Vivien Leigh's life is the subject of a new book by Lyndsy Spence, "Where Madness Lies." It details the Oscar winner's struggles with mental illness and her turbulent marriage to Laurence Olivier.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s ...

Oscar-nominated UK actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and screen and wife of the great actor Laurence Olivier, has ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s ...

An excerpt from the new book Where Madness Lies, which charts the Hollywood icon's experiences with manic depression, heartache, and a life lived in the spotlight.

Every woman has to do that at some stage in her life... All I do know is that I want to lose myself in work,” Vivien Leigh said. She could go anywhere she wanted, to the places she and Larry ...

Of course, the one time Vivien Leigh played someone “normal,” she went insane. Leigh specialized in portraying mad women: Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, and the deranged and damaged Blanche du Bois ...

And I think the opening line of that article was, ‘My mother was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life,’” continues Curtis about Leigh, the Psycho star who died at age 77 in 2004.

Vivien Leigh is the star of this gloomy, pessimistic portrait of the artist as a middle-aged widow, from Tennessee Williams’ only novel. She portrays a lonely, uncertain ex-actress who has given ...