# Vivien Leigh

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivien-leigh/524615>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 12, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivien-leigh/524615 "2010-01-12T03:39:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivien-leigh/524615/1 "2010-01-12T03:39:31Z")

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_A Streetcar Named Desire_ is on, and she’s a blonde.  
What color was her hair, really?  
And don’t say, “Whatever Larry Olivier wanted it to be.” 🙂

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivien-leigh/524615/2 "2010-01-12T03:40:29Z")

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Brown.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivien-leigh/524615/3 "2010-01-12T03:52:06Z")

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Well that’s darned unimpressive.  
🙂

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**Author:** ![Zhen\_ka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zhen\_ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zhen_ka)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivien-leigh/524615/4 "2010-01-12T05:57:10Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Well that’s darned unimpressive.  
> 🙂

She was a brunette. And lovely. And, quite mad.

In the film, her hair looked so fake. Quite distracting.