VIVIEN LEIGH - MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR - HFSID 145577

VIVIEN LEIGH and ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR
Signed magazine photo of Leigh, affixed to a sheet signed by Sinclair on verso
Magazine Photograph signed: "Vivien Leigh". B/w, 4x5, affixed to album leaf (5x6½). Typed caption below photo. Album leaf signed on verso: "Archibald Sinclair". Unsigned newspaper photo (b/w, 1½x2¾) affixed below his signature. Pencil note (unknown hand) in lower right corner. VIVIEN LEIGH (1913-1967, born Vivian Hartley in Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India) was a British stage and film actress. She 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). She 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 was an accomplished actress on the British stage as well. She appeared in London's Old Vic Theatre opposite Lawrence Olivier as Ophelia in Hamlet in the late 1930s; the two started an affair and were married in 1940, divorcing in 1960. She was only 53 when she succumbed to a severe bout of tuberculosis in 1967. Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR (1890-1970), a Scottish Parliamentarian, entered Britain's House of Commons in 1922. He became leader of the Liberal Party in the 1930s, and was the last member of that party to sit in the Cabinet. Out of power in the late 1930s, he became a close friend of Winston Churchill, a Conservative who was out of favor with his own party at the time. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he made Sinclair Secretary of State for Air, a post he held for the rest of World War II. Sinclair lost his seat in 1945, and was elevated to the House of Lords in 1952 as Viscount Thurso. Slightly rippled. Album leaf lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.