Book review - "Vivien Leigh" by John Russell Taylor

Short bio on the famous star but very well written despite some jarring factual errors (eg they saw Peter Finch in Imaginary Invalid not Taurtuffe). Vivien Leigh is a fascinating person: born beautiful (there is a photo of her at three - she just seems to be saying "I get whatever I want"), grew up in convents and travelling outside of England, marriage to a doting barrister, then an acting career, growing fame, affair with Olivier, Gone with the Wind, marriage to Olivier... she never became the film star you would have thought, mainly because she kept trying to make it on stage, where she was constantly in the shadow of her husband. Apart from Streetcar Named Desire and The Hamilton Woman and Waterloo Bridge.... it wasn't much of a film career. But, then, that was surely enough - Scarlett O'Hara alone would have been enough. She paid for her beauty and her luck, though, she surely did.