Gale, Vivien Leigh: Actress and Icon, and articles on different aspects of Leigh's career and persona by film scholars Lucy Bolton and Lisa Stead, among others. This trend began to gather pace a few years ago with the 2013 centenary of her birth and the publication of Kendra Bean's lavishly illustrated biography, exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery (Starring Vivien Leigh) and the V&A (Vivien Leigh: Public Faces, Private Lives), and a high-profile sale of her jewellery at Sotheby's in 2017, as well as growing academic attention in the shape of a 2015 symposium at Queen Mary University of London (Vivien Leigh and the Star Archive), a 2017 Manchester University Press collection of essays edited by Kate Dorney and Maggie B. But the new interest in Leigh seeks to bring into focus the fuller range of the actress's achievements beyond Scarlett, and to appreciate her as much more than merely the one-time Lady Olivier. Likewise, her legendary love affair with Laurence Olivier created a formidable and highly photogenic celebrity couple which still exerts a powerful pull. Of course, on the strength of her performance as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) alone, Leigh was never a star likely to slip into obscurity. The troubled life, eventful career and dazzling beauty of Vivien Leigh are enjoying renewed attention currently.
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