The Tragic Story of Vivien Leigh: The Woman Behind Scarlett O'Hara

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  @leighbirch1420 · 2 months ago

  No one else could have played Scarlet! No one was as beautiful as Vivien.

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• VE

  @VelvetCurtainStories-s5d · 2 months ago

  A very moving portrait of Vivien Leigh. What makes her story so powerful is that she should not be remembered only as Scarlett O’Hara or as Laurence Olivier’s great love. Behind the beauty and the awards was a woman fighting both mental illness and a serious physical disease in an era that barely understood either. Her tragedy was not just her suffering, but the fact that her brilliance was often easier for the world to admire than her pain was to understand.

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• GL

  @gloriaparedes4846 · 2 months ago

  I love gone with the wind. One of my favorite movies for all times.  She was so beautiful and gorgeous in gone with the wind.

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• BE

  @beckykent6674 · 2 months ago

  She was as beautiful as Elizabeth Taylor, but didn't get that recognition. She was a very troubled person,  possibly bipolar, but was such a great actress!! I loved her! The scene in GWTW where she is wearing that red dress is  absolutely stunning!!

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• DE

  @Den1sed · 2 months ago

  You can see it in her eyes. She is SO beautiful. Life is so sad.

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• AM

  @ameliacorin7383 · 2 months ago

  Powerful. Heart breaking that Vvien lLeigh underwent electro shock therapy which left a lasting scar on her emotionally. 💔<br>Curious story, my mum studied at RADA in the early 1960s. One morning she was late for class and was running to get there on time. She bumped into someone and accidentally stepped on their foot. &nbsp;She heard someone say&quot; Ouch!&quot; in an annoyed voice. &nbsp;She looked up to find herself staring at Vivien Leigh&apos;&apos;s piercing green eyes . Vivien looked at her &nbsp;coldly . They were both exactly the same height - 5&apos; 3&quot;. My mum quickly apologised and Vivien stormed off. That was her only encounter &nbsp;with Vivien though my mum adored her work &amp; had every biography of Vivien.

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• PR

  @PrivateHistory2 · 2 months ago

  This was both fascinating and touching. Vivien Leigh truly left an unforgettable mark on cinema history

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• VE

  @veenachawla2809 · 1 day ago

  She had a difficult childhood. She really never fully recoved from it. She still was great actress of her times.

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  @katherineLGV · 2 months ago

  my god she was strong of spirit.<br>just having ONE of those illnesses is more than most people can bear. <br>understandably.

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• UN

  @unrestashes · 2 months ago

  I&apos;m shocked her parents sent a 6-year-old child to a convent school on the other side of the world. I&apos;m surprised she only isolated herself sometimes! Who knows what could have happened there? Convent schools were famous for having a medieval approach to education... Poor girl! RIP

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• DO

  @dorothyblair6741 · 2 months ago

  Her mother was a looker too

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• VI

  @VictoriaDezman · 2 months ago

  I understood .. she was sick with Bi-polar .. and Tuberculosis.. later .. her life. <br>For sure she was a very good &nbsp;actress, and beautiful .. &nbsp;( everyone has a tumultuous life with up and down .. suffering , and demons.. ) <br>nobody escape of hiden &nbsp;destiny. All of us have their own &nbsp;pains and suffering .

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