Ann-Margret Olsson
Swedish-American celebrity Ann-Margret Olsson was one of the most famous stars of the 1960s and 70s. Actress, singer and dancer, she got her first big acting break in Bye Bye Birdie, while she was working as a recording artist. Her career spans over five decades, over which time she has been nominated for, and won, countless awards with her most recent in 2010 when she won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on Law and Order: SVU.
Ann-Margret
Vivien Leigh
Like a lot of other women on this list, Vivien Leigh has also said of herself that she had to work hard for people to see past her outer beauty and to get people to believe in her as an actress in her own right, one director even described her as “consummate actress, hampered by beauty”. She earned critical acclaim and much popularity with roles in films like A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone with the Wind, but actually had a much higher profile career on stage rather than on screen. She died of tuberculosis in 1967.
Vivien Leigh
