Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh, by Alan Strachan

John Gielgud once wrote to Vivien Leigh, just as she commenced her career on stage and screen, to observe that her striking beauty might “always be more hindrance than help to your acting. Almost incidentally either it blinds the critical faculty or produces a perverse determination to pick holes” (...

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Main Author: Gwenda Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2019-07-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
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Online Access:http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue17/HTML/ReviewYoung.html