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From Larry with love What is happening to us darling pussey? It is 1939. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (or 'Mummy darling') are in the throes of their illicit affair. Separated by work, the actors begin a correspondence full of passion - and foreboding. In this exclusive extract from his authorised biography of Olivier, Terry Coleman takes up the tale
The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/14/2005; Terry Coleman; 2303 words
; ... correspondence with Vivien Leigh in 1939 shows their ... not in his room when Vivien's telephone call came ... after that is not clear. Vivien did recover after a ... are. I do adore you Vivien my darling little girl ... next day saying that Vivien was much better. She did not think ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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VIVIEN LEIGH STOLE MY HUSBAND; In a compelling memoir, the wife of actor Peter Finch recalls how his turbulent affair with Vivien Leigh led to the world's most desired woman bursting into her bedroom naked and hysterical . . .
The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/24/2007; 2208 words
; ... passionate affair with the beautiful Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier ... London, when the phone rang. It was Vivien Leigh. Despite the hour, Vivien announced ... flew open and a demented-looking Vivien Leigh, her robe thrown open to display ...
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Vivien Leigh, my girl next door. . . An enchanting story of the friendship between a Hollywood legend and a ten-year-old schoolboy...
Mail on Sunday; 1/12/2003; ROD HALL; 1329 words
; ... house next door. Her name was Vivien Leigh and I'd never heard of her. Until ... and asking to speak to 'Miss Leigh', whereupon Vivien said, extremely frostily: 'This ... the greatest star of them all - Vivien Leigh, a star who knew how to treat ...
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a poisonous embrace; When Vivien Leigh stole Laurence Olivier from his pregnant wife, it was the start of one of the greatest love affairs in showbusiness. Yet it also led to a spiral of despair, infidelity and her early death . . .
The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/11/2001; Hudson, Christopher; 2351 words
; ... to their old rivalry, further demoralised Vivien. She turned for consolation to a striking ... or no physical intimacy between Olivier and Vivien, at any rate after late 1949 when Vivien told him that she was no longer in love with ... Maxine Audley and (says Spoto) Claire Bloom. Vivien's on-off ...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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SHARON LAWRENCE FINDS CRUMBLING VIVIEN LEIGH IN 'ORSON'S SHADOW'.(LA.COM)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 1/16/2008; 827 words
; ... it. In the play Orson's Shadow, Vivien Leigh not only speaks the verboten word ... industry and in Olivier's bed. Today, Vivien Leigh might have ended up on Wisteria ... photo Photo: Sharon Lawrence plays Vivien Leigh in the Pasadena Playhouse production ...
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Vivien Leigh Lives! But Not on This StageLONDON THEATER
International Herald Tribune; 9/5/2001; Sheridan Morley; 818 words
; ... as angry as I was by the end of ''Vivien Leigh: The Last Press Conference.'' This ... program, ''almost completely in Miss Leigh's own words,'' which will come as ... accuracy, and Marcy Lafferty, who plays Leigh and credits no other writer but herself ...
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The Bafta award-winning performance that tipped Vivien Leigh into madness ; Rear window ++ 'Streetcar' 1951
The Independent on Sunday; 2/11/2007; David Randall; 502 words
; ... award first given in 1952. It was claimed that night by Vivien Leigh for her role as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named ... finally made official in a ceremony at a California ranch. Vivien Leigh was now the great beauty of the age, and wife of one ...
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Is Margot Fonteyn a better woman than Vivien Leigh?
The Independent - London; 8/7/1996; Helen Nowicka; 1168 words
; ... Marie Stopes, Laura Ashley and Vivien Leigh. Those featured are Dame Dorothy ... the achievements of people like Vivien Leigh, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft and ... 1919-1990): leading ballerina {Vivien Leigh (1913- 67): featured in 1985 issue ...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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LORD OF ALL SHOW-OFFS; Romantic friction ... Vivien Leigh and Olivier arriving at Rome airport in 1953. Their marriage was ruled by hysteria.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 8/19/2007; 1096 words
; ... life,'he said. Olivier's liaison with the beautiful and mad Vivien Leigh was one of thoseoperatic romances that could never be domestic ... hysteria, when she was givenelectroconvulsive shock treatment, Vivien believed she was Blanche DuBois,andOlivier was frequently ...
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A sparkle on the waterfront The fortified Italian resort of Torri del Benaco - a great favourite of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier - retains a quiet charm and tranquillity, even in high season
Daily Mail; 11/8/2003; ROBERT CARVER; 1046 words
; ... village to retain its old-world charm. Torri has always attracted a distinguished class of visitor - Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Maria Callas, authors Andre Gide and Stephen Spender all chose to spend holidays here ...
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