Breakdown “That uncannily evil monster, manic depression,” Olivier writes of Leigh’s eventual diagnosis (now known as bipolar disorder), continued to destroy the couple. While they continued to perform their public roles as elegant theatrical royalty and A-list artists, their family, friends, and coworkers could not ignore Leigh’s increasing turmoil. ‘Her mind began to wobble and her sense of self became vague,” Leigh’s Streetcar Named Desire costar Marlon Brando recalled. “Like Blanche”—Leigh’s character in Streetcar—“she slept with almost everybody and was beginning to dissolve mentally and to fray at the ends physically.” (Always a misogynist, Brando said he would have slept with her too if it were not for his respect for Olivier.) Galloway goes into enormous, at times gratuitous detail mapping Leigh’s many breakdowns, while being empathetic about the lack of useful treatments and awareness that existed at the time. In 1953, things came to a head when she was sent home from India while filming Elephant Walk with her hard-drinking, enabling lover Peter Finch. After she was sent back to Los Angeles, Leigh suffered …