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This passport records several extremely pivotal trips within Leigh's life and career including:
- 29 May 1937 Esbjerg... - recording Leigh's trip to Denmark to play Ophelia opposite her lover, Laurence Olivier as Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, seventeen days before leaving her husband Leigh Holman for Olivier.
- 20 Oct 1938...American Consulate General, London, England for a temporary U.S. visa for Leigh's first trip to the States a month later [she sailed on 27th November, 1938, an additional stamp DEC 1 1938 records her arrival in New York] - Leigh provided two reason for her journey when asked by a follow traveler on the Majestic: Partly because Larry's there, and partly because I intend to get the part of Scarlett O'Hara..., on December 10th the legendary meeting of David Selznick and Vivien Leigh occurred on the backlot of Selznick International Pictures during filming of the burning of Atlanta sequence, when Olivier organized events so that his agent, Myron Selznick, should introduce Vivien Leigh to his brother David O. Selznick, a meeting which led to her being cast in the most important role in her career as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
The meeting of David Selznick and Vivien Leigh is in the words of Hugo Vickers ...as legendary in show business history as the encounter of Stanley and Livingstone... According to David Selznick, his brother, Myron, Olivier's agent, brought Leigh onto the burning Atlanta set and ..introduced me to her, the flames were lighting up her face and Myron said: 'I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara'. I took one look and knew that she was right..... Vivien was offered a screen test immediately, and acquired the most sought after female role in films for many years.
- 29 May 1937 Esbjerg... - recording Leigh's trip to Denmark to play Ophelia opposite her lover, Laurence Olivier as Hamlet at Kronberg Castle, Elsinore, seventeen days before leaving her husband Leigh Holman for Olivier.
- 20 Oct 1938...American Consulate General, London, England for a temporary U.S. visa for Leigh's first trip to the States a month later [she sailed on 27th November, 1938, an additional stamp DEC 1 1938 records her arrival in New York] - Leigh provided two reason for her journey when asked by a follow traveler on the Majestic: Partly because Larry's there, and partly because I intend to get the part of Scarlett O'Hara..., on December 10th the legendary meeting of David Selznick and Vivien Leigh occurred on the backlot of Selznick International Pictures during filming of the burning of Atlanta sequence, when Olivier organized events so that his agent, Myron Selznick, should introduce Vivien Leigh to his brother David O. Selznick, a meeting which led to her being cast in the most important role in her career as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
The meeting of David Selznick and Vivien Leigh is in the words of Hugo Vickers ...as legendary in show business history as the encounter of Stanley and Livingstone... According to David Selznick, his brother, Myron, Olivier's agent, brought Leigh onto the burning Atlanta set and ..introduced me to her, the flames were lighting up her face and Myron said: 'I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara'. I took one look and knew that she was right..... Vivien was offered a screen test immediately, and acquired the most sought after female role in films for many years.