FrameThrower · Actors · Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
2 films · 356 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1939–1951
Born 5 November 1913 · Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India [now West Bengal, India] · died 7 July 1967
Vivien Leigh was an English actress renowned for her roles in Hollywood and British theater. She won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, portraying Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), both performances that solidified her place among the greatest actresses of classic cinema.
Leigh was the only child of Ernest Hartley, a British broker, and Gertrude Yackjee, who had Anglo-Indian and Armenian ancestry.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 356 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1939–1951
- Academy Award for Best Actress1952
- Academy Award for Best Actress1940
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical1963
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 356 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Vivien takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 56% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Vivien takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
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