Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, North Carolina's ladies' man, Senator Robert Rice Reynolds said of the selection of British Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: "I vigorously protest against... the selection of a foreigner for this . . . part...
...Hollywood, Producer David Oliver Selznick finally chose an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
Said Miss Leigh, in real life Mrs. Herbert Leigh Holman, wife of a London barrister and mother of a five-year-old daughter: "I am grateful beyond words." Said Gone With the Wind's author, Margaret Mitchell, to whom Producer Selznick characteristically announced the news in a789-word telegram: "I'm so glad it's all settled...
...cooperative was formed with the aid of Radcliffe girls. The original idea is attributed to Sarah Cauman, Radcliffe '39. "We had hoped that the joint organization, if successful, would set a precedent for harmonious Harvard Radcliffe relations," Miss Leigh Steinhardt, Radcliffe 2G, declared. "After al, the chances of anything happening are every slight. We will behave ourselves...
...exchange for the French Mathematician, the University has sent to France Leigh Hoadley, who will lecture for the first semester, while Denjoy conducts a class and a seminar here...