LEIGH, VIVIEN

(1913 - 1967) British film actress. She is best known a s Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. One of her last roles was a s Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire. See also Streetcar Named Desire in this glossary. —9th ACC Volume 2 Approved Glossary

(1913-1967) the stage name of Vivian Mary Hartley, a beautiful British stage and film actress married for many years to English actor Laurence Olivier (1907-1989). She appeared in many motion pictures including Things Are Looking Up (1934), Sidewalks of London (1940) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). She is most well known for her starring role in the motion picture Gone With the Wind (1939), for which she won an Oscar. In 1951 she won a second Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire, portraying the moral and mental breakdown of the former Southern belle, Blanche Du Bois. Leigh's own physical and mental health started suffering when she contracted tuberculosis and in 1952 she was put under psychiatric care. Weakened by her physical condition and years of psychiatric shock treatment and drugs, she finally died of tuberculosis in 1967.(1913 - 1967) British film actress. She is best known as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. One of her last roles was as Blanche Dubois in Streetcar Named Desire. See also Streetcar Named Desire in this glossary.