Vivien

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786480340

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Vivien Leigh by Michelangelo Capua Pdf

"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.

Author : Marcy Lafferty
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Actors
ISBN : 0822223880

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Vivien Leigh by Marcy Lafferty Pdf

THE STORY: Vivien Leigh is holding her last press conference in a theatre, taking questions from members of the press. We learn her thoughts on the five stages of an actress' professional life as well as the specifics of her own career, including a

Author : Lisa Stead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190906528

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Reframing Vivien Leigh by Lisa Stead Pdf

Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes the dominant narratives that have surrounded Leigh's life and career, offering a new perspective on Vivien Leigh as a distinctly archival subject. The book examines the collections and curatorial practices that have built up around her, exploring material documents collated by her own hand and by those who worked with her. The book also examines the collection practices of those who have developed deep, long-standing fandoms of her life and work. To do so, the book draws upon new oral history work with curators, archivists and fan collectives and examines a variety of archived correspondence, items of dress and costume, script annotations, photography, press clippings, props and memorabilia. It argues that such material has the potential to produce a new interpretation of Leigh as a creative laborer. As such, the book casts new light on the labor of archiving itself and the significance of archival processes and practices to contemporary feminist film historiography.

Author : Percy Granger
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fathers and sons
ISBN : 9780573625718

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Vivien by Percy Granger Pdf

Author : Kendra Bean
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762451036

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Vivien Leigh by Kendra Bean Pdf

Vivien Leigh's 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 theaters 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 Leigh's 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 Leigh's story. Illustrated by hundreds of rare and never-before-published images, including those by Leigh's “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.

Author : Chris Dicker
Publisher : Chris Dicker
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vivien Leigh Biography: The Controversial Life of Vivien Leigh, Her Relationship with Herbert Leigh Holman, Laurence Olivier and More by Chris Dicker Pdf

Vivien Leigh has been a very talented British actress. Vivien's secret weapon was a combination of beauty, romance, glamour, especially in the Oscar-winning performances in Gone With the Wind and Streetcar Named Desire. She has inspired many of the greatest visionaries: Laurence Olivier, Winston Churchill and Christian Dior. Her legendary performances include the fictional character Scarlett..

Author : Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433000181689

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Idylls of the King, Vivien, Elaine, Enid, Guinevere by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson Pdf

Author : William Babington Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015063935244

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Vivien by William Babington Maxwell Pdf

A London shop girl was blessed and cursed by the fairies at her Christening with foolish self-confidence, proper self-respect, credulity, trustfulness, vanity and love of approbation and so on just balancing each other out, as they often did. She needed all those gifts and more as she wound her way through one paying post after another, defending her honor and virtue at every stop, until finally she found her way into the arms of one who will cherish her.

Author : Raymond Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : PRNC:32101067860427

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Chevalerie Vivien by Raymond Weeks Pdf

Author : Charlotte J. Cipriani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038537090

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The Child Vivien by Charlotte J. Cipriani Pdf

Author : Raymond Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Chansons de geste
ISBN : UVA:X030789999

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Origin of the Covenant Vivien by Raymond Weeks Pdf

Author : Cynthia Molt
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029285106

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Vivien Leigh by Cynthia Molt Pdf

Just to say the name Vivien Leigh invokes two quick images to anyone familiar with motion pictures--Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche DuBois. Yet, Vivien Leigh did not want to be remembered wholly for her screen performances in Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. This book is comprised of a biography describing Leigh's life, work, and travels. A chronology contains the important events and dates in her life and the people who were part of it. The stage appearances list cast and crew credits as well as the theater's in which a play was presented and the dates. The filmography, like the stage appearances, provides cast and crew credits and synopses. Molt lists the radio and television appearances, as well as the awards and nominations. Annotated discography and annotated bibliography follow. Assembled separately, posthumous tributes are the firsthand words and memories obtained by the author from those who knew Leigh or are knowledgeable about her. An index completes this excellent addition to Greenwood's Bio-Bibliography in the Performing Arts series.

Author : Alan Strachan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786724564

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Dark Star by Alan Strachan Pdf

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.

Author : Wilfred Campbell
Publisher : J. Durie
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : PRNC:32101068175742

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Mordred and Hildebrand by Wilfred Campbell Pdf

Author : Eugene Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433066650999

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Delilah: a Tale of Olden Times, and Miscellaneous Verses by Eugene Moore Pdf