Lisa Stead is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published in the areas of adaptation, interwar women's cinema and literature, fan magazines, location filming histories, and cinemagoing histories. She is the author of Off to the Pictures: Women's Writing, Cinemagoing and Movie Culture in interwar Britain (2016), and co-editor (with Carrie Smith) of The Boundaries of the Literary Archive (2013). She is Principle Investigator of AHRC Early Career Fellowship project Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Archive and Access (2019-2020).

• List of illustrationsNote on sourcesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Into the archivesPart I: Stardom, Gender and the ArchiveChapter 1: 'A consummate actress, hampered by beauty': archiving stage and screencraftChapter 2: Collaboration, adaptation and unmade projectsChapter 3: Documenting other roles: alternative star laborPart II: Archival LegaciesChapter 4: 'Her sort of trouble': archiving breakdownChapter 5: The Posthumous archive: collecting, collectors and memorabiliaChapter 6: 'The Vivien Leigh Room': memorializing a local starAfterwordBibliographyIndex

Most importantly, Vivien Leigh is presented here as a much more complex, intelligent woman than the generally accepted image of Screen Goddess, Tormented Beauty, and Great Lady of the Stage. Ms. Stead has created an unforgettable portrait of a professionally triumphant, privately tragic life.