Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hired by David Selznick to teach Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, et al., how to "talk Southern" in Gone With the Wind...
British connoisseurs were appalled by the fakery (see cut). In a joint letter to the Times, Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria' & Albert Museum, and other esthetes spluttered: "Reductio ad absurdum of the mania for the fake antique. These cars are ridiculous." Moaned the Manchester Guardian: "There are times when the British love of tradition seems not merely exaggerated but quite...
Pert, pince-nezed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 56, is best known to readers in the U.S. and Britain as a crack writer of whodunits (Busman's Honeymoon, Murder Must Advertise, etc.). But what really interests Anglican Sayers is religion. Two years ago she announced: "I have given up writing crime stories. Instead, I have engaged in a four-year task of translating Dante's Divine Comedy...
Ryan is a determined, calculating pursuer: Heflin is a frightened--later desperate--pursued. Both are excellent and get fine female support from Janet Leigh (Mrs. Enley). Phyllis Thaxter (Parkson's girl), and Mary Astor, who picks up Enley in a bar and eventually leads him to his inevitable, and perhaps just, doom...
What makes Charles Dickens such a tough cadaver for the dissector is the fact that he embodied (in the words of his friend Leigh Hunt) "the life and soul ... of 50 human beings." Some of these 50 beings were pretty sleazy characters, and they have been sternly ignored by those whom Pearson calls "Dickolators." Most biographers have refused to admit that their idol often fell short of the ideal Dickens expressed: a "glowing, hearty, generous, mirthful, beaming [attitude] to Home and Fireside...