Marlene O 'Sullivan said, "After leaving school, I want to fly. I want to be a pilot. "

Her best friend Vivien Leigh said, "I want to be an actor, a great actor!" " "

Marlene O 'Sullivan said forget it, but Vivien Leigh insisted.

The school organizes amateur comedy performances every year, and she participates in them.

She is impulsive and irritable, daydreaming, and especially wants to go to India.

Ten years later, when her mother showed her around Munich, she asked her if she wanted to go to india tourism, but she refused.

She wants to act.

However, her family bound her.

At the art school, Vivien Leigh met holman.

Everyone at the wedding found that Vivien Leigh was not strong enough.

In fact, at school, she has always had weak heart and lung problems.

Vivien Leigh's mother tried to talk her out of getting married. "He is a Catholic, and Catholics can't divorce."

Mother's warning is still ringing in my ears, and Vivien Leigh ignored it.

After their honeymoon, the newlyweds moved to a single apartment in holman.

Although she has been looking forward to returning to art school one day, she can't do whatever she wants.

She is pregnant, which is the crux of limiting her steps.

She is looking forward to the birth of the child as soon as possible in order to liberate herself.

Finally, three weeks before she turned 20, the child was born, a girl.

A girlfriend quoted Vivien Leigh as saying, "Never again. It's terrible."

Because of dystocia, she was trapped in the hospital for several weeks before being allowed to go back to her home.

On returning home, she found that she didn't love her husband at all.

It's true.

Vivien Leigh is always the host, and he never gets tired of it.

She is always more willing to talk to these people than her husband.

Once, holman was going to Copenhagen for a holiday, and Vivien Leigh chose to postpone the trip because he had the opportunity to participate in the performance of All the Best.

Angry holman went to Copenhagen alone in an attempt to make his wife regret it.

But Vivien Leigh has no regrets. Everything goes well is her only job opportunity in the past two years, and she doesn't want to give up at all.

She got up at 5 o'clock every morning for several weeks, put on her students' summer clothes and walked to the studio.

It's cold at home and even colder in the studio. She always squats by the electric fireplace with a group of female students to keep warm. However, she was almost unconscious with cold.

"Just bite a part. The lines will never be more than two sentences. Why are you serious? "

Holman had just arrived home, and that was the real problem. Then she complained about why she didn't receive friends.

Vivien Leigh said: "As soon as the work is over, the reception will begin."

That's true, but she's had enough.

When she appeared in the comedy "Country Aristocrats", she was in high spirits and very happy, but after the film came out, the comment was one-sided, "boring aristocratic history, melodramatic love plot."

Such comments drive her crazy.

She is withdrawn, impatient and always looks hot. The only attraction is her pale green eyes and touching beauty.

The director of "Country Noble" hasn't given up yet. He asked Vivien Leigh to play the wife of a mercenary.

The new film was also badly criticized, and The Times used a long satire to scold it. To sum up, it is a sentence: "hopeless stupidity."

These are enough troubles for Vivien Leigh, but she has other troubles.

The director said that she always acted powerfully, but she was neurotic.

She has been learning Russian (for this role), but her pronunciation is really poor.

It was then that Vivien Leigh met Lawrence Oliver.

I used to watch the Royal Theatre starring laurence olivier with my girlfriend, and she suddenly said, "This is the man I want to marry."

Girlfriend disdains: "Don't be ridiculous, you two are already married."

Vivien Leigh wanted to think, "well, it doesn't matter, anyway, I will marry him one day. You wait and see. "

That's right. When Vivien Leigh met Oliver, they both cheated each other.

During the three months of filming English Fire, Oliver went to Vivien Leigh's dressing room when he had nothing to do. They often go to a nearby bar for trysts. If they still feel crowded, they will stay in the local restaurant.

Anyone who has seen them thinks that these two people are deeply intoxicated with each other.

Oliver always finds an excuse to go to Mr. and Mrs. holman's house, and Vivien Leigh does not hesitate to sit next to him, talking and laughing.

He made fun of her, but she meant it. "My life belongs to the stage, not the big star on the screen."

A few months later, she and holman came to Capri Island. She tried to avoid Oliver, but she ran into Oliver and his wife.

Great, what was originally a trip of two couples turned into a meeting of derailed lovers.

Oliver talked to Vivien Leigh regardless of his wife's feelings, and always invited her to take a walk in the country road.

The happy days passed quickly, and a few days later Vivien Leigh went to Rome.

As soon as Vivien Leigh arrived in Rome, he got a call from Oliver, who said that he missed her very much.

He proposed to her on the phone and then promised to take good care of her.

