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Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait

November 14, 2013

Although her name is universally synonymous with her groundbreaking roles as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivien Leigh’s legacy as an actress radiates across a career that spanned three decades and singularly impacted the worlds of both stage and screen. From her industry-changing portrayal of one of the most iconic film characters of all time to her twenty-year relationship with Laurence Olivier, Vivien has always been a woman somehow trapped beneath stigmas, rumors, and ever-changing accounts. She battled manic depression in a time when the disorder was far from understood; she carried the weight of the world’s opinions over her love affair with the world’s greatest actor; and through it all, she remained deeply personal, selective in her career, and enigmatic in her public image. In Kendra Bean’s new biography, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait, the details of Vivien’s life combine with rare and previously unpublished photos to present in full the true nature of Vivien Leigh, celebrating the legend while simultaneously liberating the woman from the shadows of her own success.

The publication of Bean’s Intimate Portrait coincides with Vivien’s centennial, an undoub