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Carla Gugino 'couldn't be more excited' to play Vivien Leigh in biopic The Florist... set a year before her 1967 death at age 53
The 52-year-old SAG Award nominee will begin filming her role as the Indian-born Brit at the end of this summer in Philadelphia
The Tony winner was preparing to star in Sir John Gielgud's Broadway adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Ivanov at the Shubert Theatre while treating her bipolar disorder with ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) in order to dull the paranoia, outbursts, and hallucinations. Carla will begin filming her role as the Indian-born Brit at the end of this summer in Philadelphia, and screenwriter Jayce Bartok (pictured April 10) 'put the script together based on a box of love letters' between Vivian and blue-collar florist Joseph Penn Leigh is still regarded as one of the greatest actresses, having won Academy Awards for both her iconic performances as Southern belles - Victor Fleming's 1939 epic Gone with the Wind (pictured) and Elia Kazan's 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire
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