Best vivien leigh biography

  • Excellent biography of one of the greatest film and stage actresses who ever lived.
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  • Vivien Leigh by Hugo Vickers — This book is widely regarded by fans as being the best Vivien biography ever published, and rightly so.

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    &#;Superb…the best book of its kind I have ever read.&#;—TheChicagoTribune

    &#;A haunting portrait of a woman whose beauty and talent were eventually destroyed by her private demons.&#;—AmericanCinematographer

    &#;This is the best book we have had on Vivien Leigh, the most thoroughly and shrewdly researched, the most acute in its realization that Leigh was an actress who had to find herself in her parts if she was to do well, but who invariably began to destroy herself in the process&#;—TheBostonSundayGlobe

    &#;The most accurate and balanced and heart-wrenching biography to date of this extraordinary, suffering actress . . . . Walker is both scrupulous and insightful.&#;—TheDenverPost

    &#;Keeps the reader enthralled.&#;—FortWorthStar&#;Telegram

    &#;Painstakingly crafted, carefully researched, and an absorbing pleasure to read. . . . a remarkably dignified yet honest portrait.&#;—TheIndianapolisStar

    &#;Vivien is a comprehensive historic

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    Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh

    March 15,
    It was on reflection of what would have been Vivien Leigh's hundred and tenth year, , that I revisited Alexander Walker's biography, one I had previously relished, but which had triggered disappointment in some. I've said before: if it's a movieography you want, click on Wikipedia or the Internet Movie Database. There isn't much to see. Leigh didn't make a long list of films comparable to other legends of her standing. This serious actress was at heart a great theatre performer, like her husband Sir Laurence Olivier who, likewise, made some celluloid epics but less than you might think.

    So obviously this is no beginners' handbook on Vivien Leigh's movies. It's hardly news that she won two Best Actress Academy Awards for her performances as 'Southern belles': Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind () and Blanche DuBois in the screen adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (), a role she had played on stage in London's West End in Unsurpr

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    Vivien Leigh

    British actress (–)

    Vivien Leigh

    Leigh in Gone with the Wind ()

    Born

    Vivian Mary Hartley


    ()5 November

    Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, British India

    Died8 July () (aged&#;53)

    Belgravia, London, England

    OccupationActress
    Years&#;active–
    Title
    • Lady Olivier (–)
    • Vivien, Lady Olivier (–)
    Spouses

    • Herbert Leigh Holman

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    • Laurence Olivier

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    PartnerJohn Merivale (–)
    ChildrenSuzanne Farrington
    RelativesGerald Fielding (first cousin)
    Xan Fielding (first cousin once removed)

    Vivien Leigh (LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November – 8 July ), styled as Lady Olivier after , was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh appeared in small roles in fyra films in and progressed to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (). She then won the Academy Award for Best A