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Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait Hardback - 2013

by Kendra Bean; Foreword by Claire Bloom

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From the publisher

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.

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  • Title Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait
  • Author Kendra Bean; Foreword by Claire Bloom
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Running Press Adult, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2013-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780762450992 / 0762450991
  • Weight 3.09 lbs (1.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.5 x 8.5 x 1.25 in (26.67 x 21.59 x 3.18 cm)
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Actors - Great Britain, Leigh, Vivien
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013936755
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Kendra Bean is a historian and curator. She is the author of Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait. She runs the popular classic film blog VivAndLarry.com. Her writing has also been published by the British Film Institute and Bright Lights Film Journal, and she has lectured on cinema at the National Portrait Gallery (London), Victoria and Albert Museum, the BFI, the San Francisco Presidio Officers' Club, and the Walt Disney Family Museum. She lives in London.
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