The Rise and Fall of Hollywood Starlet Vivien Leigh

Natural-Born Performer

Vivian Mary Hartley always had something special about her. At the age of three, she recited Little Bo Peep for her mom’s theater group, and they loved every moment of her. Maureen O’Sullivan (who eventually played Jane in the Tarzan movies alongside Johnny Weissmuller) was childhood friends with Leigh and had this to say:

A portrait of young Vivien Leigh holding flowers

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“Vivien always wanted to be an actress. She was single-minded. She was the only girl in school to take ballet, for instance. She took it alone, the only one. I thought it was brave of her.” Some people are just born to be on stage.

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