Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh
Autor Alan Strachanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 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.
'A gripping new biography' - The Daily Mail
'[Vivien Leigh's] life, lived to the full at every second, will never be better told than it is in these pages' - The Sunday Times
'One of the most revealing showbiz biographies ever' - Sir Ian McKellen
'Enthralling' - Michael Codron
'A wonderful tribute' - Dame Penelope Keith DBE, DL
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780755600571
ISBN-10: 0755600576
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 28 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 224 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0755600576
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 28 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 224 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
What makes this account of a familiar story outstanding is that Strachan wins the reader's trust ... As an experienced man of the theatre, he suggests, qualifies and adds interesting views of his own.
[Vivien Leigh's] life, lived to the full at every second, will never be better told than it is in these pages.
A gripping new biography.
Strachan's meticulously researched, elegantly written volume is an eye-opener. Strachan's attention to detail is striking ... a valuable, authoritative record that supports [Leigh's] status as a great stage and screen actress.
This is a well-written biography of a much-loved star. Strachan achieves that rare thing of exposing his subject whilst maintaining their integrity. Leigh, who was fiercely private, would have been proud of this book.
Alan Strachan does a fine job in reasserting [Vivien Leigh's] status, not merely re-examining her stage work, but also becoming the first biographer to give due attention to the underrated films she made.
Reading this book is like meeting Vivien Leigh in her glory and her despair. One of the most revealing showbiz biographies ever.
This is an enthralling book. It enthrals you by its meticulous research, its lucid language and its depiction of a Legend and a World that do not exist anymore. Alas.
A wonderful tribute to a great actress and a fascinating insight into her troubled life and the machinations of the West End theatre during the middle of the twentieth century. Unputdownable.
Impeccable research into this fascinating actress make Dark Star a page turner. The reader is as desperate to see past her ravishing beauty to the tender, tortured woman beneath as is the author.
Three cheers for this. Alan Strachan's long overdue perceptive insight into one of the most fascinating, complex, troubled and talented actors of her time.
[Vivien Leigh's] life, lived to the full at every second, will never be better told than it is in these pages.
A gripping new biography.
Strachan's meticulously researched, elegantly written volume is an eye-opener. Strachan's attention to detail is striking ... a valuable, authoritative record that supports [Leigh's] status as a great stage and screen actress.
This is a well-written biography of a much-loved star. Strachan achieves that rare thing of exposing his subject whilst maintaining their integrity. Leigh, who was fiercely private, would have been proud of this book.
Alan Strachan does a fine job in reasserting [Vivien Leigh's] status, not merely re-examining her stage work, but also becoming the first biographer to give due attention to the underrated films she made.
Reading this book is like meeting Vivien Leigh in her glory and her despair. One of the most revealing showbiz biographies ever.
This is an enthralling book. It enthrals you by its meticulous research, its lucid language and its depiction of a Legend and a World that do not exist anymore. Alas.
A wonderful tribute to a great actress and a fascinating insight into her troubled life and the machinations of the West End theatre during the middle of the twentieth century. Unputdownable.
Impeccable research into this fascinating actress make Dark Star a page turner. The reader is as desperate to see past her ravishing beauty to the tender, tortured woman beneath as is the author.
Three cheers for this. Alan Strachan's long overdue perceptive insight into one of the most fascinating, complex, troubled and talented actors of her time.
Caracteristici
Includes previously unseen sources from new archives at V&A.
Notă biografică
Alan Strachan is a theatre director. In London's West End he has directed over thirty productions, and has also worked in regional theatre as well as in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin and New York often with leading actors and on plays ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw and Tennessee Williams to Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is the author of Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave and Putting It On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron.