In 1940, Ms. Leigh won her first of two Academy Awards
for best actress for her role as Scarlett O'Hara in
Gone with the Wind. She won her second Oscar
for her dramatic portrayal of the high strung and vulnerable
Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
(1952).
Ms. Leigh died in London of tuberculosis.
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
(1989)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
Director: David Hinton
Ship of Fools (1965)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Oskar Werner
Director: Stanley Kramer
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty
Director: Jose Quintero
Caesar and Cleopatra (1953)
Starring: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh
Director: Gabriel Pascal
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh
Director: Elia Kazan
Anna Karenina (1948)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson
Director: Julien Duvivier
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier
Director: Alexander Korda
Sidewalks of London (1940)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh
Director: Tim Whelan
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
Director: Victor Fleming
Fire Over England (1937)
Starring: Flora Robson, Raymond Massey
Director: William K. Howard
Dark Journey (1937)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Conrad Veidt
Director: Victor Saville
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison
Director: Victor Saville
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) was born to British
parents in Darjeeling, India. She made her first trip to
England at the age of six. She appeared with Laurence Olivier
in Fire Over England (1937), and married him
in 1940. The couple divorced in 1960.