TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perera-Nathan,Shiroma
TI  - God and the angel: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier's tour de force of Australia and New Zealand 
SN  - 1922779156
U1  - 792.0280922 23
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
PB  - Melbourne Books
KW  - Leigh, Vivien,
KW  - Olivier, Laurence,
KW  - Motion picture actors and actresses
KW  - England
KW  - Actors
KW  - Australia
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Actors and actresses
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -