The Rise and Fall of Hollywood Starlet Vivien Leigh

Destined for Greatness

When the talented Leigh was just six years old, her parents shipped her off to an English boarding school. She wasn’t able to see her family for two whole years, which is difficult for anyone, let alone a first-grader.

Vivien Lee as a young girl holding her dog

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Since she didn’t have her parents around, she shared her Hollywood dreams and ambitions with her friends at school. She told everyone she would be “a great actress someday.” She turned out to be right, but she didn’t realize that Hollywood had a dark side that would take an awful toll on her.

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