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

She had already played the part for 326 performances in the West End before making the 1951 film.

Q 02/05

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

A) Bombay

B) Darjeeling

C) Calcutta

D) Simla

Answer · why

B) Darjeeling

Her mother was of Armenian and Irish ancestry, and her father was a Scottish-born broker.

Q 03/05

What was Vivien Leigh's surname at birth?

A) Hartley

B) Holman

C) Esmond

D) Yackjee

Answer · why

A) Hartley

Her stage surname came from her first husband's middle name, Leigh.

Q 04/05

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

A) Greer Garson

B) Merle Oberon

C) Deborah Kerr

D) Maureen O'Sullivan

Answer · why

D) Maureen O'Sullivan

They later appeared together in A Yank at Oxford, Leigh's first film to get noticed in America.

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

Herbert Leigh Holman disapproved of 'theatrical people'; she left RADA soon after marrying him.