Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh - Alan Strachan Audiobook

Written by Alan Strachan
Read by Alasdair Buchan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Date of release: 2020

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the 20th century. As Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche Du Bois,

she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history.

Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-

breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both

her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by

the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and

diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work.

Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of

Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-

story of one of the 20th century’s greatest actresses.