In an age when mental illness was not as well understood, Leigh was most likely bipolar or schizophrenic. Medication was spotty at best. She had violent outbursts, breaks with reality, hallucinations, the whole nine yards.
Vivien and Larry were both married to other people when they met and fell in love. They left their respective partners and married, and were married for 25 years before breaking up. They reminded me of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton--so in love and yet unable to live together. She was abusive to Larry and they both cheated with other people. She eventually got to the point where she couldn't work anymore. She died very young, just 53, of tuberculosis. Larry lived another 20 years, remarried, and had three more kids. He had a lot of health problems, too. It was just a tragic story all the way around.
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