Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walk (Paramount), though hardly a work of art, is an astonishingly neat feat of manufacture. It was begun in Ceylon during February of last year, and the film unit was flown back to Hollywood to do some final "spotting." In mid-March, before work could be finished, Star Vivien Leigh had a serious nervous breakdown and could not complete the picture...
...looked as if Elephant, which had already cost Paramount more than $1,000,000, had turned out to be a gigantic white elephant. If Actress Leigh's scenes were dropped, what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of the film on a Hollywood sound stage. Elizabeth Taylor was borrowed from M-G-M to take Vivien's place, and Elephant Walk, new version, was in the cans by mid-May. Total cost: close...
...without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...
Meanwhile, Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, said yesterday that the parietal deadline for Saturday of the All-College Weekend will be uniformly set back from 11 to 8:30 p.m., the time when the Crimson Key's open dance begins in the I.A.B...
...actors, too, were chosen for their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...