Overview
Born November 5, 1913 in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency[now West Bengal, India]
Died July 8, 1967 in Belgravia, London, England, UK (chronic tuberculosis)
Birth Name Vivian Mary Hartley
Nickname Vivling
Height 5' 3" (1.6 m)
In the event that a film were made of the existence of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India not long before World War I, where an effective British money manager could reside like a sovereign. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is conceived. In light of the episode of World War I, she is six years of age whenever her folks first take her to England. Her mom figures she ought to have a legitimate English childhood and demands leaving her in a religious circle school - despite the fact that Vivien is two years more youthful than any of different young ladies at the school. The main solace for the desolate youngster is a feline that was in the yard of the school that the nuns let her take dependent upon her quarters. Her first and dearest companion at the school is an eight-year-old young lady, Maureen O'Sullivan who has been relocated from Ireland. In the depressingness of a religious circle school, the two young ladies can reproduce in their minds the spots they have left and where they might some time or another want to travel. After Vivien has been at the school for a long time, her mom returns again from India and takes her to a play in London. In the following a half year Vivien will demand seeing similar play multiple times. In India the British people group engaged themselves at novice theatricals and Vivien's dad was a main man. Students at the English religious circle school are anxious to act in school plays. It's an all-young ladies school, so a portion of the young ladies need to assume the male parts. The male jobs are a great deal more courageous. Vivien's beloved entertainer is Leslie Howard, and at 19 she weds an English advodate who looks a lot of like him. It is 1932. Vivien's dearest companion from that religious circle school has gone to California, where she's making motion pictures. Vivien has a chance to assume a little part in an English film, Things Are Looking Up (1935). She has just one line yet the camera continues to get back to her face. The London stage is more invigorating than the motion pictures being shot in England, and the most exciting entertainer on that stage is Laurence Olivier. At a party Vivien learns about a phase job, "The Green Sash", where the main prerequisite is that the main woman be excellent. The play has an extremely short run, however presently she is a genuine entertainer. An English film will be made with regards to Elizabeth I. Laurence gets the job of a youthful top pick of the sovereign who is shipped off Spain. Vivien gets a lot more modest job as a woman in-holding up of the sovereign who is enamored with Laurence's personality. All things considered, both become hopelessly enamored while making this film, Fire Over England (1937). In 1938, Hollywood needs Laurence to play Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939). Vivien, who has as of late perused Gone with the Wind (1939), believes that the job of Scarlett O'Hara is the main job for an entertainer that would be truly invigorating to bring to the screen. She sails to America for a concise excursion. In New York she gets on a plane interestingly to race to California to see Laurence. They eat with Myron Selznick the night that his sibling, David O. Selznick, is consuming Atlanta on a backlot of MGM (really they are consuming old sets that return to the beginning of quiet movies to make space to reproduce an Atlanta of the 1860s). Vivien is 26 when Gone with the Wind (1939) makes a scope of the Oscars in 1939. So how about we show 26-year-old Vivien approaching the stage to acknowledge her Oscar and afterward as the Oscar is introduced the camera centers around Vivien's face and through the sorcery of carefully adjusting pictures, the 26-year-old face converges into the essence of Vivien at age 38 getting her second Best Actress Oscar for depicting Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She wouldn't have gotten back to America to make that film had not Laurence been going around there to do a film, Carrie (1952) in view of Theodore Dreiser's book "Sister Carrie". Laurence lets their companions know that his intention in going to Hollywood to make films is to get sufficient the means to deliver his own plays for the London stage. He even has his own venue there, the St. James. Presently Sir Laurence, with a seat in the British House of Lords, is joined by Vivien the day the Lords are bantering with regards to whether the St James ought to be destroyed. Breaking convention, Vivien shouts out and is accompanied from the House of Lords. The exposure helps raise the assets to save the St. James. All through their two-decade marriage Laurence and Vivien were acting together on the stage in London and New York. Vivien was no longer Lady Olivier when she played out her last significant film job, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961).
Positioned #48 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Experienced bipolar issue (alluded to as "hyper sorrow" at the hour of her determination).
Lived with John Merivale from 1959 until her passing in 1967.
A weighty smoker, Leigh was smoking right around four loads per day during shooting of Gone with the Wind (1939).
Gertrude Hartley, while anticipating the introduction of her youngster in Darjeeling, went through 15 minutes each day looking at the Himalayas in the conviction that their amazing excellence would be passed to her unborn kid.
