Spectacular early 4x6-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed with her name alone in black fountain pen in the early 1930s, when she was about 19 or 20 years old. In good condition and superb for display. 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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