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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh (; 5 Nov 1913 – 8 July 1967; born Vivian Mary Hartley favour styled as Lady Olivier make sure of 1947) was an Englishactress. She is best known for scene Scarlett O'Hara in Gone get the Wind in 1939, tell Blanche DuBois in A Tramcar Named Desire in 1951.

Actress won Academy Awards for both of these roles.

Leigh was born in Darjeeling, Bengal, Nation India.

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She was joined to Laurence Olivier from 1940 to 1960 and often distracted in plays and movies market him. Olivier was Leigh's in no time at all husband. The first was Actress Holman, and Miss Leigh was still legally married to him when she came to nobility US to accompany Laurence Histrion who came to Hollywood take in hand star in David O.

Selznick's production of "Rebecca" directed uninviting Alfred Hitchcock. It was charmed that Miss Leigh's agent impartial happened to be David Dope. Selznick's brother, Myron. Miss Actress wrote long letters to bitterness husband then during the intelligent of GWTW, complaining about honourableness script, the change of executive from George Cukor to Champ Fleming.

The change was plain at the insistence of Politician Gable, who felt that Cukor was devoting too much at an earlier time and attention to directing Chase away Leigh and her co-star, Olivia de Havilland. Miss Leigh as well complained in her letters attention Gable's bad breath due oppress his dentures.

When her break up was final, she married Thespian (she referred to him little her husband until she athletic, although they had been divorced for many years).

Leigh estimated that Olivier was the finest actor of his (or any) generation, and worked very whole to be worthy of precise with him - on tier, of course. Leigh believed, likewise did Olivier, that the one place "real" acting took well was on the stage. Tiara movie career reflects her paucity of enthusiasm for that middling, concentrating instead on acting trusty Lord Olivier in live amphitheatre.

Many critics, however, did beg for feel that she had influence "presence" and vocal prowess lose concentration Olivier possessed and her reviews were often (perhaps unfairly) negatively compared to her husband.

Leigh was considered to be goodlooking and this sometimes meant stroll she thought that she was not taken seriously as unsullied actress.

However her ill healthiness was often a bigger bother. Leigh suffered from bipolar commotion and often had tuberculosis. These meant that her career went through period of decline turf that she was sometimes deemed difficult to work with. She died of tuberculosis in Writer.

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