And she, listening on the other end of the phone, was confused and had a mental crisis for the first time.

She admitted her crime on the phone.

Love is desperate.

She always leads a double life while working.

Her nerves have collapsed very tightly.

After discovering Vivien Leigh's strange behavior, her mother blamed her and added to her mental burden.

Oliver was so immersed in love that he didn't notice anything unusual at all.

Vivien Leigh is the light of his life. Since meeting him, Vivien Leigh has entered a new world.

He didn't like reading very much. With Vivien Leigh, he reads everything, such as music, architecture, plastic arts and stage design. Just because Vivien Leigh thinks these are all necessary knowledge for an actor.

In the winter of 1938, Vivien Leigh watched Lawrence Oliver go to America by boat.

On the day of breaking up, it happened to be Vivien Leigh's birthday, so he promised her that the break-up time would not exceed 3 months at most.

He can't put it off any longer. Heathcliff, the hero in Wuthering Heights, belongs to him, and the American staff are waiting for him.

On the way back, Vivien Leigh felt lonely.

Every time Oliver left, her mother advised her to go back to holman, as if everything would be fine and stable if she went back.

But Vivien Leigh thinks she can be holman's friend, but she will never be his wife again.

Finally, she decided to go to America.

Two years of auditions are over. As early as February 1938, she became Scarlett's candidate.

Vivien Leigh went to America alone, stayed in a small hotel and was busy auditioning every day.

Finally, everyone decided that Vivien Leigh was the best person to play Scarlett.

It suddenly occurred to lawyers that Vivien Leigh was not divorced, and if he wanted to sign a long-term contract, he had to get holman's consent.

Vivien Leigh wrote back to London immediately, but holman refused her request.

Vivien Leigh is about to cry.

Helpless, she had to sign a short-term contract that was small and insecure.

At this time, Vivien Leigh was under great pressure. In order to kill time in constant auditions, she has to smoke a pack of cigarettes every day.

Hollywood entertainment magazines are very unfriendly to the new actress. From time to time, they put words in the magazines: "Vivien Leigh can't play Scarlett at all."

A women's organization publicly supported Vivien Leigh's performance, not because they liked Vivien Leigh, but because they were glad to see that the role of Scarlett had not been won by some hateful "Yankees".

The film was so huge before shooting that Vivien Lido was scared. She began to worry that she was out of her mind, as the former director said, "It looks normal, but when it comes to the screen, she is a little nervous."

1939 65438+ 10, the shooting work finally started.

Clark gable, the star who plays Rhett, flew into a rage as soon as he arrived at the set.

The actor was familiar with the script all day, but the screenwriter added something new the next day, which is equivalent to no script to refer to. Clark found that he couldn't remember his lines at all. He also found that others always corrected his accent carefully, trying to make his accent look more "southern".

A few days later, Clark suddenly disappeared.

MGM people found him, and he just said, "I don't get along with the people on the set, that's all."

This is the first color film in Hollywood. It lasted for four hours, but it was dissolved without saying a word.

It's nothing.

This means that the first month of opening is a waste of time. Coupled with Clark's intermittent strike, rumors of the film's suspension are flying all over the sky.

Hollywood is full of talk that MGM will replace Vivien Leigh, and they are putting pressure on her.

It is said that Vivien Leigh smokes four packs of cigarettes every day to relieve the pain.

Two months later, work started again.

The progress is so slow that everyone is going crazy.

The actors suddenly found that the script had been changed again.

The first half of the script has been changed beyond recognition, but everyone can't say anything, because this change comes from the respected writer Ben Hector, who and his team work 18 hours a day, and they really can't say a word against it.

However, the revised version is not the final version, and Selznick continues to revise the script.

Actors can always get the final version of the script late the next night.

Everyone is in trouble.

Oliver is also acting. He took time to visit Vivien Leigh and found the studio in a mess beyond imagination.

After Oliver left, Vivien Leigh had to cope with the busy work alone.

She works day and night, working 16 hours a day, even on weekends.

Selznick is also happy to drain her enthusiasm.

The most infuriating thing is Clark, who leaves the set at exactly 6 pm every day, just like a shop assistant.

She's a little out of control herself. Once, the staff touched her brim, and she cried in surprise, "Excuse me, don't touch me, okay?"

Vivien Leigh is deeply involved in the play. When resting at a friend's house, she often goes against the routine and speaks with a vulgar, simple and indifferent attitude that Scarlett would have.

A friend recalled, "She tried to make us laugh, but it was too difficult. Many things in Scarlett are not commensurate with Vivien Leigh. "

Back on the set, Vivien Leigh had to deal with "red soil".

