Leigh was 23; Olivier, was 29. They carried on an affair for two years before running away together. “I was only half alive before I met Vivien,” Olivier said. She was beautiful, wild ...

‘Vivien told Peter that he might be the father ... Three years after her eventual divorce from Olivier, Leigh had another breakdown - this time live on the Broadway stage. The aftermath was ...

The letters were written while the actors were working at the King’s Theatre in Edinburgh ...

before Olivier took up with Vivien Leigh. Other biographers made claims about dalliances with Danny Kaye and Olivier’s close ...

Kendra Bean’s new illustrated biography, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait ... her affair and marriage to Olivier, her battle with mental illness, and her untimely death at age 53.

Plowright had been married to Roger Cage, but the two had split. The relationship between Olivier and Vivien Leigh also ended. Olivier and Plowright were then married in Connecticut in 1961 as ...

Vivien Leigh beat out established stars for the role ... As luck would have it, her boyfriend, Olivier, signed a deal with an American agent, Myron Selznick, brother of David.

In the immediate afterglow of Gone with the Wind, Leigh experienced incredible success: she won her first Academy Award for her portrayal of Scarlett, and married Laurence Olivier (with whom she ...

Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winner “A Streetcar Named Desire” is still one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed ...