![]() ![]() Vivien meanwhile toured North Africa entertaining the troops, including Montgomery himself in Tripoli. Olivier, looking for ‘a national expression of the British spirit’, found it in his glorious film of Henry V. Unlike today, British actors were staunch patriots. She beat Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn to the role and became a worldwide star, more famous than Olivier himself - who was by now her second husband. The high point of her career was of course Gone With The Wind. I imagined, like the very young always do, that everything lasts for ever.’ ![]() In old age, Olivier reminisced that they used to make love three times a day, while Vivien wrote: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever lived as intensely since. When she sent him a bunch of carnations, he wore one of them in his underpants, which doesn’t sound very comfortable. Oliver wrote to her things such as: ‘Oh I love, love, love, love, my lambkin,’ and when they were apart: ‘I really am in Hell, my love. ![]()
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