VIVIEN LEIGH The Men Who Tried to SAVE HER

THEIR LOVE AND DEVOTION AIDED THE LEGEND’S STRUGGLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

—Lisa Chambers

Please, please my angel, send me word of what the doctor said, and if it is possible ask him to send me a report,” legendary actor Laurence Olivier once wrote in a letter to his equally iconic wife, Vivien Leigh, ailing with a recurrent bout of tuberculosis. “You’re the only person in the world who could make hideously selfish me love another more than I do myself.” Vivien became a legend by bringing Gone With the Wind’s Scarlett O’Hara and A Streetcar Named Desire’s Blanche DuBois blazingly to life on-screen, but off-screen she was tormented by bouts of physical and mental illness. And though they adored her, the men in her life — especially first husband Leigh Holman, her greatest love, Laurence Olivier, and her last partner, actor John “Jack” Merivale…

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