Leigh was taken with Olivier’s “charm and magnetism,” according to Vivien Leigh: A Biography, and Olivier was drawn to her in a way he was with no other woman. Olivier admitted he had ...

Two months later, she was in a mental asylum. A new biography, “Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh,” by Lyndsy Spence (Pegasus Books, out Tuesday) chronicles Leigh’s ...

Nearly 80 years after Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett O’Hara in ... [Quartz] -Hot on the heels of “Dior and I” comes another documentary — this one about reclusive Belgian designer ...

It was only when his wife, Vivien Leigh, left to make coffee that Olivier ... the novelist Elaine Dundy who later published a biography of Finch, Olivier was seething and 'understandably exhibited ...

But that was far from the case in the early 1950s, writes Lyndsy Spence in her new biography of the actress, Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh, which reveals many details about ...

Late in Stephen Galloway’s “Truly, Madly,” a workmanlike and ultimately sorrowful dual biography of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, comes an anecdote that could stand as a fractal represe ...

Naked and quite mad, she alternately sobbed like a child then snarled like a caged animal: In the concluding extract from a dazzling new biography, how Vivien Leigh's marriage to Laurence Olivier ...