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Article: Vivien Leigh, my girl next door. . . An enchanting story of the friendship between a Hollywood legend and a ten-year-old schoolboy...
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2003
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Byline: ROD HALL
Back in April 1961, I was ten years old and living with my parents and my sister, Ann, on a fruit farm near Uckfield, East Sussex. Life was idyllic but uneventful . . . until the day we were told that a real-life film star was moving into the house next door.
Her name was Vivien Leigh and I'd never heard of her. Until then, I'd only watched cartoons and hadn't seen Gone With The Wind, in which Vivien played Scarlett O'Hara, nor Lady Hamilton, in which she had starred with her then husband, Laurence Olivier.
Although I didn't know it at the time, Vivien and Olivier had just divorced after 20 years of glamorous marriage that were ...
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