Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley, and also known as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for her iconic performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963). After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937). Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that her physical attributes sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. Despite her fame as a screen actress, Leigh was primarily a stage performer. During her 30-year career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet, and Lady Macbeth. Later in life, she performed as a character actress in a few films. At the time, the public strongly identified Leigh with her second husband Laurence Olivier, who was her spouse from 1940 to 1960. Leigh and Olivier starred together in many stage productions, with Olivier often directing, and in three films. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and for much of her adult life she suffered from bipolar disorder as well as recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, which was first diagnosed in the mid-1940s and ultimately claimed her life at the age of 53. Although her career had periods of inactivity, in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked Leigh as the 16th greatest female movie star of classic Hollywood cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vivien Leigh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2020 · Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Iconic Couples as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · Jornal Português (1938-1951) as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 · Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland as Herself (archive footage)
- 2001 · Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 · Sir John Mills' Moving Memories as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 · Glorious Technicolor as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1998 · Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 · The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- 1990 · Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind as Self (archive footage)
- 1983 · Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1976 · That's Entertainment, Part II as (archive footage)
- 1975 · Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1972 · Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- 1965 · Ship of Fools as Mary Treadwell
- 1961 · Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Scarlett O'Hara (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1961 · The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Karen Stone
- 1959 · The Skin of Our Teeth as Sabina
- 1955 · The Deep Blue Sea as Hester Collyer
- 1951 · A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
- 1951 · The Screen Director as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Singer
- 1948 · Anna Karenina as Anna Karenina
- 1945 · Caesar and Cleopatra as Cleopatra
- 1941 · That Hamilton Woman as Emma, Lady Hamilton
- 1940 · Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
- 1940 · Hollywood: Style Center of the World as Self
- 1940 · Waterloo Bridge as Myra
- 1940 · 21 Days Together as Wanda
- 1939 · Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara
- 1938 · St. Martin's Lane as Liberty
- 1938 · A Yank at Oxford as Elsa Craddock
- 1937 · Dark Journey as Madeleine Goddard
- 1937 · Fire Over England as Cynthia
- 1937 · Storm in a Teacup as Victoria Gow
- 1935 · Look Up and Laugh as Marjorie Belfer
- 1935 · Things Are Looking Up as Schoolgirl
- 1935 · The Village Squire as Rose Venables
- 1935 · Gentlemen's Agreement as Phil Stanley