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Biography of Vivien Leigh
Name: Vivien Leigh
Birth Date: November 5, 1913
Death Date: July 8, 1967
Place of Birth: Darjeeling, Bengal, India
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: actress
Vivien Leigh
To legions of movie fans, Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) will best be remembered as the defiant and beautiful Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind. 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. Playing opposite the charismatic Clark Gable, Leigh became an instant celebrity after her role as Scarlett O'Hara, and remained so for the rest of her relatively short, yet sometimes turbulent life.An International UpbringingLeigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in India, in the cool mountain region of Darjeeling in 1913. Her stockbroker father, Ernest Richard, and her mother, Gertrude, spent half the year in England and half in India, which was then under British control. Enrolled in a convent boarding school outside of London at the age of …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…was British, she played the part of the Southern belle to perfection.... Those two sterling performances alone would qualify her for immortality, and she won Academy Awards for Best Actress in both of them." Associated Works A Streetcar Named Desire, Gone With The Wind (Movie) Further Reading Bridges, Herb, `Frankly, My Dear...': Gone With the Wind Memorabilia (Motion Pictures), Mercer University Press, 1995.Bridges, Herb, and Terryl C. Boodman, Gone With the Wind: The Definitive Illustrated History of the Book, the Movie and the Legend, Fireside, 1989. Katz, Ephraim, The Film Encyclopedia,Harper, 1990. Walker, Alexander, Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, 1989.Times (London), July 10, 1967.Gone With the Wind Homepage, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/3070 (April 23, 1998)."Vivien Leigh," Sherrie's Gone With the Wind Page, http://www.ladyrulz.tierranet.com/gwtw/vivien.html (April 23, 1998).Vivien Leigh, (VHS tape) Americans Talk Issues, 1992. Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond,(VHS tape) Theatre Communications Group, 1991.
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