Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide for the medium." So he tried to turn it into a play, then a musical. By 1962 he had fashioned an interesting if offbeat script dealing with Cervantes' windmill-tilting life. And tilting a little himself, he started collaborating with a couple of unknowns, Songwriter Mitch Leigh and Lyricist Joe Darion. Albert Marre (Kismet, Milk and Honey) agreed to direct; Singer Joan Diener and Perennial Leading Man Richard Kiley (Redhead, No Strings) signed on as leads...
...Janet Leigh appears briefly as Newman's wife, and both the character and the marriage seem wonderfully out of place in Harper. Miss Leigh's performance--for all its brevity--is a minor...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Manchurian Candidate has Laurence Harvey as a brainwashed zombie, Angela Lansbury as his mum, Frank Sinatra as a good guy and Janet Leigh as his careful doll...
Morning brings him a chirping plague of creditors, the numbing guilt of not loving a wife (Vivien Leigh) who is dying of tuberculosis, and the intrusive ardor of a romantic girl who is pursuing her own phantom of love. Around Ivanov, vivid, vulgar, irascibly self-absorbed neurotics drown boredom in vodka and talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. Ivanov punctuates their endless sentences with a bullet in his brain...
...TALE OF PETER RABBIT (Wonderland). This tops all other versions of the oft-told Beatrix Potter classic. Vivien Leigh tells it as if she had grown up at the foot of the old fir tree, and Lyricist David Croft and Musician Cyril Ornadel hit it off like Lerner & Loewe. It takes a hard heart not to melt at naughty Peter's wistful "Why do I do it?" Pity that this team has cut only two other Potter records: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck...