 While Leigh made Streetcar in 1951 , Olivier joined her in Hollywood to film Carrie , based on the controversial novel Sister Carrie ; although the film was plagued by troubles , Olivier received warm reviews and a BAFTA nomination . Olivier began to notice a change in Leigh 's behaviour , and he later recounted that " I would find Vivien sitting on the corner of the bed , <unk> her hands and sobbing , in a state of grave distress ; I would naturally try desperately to give her some comfort , but for some time she would be <unk> . " After a holiday with Coward in Jamaica , she seemed to have recovered , but Olivier later recorded , " I am sure that ... [ the doctors ] must have taken some pains to tell me what was wrong with my wife ; that her disease was called manic depression and what that meant — a possibly permanent cyclical to @-@ and @-@ <unk> between the depths of depression and wild , uncontrollable <unk> . He also recounted the years of problems he had experienced because of Leigh 's illness , writing , " throughout her possession by that <unk> evil monster , manic depression , with its deadly ever @-@ <unk> <unk> , she retained her own individual <unk> — an ability to disguise her true mental condition from almost all except me , for whom she could hardly be expected to take the trouble . " 
