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 ...

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.

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Vivien married Herbert Leigh Holman, thirteen years her senior. The divorce followed only eight years later and in the same year, Vivien married Laurence Olivier, with whom she had already had an ...