Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue office of Lecture Impresario William Colston Leigh next morning Newspapermen Knickerbocker and Sheean turned the tables on their own profession: granted an interview to the press. Like visiting diplomats (Sheean this week starts a ten-week lecture tour, Knickerbocker next week starts a four-month tour), they sat behind Mr. Leigh's massive desk and answered questions, while a dozen reporters leaned against the walnut-paneled walls...
Married. Vivien Leigh, 26, cinemactress; and Laurence Olivier, 33, cinemactor; in Santa Barbara, Calif.; four days after British Barrister Herbert Leigh Hoi-man's divorce from Miss Leigh became final, 25 days after British Actress Jill Esmond obtained an absolute decree from Olivier...
...Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, whose "perfect romance" was marred only by the fact that each was married to someone else, finally married each other last week (see p. 38). Mickey Rooney received a new contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey...
...British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Basil Rathbone and Greer Garson, would star in the production of a picture called The Rafters Ring, 75% of whose proceeds would be donated to British war relief...
Selznick International still owed its distributor, United Artists, two pictures. These will be produced by Selznick's new company, David O. Selznick Productions, Inc., 100% Selznick-owned. The new company will assume the contracts of such Selznick breadwinners as Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh, Ingrid (Intermezzo) Bergman, Joan (Rebecca) Fontaine, dumpy Director Alfred Hitchcock...