After incineration at Golders Green, London, her remains were dispersed on the factory lake at her home, Tickerage Mill, at Blackboys in Sussex.
Scarlett O'Hara may have been played by an entertainer called 'April Morn', a phase name she momentarily considered prior to choosing Vivien Leigh.
Laurence Olivier's first spouse, Jill Esmond, named Vivien as co-respondent in her February 1940 separation from Olivier on grounds of infidelity. Vivien would name Joan Plowright - Olivier's straightaway and last spouse - as co-respondent in her 1960 separation from Olivier, additionally on grounds of infidelity.
The maker of the 1935 play "The Mask of Virtue" proposed to her that she change the 'a' in her first name to an 'e' from "Vivian" to "Vivien".
As per legend, Myron Selznick acquainted Vivien with his sibling - Gone with the Wind (1939) maker David O. Selznick - with the words, "Hello, virtuoso! Meet your Scarlett.".
Hitched Laurence Olivier at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara on August 31, 1940, with Katharine Hepburn as lady of honor; they honeymooned on entertainer Ronald Colman's yacht.
An admirer of felines, particularly Siamese.
Guaranteed that when she tried for Gone with the Wind (1939), the ensemble was still warm from the entertainer who went before her.
Was offered the supporting job of Isabella in Wuthering Heights (1939), however chose to bet and wait for the lead job of Cathy. Chief William Wyler thought she was insane to miss the open door, telling her, "You won't ever improve part than Isabella for an American introduction." Shortly later, she handled the plum job of Scarlett O'Hara.
Imagined on one of four 25¢ US memorial postage stamps gave March 23, 1990 regarding exemplary movies delivered in 1939. The stamp highlights Clark Gable and Leigh as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind (1939). Different movies respected were Beau Geste (1939), Stagecoach (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Her cherished job was that of Myra Lester, which she played in Waterloo Bridge (1940).
She took her then, at that point, spouse's first name (Leigh) as her last name when she started acting expertly.
Back up parent of entertainer Juliet Mills and Suzanna Leigh.
Supposedly utilized one of her two Oscars to doorstop her washroom.
Kept Laurence Olivier's photo next to her bed and on her dressing table even after they separated. Until her passing, she was tended to as "Woman Olivier".
She frantically needed to play the subsequent Mrs. De Winter in Rebecca (1940) inverse her better half Laurence Olivier, yet maker David O. Selznick figured the job would weaken her worth as a Scarlett O'Hara type and cast Joan Fontaine all things considered. His choice seriously stressed her expert connection with Selznick; neither she nor Olivier at any point showed up in one of his movies once more. Fontaine won her first Academy Award designation in the job.
Had an unsanctioned romance with entertainer Peter Finch that almost finished her union with Laurence Olivier. The film The V.I.P.s (1963) depends on an episode from Leigh's and Olivier's marriage, when she was going to leave him for Finch however Olivier charmed her back.
Despite the fact that she was a British subject for what seems like forever, her family line was French and Irish.
Won Broadway's 1963 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Tovarich".
Was named #16 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
She was granted a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6773 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
She should star in the Paramount film Elephant Walk (1954) with Peter Finch and Dana Andrews, however subsequent to showing up in a couple of scenes she was supplanted by Elizabeth Taylor. The explanations behind Leigh's excusal were supposed to be her troublesome nature, having quite recently been analyzed as a hyper burdensome. Further inconveniences might have emitted due to an illicit relationship she had with co-star Finch while she was as yet hitched to Laurence Olivier, and Leigh and Olivier were as yet hitched in 1954.
Laurence Olivier wrote in his collection of memoirs, "Admissions of an Actor", that after World War II, Leigh reported serenely that she was as of now not in affection with him, yet cherished him like a sibling. Olivier was sincerely crushed. How he treated know at the time was that Leigh's announcement - - and her ensuing issues with different accomplices - - was a sign of the bipolar problem that in the end disturbed her life and vocation. Leigh definitely planned to stay wedded to Olivier, yet was not generally intrigued by him sincerely. Olivier himself started having illicit relationships (remembering one with Claire Bloom for the 1950s, as indicated by Bloom's own personal history) as Leigh's eye and desirous goals meandered and wandered outside of the conjugal bedchamber. Olivier needed to go with Leigh to Hollywood in 1950 to watch out for her and keep her in the clear, to guarantee that her hyper sadness didn't go crazy and disturb the creation of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). To do as such, he acknowledged a job in William Wyler's Carrie (1952) that was taken shots simultaneously as Streetcar. The Oliviers were well known with Hollywood's first class, and Elia Kazan and Marlon Brando both preferred "Larry" without a doubt (that was the explanation that Brando gave in his own collection of memoirs for not laying down with Leigh, whom he thought had a predominant back - - he was unable to strike Olivier's "chicken coop" as "Larry was a particularly pleasant person".) None of them knew the profundities of the agony he was suffering as the overseer of his insane spouse. Brando said that Leigh was better than Jessica Tandy - - the first stage Blanche DuBois - - as she was Blanche. Unexpectedly, Olivier himself had coordinated Leigh in the job on the London stage.
Peter Finch was found by Laurence Olivier in 1948 when Olivier and his dramatic organization, which included spouse Leigh, were directing a visit through Australia, Olivier marked the youthful Aussie to an individual agreement and Finch turned out to be essential for Olivier's dramatic organization. He then, at that point, continued to cuckold his coach and business by bedding Leigh. Olivier was actually embarrassed however ever the performer, he held the skilled Finch under agreement subsequent to having taken him back to England, where Finch thrived as an entertainer. Finch and Leigh carried on a long undertaking, and since Leigh was bipolar and her hyper wretchedness oftentimes showed itself in nymphomania, some hypothesize that Olivier subliminally may have been appreciative for Finch as he involved Leigh's hours and kept her out of more awful difficulty and Olivier from far more detestable humiliation. Their hit or miss, undertaking supposedly arrived at an emergency point on the film Elephant Walk (1954), when they had recharged their illicit relationship. Notwithstanding, the flimsiness of their relationship purportedly set off a mental meltdown in Leigh, and Olivier needed to step in to deal with her.
Her exhibition as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) is positioned #3 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
At last, Vivien required shock treatment to control her hyper wretchedness. Here and there, she would go in front of an audience only hours after her medicines, without overlooking anything in her presentation.
Was fixated on concealing her enormous hands. Gloves were a most loved concealment, she claimed in excess of 150 sets. Strangely, one of the regular portrayals of Vivien's most well known person Scarlett O'Hara in the clever Gone with the Wind (1939) is that she has minuscule hands.
Her dad was a full-blooded Englishmen, while her mom was of French and Irish family line.
Notwithstanding her incredible height, Leigh made less than twenty movies in her profession.
Was dear companions with Rachel Kempson, the mother of Oscar-winning entertainer Vanessa Redgrave.
Had four extraordinary grandkids: Ashua, Amy, Sophie and Tessa. The extraordinary grandkids, the young ladies specifically, look similar to Suzanne.
Was the primary British entertainer to get an Academy Award. She won the Best Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939) in February 1940.
Is just one of seven entertainers who have a 2-0 winning record when selected for an acting Oscar, her two successes for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). The others are Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937); Helen Hayes for The Lullaby (1931) and Airport (1970); Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999); Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Million Dollar Baby (2004); Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012); and Mahershala Ali for Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018).
When making Gone with the Wind (1939), very macho chief Victor Fleming needed Scarlett, for at minimum once in the film, to seem as though his hunting pal Clark Gable's kind of lady. In this way, when wearing the dazzling low profile burgundy velvet dress with rhinestones that Scarlett wears to Ashley Wilkes' birthday celebration in the last part of the film, to accomplish the ideal cleavage for Fleming, Walter Plunkett needed to tape Vivien Leigh's bosoms together.
After Joan Crawford quit recording Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Leigh was offered her job which she turned down. Olivia de Havilland, Leigh's co-star in Gone with the Wind (1939) was then offered and acknowledged the job.
The moniker Vivling was given to her by her dad. It's a blend of her name and the word dear.
Was offered the job of Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top (1959), which she turned down. Simone Signoret was projected all things being equal and she proceeded to get a Best Actress Oscar for her presentation.
Stepmother of Tarquin Olivier.
Gotten back to work sixteen months subsequent to bringing forth her girl Suzanne Farrington to start acting in the stage creation named "The Green Sash".
She kicked the bucket subsequent to imploding at home from difficulties from an assault of tuberculosis on July 7, 1967. That evening lights of West End theater marquees were saved dim for an hour in her honor.
Became pregnant two times (in 1944 and 1955) during her union with Laurence Olivier; she endured unnatural birth cycles on the two events.
