Michelangelo Capua

Vivien Leigh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780786414970
• ISBN-10: 0786414979
• Artikelnr.: 21701236

Autorenporträt

Michelangelo Capua is the author of several McFarland biographies of Hollywood film stars. He lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction     
1 Scent of India     
2 nside a Convent     
3 Wedding Interlude     
4 A Star Is Born     
5 Larry, Larry, Larry     
6 Gone with the Wind     
7 Romeo and Juliet     
8 Times of War, Times of Love     
9 Cleopatra     
10 Lady Olivier     
11 Blanche DuBois     
12 Fire and Air     
13 Peter Finch     
14 Stage Door     
15 Madness, Madness, Madness     
16 Jack Merivale     
17 Breathless     
Appendix: Film, Stage and Radio
Appearances     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Index