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Article: A VERY SCARLETT WOMAN; Her smouldering beauty lit up the screen as Scarlett O'Hara. But nothing in Gone With The Wind could match Vivien Leigh's marathon off-screen sexual adventures - or the shocking secret she revealed to this writer one night.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2009
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Byline: by Peter Evans
THE ACTOR Sir John Mills and his wife, the writer Mary Haley Bell, asked me to dinner at their London house. They had a special treat for me, they said.
It was a Triple-A-list occasion in the Sixties, with some of the biggest names in British cinema, including the director David Lean, actor Jack Hawkins, Noel Coward and Richard Attenborough.
But it wasn't until we were about to sit down that I was introduced to my dinner companion, the promised treat: Vivien Leigh.
The former wife of Sir Laurence Olivier - they had been the golden couple of their day - and a two-time Oscar winner (the first, when she was 26, for ...