Vivien Leigh - ©Theda Bara

In this post I bring you one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, her name is Vivien Leigh.

This excellent English actress, born in India of the British Empire, had only two Oscar nominations and both were converted into Oscars for Best Actress (1940 and 1952), for her performance in the films: “Gone with the Wind” (1939), playing the role of “Scarlett O'Hara”, a spoiled and temperamental young woman, who gets everything she wants. However, something is missing in his life: the love of “Ashley Wilkes”, played by the British actor: Leslie Howard (1893-1943), a southern nobleman who must marry his cousin “Melanie Hamilton”, played by the actress: British-American-French, born in Japan, Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020). The other film that gave Vivien Leigh an Oscar was: “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951), alongside the still young American actor Marlon Brando (1924-2004), in the role of “Blanche DuBois”, who goes to visit his sister (pregnant) in New Orleans, looking for a place to live, after being expelled from her hometown for seducing a 17-year-old boy (Brando - character: “Stanley Kowalski”).

The actress has her star on the Los Angeles Walk of Fame, at Hollywood Boulevard: 6773, Cinema category.

Vivien Leigh has a few biographies written, the most complete is: “Vivien: The Power of Compassion: The Life of Vivien Leigh” (1987), by British film critic Alexander Walker (1930-2003)

Vivien Leigh’s birth name is: Vivian Mary Hartley and was nicknamed: Lady Olivier in late 1947, born 5 November 1913, Darjeeling, India and died 8 July 1967, Belgravia, London, United Kingdom United, aged 54.

Vivien Leigh has been married twice. Her first marriage was to lawyer Herbert Leigh Holman (1900-1982) from 1932 to 1940, with whom she had her only daughter, British actress Suzanne Farrington (1933-2015). Vivien and Herbert separated in (1940), the same year that the actress married the renowned British actor, producer and director, winner of four Oscars and three Golden Globes, Sir. Laurence Kerr Olivier, proclaimed Baron Olivier in 1947 (1907-1989) from 1940 to 1960.