VIVIEN LEIGH - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 55303
Price: $1,000.00
VIVIEN LEIGH
Black and white publicity photograph of a young Vivien Leigh sitting
in a chair starring off into the distance.
Photograph signed: "Vivien Leigh". B/w, 3½x5¼ overall, image
3¼x4½ (one surface). Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) won Academy Awards for Best
Actress as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939) and as
Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Clark Gable was
the obvious choice for Rhett Butler but, even after the filming of Gone With
the Wind had begun, no one had been signed to play the part of Scarlett
O'Hara. Leigh came to America in November 1938. On December 21st, she had a
screen test for the Scarlett O'Hara role and on December 25, 1938 she was told
by producer George Cukor that she had secured the part. On January 26, 1939,
she began filming Gone With The Wind. Leigh, who was married to
British actor Laurence Olivier from 1940 until their divorce in 1960, was
only 53 when she succumbed to a severe bout of tuberculosis in 1967. Light
crease in upper right background. Signature slightly smudged. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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