Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh - Hardcover

Walker, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555840809 ISBN 13: 9781555840808

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Based on previously unpublished conversations with Vivien Leigh and her family, friends, and colleagues, this biography recounts her childhood in India, her rise to stardom, marriage to Laurence Olivier, battles against manic-depression, and her tragic final years

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Walker is the author of over twenty books about the cinema and its stars, including bestselling biographies of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers and Audrey Hepburn. He has also written standard works on the coming of the Talkies, a monograph on Stanley Kubrick, and the fullest account to date of the British film industr from 1960 to 1985. He has been the London "Evening Standard's" influential film critic since 1960 and has been named "Critic of the Year" three times in the British Press Awards. A prolific broadcaster on television and radio, he wrote and narrated four series of "Film Star" for the BBC. Alexander Walker was born in Ireland, and educated there, on the Continent and in the United States.

From the Back Cover:

'This is the best book we have had on Vivien Leigh, the most thoroughly and shrewdly researched, the most acute in its realization that Leigh was an actress who had to find herself in her parts if she was to do well, but who invariably began to destroy herself in the process.'--The Boston Sunday Globe

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1555840809
• ISBN 13: 9781555840808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1