The difficult fate of Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh was born in 1913 in India in the family of an English official. Soon her parents returned to the UK and the girl was sent to study at the Monastery School. The child from childhood was very active and did not like to sit still, because her teachers and parents had a hard time. To her 17 years, she graduated from several English boarding schools, while she received a good education, and also brought up an iron character and steadfastness. Even in her childhood, Vivien decided that she would become a famous actress. At the age of 17, she married a successful lawyer, Lee Holman, who was 14 years older and gave birth to his daughter Suzanne. With the help of her father, she entered, and, being already married, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Lee was against her passion for theater, Vivian did not like to mess around at home with the child, she wanted to perform on stage.

Soon, with the help of friends, she made her debut in the film "Things are going well" (before that she acted in the theater and was shot in advertising). After filming in this film, Vivien hired an agent who invited her to choose a good-sounding pseudonym, and she chose Vivien Leigh. Soon she was invited to play a role in the play "Mask of Virtue", after which she became known and began to interview her. It is from this period that her finest hour begins.

The play "The Mask of Virtue" became so popular that it was transferred to a big stage, but since Vivien was a novice actress and did not have the experience of playing on such big scenes, she could not interest the spectators in the far corners of the hall and it was decided not to play this performance. Once when Vivienne was still playing in the play, she met the love of her life, Lawrence Olivier. Noteworthy is the fact that, being married, Vivienne and her friend came to the premiere of the play where Lawrence played, and she told her friend that she would certainly marry him, regardless of the fact that he and she were married.

From the first meeting between Lawrence and Vivien, very warm friendly relations started, which during their joint work grew into a real passion. And here Lawrence being married, suggests Vivien to go with him to America. And she, a successful and popular actress and married woman, travels with him to America.

In 1938, Vivien won a major female role in the film "Gone with the Wind" among thousands of applicants in casting. Lee later admitted that she was confident that she would receive this role. As we all know Lawrence did not play in the movie "Gone with the Wind" the main male role.

As a result, after the filming in this film, Vivien became very popular in America and was even awarded an Oscar. In 12 years she will be awarded this award once again for the shooting in the movie "Tram of Desire". She began to be recognized on the streets, and the directors simply showered her with proposals to appear in their films. Vivien was happy, because in 1940 she became the wife of the man of her dream Olivier (before marriage they met for six years first secretly, and then all in sight.) For a long time, the wife Olivier and Lee's husband did not want to give their couples a divorce). Despite the demand for his wife on the American continent, Lawrence insisted that she return with him to England (she was successful here, but Lawrence is not very). Vivien submitted, but it was from this moment on that she began serious health problems.

In England, Vivien began to work on television, because she did not offer other interesting projects in this country. Despite the happy family life, she felt bad, because her acting talent was not in demand. In 1945, Lee's doctors put up the fact that she was sick with tuberculosis. It is from this moment in the life of a talented Englishwoman begins a black streak, which will end with her death.

Upon learning of her illness, Vivien begins to be treated, and the treatment has a negative effect on her mental health, she has nervous attacks, she attacked her husband, and afterwards she did not remember anything. To somehow bring her back to reality, doctors treated her with electric shock sessions. Lee obeyed doctors, was treated for tuberculosis, but as for mental attacks, she wanted to cure this disease with Olivier's love.

To strengthen her husband's love for her, Vivien tried several times to give birth to his child, but all the time ended in miscarriages. As a result, Vivien became more and more distraught, and Lawrence moved away from her. During this time she participated in theatrical productions with her husband, and also starred in two films "Old Vic", "Tram desires", which, in fact, were the last in her creative career. Lawrence became more alienated, Vivien even underwent treatment in a psychiatric clinic, but this did not help. As a result, Olivier divorced her (he preferred a young actress who gave him children and peace).

For his birthday, he gave Lee a chic automobile and formally offered to divorce, this fact completely undermined the health of the actress. After the divorce, she began to conduct active creative work, trying to escape from loneliness. She took up all the work she was offered and once lost her consciousness during the Broadway musical.

In 1967, doctors told her that tuberculosis had spread to the second lung (partly because he was untreated). Vivien refused hospitalization and decided that she would die at home. And now, at 53, she was no more.

Later it became known that the drugs that were given to her from tuberculosis were the cause of her mental disorders.

As we see, Vivien Leigh lived not a long but bright life, she loved and was loved, was popular. Despite the fact that Lawrence Olivier divorced her, she continued to love him and never spoke of him in a negative sense.

Despite all its fragility and diminutiveness, this woman also had tough character traits that helped her achieve her goals. Despite her tragic fate, she, as her friends say, did not lose heart and believed that everything would be fine. Being beautiful, she believed that there are no ugly women in the world, only women who did not realize this.