Biography: life and films
Vivien Leigh was a British actress whose birth name was Vivian Mary Hartley. She was born in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India on 5th November 1913 and died in London, England on 8th July 1967, aged 53.Her best films as an actor include Victor Saville's thriller Dark Journey (1937), Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind (1939), Mervyn LeRoy's Waterloo Bridge (1940) and Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
Vivien Leigh appeared in 21 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Basil Dean (2 films).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (12 films), War (7), romance (6), comedy (6), history (3) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Vivien Leigh over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Gentlemen's Agreement (1935) [a]
Look Up and Laugh (1935) [a]
The Village Squire (1935) [a]
Things Are Looking Up (1935) [a]
Fire Over England (1937) [a]
Storm in a Teacup (1937) [a]
A Yank at Oxford (1938) [a]
Sidewalks of London (1938) [a]
21 Days (1940) [a]
Waterloo Bridge (1940) [a]
That Hamilton Woman (1941) [a]
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) [a]
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) [a]
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) [a]
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) [a]
Ship of Fools (1965) [a]
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969) [a]
The Tales of Helpmann (1990) [a]
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The very best sci-fi movies
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
