![]() I knew she was not fond of talking to journalists, and the evening was going to be tricky. The skin had tightened across her cheekbones and her small face was as pale as a pearl.īut in spite of a series of increasingly serious breakdowns, bouts of schizophrenia for which she had undergone electric-shock therapy, and a reputation for sometimes drinking too much, she was still a mesmeric and extraordinarily attractive woman. The beauty that was Scarlett had faded, along with her career. ![]() The former wife of Sir Laurence Olivier - they had been the golden couple of their day - and a two-time Oscar winner (the first, when she was 26, for her headstrong heroine Scarlett O'Hara in the most successful blockbuster ever, Gone With The Wind the second for A Streetcar Named Desire), Vivien was then in her early 50s. Simmering: Vivien Leigh claimed Clark Gable was a little 'over-heated' during the filming of Gone With the Wind
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