Vivien Leigh is best-known for her iconic starring roles as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche Du Bois in A Streetcar Named Desire, yet she was also a talented theatre actress, celebrated in the West End and on Broadway. In this groundbreaking new biography, Alan Strachan addresses Leigh's personal and professional life, using previously unseen sources from her archive. Strachan sheds new light on her complex relationship with Laurence Olivier, as well as on the bipolar disorder which affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life and career with backstage and off-screen glimpses of her crowded career, this book is the essential life-story of one the twentieth century's greatest and most fascinating stars. Book jacket.