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Photos: A look back at Vivien Leigh's life

English-born actor Charles Laughton (1899 - 1962) and Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), entertain the theatre queue outside Holborn Empire, playing out their parts in the new Laughton production 'St Martin's Lane'. Original Publication: People Disc - HG0049 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The English actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier, his wife Lady Olivier, (English actress Vivien Leigh), and John Mills during a rehearsal for the Royal Variety Performance. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967). Original Publication: People Disc - HS0069 (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Indian-born English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), who won Academy Awards for her roles in 'Gone With The Wind' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

British film stars Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh after visiting a London theatre to see a revival of 'Dear Brutus'. The stars have flown to London from Hollywood to play their part in the war. Olivier hopes to join the RAF and Vivien Leigh is hoping to join a stage company touring Britain. (Photo by George Hales/Getty Images)

English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967) as she appears in 'Serena Blandish' at the Gate Theatre. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh arriving at Rome airport. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

circa 1940: English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967). (Photo by Gordon Anthony/Getty Images)

circa 1935: British stage and screen actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), best known for her role as Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind'. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

circa 1938: English actress, Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967) as a fairy in 'Midsummers Nights Dream'. (Photo by Gordon Anthony/Getty Images)

1937: Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967) and Conrad Veidt (1893 - 1943) star in 'Dark Journey', in which Leigh plays a French spy who falls in love with her German contact. Also titled 'The Anxious Years', the film was directed by Victor Saville. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1938: Vivien Leigh as 'Lady Hamilton' in the story of the mistress of Lord Nelson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1939: Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967) the stage name of Vivien Mary Hartley, the English actress. (Photo by Gordon Anthony/Getty Images)

circa 1940: British actors Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) and Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) entertaining millionaire Sir Victor Sassoon on the set of 'Waterloo Bridge', a Metro Goldwyn Mayer film in which Leigh is currently starring. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

October 1949: Vivien Leigh toasts the stars in her role as Blanche in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', playing at the Aldwych Theatre, London. Picture Post - 4903 - Desire Goes Off The Rails - pub.1949 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

circa 1940: English stage and film actress, Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967). (Photo by Gordon Anthony/Getty Images)

4th June 1935: English actress Vivien Leigh and a co-star in the 'Mask Of Virtue' at St James's Theatre. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

4th June 1935: English actress Vivien Leigh in costume for her role in the 'Mask Of Virtue' at St James's Theatre. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

13th June 1947: English actor Laurence Olivier with his wife, the English actress Vivien Leigh. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images)

English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), 1937. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), 1937. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

English actress Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), her husband Laurence Olivier (1907 - 1989, left) and fellow thespian Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) attend the Sid Field midnight tribute show at the London Palladium, 26th June 1951. On the far right is Australian ballet dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann (1909 - 1986). (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Actresses Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara) and Olivia De Havilland (Melanie Hamilton) arrive in Atlanta for the premiere.

Clark Gable (Rhett Butler) and his wife, actress Carole Lombard, arrive in Atlanta.

Leigh rides with (from left) Georgia Gov. Ed Rivers, producer David O. Selznick and Jock Whitney, a nationally known financier

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English-born actor Charles Laughton (1899 - 1962) and Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967), entertain the theatre queue outside Holborn Empire, playing out their parts in the new Laughton production 'St Martin's Lane'. Original Publication: People Disc - HG0049 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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