Starmaking: 'Larry and Viv' event at NFTEach generation has several super-famous couples, and it is interesting to think of the previous Kings and Queens of the moving image. I really think this will be an interesting event at the NFT, a chance to analyse the myth behind one 'star-couple'. For a long time it was reported that Vivien was a very difficult woman, (it is now known she was coping with undiagnosed bi-polar), and extremely sexually promiscuous. Laurence Olivier always seemed to me as mysterious as Max de Winter in Rebecca. The NFT writes;
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh were the most glamorous showbiz couple of their day. For more than 20 years audiences across Britain thought of Larry and Viv as the perfect couple, knowing nothing of the emotional turbulence behind the scenes. To celebrate Olivier's centenary, Janet Moat (Head of BFI Special Collections) takes a look at their star image, together and apart, with the help of some film clips and the BFI's unrivalled collection of publicity materials.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/southbank/film/7757
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