Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of Prohibition era Lord Jim with a growl machine, a cornet player in a honky-tonk who caves in to a protection racketeer (Edmond O'Brien) and has to keep running from his conscience with the racketeer riding on his billfold. At last he runs into Janet Leigh, a flapper with more visible flap than the censor generally allows, and he flips back to normal. Yet, at the fadeout, as the old meanie cops his bye-bye tablets, and the hero rides off unscathed on some of the ickiest two-beat ever taped, there is room to wonder...
...Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea not only made his mark as a legal brain but even helped hire actors, e.g., Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In 1950 he went over to CBS and back to New York to handle CBS's real-estate program. Now ex-Medical Student O'Shea hopes to breathe new life into Hollywood's sickest studio. ¶Herbert...
Colgate Variety Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Jack Webb conducts a celebration of Dixieland jazz, starring Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee. Janet Leigh...
...Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth was not so kindly received. The Observer found her performance "more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery, more viper than anaconda." But the Times found that her "pale and exquisitely lovely Lady Macbeth does at least explain why Macbeth married her, a mystery that too many Lady Macbeths leave unelucidated...
...past, three days inhabitants of Adams and Leverett Houses had eaten is lightly clad luxury, but a reminder from the Dean's office has brought back the rumpled seersucker jacket and the gaping collar. Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, and Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, were referred to an agreement made at a December, 1950, Housemasters' meeting, that "the coat and tie rule" should always be observed in College dining halls...