She continued with the play ; but, when Korda moved it to a larger theatre, Leigh was found to be unable to project her voice adequately or to hold the attention of so large an audience, and the play closed soon after.

Following the shootings, police searching Barton's home found that his second wife, Leigh Ann Vandiver Barton, and two children, Matthew David Barton ( 12 ) and Mychelle Elizabeth Barton ( 10 ), had been murdered by hammer blows before the shooting spree ; the children had then been placed in bed, as if sleeping.

Leigh found more success in the gritty crime drama Rush ( 1991 ), in which she portrayed an undercover narcotics policewoman who becomes a junkie in the line of duty in and falls in love with her partner Jason Patric.

The earliest signs of human activity in Leigh are evidenced by a Neolithic stone axe found in Pennington and a bronze spearhead from south of Gas Street.

The study, by Christine Neill and Andrew Leigh ( later elected as an Australian Labor Party MP ), also found that states such as Tasmania, which withdrew guns quickly, had a bigger decline in firearm suicides than states such as New South Wales, which withdrew more slowly.

The show was a major success and Coleman found working with Fields much easier than with Leigh.

xvii., 1810 ); Frederick Leigh Colvile, Warwickshire Worthies ( 1870 ); some biographical notes are to be found in the letters of William Shenstone to Jago printed in vol.

Leigh found that Parker " had a sensibility that I understand very, very well.

" He helped to found the " International League " of patriots, and, in 1850, with GH Lewes and Thornton Leigh Hunt, started The Leader, an organ which, however, did not satisfy his advanced republicanism, and from which he soon withdrew.

After being persuaded to take on the secretaryship of these Inter-Varsity Conferences in 1924, Kings College alumni Dr Douglas Johnson was chosen by delegates from the 14 university christian unions who assembled at High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon in 1928 to found the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions ( IVF ) as its first General Secretary, a role he continued in until 1964.

In around 1863 " there was found a Hoard of Roman Coins near Luton, on the estate of John Shaw Leigh, Esq., of Luton Hoo.

Many years after his travel, Leigh Fermor's diary of the Danubian leg of his journey was found in a castle in Romania and returned to him.

She was found dead in her Wimbledon home on the morning of 16 November 1980 when she failed to meet a friend, actress Suzanna Leigh, with whom she was due to go on holiday to Africa that day.

Inside, they found a woman in suspended animation who identifies herself in a rudimentary fashion as Mera ( Leigh Lombardi ).

Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

Offered the role of Heathcliff in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), he travelled to Hollywood, leaving Leigh in London.

Goldwyn and the film's director, William Wyler, offered Leigh the secondary role of Isabella ; but she refused, preferring the role of Cathy, which went to Merle Oberon.

Leigh had hoped to co-star with Olivier and made a screen test for Rebecca, which was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Olivier in the leading role.

He refused to allow her to join Olivier in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ), and Greer Garson played the role Leigh had wanted for herself.

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role " everything that I intended, and much that I had never dreamed of "; but, in later years, Leigh would say playing Blanche DuBois " tipped me over into madness.

Leigh took the lead role in the Noël Coward play South Sea Bubble, but she became pregnant and withdrew from the production.

Leonard Maltin described the film as one of the all-time greats, writing in 1998 that Leigh " brilliantly played " her role.

The film popularized Method acting with Brando's role as the earthy and unmannered Stanley Kowalski opposite the classical dignity of British actress, Vivien Leigh, as his sister-in-law.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

She received her first Oscar nomination for the role, but lost to Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind.

The role went to her Gone with the Wind co-star, Vivien Leigh, who won her second Academy Award for her role.

Directed by Henry Hathaway, it starred James Mason, Robert Wagner ( in the title role ), Janet Leigh and Sterling Hayden.

It was her role as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ), and scoffs at Rhett Butler ( Clark Gable ), that won McDaniel the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the first black American to win an Oscar.

Jackson was also the home of singers Carl Perkins and Luther Ingram ; game show host Wink Martindale ; football players Ed " Too Tall " Jones, Al Wilson, Trey Teague, and Jabari Greer ; pianist Joe Hunter ( one of the Funk Brothers studio band who played on many Motown hits in the 1960s ) the rock band Full Devil Jacket, American soul singer, songwriter and actress Lauren Pritchard, originating and playing the role of the 15-year-old runaway " Ilse " in the hit Broadway show Spring Awakening for two years, Former Miss Tennessee Allison Leigh Alderson DeMarcus, and American country music artist Whitney Duncan.

Later during the Broadway run, Jennifer Jason Leigh ( September 13, 2001 to June 30, 2002 ) and Anne Heche took over the lead role.

Winona Ryder and Bridget Fonda were in competition for the role of Amy Archer before Jennifer Jason Leigh was cast.

Leigh had previously auditioned for a role in the Coens's Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink.

The role of Paula was originally given to Sigourney Weaver, then to Anjelica Huston and later to Jennifer Jason Leigh, who dropped out to do Fast Times at Ridgemont High instead.

Eventually, Debra Winger replaced Leigh for the role of Paula.

B. Priestley denounced the play and Leigh's performance ; and the critic Kenneth Tynan commented that Leigh was badly miscast because British actors were " too well-bred to emote effectively on stage ".

George Cukor commented that Leigh was a " consummate actress, hampered by beauty ", and Laurence Olivier said that critics should " give her credit for being an actress and not go on forever letting their judgments be distorted by her great beauty.

In 1969, critic Andrew Sarris commented that the success of the film had been largely due to " the inspired casting " of Leigh, and in 1998 wrote that " she lives in our minds and memories as a dynamic force rather than as a static presence.

It is an absolute reproduction of a real man '; and a contemporary critic commented, ' I recognized Skimpole instantaneously ; ... and so did every person whom I talked with about it who had ever had Leigh Hunt's acquaintance.

Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle commented that " As the downtrodden, sexy, trusting and quietly funny prostitute, Leigh is, of course, in her element ".

Leigh has never commented publicly on the experience of working with Kubrick nor of being cut from the film.

Leigh subsequently commented that " it just didn't work out " and the role was eventually played by Chloë Sevigny.