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...Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea not only made his mark as a legal brain but even helped hire actors, e.g., Vivien Leigh for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. In 1950 he went over to CBS and back to New York to handle CBS's real-estate program. Now ex-Medical Student O'Shea hopes to breathe new life into Hollywood's sickest studio. ¶Herbert...
...Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth was not so kindly received. The Observer found her performance "more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery, more viper than anaconda." But the Times found that her "pale and exquisitely lovely Lady Macbeth does at least explain why Macbeth married her, a mystery that too many Lady Macbeths leave unelucidated...
...Ascot." Barred bluebloods saw red when divorced American Actor Douglas Fairbanks got into the enclosure. But there was nothing they could do. (Fairbanks got his passes through the U.S. embassy; had he been a British subject he would have stayed outside with his peers, Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Randolph Churchill...
...gigantic white elephant. If Actress Leigh's scenes were dropped, what was left? Just barely enough, Producer Irving Asher decided, to provide background for a second shooting of the film on a Hollywood sound stage. Elizabeth Taylor was borrowed from M-G-M to take Vivien's place, and Elephant Walk, new version, was in the cans by mid-May. Total cost: close...
...fits without a wrinkle into the planter's character but moves through the outlandish manse with such negligent assurance that the audience is convinced that he grew up in it. Elizabeth Taylor, though very beautiful, is too young and inexperienced an actress to fill a role designed for Vivien Leigh...