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2018-10-25 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Alan Strachan
Release : 2018-10-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 561/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Dark Star by : Alan Strachan

Download or read book Dark Star written by Alan Strachan. This book was released on 2018-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century's greatest actresses.

Vivien Leigh

2013-10-15 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Kendra Bean
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Vivien Leigh by : Kendra Bean

Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Kendra Bean. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivien Leigh's mystique was a combination of staggering beauty, glamour, romance, and genuine talent displayed in her Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. For more than thirty years, her name alone sold out theaters and cinemas the world over, and she inspired many of the greatest visionaries of her time: Laurence Olivier loved her; Winston Churchill praised her; Christian Dior dressed her. Through both an in-depth narrative and a stunning array of photos, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait presents the personal story of one of the most celebrated women of the twentieth century, an engrossing tale of success, struggles, and triumphs. It chronicles Leigh's journey from her birth in India to prominence in British film, winning the most-coveted role in Hollywood history, her celebrated love affair with Laurence Olivier, through to her untimely death at age fifty-three in 1967. Author Kendra Bean is the first Vivien Leigh biographer to delve into the Laurence Olivier Archives, where an invaluable collection of personal letters and documents ranging from interview transcripts to film contracts to medical records shed new insight on Leigh's story. Illustrated by hundreds of rare and never-before-published images, including those by Leigh's "official" photographer, Angus McBean, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait is the first illustrated biography to closely examine the fascinating, troubled, and often misunderstood life of Vivien Leigh: the woman, the actress, the legend.

Vivien Leigh

2013-04-16 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Anne Edwards
Release : 2013-04-16
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 868/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Vivien Leigh by : Anne Edwards

Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Anne Edwards. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, and whose circle included both theatrical and political celebrities, from Winston Churchill to Noel Coward, John Gielgud, and Marlon Brando. But behind the dazzling exterior lay the sinister shadow of another Vivien Leigh—a shadow which pursued her throughout her aristocratic upbringing, her frustrating first marriage, her tempestuous romance with Laurence Olivier, and her meteoric rise to stardom. As The New York Times wrote of the hardcover edition, “To read her story is to be inspired with pity and terror.”

Vivien Leigh

2015-09-01 Performing Arts

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 343/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Vivien Leigh by : Michelangelo Capua

Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Michelangelo Capua. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 1967, 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 Streetcar Named Desire, are all detailed.

Vivien Leigh

1988 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Hugo Vickers
Release : 1988
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Hugo Vickers. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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