Vivian Gibson

About Vivian Gibson

Vivian Gibson was a British-born and raised Austrian screen and stage actress. Born Georgina Mabel Gibson she took the stage name Vivian Gibson. Her silent movie career was in Germany between the wars. She returned to the UK in 1932, after which she worked on the stage. Gibson began her film career in England. Vivian received her training in classical dance in London, and was already from an early age as a dancer on the stage.

Starting in 1923, she appeared regularly in German movie productions like "Gräfin Mariza" (1925). The sound film era couldn't offer her further roles and after "Der tolle Bomberg" (1932), she retired from the film business.

About her private life, just about the only thing known for certain about her is that she was never married. The German show stages impresario Rudolf Nelson (1878-1960) supposedly took Vivian Gibson as a 24 -year-old to Berlin, Germany.

After the demise of her film career, Gibson largely retreated from the public spotlight, and moved to Austria, settling in Vienna, Austria, and began a literary career as an author, writing books under the name " Vini Gibson " and " Elisabeth Holt ". From the 1930's onward, Vivian would reside in Vienna for the rest of her life.

Gibson died - pretty much forgotten by the public (outside of the literary career) - on May 9, 1981, at the age of 82, in Vienna, Austria.