Viven leigh biography
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Vivien Leigh
British actress (–)
Vivien Leigh | |
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Leigh in Gone with interpretation Wind () | |
| Born | Vivian Mary Hartley ()5 November Darjeeling, Bengal Position, British India |
| Died | 8 July () (aged&#;53) Belgravia, Writer, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
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| Partner | John Merivale (–) |
| Children | Suzanne Farrington |
| Relatives | Gerald Fielding (first cousin) Xan Author (first relative once removed) |
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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 final 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, Coward, 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 fall: her aristocratic upbringing, her frustrating first marriage, her tempestuous courtship by Olivier, her dazzling rise to stardom as Scarlett O'Hara (and her innumerable other roles, from Cleopatra to Blanche DuBois), her glamorous social life that spanned the globe, her incapacitating realizat
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Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh,by Alan Strachan. I.B. Tauris, , pp.
Gwenda Young
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John Gielgud once wrote to Vivien Leigh, just as she commenced her career on stage and screen, to observe that her striking beauty might “always be more hindrance than help to your acting. Almost incidentally either it blinds the critical faculty or produces a perverse determination to pick holes” (Strachan xviii). His warning would prove prescient: it is Leigh’s beauty—regarded as exotic and, with the knowledge of her mental and physical health problems, “fragile”—that still frames much of the biographical and critical discussion of her performances and of her stardom.
The title of Alan Strachan’s new biography of Leigh, Dark Star, calls to mind Leatrice Gilbert Fountain’s study of her father, the silent film actor John Gilbert. In Dark Star: The Untold Story of the Meteoric Rise and Fall of Legendary Silent Screen Star John Gilbert,Fountain employed a rise-and-fall narrative to chart how a once-luminous career was cast into darkness by the combined forces of Industry machinations and Gilbert’s own battles with alcoholism and depression. For many biographers, the narrative of the fallen or forgotten s