1. by Viktoria Jakovleva

2.  Birth Name: Vivian Mary Hartley  Date of Birth: November 5, 1913  Birth Place: Darjeeeling, India  Date of Death: July 8, 1967, London, England

3.   At the age of six, she was sent to the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, England.  Her later education Vivien completed in Europe.  At 18 she enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. An Education

4. Marriage  At 19 she married barrister Leigh Holman, whose name she used to create her stage name.  A year later she had a daughter, Suzanne.

5.   Vivien was offered a small part in her first film “Things Are Looking Up”(1935). She played a school girl and had only one line, but it was a start.  In 1937, Vivien Leigh left her husband for Lawrence Olivier. The Beginnings of a Career

6. Success came when she got the part as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind (1939). Big Break

7. Anna Karenina (1948) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) That Hamilton Woman (1941) Sidewalks of London (1938)

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