In the middle of the night, the girl walked barefoot to her lover in the dew, her eyes paranoid and affectionate, she said:"
If life could be repeated, there were two things I would still do, one was to become a great actor, and the other was to marry you, Lawrence. Oliver".
Churchill said she was God's masterpiece, and it was. She has emerald-like eyes, a delicate nose bridge just right, delicate lips like blooming roses, and her smiling eyes flow to look forward to life.
She is a special leigh vivien li in the world, and she is the "Hao Sijia" who has fallen into the country.
In terms of art, she has high requirements for herself, and she also has an obsession with love that is beyond ordinary people.
In 1913, in Darjeeling, West Bengal, British India, a little princess was born (also said to have been born in 1911, two years younger to play Gone with the Wind), Darjeeling is a tropical region with stunning beaches where Vivien Leigh spent her entire childhood. Her parents were British expatriates working in India at the time, and it is said that when Vivien Leigh's mother Ge Chu was pregnant, she often gazed fascinatedly at the distant Himalayas, hoping that nature would give her unborn child beauty and wisdom. Vivien Leigh's family was carefree, she ran barefoot on the beach in a beautiful dress, she had her own ponies, and she had a piano. Her mother nurtured her love of literature and art, and music and books accompanied her childhood. Her father, Ernest, had a cheerful personality, usually enjoyed polo and horse racing, and liked to participate in performances as an amateur actor, all of which sowed the seeds for Vivien Leigh's acting career.
It was not until she was seven years old that her parents sent her back to London, England, to attend the Sacred Heart Convent Boarding School, where she learned to play the piano and violin.
In 1931, Vivien Leigh was admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Late that same year, Vivien Leigh, 19, met Holman, a 32-year-old lawyer, at a ball. The difference between the two is 13 years, and it is precisely because of the difference in experience and age between the two people that Leigh Vivien Li, who has just opened up, suddenly fell in love, and the humorous gentleman Holman has a solid family, he has his own career, and another table of talents. Soon she gave up her studies, and the two were happily married, this time she gave up her ideals for love.
After their marriage, they had a daughter, and the wealthy Holman brought Leigh Vivien Leigh into high society, and she was as beautiful as an elf and was also welcomed by her friends.
Maybe life is too comfortable and she thinks of her dream of being an actress, she often goes to the theater to see performances, when she sees the handsome and charismatic actor Lawrence Oliver on the stage, turn to her girlfriend and whisper: "That's the person I want to marry." The girlfriend is taken aback and reminds her that she and Oliver have their own families, but Vivien Leigh confidently believes that she will marry Oliver one day. Girlfriend only when she is saying idiotic words, who knows she is so crazy.
In 1935, Vivien Leigh starred in her first film, Thriving.
The biggest significance of this film is that it is Vivien Leigh's first appearance on the big screen, and the on-screen journey of a generation of superstars begins. Vivien Leigh cherished this opportunity, and every morning at five o'clock in the morning, she braved the cold and rushed to the shooting site early, asking the photographer for various questions at the first opportunity. At first, Vivien Leigh's role was no more than one of many schoolgirls, but her dedicated attitude and obvious talent caught the director's attention, and Vivien Leigh changed from a mass actor to a supporting role, and thus had the opportunity to say her first line on the screen: "If you are not the principal, then I will not come next semester!" ”。
Later, Vivien Leigh and Oliver met at a party and starred in "British War" together, and Vivien Leigh took the initiative to pursue Oliver. Then they starred together in "Unprecedented Queen". But because Vivien Leigh's husband Holman and Oliver's wife, Esmond, refused to divorce. The divorce was delayed for three years, but her ex-husband Holman became a lifelong friend of hers.
In 1938 she went to Hollywood, USA to shoot films.
In 1939, David Selznick, the iconic producer of Hollywood's golden age and a giant in the American film industry, launched a huge audition for the heroine of "Gone with the Wind" in the United States and the world, and Vivien Leigh finally won. The whole filming process took 5 months, Vivien Leigh told the "Film Insider Monthly" magazine reporter, "In 5 months, except for the 5 days of vacation and every Sunday, I had to play Scarlett Hao, from 9 am to 9 pm, and then I was tired in bed but could not sleep, every nerve in my body was creaking, about the last month, I had to rely on taking nutritional supplements to maintain my strength." In the end I was crazy, I could even go to an insane asylum, and I just wanted to know when I could make up for it. She won the Best Actress Award at the 12th Academy Awards for her role as Scarlett Hao in the movie Gone with the Wind, and was the first British actress to receive this award. After that, he returned to England to develop drama.
After filming the last scene of "Gone with the Wind", Vivien Leigh boarded a flight to New York, where Oliver proposed to her.
In 1940, Vivien Leigh participated in the filming of the acclaimed "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge" Roy, Roy is a miserable, life-engulfed by a cruel dark reality, with a strong tragic color of the victim, moving and haunting.
Vivien Leigh and Lawrence Oliver married in Santa Barbara that same year.
In 1944, while starring in the film Caesar and Cleopatra, he wore tulle to shoot Cleopatra's summer scene in the cold winter, and fell and caused a miscarriage.
In 1945, she had tuberculosis. Severe recovery is slow, and intermittent symptoms of emotional instability appear, manic-depressive disorder. Due to the extreme commitment to the work of the pursuit of perfection, as an actor, emotions often need to be constantly switched in great joy and sorrow, the busy work pressure of the profession, coupled with the right and wrong of the show business, the attack of bad reporters on her, Vivien Leigh herself is emotionally fragile and sensitive and easy to be injured, which aggravates Vivien Leigh's condition. In 1953, perhaps really jealous, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in New York.
The snatched love is also easy to be taken away, the disintegration of Vivien Leigh and Oliver's marriage is a long and painful process, Oliver has been doing her best to bear Vivien Leigh's huge medical expenses, care and protect her, but Vivien Leigh's illness is repeated, and thus brings hysterical behavior, and finally the passion and patience are exhausted.
In 1957, Oliver and another actress, Joan Prewhite, met and fell in love through acting. After Leigh Was defeated by a young and beautiful female lover, she was once seriously injured and was almost completely torn apart. Oliver looks back on the marriage, comparing Vivien Leigh to a drowning man desperately dragging a life raft. "I said, I'm sorry, I can't save you, if I reach out and pull you, I'll just be dragged down by you."
Jack Merrillville, an admirer four years younger than Vivien Leigh, has been with Vivien Leigh to take care of her.
On July 7, 1967, Vivien Leigh finally died of tuberculosis at the age of 53, she has been reluctant to go to the hospital, relying on her optimism and perseverance to survive, and this time, her friends around her thought she would survive as always. However, at a glance, a generation of beautiful people fell, Vivien Leigh has been deeply in love with Oliver until the end of her life, she placed the beloved Oliver photo in a beautiful photo frame, all the way to the bedside table.
Dreaming back in the middle of the night, the girl walked barefoot to her lover, her eyes paranoid and affectionate, she said:"
If life could be repeated, there were two things I would still do, one was to become a great actor, and the other was to marry you, Lawrence. Oliver".