In 1944 Vivien was diagnosed with tubercular
patch on her left lung while performing
in
Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our
Teeth.While making movies and distressing with medical
problems in 1946 and a miscarriage.
As 1948 was coming her tuberculosis
was getting worse.She was put on medications,given electroshock thearpy and ordered months
in bed resting.A few years later
she had her second miscarriage.Her daughter Suzanne getting married to Robin Farrington.Vivien was having miscarriges, moodswings,
and getting upsetand out of control.In the late 1950's Oliver
was turning to actress Joan Plowright
for comfort.In the fifties Vivien met Jack Merivale.
Oliver and Vivien divorced.Then vivien
appeared
in her last film in 1964 at the
age of fifty-one
"Ship of Fools".Then her last day
Friday July
7th, 1967, at the age of
fifty-three.One of the most beatiful actress of all time died with six grandchildren three boys three girls and one daughter.She
was cremeted and her ashes were
scrattered on the lake at Tickerage
Mill pond.
Vivian Mary Hartley
1913-1967
