Scarce vintage black fountain pen signature on a 4.5 x 5.5-inch beige autograph album page, acquired in-person following a stage performance in the early 1950s. In good condition, with a faint block of toning, formed by a magazine image affixed to the previous page in the book, in the background of the first two letters of her name. Best known for her Academy Award-winning role as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), delicate English beauty Vivien Leigh was also marvelous in Waterloo Bridge (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), and Anna Karenina (1948), and snagged another Oscar for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) in 1952. From 1940 to 1960, she was married to Laurence Olivier, with whom she appeared in a number of successful London stage productions and, in 1963, she starred in a Broadway musical adaptation of "Tovarich," for which she earned a Tony. She died tragically of tuberculosis at the age of 53.

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