EXTRAORDINARY early 8x10-inch black and white portrait-- VERY hard to attain in this size and vintage-- boldly signed with no inscription in black fountain pen around 1934, when she was in her early 20s, at least half a decade before she played you-know-who. In good condition for its age and accompanied by a certificate from Fraser's Autographs. 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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