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01759aam a22002298i 4500 001 52A7FF5C399411E99C6C980F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190226010107 008 180627s2019 enk e 000 0beng d 020 $a 1788312082 020 $a 9781788312080 035 $a (OCoLC)1063558654 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d NZLEP $d UKOBU $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 100 1 $a Strachan, Alan, $e author. 245 10 $a Dark star : $b a biography of Vivien Leigh / $c Alan Strachan. 264 1 $a London : $b I.B. Tauris, $c 2019. 300 $a xxii, 354 pages, 31 plates (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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. 941 $a 2 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190524010806.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20190226011327.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=52A7FF5C399411E99C6C980F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search