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Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), Actress

Sitter associated with 70 portraits
Born Vivien Hartley in Darjeeling, India, and educated in England and on the Continent, Leigh made her British film debut in Things Are Looking Up (1934). Her appearance opposite Laurence Olivier in Fire Over England (1937) led to a well-publicised romance. A household name following her Oscar-winning role as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). Leigh's marriage to Olivier in 1940 placed her at the centre of British theatre.

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Vivien Leigh

by Cyril Arapoff
film negative, 1936
NPG x16838

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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19527

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier as Michael Ingolby and Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19528

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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia and Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier as Michael Ingolby in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19529

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier as Michael Ingolby and Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19530

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Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x19531

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier as Michael Ingolby and Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x23963

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier as Michael Ingolby and Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x23964

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier as Michael Ingolby and Vivien Leigh as Cynthia in 'Fire over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x23965

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier; Vivien Leigh as Michael Ingolby and Cynthia in 'Fire Over England'

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x24290

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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier and Vivien Leigh

by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 30 May 1937
NPG x36099

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Vivien Leigh

by Angus McBean
matte bromide print, 1938
NPG x30432

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Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind'

by Clarence Sinclair Bull
modern bromide print, 1939
NPG x35326

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Vivien Leigh

by Gordon Anthony
bromide print, 1940
NPG x44747

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Vivien Leigh as Lady Hamilton in 'That Hamilton Woman'

by Laszlo Willinger
bromide print, 1941
NPG x128515

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Vivien Leigh; David Jagger

by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, 27 September 1941
NPG x36100

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Vivien Leigh; Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier

by Paul Tanqueray
half-plate glass negative, 1942
NPG x180373

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Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle and Cyril Francis Maude as Sir Peter in 'The School for Scandal'

by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x896

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Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle in 'The School for Scandal'

by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x898

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Vivien Leigh as Lady Teazle and Cyril Francis Maude as Sir Peter in 'The School for Scandal'

by Lenare
paper negative, 24 April 1942
NPG x902

Category
Theatre and Live Entertainment
Groups
Actors and actresses
Place
India