Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh Trivia
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Vivian became good friends with Lee Marvin when they made Ship of Fools together in 1964.
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Vivien's favorite actor of all time was Leslie Howard, with whom she co-starred in Gone with the Wind.
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She was pictured on a 25ยข US commemorative postage stamp issued on March 23, 1990 that celebrated the film Gone With the Wind.
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She used to use one of her Oscars for a doorstop.
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Vivien was of French and Irish decent.
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Vivien had an affair with actor Peter Finch that nearly ended her marriage to Laurence Olivier.
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Vivien was the first non-American actress to win an Oscar. She won it in 1939 for Gone With the Wind.
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Her favorite cat was the Siamese, which she owned many of during her lifetime.
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Vivien said that her favorite role of all time was that of Myra Lester in the 1940 film Waterloo Bridge.
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She married actor Lawrence Olivier at San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara on August 31, 1940.
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Vivien considered using the stage name "April Morn" before deciding to go with "Vivien Leigh".
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Vivien suffered from manic depression.
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Vivien's final film was Ship of Fools in 1965.
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She received the Best Actress Oscar in 1951 for the film A Streetcar Named Desire.
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She won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Actress in a musical for Tovarich.
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She made her screen debut in the 1934 film Things are Looking Up.
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Vivien was the godmother to actress Juliet Mills.
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Vivien took her then husband's last name of "Leigh" when she began her acting career.
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Vivien was a heavy smoker and smoked almost 4 packs a day while filming the 1939 classic Gone With The Wind.
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She lived with John Mervale from 1959 until her passing on July 7, 1967.
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She was famous for playing Scarlett O' Hara in 1939's Gone with the Wind.
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Vivien Leigh: You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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