London's Victoria and Albert Museum has obtained british actress Vivien Leigh's archive in the 100th year, or centenary year of her birth according to the Los Angeles Times.
Leigh is most well-known for parts in 1939's "Gone With the Wind" where she won an Oscar as Scarlett O'Hara. and Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois who had emotional issues in 1951's "A Streetcar Named Desire," the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Vivien Leigh is undoubtedly one of the UK's greatest luminaries of stage and screen and along with Laurence Olivier, remains a true star of her time," Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said in a statement Wednesday the Los Angeles Times reported.
"We are thrilled to acquire her archive intact in this centenary year of her birth and to be able to make it available to the public for the first time. It not only represents
Vivien Leigh's career, but is also a fascinating insight into the theater and social world that surrounded her."
The museum, which houses the United Kingdom's national collection of theater and performing arts, has been collecting costumes made particularly for film.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a selection of the archive will be on display in a revolving manner in the V and A's Theatre and Performance Galleries this fall.
The archive has Leigh's has items nobody had seen before Wednesday including her personal diary she had from age 16 until she passed in 1967 the Los Angeles Times reported.
There are also love letters between her husband Laurence Olivier from 1940 to 1961, communications between Winston Churchill, Graham Greene and Noel Coward, photographs, visitor books, Leigh's scripts from her films and plays, press clippings, and awards she received the Los Angeles Times reported.
Leigh's grandchildren gave the collection to Robert Holden Ltd. the Los Angeles Times reported.
