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Vivien Leigh
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| GONE WITH THE WIND
She may have made only 20 films in the course of her career,
but India-born British actress Vivien Leigh walked away with two Best Actress Oscars
more than a decade apart to prove she
had talent as well as striking good looks.
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FIRE OVER ENGLAND (1937), a historical drama made in Britain for
producer Alexander Korda, was Leigh's first of three films in which she appeared opposite
actor
Laurence Olivier whom she
married in 1940. |
In A YANK AT OXFORD (1938), made in Britain by
MGM, Leigh plays a coy, flirtatious
young bride who distracts American Robert Taylor and his Oxford classmates
from their academic and athletic pursuits. |
Against a competitive field of hundreds of talented American actresses, Leigh
won the coveted role of Katie Scarlett
O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND
(1939), the most famous role of her career and the performance for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress. |
With Robert Taylor and Virginia Field in the beautifully sentimental
wartime romance WATERLOO BRIDGE (1940) about a young dancer who falls for a
dashing young officer shortly before he leaves to fight World War I. |