
Vivien Leigh wins Academy Award
- Made:
- 12 March 1940 in Los Angeles
- maker:
- Associated Press
Associated Press photograph titled 'Vivien Leigh, Best Actress'. Caption on back reads: Vivien Leigh, Scarlett O'Hara of "Gone With the Wind," holding her "Oscar" for winning the Academy Award for the best performance of a movie actress in 1939. She is shown with David O. Selznick, producer of the picture who also received a special award, seen at the banquet of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Daily Herald Archive
- Object Number:
- 1983-5236/30803
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product) and ink
- Measurements:
-
overall: 240 mm x 190 mm
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- Daily Herald Archive, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford