A Legend Was Born

Name at birth: Vivian Mary Hartley
Born: 5 November 1913
Birthplace: Darjeeling, India
Died: 7 July 1967
Best Known As: Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind

Vivien Leigh didn't make many films, but she made movie history with her portrayal of Scarlett in Gone With the Wind (1939, opposite Clark Gable). Vivien's chances of getting the role of Scarlett O'Hara was not unexpected and probably non-existent, but fate stepped in, and a legend was born. For this role Vivien won her first Oscar.

One of a classical dialogue I don't forget, classic scene on the same hilltop where Mr. O'Hara once told Scarlett: "Ah, it'll come to you--this love of the land. You can't get away from it, if you're Irish," and Scarlett, now starving and filthy, finds an old radish buried in the ground, and she digs it up with her filthy fingernails and eats it with dirt still on it, and then she is ashamed, and she looks up into the triumphant sunset, and she declares:
"AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I'LL NEVER BE HUNGRY AGAIN."

The most magnificent picture ever!….