Vivien Leigh's Slutty Stories
'From the early days in England, Vivien and Larry relationship had always been consuming and physical,' Haskell tells us. 'Their quickie weekends together were by all accounts frenzied sexual marathons, largely having to do with Leigh's unusually large appetites. Olivier's pet name for Leigh - whom he married in August 1940, 14 months after Gone With The Wind was completed - was Puss. Only later did he complain to friends that her sexual needs eventually became 'burdensome'.
Years later, in Hollywood, aged 61, and not long before his own posthumous Oscar triumph in Network, Finch told me: 'I loved Vivien. But once she set her sights on you, you were a gonner, mate... her affection was lethal. 'Sex was a sickness with her. It was not only a powerful stimulant for her, but as addictive as any drug. I was a young man then, and it was like Christmas every day - but poor Larry. Poor Larry. She must have been killing him.'
Even during the making of Gone With The Wind, there were ominous signs of the problems to come.
'Feeding into the intensity of her performance was not only the longing to get back to her lover,' says Haskell,
Meanwhile, dissatisfied with her opening scene, Selznick waited until the end of filming to ask the exhausted Leigh to reshoot it.
'But by then,' reports Haskell, 'Leigh looked too old and haggard, so he released her into the arms of her Larry. After a weekend of carnal rejuvenation, Leigh came back for retakes, looking as dewy and virginal as a 17-year-old.'
Her need for regular and prodigious sex became increasingly urgent as she grew older
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 18, 2018 12:33 AM
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Sometimes she would 'feel a compulsion' to invite a taxi driver, in whose cab she had ridden, to come back to the house with her. The same urge would overtake her when she was alone with a deliveryman.
A mutual friend told me of the time she had arranged to have tea with Leigh at her Chelsea home.
'The appointment was for four o'clock. I waited and waited. She finally turned up two hours late - dishevelled, her stockings torn, buttons missing from her blouse.
'But looking very happy.God knows where she had been, but it was obvious what she had been up to.'
One of her oldest and dearest friends, Noel Coward, lost patience with her. 'She is obviously in a bad way, drinking far, far too much,' he wrote in his diary.
'I know she is unhappy inside, but her predicament has been entirely her own fault from the first... she is certainly barmy up to a point, but she has been so spoilt and pampered for so many years that the barminess becomes ugly and dull.
'For all her beauty and charm and sweetness, she has let Larry down for years and really tormented him. If he can succeed in breaking away, good luck to him.'
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 17, 2018 8:20 PM
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God, I love Vivien Leigh. Such a legendary tragic story.
Throw in nymphomania and she's a DL All Star!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 17, 2018 8:22 PM
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Interesting!
In the video, Understandably ,Peter Finch's daughter seemed pissed off at Vivien Leigh.....And Larry Olivier's son Tarquin couldn't stand Peter Finch.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 17, 2018 8:27 PM
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[quote] Her need for regular and prodigious sex became increasingly urgent as she grew older
The boys forced it on her. She was the first #MeToo.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 17, 2018 8:28 PM
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Any more juicy slutty Vivien stories, OP? I am a-gog.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 17, 2018 8:29 PM
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She had a delicate, feline beauty that would have faded early anyway, but the years of drink and mental illness destroyed her looks even faster. Even by the late 40s she was showing her age, which was why Olivier cast her younger double, Jean Simmons (see pic), as Ophelia when he made Hamlet into a film. Which didn't do Vivien's mental health a lot of good, either. Olivier took a lot of shit from her, but he WAS a shit to her, too.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 17, 2018 9:01 PM
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John Gielgud on Vivien Leigh:
“in a very bad way. She is utterly ineffective on stage—like paper, only not so thick, no substance or power—and off stage she is haunted, avid, malicious and insatiable, a bad look-out for the future and poor Larry who is saint-like with her and play-acting most beautifully as well.”
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 17, 2018 10:49 PM
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R9 that looks like Jean Simmons
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 17, 2018 11:05 PM
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R9 nevermind didn’t read it first.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 17, 2018 11:06 PM
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I feel sorry for her having been married to Olivier. A bigger ham there never was and I dont think he was much of an actor..........wooden theatrical...............a pompous ass.
She was beautiful you have to look at some of her earlier photos, she was still beautiful in her late 40 s playing in Roman spring of mrs stone. She had a very interesting life in my opinion.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 18, 2018 12:29 AM
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