Kendra Bean - Vivien Leigh: an intimate portrait

Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait has been five years in the making, and has undergone several transformations from start to finish. I am indebted to many people who have helped along the way:

Mark Mayes, Anthony Uzarowski, and Marissa Vassari, three of the best friends and critics I could ever have asked for. Thank you for your patience, help with research, honest opinions, and hours of moral support. You are all experts in your own right.

To Terry Coleman and Hugo Vickers, authors of the most comprehensive biographies of Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, respectively. Your encouragement from the very beginning has meant so much to this first-time author. Thank you for paving the way, and for championing enthusiasm.

Id like to thank Renee Asherson, Claire Bloom, Olivia de Havilland, Trader Faulkner, Coeks Gordon and Carolyn Pertwee, Louise Olivier and Hester St. John-Ives, and Tarquin Olivier for their kindness in sharing their memories (and other treasures) of Vivien with me; and Mrs. Suzanne Farrington for allowing me to quote from her mothers letters, which have made this book all the more rich.

Special thanks goes out to Rosalind Adams, David Baker, Manoah Bowman, Andy Budgell, Ellen F. Brown, Casee Clow, Peter Coyne, Marguerite Crispino, Anastasia Dubrovskaya, Dale McCarthy, Debra Duncan, Clare Freestone, Jonathan Frewen, James Grissom, Jay Jorgensen, Nikki Luebke, Serge Mafioli, Richard Mangan, Leigh Mills, Michelle Morgan, David Niven, Jr., Robbie Paul, Terence Pepper, Shiroma Perera-Nathan, Zsuzsa Ribai, Farran Smith Nehme, Sylwia Strepiak, Matthew Sweet, Philip Ziegler. There are several archivists who also deserve recognition for making the papers of several important figures in Viviens life available to researchers and for helping me find the information I was looking for. In London: Kathryn Johnson at the British Library, Catherine McIntyre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Nathalie Morris at the BFI Library. In Los Angeles: Faye Thompson and Matt Severson at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Margaret Herrick Library, Ned Comstock at the University of Southern California, and the archivists at the Robert Young Library at UCLA. Thank you to Dale Stinchcomb at the Harvard Theatre Archive for help with the Angus McBean photographs, Alan Brodie and Kathryn Ferguson at Alan Brodie Representation for assistance with materials relating to Nol Coward, and the trustees of the Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust.

To Cindy De La Hoz, my editor at Running Press. You gave me valuable advice when I was first starting out on the road to publication and took a chance on it several years down the road. Now I feel it has come full circle. And to my agent Laura Morris, thank you for believing in this book from the start and for sticking with it through many changes and periods of uncertainty.

Last, but certainly not least, thank you to all of Viviens fans who have shown their support for this book through Facebook and my website, vivandlarry.com. You have enabled Viviens legacy to continue thriving.

If I have missed anyone, it was unintentional. Thank you to you, too.

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