oxford classmates from their academic and athletic pursuits.
Against a competitive field of hundreds of talented American actresses, Leigh won the coveted role of Katie Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939), the most famous role of her career and the performance for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
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 Vivien Leigh: A Who2 Profile
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 marriage to Olivier ended in 196O, and Leigh's final years were spent battling manic-depression and tuberculosis.
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 Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh est partie il y a 40 ans, le 7 juillet 1967.
Février 2007 : objets ayant appartenus à Vivien Leigh.
En France, Vivien Leigh est célèbre pour son interprétation de Scarlett O ' Hara mais il ne faut pas oublier qu'elle fut une grande actrice de théâtre, dans des registres très variés.
www.vivien-leigh.net   (286 words)

  
  Vivien Leigh - MovieActors.com
Vivien Leigh is Scarlett in GONE WITH THE WIND.
Vivien Leigh was just 24 years old when she played Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's Civil War classic and won the Best Actress Award.
Vivien Leigh keept on appearing on stage until her last play in 1963.
www.movieactors.com /40stars/vivien.htm   (192 words)

  
  Vivien Leigh - Vie
Vivien, après un bout d'essai concluant est engagée.
Vivien doit travailler chaque matin son accent pour parler comme une américaine du sud, elle doit aussi apprendre tous les jours un texte sans cesse modifié par l'équipe de Selznick.
Vivien répète Roméo et Juliette au théâtre avec Olivier.
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 Vivien Leigh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leigh hoped to star with Olivier and made a screentest for Rebecca, which was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Olivier in the leading role, but after viewing her screentest Selznick noted that "she doesn't seem right as to sincerity or age or innocence", a view shared by Hitchcock, and Leigh's mentor, George Cukor.
The tour was an outstanding success, and although Leigh was plagued with insomnia and allowed her understudy to replace her for a week while she was ill, she generally withstood the demands placed upon her, with Olivier noting her ability to "charm the press".
Vivien Leigh was considered one of the most beautiful actresses of her day, and her directors emphasised this in most of her films.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vivien_Leigh   (4984 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Vivien Leigh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 – July 7, 1967) was an English actress who was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India to Ernest Hartley (who was of English parentage) and Gertrude Robinson Yackje (of Irish descent).
Leigh is better known for her role as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
Leigh was cremated, and her ashes were scattered on the lake at Tickerage Mill pond, near Blackboys, Sussex, London.
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 Vivien Leigh Encyclopedia Article @ HollywoodBlockbuster.com (Hollywood Blockbuster)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress, a viewpoint shared by some of her contemporaries, but ill health proved to be her greatest obstacle.
Affected by bipolar disorder for most of her adult life, Leigh's extreme moods were often misunderstood, and as she gained a reputation for being difficult, her career went through periods of decline.
Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley, in Darjeeling in India, to Ernest Hartley, an officer in the Indian Cavalry who was of English parentage, and Gertrude Robinson Yackje, who was of French-Irish descent.
hollywoodblockbuster.com /encyclopedia/Vivien_Leigh   (5131 words)

  
 Daily Variety - Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference
Larry and Vivien were called the “:Royal Family” of the theatre — but she was only touched by greatness by associating with the most famous British actor of his generation and at the time a Hollywood matinee idol.
Leigh was a complex character and Lafferty inhabits the role for real, holding her audience mesmerized for nearly 90 minutes in a monologue of epic proportions.
Leigh’s life was defined by three roles: Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind, Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire and as Lady Olivier wife to the Lord of the manor at Notley Abbey, their 11th century residence.
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Vivien Leigh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Leigh grew up with a household full of servants surrounded by lush tea plantations and with views of the peaks of the Himalayas before her parents decided to send her to England for a "proper education" at a London convent school in 1919.
Vivien Leigh was absent from films from 1941 until 1946, spending half a decade coping with catastrophic illness.
Vivien Leigh died in her sleep at her London apartment on July 8th, 1967 from tuberculosis, having struggled with the disease for more than 20 years.
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 Vivien Leigh Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Vivien Leigh had only a brief career on the British stage and screen when she was plucked out of relative obscurity for the female lead in what would become one of the greatest movies ever made.
Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in India, in the cool mountain region of Darjeeling in 1913.
Leigh and Olivier had become attracted to each other during the filming of Fire Over England, and their well-publicized romance became a main topic of gossip, especially since they were both already married.
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 Vivien Leigh
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.
Vivien Leigh - Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) actress Born: 11/5/1913 Birthplace: Darjeeling, India Legendary...
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 Vivien Leigh - Free English Encyclopedia from Turkcebilgi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
ISBN:034023024x pp 50-55 andlt;/refandgt; In 1960 Leigh recalled her ambivalence towards her first experience of critical acclaim and sudden fame, commenting, andquot;some critics saw fit to be as foolish as to say that I was a great actress.
The tour was an outstanding success, and although Leigh was plagued with insomnia and allowed her understudy to replace her for a week while she was ill, she generally withstood the demands placed upon her, with Olivier noting her ability to andquot;charm the pressandquot;.
In 1969 a plaque to Leigh was placed in the actor's church, [[St Paul's, Covent Garden]], and in 1985 a portrait of her was included in a series of [[postage stamp]]s, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate andquot;British Film Yearandquot;.
www.turkcebilgi.com /ansiklopedi/english/Vivien_Leigh   (4315 words)

