Actor
Vivien Leigh
Biography

Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley on November 5, 1913, in Darjeeling, British India) was an English actress renowned for her roles in Hollywood and British theater. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, portraying Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), both performances that solidified her place among the greatest actresses of classic cinema. Leigh was the only child of Ernest Hartley, a British broker, and Gertrude Yackje ...

Known For
Acting
2020 -- Vivien Leigh, autant en emporte le vent | Self (archive footage)
2018 -- Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood | Self (archive footage)
2009 -- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage)
2005 -- Jornal Português (1938-1951) | Self (archive footage)
2004 -- Melanie Remembers: Reflections by Olivia de Havilland | Herself (archive footage)
2001 -- Larry & Vivien: The Oliviers in Love | Self (archive footage)
2000 -- Sir John Mills' Moving Memories | Self (archive footage)
1998 -- Glorious Technicolor | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998 -- Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman | Self (archive footage)
1996 -- The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self (archive footage)
1994 -- That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage)
1990 -- Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond | Self (archive footage)
1988 -- The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | Self (archive footage)
1983 -- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1982 -- Laurence Olivier: a life | Self ( Archive footage )
1976 -- That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage)
1975 -- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage)
1972 -- Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage)
1969 -- The Extraordinary Seaman | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965 -- Ship of Fools | Mary Treadwell
1961 -- Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Scarlett O'Hara (archive footage) (uncredited)
1961 -- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Karen Stone
1959 -- The Skin of Our Teeth | Sabina
1955 -- The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer
1951 -- A Streetcar Named Desire | Blanche DuBois
1951 -- The Screen Director | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1948 -- Anna Karenina | Anna Karenina
1945 -- Caesar and Cleopatra | Cleopatra
1941 -- That Hamilton Woman | Emma, Lady Hamilton
1940 -- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self
1940 -- Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self
1940 -- Waterloo Bridge | Myra
1940 -- 21 Days Together | Wanda
1939 -- Gone with the Wind | Scarlett O'Hara
1938 -- St. Martin's Lane | Liberty
1938 -- A Yank at Oxford | Elsa Craddock
1937 -- Dark Journey | Madeleine Goddard
1937 -- Fire Over England | Cynthia
1937 -- Storm in a Teacup | Victoria Gow
1935 -- Look Up and Laugh | Marjorie Belfer
1935 -- Things Are Looking Up | Schoolgirl
1935 -- The Village Squire | Rose Venables
1935 -- Gentlemen's Agreement | Phil Stanley
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