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Vivien Leigh (35)

Birth:	5th November, 1913
Death:	8th July, 1967
Nationality:	British, Indian
Profession:	Actress

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Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was a British actress, born in India, best known for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for both. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the sixteenth greatest movie star of all time.

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Births

• 1960 - Tony Goldwyn
• 1904 - Margery Allingham
• 1963 - David Wells
• 1952 - Roger Milla
• 1891 - Earl Browder

Deaths

• 2008 - Hamilton Jordan
• 1975 - Barbara Hepworth
• 2005 - Paul Ricoeur
• 1989 - Gilda Radner
• 1732 - Thomas Boston

• I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.

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• I adore dancing.

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• I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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• Dear Lord, I’m so grateful I’m still loved.

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• When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

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• I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.

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• 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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• One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

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• I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven’t.

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• Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.

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• I’m not young. What’s wrong with that?

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• Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

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• Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

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• Life is too short to work so hard.

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• 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.

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• I’ve been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

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• I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

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• I’ve always been mad about cats.

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• I’m not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

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• 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.

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