As we all know, there is a lot of red soil dust in Georgia.

In order to photograph countless soldiers killed and injured on the battlefield, Vivien Leigh walked past them every day, with the wind and the sun blowing and the dust flying. Soon, Vivien Leigh felt out of breath.

A few years later, she developed tuberculosis.

The purple skirt in the middle is Vivien Leigh.

After Gone with the Wind was finished, Vivien Leigh was so tired that he collapsed to the ground.

The Oscar winner is the biggest compliment to her, but compared with her efforts, this award seems a bit strange.

After that, Vivien Leigh wanted to have a rest, so he chose to break the bridge.

And the girl in the movie, from the beginning of the lovely innocence, to the last time when the dust fell, was deeply interpreted by her.

At first, it was a boring role, but Vivien Leigh tried to play her well.

To this end, those repeated suicide scenes almost ruined her mental health.

However, the most gratifying thing for her is that she can finally be with Oliver.

They got married immediately after their family agreed to divorce.

They acted in the stage play Caesar and Cleopatra and collaborated in the film The Hamilton Woman.

Oliver's son is ill. She went to see him.

It's just that Oliver insisted on flying by himself.

Vivien Leigh's whole trip was destroyed. She knitted a sweater so as not to pay attention to Oliver's poor flying skills.

She played a neurotic loveless middle-aged woman in A Streetcar Named Desire and won the second Oscar in her life.

But in order to stay with Oliver, Vivien Leigh didn't attend the Oscars.

At that time, people described Vivien Leigh like this: "She has the beauty of a swan and the hard-working spirit of an American orderly."

Perhaps to relieve mental stress, she often entertains guests all night. Oliver is often exhausted, but Vivien Leigh is full of energy.

Her tuberculosis attacks are more and more frequent. She always coughs and coughs up a lot of blood. The whole person looks excited and weak.

Serious smoking addiction also adds fuel to the fire.

Bipolar disorder also began to appear.

She often blames others for no reason, and then secretly feels sad.

Finally, she had to receive electric shock treatment, which was terrible and almost scared her.

But later this kind of treatment became more and more frequent, and her temples also left obvious burn marks.

Just when Vivien Leigh's mental state was out of control, Oliver moved on and started an extramarital affair for three years. Afraid of facing Vivien Leigh, Oliver wrote a letter to her when she was out shooting, asking for a divorce.

Naturally, my wife will be at your disposal to realize her wish. "

1960 65438+The two divorced in February.

Fortunately for Vivien Leigh, a young man named Jack Merryville volunteered to take care of her.

When he wrote to Oliver to explain the matter, Oliver was relieved, and finally someone was willing to accept the hot potato of his seriously ill wife.

At the end of his life, Vivien Leigh was a fanatical spokesman.

She refuses to sleep, eats irregularly, and always cleans the room endlessly, which is extremely neat.

Whenever things get better, she will say to her friends, "I know what I'm going through.

I've become a crazy woman, haven't I? "

Her tuberculosis is very serious. When she hemoptysis, she often complains to Merrevere, "Why can't I get a decent disease?"

Merryville has no antipathy. He tried his best to adapt to Vivien Leigh in every way.

She always said that she was in love with him. If you haven't fallen in love, it will be on your way soon.

But after all, the person she loves most in her life is Oliver.

After the divorce, Oliver's portrait was kept by her bedside from beginning to end.

She always takes out the love letters that Oliver used to write to herself and asks Merryville to read them to her.

1On July 7th, 967, Merryville just went to the kitchen to get himself something to eat. When he came back, he found Vivien Leigh lying on the floor, without breathing.

She passed away.

Merryville's first thought was to inform Oliver.

Oliver came and asked to be alone with his ex-wife.

Years later, he recalled, "I stood by the body and prayed silently for forgiveness, forgiving all the sins that happened between us."

Vivien Leigh died at the age of 53.

She made up with her daughter from her first marriage and adopted a goddaughter.

She met Churchill when she was young, but didn't say hello, because Churchill stared at her intently and didn't want to disturb her. She just said, "To appreciate God's works of art, you need to keep your distance."

Vivien Leigh is not only an actress by profession, but a great actress. She always demands herself.

Therefore, while she achieved art, she also lost her soul, physical strength and even love.

Acting, for her, is a deal with the devil.

This is both lucky and unfortunate.

Any small detail will attract her attention.

Any imperfection will give her a headache.

Someone said, "She is so beautiful, can she act?"

And she wrote down the most telling answer in her life.

Author: Liverpool Morning Tea