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Truly, Madly

Author : Stephen Galloway
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538731967
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Truly, Madly written by Stephen Galloway and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A New York Times Bestseller "A "well rounded and entertaining" (New York Times) Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre Royal, where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided to a friend, he was the man she was going to marry. There was just one problem: she was already married—and so was he. TRULY, MADLY is the biography of a marriage, a love affair that still captivates millions, even decades after both actors' deaths. Vivien and Larry were two of the first truly global celebrities – their fame fueled by the explosive growth of tabloids and television, which helped and hurt them in equal measure. They seemed to have it all and yet, in their own minds, they were doomed, blighted by her long-undiagnosed mental-illness, which transformed their relationship from the stuff of dreams into a living nightmare. Through new research, including exclusive access to previously unpublished correspondence and interviews with their friends and family, author Stephen Galloway takes readers on a bewitching journey. He brilliantly studies their tempestuous liaison, one that took place against the backdrop of two world wars, the Golden Age of Hollywood and the upheavals of the 1960s — as they struggled with love, loss and the ultimate agony of their parting.

Vivien Leigh

Author : Kendra Bean
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762451033
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Kendra Bean and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dark Star

Author : Alan Strachan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786724561
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Dark Star written by Alan Strachan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century's greatest actresses.

Vivien Leigh

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589797868
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Anne Edwards and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Vivien

Author : Alexander Walker
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802132598
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Vivien written by Alexander Walker and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivien Leigh is best known as the former Mrs. Laurence Olivier; the beautiful but willful Scarlett O'Hara; and the fading southern belle with a tenuous grip on reality, Blanche Du Bois. In life and on the screen, these were her public roles. Walker's excellent biography fills the gaps, giving insights into her private life-into what it must have been like to be Vivien Leigh. Walker (author of Garbo: A Portrait, CH, Mar '81; Dietrich, 1984; and Bette Davis: A Celebration, 1986) is a careful researcher who managed to win the confidence of the right people. His interview subjects include Vivien Leigh's only daughter, Suzanne Farrington; her first agent, John Glidden; and her last husband, Jack Merivale. Vivien is personal without being excessively gossipy, and informative without being pedantic. Walker's book should delight film-goers, theater-goers, and readers curious about prominent people. Leigh's achievements were many, but her personality had its darker side; even her 20 years as half of Britain's reigning theatrical couple ``the Oliviers'' took its toll on her physical and mental health. Amply supplied with photographs of the actress at all stages of her life, Vivien is an engaging book about an engaging figure. Undergraduates and general readers.- J.L. Cohen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101635479
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Scandals of Classic Hollywood written by Anne Helen Petersen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.

Vivien

Author : Angus McBean
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vivien written by Angus McBean and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique photographic record of Vivien Leigh's life taken by the photographer who noticed her on her first stage appearance in 1936 and subsequently created the Vivien Leigh look. It also includes personal memoirs revealing the friendship which developed between them.

The Real Life of Laurence Olivier

Author : Roger Lewis
Publisher : Arrow Books
ISBN 13 : 9780099513667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book The Real Life of Laurence Olivier written by Roger Lewis and published by Arrow Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Olivier was both an enchanter and a force of nature. Most of all, Olivier's life and work become a love story - the tale of the relationship with Vivien Leigh, who was destroyed by the extent of her passion for him, as he himself was cast into a frenzy of guilt and disillusionment.

Bring on the Empty Horses

Author : David Niven
Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780340839959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Bring on the Empty Horses written by David Niven and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following The Moon's a Ballon, this title presents the second part of David Niven's autobiography. This book aims to be a reminder of a much-loved actor who epitomised, for many, the essential British gent, even when surrounded by the stars of Hollywood.

Vivien Leigh

Author : Hugo Vickers
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Hugo Vickers and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Olivier

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623650437
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Olivier written by Philip Ziegler and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Sheridan Morley Prize that has been called "probably the best Olivier book for general readers" (Kirkus Reviews), Philip Ziegler's Olivier provides an incredibly accessible and comprehensive portrait of this Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning director, and one who is considered the greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors--Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole--but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he had achieved international stardom. His affair with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage as glamorous and as tragic as any in Hollywood history. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading man: his three Shakespearian adaptations are among the most memorable ever filmed. And yet, at the height of his fame, he accepted what was no more than an administrator's wage to become the founding Director of the National Theatre. In 2013 the theatre celebrates its fiftieth anniversary; without Olivier's leadership it would never have achieved the status that it enjoys today. Off-stage, Olivier was the most extravagant of characters: generous, yet almost insanely jealous of those few contemporaries whom he deemed to be his rivals; charming but with a ferocious temper. With access to more than fifty hours of candid, unpublished interviews, Ziegler ensures that Olivier's true character--at its most undisguised--shines through as never before.

Vivien Leigh

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480343
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Michelangelo Capua and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm" Margaret Mitchell opened Gone with the Wind with this description of Scarlett O'Hara, but her words can hardly be applied to Vivien Leigh, the British actress who gave an unforgettable performance as the Southern belle. Leigh possessed a beauty that men seldom failed to recognize and a charm that caught many, but her life was far from being all beauty and charm. This biography of the beautiful and tortured actress, from her birth and childhood in exotic India to her premature death in 1967, gives special attention to her development and career as a stage and film actress (which culminated in one Tony award and two Oscars). Her ambitious personality and her manic-depressive illness, including the sexual compulsion that haunted her life, her romantic and tragic marriage to Laurence Olivier, and her performances in, for instance, Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, are all detailed.

My Father Laurence Olivier

Author : Tarquin Olivier
Publisher : Trafalgar Square
ISBN 13 : 9780747206118
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book My Father Laurence Olivier written by Tarquin Olivier and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1992 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivier's son shares letters, photos, and stories never before published which reveal the confused emotions, pain, guilt, humor, happiness, and love of Sir Laurence.

Laurence Olivier

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Cooper Square Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780815411468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Laurence Olivier written by Donald Spoto and published by Cooper Square Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Olivier was regarded by many as the finest actor of the century, biographer Spoto reveals personal conflicts and tumultuous marriages that tormented him even during a lifetime of landmark dramatic successes.

Scoundrel

Author : Sarah Weinman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062899791
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Scoundrel written by Sarah Weinman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him free In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith’s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again. From the people Smith deceived—Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him—to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another. Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith’s orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man’s ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith’s victims.

And That's Not All

Author : Joan Plowright
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN 13 : 9780297645948
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book And That's Not All written by Joan Plowright and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted actress who was Laurence Olivier's third and last wife finally tells of 'life with Larry' - the ups and downs of being married to England's greatest twentieth century actor.

Charmed Lives

Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061847631
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Charmed Lives written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet.Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included H. G. Wells, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Marlena Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, and Merle Oberon, who was soon to be Alex's wife. But along with Alex's flair for success was an equally powerful impulse for destruction. Now, Vincent's son, Michael Korda, in the first book of his memoirs, recalls the enchanted figures of his childhood...the glory days of the Korda brothers' great films...and then their heartbreaking, tragic end.