Q 01/05

Vivien Leigh won her two Best Actress Oscars for Scarlett O'Hara and which other character?

A) Emma Hamilton

B) Anna Karenina

C) Blanche DuBois

D) Cleopatra

Answer · why

C) Blanche DuBois

Blanche DuBois. Both Oscar roles were belles of the American South played by an Englishwoman, and she had already acted this one for months on the Lon...

Q 02/05

In which city of British India was Vivien Leigh born in 1913?

A) Bangalore

B) Darjeeling

C) Calcutta

D) Ootacamund

Answer · why

B) Darjeeling

Darjeeling. At six she was sent from the Himalayan hill station to a convent boarding school in England, the first of several convents across Europe t...

Q 03/05

What was Vivien Leigh's surname at birth?

A) Hartley

B) Holman

C) Robinson

D) Yackjee

Answer · why

A) Hartley

Hartley. Born Vivian Mary Hartley, she borrowed 'Leigh' from her first husband's middle name, and for the stage the spelling of her first name was cha...

Q 04/05

Which future actress was Vivien Leigh's convent schoolfriend, to whom she confided her wish to be 'a great actress'?

A) Margaret Lockwood

B) Merle Oberon

C) Deborah Kerr

D) Maureen O'Sullivan

Answer · why

D) Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan. She reached the screen first, and it was after watching one of her old schoolfriend's films in a London cinema that Leigh told her...

Q 05/05

Leigh's first husband, whom she married in 1932 aged 19, worked in which profession?

A) Army officer

B) Surgeon

C) Barrister

D) Stockbroker

Answer · why

C) Barrister

Barrister. She left drama school to marry Leigh Holman, found life as a lawyer's hostess dull, and within months had talked him into letting her go ba...