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Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait (2013)

by Kendra Bean(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0762450991 (ISBN13: 9780762450992)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Running Press

review 1: You think you know Vivien Leigh because you've seen "Gone with the Wind"? Guess again. This snazzy coffee table book...lots of photos paired with a condensed biography...brings alive the bittersweet triumphs and tragedies of this 1930's-'50s stage/film star. Read the photo captions first, then go back and read about the who, what, when, why films/plays get produced, a couple of marriages that run off the rails, and Vivien's sad battles with her medical conditions. Talk about a life flaming out way too soon.
review 2: Finished this book last night , feel emotional. I have read a lot things about Vivien Leigh , but this book still told me something unknown. In the past , I only know the glorious time of Vivien Leigh , her success , her honor , her love , but in ... morethis book , I learned her sadness, her difficult times with her illness , with Oliver, also her affair with others. I can imagine her mad behavior and Oliver's helpless, feel sympathetic to Oliver , and feel more sympathetic to Vivien . No mater what happened , she is Scarlett O Hara for ever , she is a legendary forever ... less

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