Word: lilly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morosco. Gwen Verdon gyrates through "Damn Yankees" on the stage of the 46th Street Theatre, and Frederic March and Florence Eldridge star in Eugene O'Neill's posthumous "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Helen Hayes. Two Shavian comedies, "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer and "The Apple Cart" continue at the Mark Hellinger and the Plymouth...
...Harrison reputation was growing among professionals. When he and Lilli co-starred in an airy drawing-room spoof called Bell, Book and Candle, Author John Van Druten, who also directed, declared flatly: "I think he is probably the most brilliant actor I've ever worked with. He is fantastically meticulous. He will pause to think out every suggestion, and then try it over and over again until he's satisfied. He will even try out whether to put his weight on his toes, heels, or on the ball of his foot when he is turning and delivering...
...Lilli calls him "Harrisburg." Alternatively, she refers to him as "the youngest Blimp" with a mixture of affection and exasperation. Often she has tried to moderate his irritable perfectionism, which can result in his berating other actors. "Afterwards he's sorry, but no one is around then," she says. Harrison is equally harsh on himself, readily accepts criticism. "It's impossible to prick the man's bubble," says Lilli. "Rex doesn't have a bubble...
...Lilli have a son, Carey, who is now at a swank British prep school. "I want the boy to have the education I missed." says Rex. "Fortunately I didn't need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years...
...Chum. There were more quarrels with Lilli, and trial separations. "Let's face it," Lilli says, "Englishmen don't like women, at least not in the way that Italians or Frenchmen like women. Englishmen don't ever really look at a woman. The greatest compliment Rex can pay me is to say that being with me is as good as being with a pal. He's a man's man, an Englishman...