God and the angel : Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's tour de force of Australia and New Zealand / Shiroma Perera-Nathan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Melbourne, Australia : Melbourne Books, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1922779156
- 9781922779151
- Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's tour de force of Australia and New Zealand
- Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967
- Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- England
- Actors -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Actors -- New Zealand -- Pictorial works
- Actors and actresses -- England
- Actors and actresses -- Australia -- Pictorial works
- Actors and actresses -- New Zealand -- Pictorial works
- Biographies
- 792.0280922 23
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 792.0280922 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A536895B |
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792.028092 EVI Happy days in Muckle Flugga / | 792.028092 KEA The cult of Kean / | 792.028092 WHI Davina : an acting life / | 792.0280922 PER God and the angel : Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's tour de force of Australia and New Zealand / | 792.028092241 ENG Fashioning celebrity : eighteenth-century British actresses and strategies for image making / | 792.028092293 HAR Kate & Miranda Harcourt's Flowers from my mother's garden / | 792.028094209033 ACT Acting theory and the English stage, 1700-1830 / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- The invitation -- Vivien Leigh: British fashion ambassador on the 1948 Old Vic Tour -- On the Indigo Sea -- Australia 1948: The land of Clancy -- Perth: The most delightfully isolated city in the world -- Adelaide: Daliesque Tarndanya -- Melbourne: Fandom from Fitzroy -- Tasmania: The water coloured isle -- Surfers: Paradise unspoilt -- Sydney: Where Larry lost Vivien -- Brisbane: Farewell Australia -- New Zealand: Land of the long white cloud -- The curtain fall.
God and the Angel is the first illustrated book on the 1948 Old Vic Tour of Australia and New Zealand, led by Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Written from an Australian perspective and utilising never-before published photos from the National Library and author's collection, God and the Angel diarizes a theatrical tour amidst a tense post-war context. The book follows The Old Vic's tour's political and financial motivations and explores Olivier and Leigh's star couple relationship both leading up to and during their travels. This book retraces the footsteps of one of the twentieth century's most enduring star couples through a 1948 Australian landscape, through which important architecture, socialites, artists and their impacts are rediscovered.
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