Vivien Leigh — Infobox Actor name = Vivien Leigh imagesize = 200px caption = from the film Fire Over England (1937) birthname = Vivian Mary Hartley birthdate = birth date|1913|11|5|df=y location = Darjeeling, West Bengal, India deathdate = death date and… … Wikipedia
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