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Dark Star
A Biography of Vivien Leigh
Buch von Alan Strachan
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Alan Strachan
Zusammenfassung
New details on Leigh's relationship with Laurence Olivier.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Plates
Acknowledgements

Prologue
1. A Child of the Raj
2. Hours Nearer Death
3. Young Wife and Mother
4. Enter Olivier
5. Altered States
6. Printing a Legend
7. Star-Crossed
8. Wartime Dramas
9. From Sabina to Anna
10. Down Under
11. The Kindness of Strangers
12. Two on the Nile
13. Crack-Up
14. Avonside
15. At Court
16. Ending A Legend
17. Worlds Elsewhere
18. Last Acts
Epilogue
Appendix Facts/"False Facts"
Notes on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781788312080
ISBN-10: 1788312082
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Strachan, Alan
Hersteller: I. B. Tauris & Company
Maße: 234 x 167 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Alan Strachan
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,726 kg
Artikel-ID: 111226974
Über den Autor
Alan Strachan
Zusammenfassung
New details on Leigh's relationship with Laurence Olivier.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Plates
Acknowledgements

Prologue
1. A Child of the Raj
2. Hours Nearer Death
3. Young Wife and Mother
4. Enter Olivier
5. Altered States
6. Printing a Legend
7. Star-Crossed
8. Wartime Dramas
9. From Sabina to Anna
10. Down Under
11. The Kindness of Strangers
12. Two on the Nile
13. Crack-Up
14. Avonside
15. At Court
16. Ending A Legend
17. Worlds Elsewhere
18. Last Acts
Epilogue
Appendix Facts/"False Facts"
Notes on Sources
Select Bibliography
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781788312080
ISBN-10: 1788312082
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Strachan, Alan
Hersteller: I. B. Tauris & Company
Maße: 234 x 167 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Alan Strachan
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,726 kg
Artikel-ID: 111226974
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