Details about her life, especially those surrounding her struggle with bipolar disorder, have remained sparse. Kendra Bean’s new illustrated biography, Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait ...

But that was far from the case in the early 1950s, writes Lyndsy Spence in her new biography of the actress, Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh, which reveals many details about ...

Two months later, she was in a mental asylum. A new biography, “Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh,” by Lyndsy Spence (Pegasus Books, out Tuesday) chronicles Leigh’s ...

In the 1930s and ’40s, Vivien Leigh was one of the most talented and stunning actresses of the time, starring in iconic films such as Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire. While her ...