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Leigh in the trailer for Little Women ( 1949 film ) | Little Women ( 1949 )
As the trailer, in fact, was made after completion of the film when Janet Leigh was no longer available for filming, Hitchcock had Miles don a blonde wig for the fleeting sequence.
Since the title, " Psycho ", instantly covers most of the screen, the switch went unnoticed by audiences for years until freeze-frame analysis clearly revealed that it was Vera Miles and not Janet Leigh in the shower during the trailer.
From mid-November drop in to ' Trailer-Park TV ' a brand new show by Christian Stevenson ( AKA ' Seth-Seth Antoine ') and Ed Leigh ( AKA ' Carlos Fandango ') from their gleaming chrome trailer parked under a cityscape flyover.

Leigh and for
Hoag said, `` I didn't send for you, Leigh.
The elite Legend status was bestowed on 12 members of the Hall of Fame in 1996: Ron Barassi, Haydn Bunton Senior, Roy Cazaly, John Coleman, Jack Dyer, Polly Farmer, Leigh Matthews, John Nicholls, Bob Pratt, Dick Reynolds, Bob Skilton and Ted Whitten ( see above list for further details ).
Stars such as Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Russell appeared in adverts for the pieces and the availability of the collections in shops such as Woolworth made it possible for ordinary women to own and wear such jewelry.
The story of a Korean War veteran, brainwashed by the Communist Chinese to assassinate a candidate for President, co-starred Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury as Harvey's evil mother.
Olivier's makeup was so thick and stylised for that production that Vivien Leigh was quoted as saying " You hear Macbeth's first line, then Larry's makeup comes on, then Banquo comes on, then Larry comes on ".
Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Caron, and Janet Leigh were among those that she competed with for roles at MGM.
M. Leigh writes in his chapter on Plautus and Hannibal that “ the Plautus who emerges from this investigation is one whose comedies persistently touch the rawest nerves in the audience for whom he writes ”.
Despite the failure it was purchased by the Liverpool & Manchester, where it served for two years before being leased to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.
A similar puppet-based series to the Anderson ones was Space Patrol ( 1962 – 64 ), produced by Roberta Leigh, for Associated British Corporation ( ABC ).
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.
The four nurses remained the sole women recipients of the Silver Star until: Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester was awarded the Silver Star in 2005 for gallantry during an insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq, three nurses who had served in World War I were awarded the Silver Star posthumously in 2007, and Army Specialist Monica Lin Brown was awarded the Silver Star in March 2008 for heroism in the War in Afghanistan.
Prominent MPs from this wing of the party include Andrew Rosindell, Nadine Dorries and Edward Leighthe latter a prominent Roman Catholic, notable in a faction marked out by its support for the established Church of England.
Lauded for her beauty, Leigh felt that it sometimes prevented her from being taken seriously as an actress.
When Myron Selznick, who also represented Olivier, met Leigh, he felt that she possessed the qualities his brother was searching for.
" The following day, Leigh read a scene for Selznick, who organised a screen test and wrote to his wife, " She's the Scarlett dark horse and looks damn good.
Not for anyone's ear but your own: it's narrowed down to Paulette Goddard, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett and Vivien Leigh ".
Filming proved difficult for Leigh.
Among the 10 Academy Awards won by Gone with the Wind was a Best Actress award for Leigh, who also won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.

Leigh and Gone
During this time, Leigh read the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind and instructed her American agent to suggest her to David O. Selznick, who was planning a film version.
She defended Leigh, saying, " Vivien was impeccably professional, impeccably disciplined on Gone with the Wind.
Gone with the Wind brought Leigh immediate attention and fame ; but she was quoted as saying, " I'm not a film star – I'm an actress.
* December 15 – The film Gone with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard, premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
* November 5 – Vivien Leigh, British actress ( Gone With The Wind ) ( d. 1967 )
Bette Davis was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress but lost to Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind.
Gone With the Wind swept the major awards, including Best Actress, which went to Vivien Leigh.
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.
The young English actress Vivien Leigh, virtually unknown in America, saw that several English actors, including Ronald Colman and Leslie Howard, were in consideration for the male leads in Gone with the Wind.
Also in 1939, Canutt doubled Clark Gable in the burning of Atlanta in Gone With the Wind ; he also appeared as a renegade accosting Scarlett O ' Hara ( Vivien Leigh ) as she crosses a bridge in a carriage driving through a shantytown.
Particularly notable issues included Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh for the television debut of Gone with the Wind, the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, and Richard Chamberlain for the miniseries Shogun.
Myrtle Godfrey sported the same green bonnet with ostrich plume worn by Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind.
The film stars Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh, her first film after the success of Gone with the Wind.

Leigh and with
In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.
Due to problems with Pinochet, Leigh was expelled from the junta in 1978 and replaced by General Fernando Matthei.
* The Double Shadow was filmed by Azathoth Productions on Super 8 film in 1975 with a script by Leigh Blackmore.
" I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it .... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts ..." Cukor was relieved of his duties, but he continued to work with Leigh and De Havilland off the set.
In 1937 Tyrone Guthrie directed the play at Elsinore, Denmark with Laurence Olivier as Hamlet and Vivien Leigh as Ophelia.
Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies, among them Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Shirley MacLaine, Romy Schneider, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, and many more.
He grew up with brother Mickey Leigh.
His biographer Leigh Montville relates the often told story that Hillerich & Bradsby presented Williams with four bats weighing 34 ounces and one weighing 33 1 / 2 ounces, and challenged him to identify the lighter bat, which he was consistently able to do.
Korda attended her opening-night performance, admitted his error, and signed her to a film contract, with the spelling of her name revised to " Vivien Leigh ".
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.
Leigh with Laurence Olivier in Fire Over England ( 1937 ), their first collaboration
She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.
Leigh appeared with Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O ' Sullivan in A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ), the first of her films to receive attention in the United States.
Leigh travelled to Los Angeles to be with Olivier and to try to convince Selznick that she was Scarlett.
Cukor was dismissed and replaced by Victor Fleming, with whom Leigh frequently quarrelled.
Holman was granted custody of Suzanne, his daughter with Leigh.
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.
Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.

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