Vivian Mary Hartley , known as Vivien Leigh (born the November 5th 1913 with Darjeeling, and deceased the 7 or July 8th 1967 with London) was a British Actrice , from of which the career, begun with the Théâtre in the Années 1930 taken a considerable rise when she interpreted, in 1939, the role of Scarlett O' Hara in Gone With The Wind (Gone With The Wind) .

Biography

His/her parents and she moved India with the the United Kingdom where the Vivien young person grows. It was high with the Convent of Crowned Heart with Roehampton, at the same time as the future actress Maureen O' Sullivan. In 1932, it Maria with Herbert Leigh Holman, and in 1933 gave rise to a girl, Suzanne. She continued her studies by obtaining her diploma of the Royal Academy of the Dramatic art.

Its career started on the scene. Its first play was The Green Sash , however it was Mask off Virtue which really propelled it to the statute of star. In 1935, it began its career from actress with films like The Village Squire , Things are Looking Up and Look Up and Laugh . In 1937, Vivien Leigh exploited side of Laurence Olivier, being the point to become a legend of the theater, in two films: Invincible the armada (Fire Over England) and 21 Days Together (21 Days) (this last film left only in 1940). The most known role of Vivien Leigh was undoubtedly that of Scarlett O' Hara in Gone With The Wind (Gone With The Wind) (1939), for which it gained the Oscar of the best actress. This role, if coveted, involved one exhausting search for talents, where, of many actresses were considered for the character of Scarlett, at the side of Clark Gable. Among those: Normalized Shearer, Bette Davis, Jean Arthur, Katharine Hepburn and Barbara Stanwyck. The producer David O. Selznick secretly selected Vivien for the role after having seen it in film of the MGM Vive the students (Yank At Oxford has), but nobody knew it until in 1938, when turning started. Paulette Goddard was to be normally seen allotting the role of beautiful the Southerner of Margaret Mitchell. In 1940, Vivien Leigh divorced Holman and remaria Laurence Olivier. The couple had met in 1935 and had begun a love affair. During this time, both were married (Olivier with the actress Jill Esmond which was pregnant at the time of this relation).

In 1944, one diagnosed that Vivien was reached of Tuberculose because of a spot to the right lung. Although it continued off its career with Skin Our Teeth ( skin on the bones ) a part of Thornton Wilder, the film of 1946 César and Cléopâtre (Caesar and Cleopatra) , and the film epic of 1948 Anna Karenine (Anna Karenina), its disease worsened.

In 1952, however, Leigh gained a second Oscar for his interpretation of White Dubois in a tram named Désir (Streetcar Named Desire has). At the time of beginning of the year 60, Vivien suffered from two false-layers and the gravity of its Tuberculose invalidated it. It was also tormented by a maniaco-depressive Maladie during some time, which was seen like a factor of failure to look after its disease. It was the patient of the Psychanalyste Ralph Greenson. In 1960, Olivier and she divorced but remained friendly. Vivien continued to keep a photograph of him on its bedside table, although she lived from now on with a new companion, Jack Merivale. The actress succumbed to a chronic Tuberculose in her residence of London the July 7th 1967. She was incinerated and its ashes were dispersed in the lake Tickerage Mill Lays, not far from Blackboys, Sussex, with London.

Anecdotes

  • Vivien Leigh has a star with the Hollywood Walk off Famed to the 6773 Hollywood Blvd.
  • lived with Jack Merivale of 1959 until its death in 1967.
  • smoky Grande, it consumed almost 4 cigarette packs, one day, during the turning of Gone With The Wind
  • the producer of the part The Mask off Virtue has one day suggested to him transforming the " a" of Vivian in " e" what gave Vivien.
  • It one was impassioned of the cats, particularly of the Siamese one.
  • Its role preferred was that of Myra Lester , which she interpreted in the Waltz in the shade .
  • Godmother of the actress Juliette Millets

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Card Imdb
  • Homage to Vivien Leigh
  • Site on Vivien
  • Site on Vivien Leigh

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