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Vivien Leigh (/ l iː / LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in four films in 1935 and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937).
Fifty years since the actress' premature death from tuberculosis at the age of 53 on July 8, 1967 — thanks to an extraordinary trove of some 10,000 documents obtained by London's Victoria and ...
Suzanne Farrington (née Holman; 12 October 1933 – 1 March 2015) was the only child of British actress Vivien Leigh and her first husband, Herbert Leigh Holman. Upon her mother's death, Farrington was bequeathed her mother's papers, including her letters, photographs, contracts and diaries.
Georgiana Drew Barrymore (1856–1893), actress, succumbed aged 36; Rachel Félix (1821-1858), French actress; Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis; Annie Lewis (c. 1869–1896), musical comedy actress; Dick Martin (1922–2008), comedian; lost a lung due to tuberculosis as a ...
During the shooting, Leigh's name was first changed to "Jeanette Reames", then to "Janet Leigh" and finally back to her birth name "Jeanette Morrison", as the studio felt "Janet Leigh" might cause confusion with actress Vivien Leigh. [20] However, Johnson did not like the name and it was ultimately changed back to "Janet Leigh" (pronounced "Lee").
She later divorced him and in 1961, married Laurence Olivier shortly after the end of his twenty-year marriage to the actress Vivien Leigh. Plowright and Olivier had three children together. [12] Both daughters became actresses. [13] The couple remained married until Olivier's death in 1989.
Vivien Leigh in 1948 Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. British actress Vivien Leigh (1913–1967) was born in Darjeeling, India; her family returned to England when she was six years old.
He was married to the US actress Jan Sterling from 1941 until 1948, and lived with Vivien Leigh from 1960 until her death in 1967, becoming her dedicated caretaker [10] in her final years. He began a relationship with actress Dinah Sheridan in 1968; they married in 1986. [11] Merivale died in 1990 from kidney failure. [12]