For her presentation as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), she won the main British Academy Award for Best Actress at the recently initiated BAFTA Awards service in 1953.
Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar champs to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face, Leigh's being for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). The others are Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Judy Holliday, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.
Was the fourteenth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939) at The twelfth Academy Awards on February 29, 1940.
Alongside Glenda Jackson and Dame Maggie Smith she is one of just three British entertainers to have won an Academy Award on two events: Leigh won Best Actress for Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) while Jackson won Best Actress for Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973) and Smith won Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). Despite the fact that Elizabeth Taylor - who won Best Actress for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - was brought into the world in London, her folks were American and she was brought up in the United States from the age of three.
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for a film that additionally won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Gone with the Wind (1939)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Frances McDormand for Nomadland (2020).
Is one of 12 entertainers who won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a person who is pregnant sooner or later during the film; hers being for Gone with the Wind (1939). The others are Helen Hayes for The Lullaby (1931), Luise Rainer for The Good Earth (1937), Ginger Rogers for Kitty Foyle (1940), Olivia de Havilland for To Each His Own (1946), Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda (1948), Anna Magnani for The Rose Tattoo (1955), Julie Christie for Darling (1965), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996).
Brought forth her lone youngster at age 19, a little girl named Suzanne Mary Holman (otherwise known as Suzanne Farrington) on October 10, 1933 in a London nursing home. Kid's dad is her first ex, Herbert Holman.
Had three grandsons: Neville Farrington (conceived December 4, 1958), Jonathan Farrington (conceived May 13, 1961) and Rupert Farrington (conceived August 31, 1962).
Her lone kid, little girl Suzanne Farrington, passed on March 1, 2015 at age 81.
Despite the fact that she is British, she won both her Oscars for depicting American southern beauties.
The houses Leigh resided in when shooting Gone with the Wind (1939) and Ship of Fools (1965) are displayed in Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018). The head of that film, Jordan Mohr, had depicted Simone Signoret in the stage play "Two Simones: de Beauvoir and Signoret in Hollywood" in which Signoret was welcome to the exquisite evening gatherings Leigh gave during "Boat of Fools" (Signoret was one of different stars in the film): "They were cooked by a genuine Cordon Bleu culinary specialist. She was just about as wonderful as she had been at the hour of Scarlett O'Hara; she had marvelous recollections of this town, and she clung to them. Toward the finish of the nights the phonograph played the topic from 'Gone with the Wind'; it made her pitiful, however she did it purposely. Starting with one second then onto the next she was sparkling or frantic.".
Featured in three Oscar Best Picture candidates: Gone with the Wind (1939), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Ship of Fools (1965). The first of these was a champ in the class.
Is the most youthful beneficiary of the Best Actress Oscar to turn into a mother; she brought forth her girl Suzanne Farrington at age 19.
Brought into the world on a similar date as John McGiver.
She inhabited 54 Eaton Square, from 1958 until her demise in 1967. A blue plaque on the structure honors the reality. Sir Laurence Olivier likewise lived there however left after their separation. The entertainer Luise Rainer later lived in a similar condo until her passing in 2014.
She has showed up in two movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, all things considered or stylishly" critical: Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
Yvonne De Carlo loved hers and observed every last bit of her motion pictures. In her personal history, De Carlo composed that she met Leigh at the 1952 Royal Film Performance in London.
A remembrance administration was held for her at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 15 August 1967.
In the last part of the 1930s and mid 1940s, she and Joan Bennett were frequently viewed as carbon copies of Hedy Lamarr, who brought the dull haired, blue-looked at sort of excellence to Hollywood. The three entertainers show up on the front of the May 1939 issue of Picture Play Magazine.
Leigh was one of Cecil B. DeMille's cherished entertainers. The renowned maker chief offered her the job of Mollie in his Union Pacific (1939) and furthermore an agreement to make four motion pictures together, however she requested a more significant compensation and the job went to Barbara Stanwyck. DeMille likewise considered Leigh for the jobs played by Paulette Goddard in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (1949), and Anne Baxter in The Ten Commandments (1956).
List of Vivien Leigh Movies
- Waterloo Bridge 1940
- 21 Days 1940
- That Hamilton Woman 1941
- Caesar and Cleopatra 1945
- Anna Karenina 1948
- A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
- The Deep Blue Sea 1955
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 1961
- Ship of Fools 1965 & Many more...
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