Vivien Leigh.

Although British, she won both her Oscars for portraying American Southern belles.

Olivier wrote that after World War II, Leigh announced she loved him only as a brother; her subsequent affairs were a sign of her bipolar disorder.

For A Streetcar Named Desire, Leigh won the first British Academy Award for Best Actress at the inaugural BAFTA ceremony in 1953.

Her performance as Scarlett O’Hara is ranked #3 on Premiere magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Her only child, Suzanne Farrington, died in 2015 at age 81.

Leigh had a long affair with Peter Finch, discovered by Olivier during their 1948 Australian tour; Finch later cuckolded Olivier.

She gave birth to her only child at age 19: Suzanne Mary Holman later Farrington on October 10, 1933.

Reportedly, she used one of her two Oscars as a doorstop for her bathroom.

She was named #16 Actress on the American Film Institute’s 50 Greatest Screen Legends.

During Gone with the Wind, director Victor Fleming had Walter Plunkett tape Leigh’s breasts together to achieve the desired cleavage for the burgundy velvet dress scene.

Leigh was named as co-respondent in Jill Esmond’s divorce from Olivier; later, Olivier’s next wife Joan Plowright was named as co-respondent in Leigh’s divorce from Olivier.

She claimed that when she tested for Gone with the Wind, the costume was still warm from the actress who preceded her.

After cremation, her ashes were scattered on the mill pond at her home, Tickerage Mill, in Blackboys, Sussex.

Leigh is one of only eight actors with a 2-0 win-loss record at the Oscars, with wins for Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire.

She desperately wanted to play the second Mrs. De Winter in Rebecca 1940 opposite Olivier, but David O. Selznick refused, casting Joan Fontaine instead.

The producer of the 1935 play The Mask of Virtue suggested she change the a in her first name to e, from Vivian to Vivien.

She was pictured on a 25¢ US commemorative postage stamp issued in 1990 featuring Clark Gable and Leigh as Rhett and Scarlett from Gone with the Wind.

Her father nicknamed her Vivling, a combination of her name and the word darling.

She took her first husband’s first name Leigh as her professional last name.

Her favorite role was Myra in Waterloo Bridge 1940.

Leigh is one of 12 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a movie that also won Best Picture; she did so for Gone with the Wind.

She was supposed to star in Elephant Walk 1954 with Peter Finch but was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor after a nervous breakdown exacerbated by an affair with Finch.

The film The V.I.P.s 1963 is based on an incident when Leigh was about to leave Olivier for Finch, but Olivier wooed her back.

Two of her films, Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, have been selected for the National Film Registry.

She loved cats, especially Siamese.

After Joan Crawford quit Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964, Leigh was offered the role but turned it down; Olivia de Havilland eventually accepted.

Leigh is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners who did not accept the award in person; she did not accept for A Streetcar Named Desire.

Her father was English; her mother was of French and Irish ancestry.

She was close friends with Rachel Kempson, mother of Vanessa Redgrave.

She lived with John Merivale from 1959 until her death in 1967.

She won the 1963 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Tovarich.

She was godmother to actress Juliet Mills and Suzanna Leigh.

She briefly considered the stage name April Morn before settling on Vivien Leigh.

She lived at 54 Eaton Square from 1958 until her death; a blue plaque commemorates the fact.

She had three grandsons: Neville, Jonathan, and Rupert Farrington.

She turned down the role of Alice Aisgill in Room at the Top 1958; Simone Signoret won an Oscar for the part.