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Vivien Leigh
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 56 years ago |
Date of birth | November 5,1913 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Darjeeling |
India | |
Date of died | July 8,1967 |
Died | Belgravia |
London | |
United Kingdom | |
Height | 160 (cm) |
Titles | Lady Olivier (1947–1967) |
Children | Suzanne Farrington |
Job | Actor |
Singer | |
Education | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
Loreto Convent | |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Actress |
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress | |
Volpi Cup for Best Actress | |
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical | |
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress | |
Spouse | Laurence Olivier |
Herbert Leigh Holman | |
Grandchildren | Rupert Farrington |
Neville Farrington | |
Jonathan Farrington | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 402781 |
Waterloo Bridge
Caesar and Cleopatra
Anna Karenina
That Hamilton Woman
Fire Over England
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Dark Journey
Sidewalks of London
Ship of Fools
Storm in a Teacup
A Yank at Oxford
21 Days
Things Are Looking Up
Look Up and Laugh
The Deep Blue Sea
The Village Squire
Gentlemen's Agreement
The Scarlett O'Hara War
Gone with the Wind
Vivien Leigh Life story
Vivien Leigh, styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her definitive performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and ...
David Tennant celebrates 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio
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... Renowned actors have been in his shoes; famously Lord Olivier was Macbeth to Vivien Leigh s Lady Macbeth in 1955, Sir Ian McKellen and Dame Judi Dench had their turn in 1976 and Sir Antony Sher and Dame Harriet Walter in 1999...
Charlie Watts' book collection to be auctioned
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... Fitzgerald dedicated the book to MGM Screenwriter Harold Goldman, with whom he worked on the 1938 Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh comedy A Yank In Oxford...
Rihanna, Lizzo and Marilyn Monroe shine in V& A's Diva exhibition
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... Designed by Christian Dior, this dress was worn by double Oscar winner Vivien Leigh in 1958...
Leslie Phillips obituary: The comedy Casanova who made it to Hogwarts
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... He also worked in the box office and as an aide for stars such as Vivien Leigh...
Merle Oberon: India's forgotten Hollywood star
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... She was reportedly picked over Vivien Leigh, another India-born actress, because the team behind the film felt she was a bigger name, Sen says...
Gone with the Wind-away from the HBO-Max
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...Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel both won Oscars for their work in the film - Gone with the Wind has HBO Max placed the following calls for you to be away from the US streaming service...
Clive James obituary: 'A man of substance'
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... He was later allowed to change his name when, according to his autobiography, Vivien Leigh s appearance in Gone With the Wind meant the name would forever be seen as female, no matter what the spelling...
Awkward questions about slavery, the tourists in the South
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... Gone with the Wind s Scarlett O hara (played by Vivien Leigh), and their archetypal black maid, Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) centuries of slavery, followed by decades of institutional oppression, according to Sims, has reinforced the old stories that the black Americans as second-class citizens ...