Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is painted that matters," says Painter William Robinson Leigh, "it is what you paint." Tall, lean and full of such old-fashioned convictions, Artist Leigh, at 86, knows just what he likes to paint. Says he: "Never in the whole of human history at any time or anywhere has there been a terrain more suitable for the making of pictures and telling of stories than our own West." On display this week in a Manhattan gallery is a retrospective show of Leigh's Wild West pictures, which prove him a first-rate practitioner of the Western school made...
...London airport, a crowd of expectant reporters and photographers and a group of doctors awaited the arrival of a transatlantic plane from New York. The object of their vigil: Actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who was bringing his sick and troubled wife Vivien Leigh home from Hollywood, where she collapsed with a nervous breakdown a fortnight...
...artificial rules compel Leverett's outstanding staff to mingle with the students so they often don't. But genial Master Leigh Hoadley is always ready to trade lunch-table views with anyone on a range of subjects extending from fly-leds to the principles of general education...
Filmed with Colorado's Rocky Mountains, as a back-drop, Naked Spur recounts the trials of a Kansas rancher, Stewart, who pursues a desperate killer, Robert, Ryan, for the price on his head. After capturing the killer, he soon liquidates him (not without reason) and then departs with Janet Leigh for California, his pockets empty. All this intends to point up the moral that Stewart should never have tried to get a pecuniary reward in the first place...
Helping Stewart capture his quarry are Millard Mitchell, an unstable, disillusioned prospector, and Ralph Meeker, a lecherous dishonorably discharged Army officer. Janet Leigh, albeit in buckskins, looks out of place as sort of a roughneck ingenue...