  
 Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Hartley on November 5th 1913 in Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India which is now India.
In 1927, when Vivien was 13, her parents moved to England and since they were wealthy they decided to go traveling.
Vivien always kept a photograph of Larry beside her bed and her luggage still had the initials 'V.O.' on them up to her death.
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 The Play - Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference
Marcy Lafferty wrote, directed and starred in "Vivien: The Movie, The Marriage, The Madness" which was the impetus for the current stage production, a more comprehensive study of Vivien Leigh.
Driven by the duel demons, manic depression and tuberculosis, Leigh believed herself to be defined by three roles — Scarlett O'Hara from 'Gone With the Wind,' Blanche Dubois from 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and Lady O, the wife of Olivier — and was tortured by them.
Cognizant to her eternal shame of the terror she became in the grip of a manic bout, the elegant lady became a cabbie's whore; the delicate beauty, a waterfront bawd; the angel that floated on a pink cloud kissing the lives of her friends attacked them with a viciousness and cruelty- she rallied on.
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 VIVIEN LEIGH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, India.
Vivien divorced her husband and Laurence divorced his wife so they could be together.
Vivien costarred with Robert Taylor in Waterloo Bridge and with Claude Rains in Caesar And Cleopatra.
www.classicactresses.com /vivien.html   (463 words)

  
 Vivien The Play - Vivien Leigh -
Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling, India on November 5, 1913 to Ernest and Gertrude Hartley.
They had a passionate relationship, onstage and off, complicated by Vivien's manic-depression, which was finally diagnosed in 1953, and by her tuberculosis which first attacked her in the 1940s and was to recur fatally.
August 31: Divorces Leigh Holman; marries Olivier in Santa Barbara with Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin as witnesses.
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 Vivien Leigh
She was born in Darjeeling (Vivien Hartley) and was educated in various boarding schools.
She decided to be an actress and, though she married a solicitor (Leigh Holman) shortly after leaving school, she studied at RADA.
She got a few bit parts in cinema but it was her appearance in the play "The Mask of Virtue" that got her noticed and got her a contract with Korda.
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 Vivien Leigh | Biography (1913-1967)
Vivien Leigh's rise to stardom can be traced back to December 10,1938, when Atlanta - simulated by a group of old sets - was going up in flames a second time.
That, at least, is the story of how Vivien Leigh came to be cast in the role coveted or claimed at one time or another by every rising, established or waning female star in Hollywood.
Watching Vivien Leigh glow in inferior pictures like The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961) or Ship of Fools (1965), there is the strong impression of a trained performer drawing perilously close to lived experience; in The Deep Blue Sea (1955), she is almost too genuine for comfort playing a woman caught between suicide attempts.
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 Wikinfo | Vivien Leigh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Though she continued her career with such plays as Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, and the 1946 film Caesar and Cleopatra, her illness was getting worse.
Joan Plowright, third wife and widow of Olivier, claimed that for much of Olivier's marriage to Leigh, he was having a longterm homosexual relationship with the American actor Danny Kaye.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
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 Vivien Leigh Forum @ Filmbug
Vivien Leigh was a complicated and sometimes difficult person.
i love vivien leigh she was the most beautiful creature in the planet.
i know but vivien had an affair with peter finch and told larry that she loved him like a brother even though she didnt and was just trying to hurt him.....
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 Vivien Leigh News
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable as Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler are shown in a scene from 'Gone With The Wind.' Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable as Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler are shown in a scene from 'Gone...
For all her acclaim and popularity as a star, Vivien Leigh, born Vivien Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913 in Darjeeling, India, made only 20 films from 1935 to 1965.
There are more interesting things about Vivien Leigh than whether or not she was Anglo-Indian [see Note on terminology], but I have now consulted a few biographies, so I will summarise the evidence.
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 A Tribute to Vivien Leigh
For all her acclaim and popularity as a star, Vivien Leigh, born Vivien Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913 in Darjeeling, India, made only 20 films from 1935 to 1965.
Leigh's relatively short life (and career) was indeed a series of ups and downs, strangely mirroring the manic-depression (now known as bipolar disorder) with which she was diagnosed.
Still, Vivien Leigh left us with some very memorable performances, and was voted among the top 20 classic actresses in 1999's American Film Institute's 100 Years 100 Stars poll.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa110500a.htm   (484 words)

  
 Vivien Leigh - Overview - MSN Movies
Biography:Born in India to a British stockbroker and his Irish wife, "Vivien Leigh" first appeared on stage in convent-school amateur theatricals.
In 1932, she briefly interrupted her pursuit of a theatrical career to marry London barrister Herbert Leigh Holman.
Leigh made her professional stage bow three years later in The Sash, which never made it to London's West End; still, her bewitching performance caught the eye of producer Sydney Carroll, who cast Leigh in her first London play, The Mask of Virtue.
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 Vivien Leigh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1935, Vivian changed her name to "Vivien Leigh" and had a bit part in her first film.
Vivien's co-star was Laurence Olivier, a rising actor who had already established himself on the stage.
Vivien thought this was a longshot, because everyone wanted the part.
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