Vivien leigh biography book
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Publisher Description
Vivien Leigh has been a very talented British actress. Vivien's secret weapon was a combination of beauty, romance, glamour, especially in the Oscar-winning performances in "Gone With the Wind" and "Streetcar Named Desire." She has inspired many of the greatest visionaries: Laurence Olivier, Winston Churchill and Christian Dior. Her legendary performances include the fictional character Scarlett O'Hara from Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone With the Wind," in fact this is where it all got started for her. It practically made Leigh a big name overnight.
In this biography, you'll embark on a journey from Vivien's birth in India to prominence in British movies, her love affair with Laurence Olivier while both were married, through to her death in
Vivien Leigh was the most celebrated women of the twentieth century, an engrossing adventure of success, struggles, and triumphs. She also had some controversial situ
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Vivien Leigh: A Biography
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm" Margaret Mitchell opened Gone with the Wind with this description of Scarlett O'Hara, but her words can hardly be applied to Vivien Leigh, the British actress who gave an unforgettable performance as the Southern belle. Leigh possessed a beauty that men seldom failed to recognize and a charm that caught many, but her life was far from being all beauty and charm.
This biography of the beautiful and tortured actress, from her birth and childhood in exotic India to her premature death in , gives special attention to her development and career as a stage and film actress (which culminated in one Tony award and two Oscars). Her ambitious personality and her manic-depressive illness, including the sexual compulsion that haunted her life, her romantic and tragic marriage to Laurence Olivier, and her performances in, for instance, Gone with the Wind and A Stree
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Vivien Leigh: A Biography
From the moment one first sees Vivien standing on the windswept platform as the cameras roll for the burning of Atlanta, this book holds its audience spellbound through the sista act. One of the most talented, beautiful and tormented actresses who ever captured the public imagination is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive, intimate portrait of her life--and of the glittering worlds in which she lived. We are shown the two deeply divided personalities that actually lay behind the legend: one, the charming, elegant, convent-schooled "perfect hostess" whose friends and admirers included almost everyone of distinction--Churchill, feg, Williams, Brando, Selznick, Korda, Gielgud; the other, a self-destructive, spoiled, recklessly ambitious manic-depressive. Her scandalous love affair with Laurence Olivier was second in notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. We follow the events and the passions that marked Vivien's rise and