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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() Sad, fascinating. For a brief improbable moment the greatest star in the world but really a second-ranker. How unlikely that a prim well-brought up English convent girl got cast as these larger-than-life American viragos. Her descent into mani-depressive madness is touchingly told, including her writing exquisitely polite letters of apology to the friends she had attacked and shocked when in her manic fits. She clearly had great beauty and star quality, always wanted to be the legit classical actor and didn't quite have the skills. Olivier was her great love, idol and competitor, whose shadow she could not escape. A hint of hagiography in the writing but she does still captivate. ![]() Over and above that of course, was her struggle with bi-polarism. My mother led me to believe that Leigh was a garden variety drunk, but she was dead wrong about that. Alcohol was a part of her affliction, but by no means the root cause of her troubles. She had a terrible struggle for much of her life; even in the days before the bi-polarism took over her life she had the burden of a less than ideal childhood with which to cope. All in all it seems close to miraculous that she was able to continue acting while her disease raised pluperfect hell with her. As for Edwards' treatment of Leigh, I can't help but feel that she stopped just short of penetrating the surface of Vivien Leigh. Some of the time there seemed to be a little too much dependence upon clothing description and the quoting of Vivien's effusive letters and notes to her many friends. Edwards seems to have missed the opportunity of making this a good biography and allows it to slide into so-so territory. Still, Vivien Leigh comes across as a very interesting and compassionate woman and Laurence Olivier and Jack Merivale were saints. Want to see a few of her movies now. ![]() AND the miscaptioning of the pictures drove me wild! Nevertheless, the discussion of her illness, as dated as it was, was interesting to me on a personal basis as I have had experiences with someone going through very similar episodes before and after diagnosis. There's much better treatment these days and it's a shame Ms. Leigh was so ill for so long. ![]() Ms. Edwards primarily focuses on Ms. Leigh and Sir Laurence Olivier's all consuming love and the extent of their compulsion, in varying degrees, to be with each other. She has extensively detailed their relationship and their professional roles as renowned actors. Although well written, the repetitious quality of their lives over time increasingly became of little interest to this reader. They were extremely talented actors but were not experienced by this writer as people of exceptional interest beyond their art, just merely driven. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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. " Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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