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Vivien Leigh An Intimate Portrait (Claire Bloom)

• Tytuł: Vivien Leigh An Intimate Portrait
• Autor: Claire Bloom
• Wydawca: Running Press Adult
• Data wydania: 2013-10-15
• Oprawa: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780762450992
• Ilość stron: 272
• Język: Angielski
• Wymiary: 26.67 x 21.59 x 3.18 cm
• Waga: 1,379.98g

OPIS:

Vivien Leighs 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 theatres 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 Leighs 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 Leighs story. Illustrated by hundreds of rare and never-before-published images including those by Leighs 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.