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Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh by Alexander Walker 1991 Paperback Grove
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- Seller Notes
- “Top end of VG just a touch from LN”
- ISBN
- 9780802132598
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Vivien : the Life of Vivien Leigh
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Number of Pages
- 342 Pages
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"My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part non-conformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions."--Vivien Leigh When Vivien Leigh died in 1967, headlines around the world proclaimed, "Scarlett O'Hara is Dead " Perhaps more than any of her contemporaries, Vivien Leigh became the very embodiment of the roles she made famous, from Gone With the Wind 's immortal heroine to her harrowing portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire . Vivien's beauty, determination, and enormous charisma were her triumph, whether it was a matter of charming George Bernard Shaw in order to become his personal choice for the part of Scarlett--or winning the then-married Laurence Olivier as her husband. Her twenty-years' partnership with Olivier, both onstage and off, made them the "royal couple" of the theater, and garnered unparalleled critical and popular acclaim. But the achievement had its darker side, for Vivien became so immersed in her roles that she began to take on their characteristics in real life--often at enormous cost: playing Blanche DuBois actually "tipped her into madness"; and while filming Ship of Fools , she found herself hammering co-star Lee Marvin's face with very real--and painful--blows of her spiked heel. The public glamour of her fairy tale marriage to Olivier--so desperately important to them both--hid a private nightmare of violence and frequent infidelity. She was consumed by devastating battles against tuberculosis, to which she finally succumbed, and manic-depression, which she sought to keep at bay through a voracious sexual appetite, having affair after affair--sometimes serious, as with Peter Finch, sometimes with whichever taxi driver happened to bring her home. Based on previously unpublished interviews with her friends, family, and colleagues, as well as with Vivien Leigh herself, Vivien is an extraordinary picture of a unique and complex woman, as willful as she was beautiful, who knew what she wanted--whether the coveted role of Scarlett or that, equally coveted, of Lady Olivier--and got it. With its telling anecdotes, fascinating insights, and unforgettable glimpses into Hollywood's heyday, it is sure to stand as the definitive portrait of one of the most talented and tormented actresses of all time.
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Publisher
GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0802132596
ISBN-13
9780802132598
eBay Product ID (ePID)
434149
Product Key Features
Book Title
Vivien : the Life of Vivien Leigh
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
1994
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
342 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20 oz
Additional Product Features
Lccn
87-020966
Dewey Decimal
792/.028/0924
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
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