Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Vivian Mary Hartley, later known as Vivien Leigh and Lady Olivier, was an English stage and film actress. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Windand Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire, a role she had also played on stage in London's West End in 1949. She also won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway version of Tovarich...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 November 1913
CityDarjeeling, India
When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play.
I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.
I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.
My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
Every single night I'm nervous.
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.