Webstruggling with mental illness and a tumultuous marriage to laurence olivier, the actress sought a comeback (and a second oscar) with the adaptation of. Webbest remembered for her role as scarlett o’hara in “gone with the wind” (1939), leigh had bipolar disorder, known in her lifetime as manic depression (she later. Webwhere madness lies is a sympathetic description of leigh’s ‘perturbing nature’; Webbut in their case, a glamorous romp became an overdetermined narrative, beset by hollywood excess and mental illness, until what began as a truly, madly.
