Though perhaps most famous for bringing the role of Scarlett O'Hara to life in Gone with the Wind (for which she won her first Academy Award), English actress Vivien Leigh enjoyed a prolific career both onstage and onscreen. She'd go on to win another Oscar for playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire and a Tony for the musical Tovarich. She also played starring roles in the films Waterloo Bridge, Caesar and Cleopatra, Anna Karenina and Ship of Fools and played many a Shakespearean leading lady, including Cleopatra, Julia, Lavinia, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Titania. In honor of what would be the iconic actress's 103rd birthday,<
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As she appears in Serena Blandish at the Gate Theatre, 1938
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Still from Gone with the Wind, 1939
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Still from Gone with the Wind, 1939
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Still from Gone with the Wind, 1939
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Still from Waterloo Bridge, 1940
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Still from That Hamilton Woman, 1941
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Still from That Hamilton Woman, 1941
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Still from Anna Karenina, 1948
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In her dressing room on the opening night of School for Scandal at the Tivoli Theatre, 1948
Jennifer Algoo is the Visuals Director at Harper's BAZAAR. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and has previously worked at Patrick McMullan Co. as well as completing internships at Martha Stewart Weddings, Vogue and CosmoGirl! Magazine. Jennifer covers royal, celeb and art content as well as overseeing all visual assets on BAZAAR.com. When she's not obsessing over the royals you can find her attempting to solve cold cases as an armchair detective, traveling and experimenting with new recipes.