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Two letters from Vivien Leigh.With an Appreciations by Charles H.Williamson ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Darjeeling, Vivien Leigh, Louis Banks, Mary Boyce, Prashant Tamang, Mahima Chaudhry, Neale Cooper, Subash Gishing, Erick Avari, Amber Gurung, Parijat, Jerry Cornes, Iman Xin Chemjong, Lawrence Picachy, Tashi Tenzing, Raj Singh Chaudhary, William Frank Thompson, Lain Singh Bangdel, Barbara Cozens, Niruta Singh, Reba Som, Sylvia Coleridge, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Harold Day, Dawa Narbula, Patrick Leeson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 100. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 7 July 1967) was an English actress. She won two Best Actress Academy Awards for playing "southern belles": Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West End. She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles. During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth. Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress. However, ill health proved to be her greatest obstacle. For much of her adult life Leigh dealt with bipolar disorder. She earned a reputation for being difficult to work with, and her career suffered periods of inactivity. She also suffered recurrent bouts of chronic tuberculosis, which she was first diagnosed with in the mid-1940s. Leigh and Olivier divorced in 1960, and she worked sporadically in film and theatre until her death from tuberculosis in 1967. Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India, to Ernest Hartley...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=32788 ... Read more