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She and Olivier
" She won the Olivier Award for her performance.
She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles.
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.
She said to Laurence Olivier on a long-distance call, " Puss, my puss, how I hate film acting!
She fell into a deep depression that hit the low point when she turned on Olivier, verbally and physically attacking him until she fell to the floor, sobbing.
She became Lady Olivier ; and, after their divorce, per the style granted the divorced wife of a knight, she became socially known as Vivien, Lady Olivier.
She joined Olivier for a European tour with Titus Andronicus, but the tour was marred by Leigh's frequent outbursts against Olivier and other members of the company.
She played opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial ( 1962 ).
She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards.
She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival in 1984 for The Aspern Papers
She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.
She has won multiple awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards.
She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998.
She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 West End production, directed by her boyfriend Sam Mendes.
She appeared opposite Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in the award-winning 1975 television film Love Among the Ruins and had a recurring role as Gran in the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part.
His other stage appearances included musicals such as She Loves Me, Gigi ( as Gaston ), and Stephen Sondheim's Follies ( as Benjamin Stone ), for which he won another Olivier Award.
She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights ( opposite Laurence Olivier ; 1939 ), as George Sand in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée ( 1954 ).
She played another Jane in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, and supported Ann Sothern in Maisie Was a Lady ( 1941 ).
She starred opposite Laurence Olivier in The Ebony Tower ( 1984 ), also appeared on Kavanagh QC and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and became one of Olivier Messiaen's most avid pupils.
She was invited to join The National Theatre for its inaugural season at the Old Vic, working with such directors as Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, and Noël Coward in roles such as Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in Andorra, Jackie in Hay Fever, Kattrin in Mother Courage, Miss Prue in Love for Love, and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing which kept her busy for the next three years.
She also regularly performs on the stage and won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of Nine and an Olivier Award for her role as Miss Adelaide in the West End revival of Guys and Dolls.

She and mounted
She then descended into the adyton ( Greek for " inaccessible ") and mounted her tripod seat, holding laurel leaves and a dish of Kassotis spring water into which she gazed.
She also presided over debates on the constitution, dealing with filibusters and numerous points of order, as well as discussions over the proposed Energy Security Act, against which the loyal opposition mounted a counter-campaign that culminated in a two week bell-ringing episode when the Conservatives ' Whip refused to appear in the Commons to indicate that the opposition was ready for a vote.
She mounted a succession of themed shows and composed a piece for Expo 2005 in Japan.
She, too, mounted a COZI radar and other instrumentation for detecting man-made ionization.
She wears a long sheet dress and she is depicted with a long wig, Hathoric cow horns, the solar disk and tall feathers mounted on a modius.
She employed the stylish marchands-merciers — trendsetting shopkeepers who turned Chinese vases into ewers with gilt-bronze Rococo handles and mounted writing tables with the new Sèvres porcelain plaques.
She felt herself growing and changing, and the Devil mounted her back as she tossed her head and made whinnying sounds.
She also tells him she has not been unfaithful with Jagiello, and has been supporting herself by ascending-whilst mounted on a small Arab horse-in a hot-air balloon before an audience.
With George Wallace ineligible to seek reelection in 1966, Lurleen Wallace dispatched a primary gubernatorial field that included two former governors, John Malcolm Patterson and James E. Folsom, Sr., Congressman Carl Elliott of Jasper, and Attorney General Richmond Flowers, Sr. She then faced one-term Republican U. S. Representative James D. Martin of Gadsden, who had received national attention four years earlier when he mounted a serious challenge to U. S. Senator J. Lister Hill.
She started with Kitmacher ’ s idea based on the Shuttle Aft Flight Deck, in this case two Aft Flight Decks mounted back to back, placed atop a short cylinder.
She suggests that this emblem indicates " the possibility of an earlier association of the Pontic dynasty with the cult of mounted Mithra.
She even mounted an Independent bid for Governor of California in the 2003 recall election.
She made her London debut on 3 November 1968 when she sang Abigaille in a concert performance of Nabucco at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, an event mounted by the London Opera Society.
She mounted two world tours in the early years of the twentieth century, but her health deteriorated and she died in 1917, in her apartment in New York City.
She also does not seem to possess any form of Voltekka, unlike all other Tekkamen in the series ( SRW W gives her twin-liked guns mounted in her Tekkalance ).
She narrowly escaped the defenses mounted to protect him, and ended up dueling Alivia, an ex-Seanchan of great power and nearly 400 years of training as a damane.
She dropped to her knees, he mounted her from behind, and after he had achieved his climax they parted — apparently without exchanging a word.
She was primarily a concert singer and only ever appeared in two opera productions, both of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, mounted in 1892 and 1920.

She and stage
She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.
She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.
She made her professional debut on the New York stage, appearing in Beside Herself alongside Melissa Joan Hart, at the Circle Repertory Theatre.
She was the founder of Syracuse Oratory School, and Baum advertised his services in her catalog to teach theatre, including stage business, playwriting, directing, and translating ( French, German, and Italian ), revision, and operettas, though he was not employed to do so.
She quickly grasped that movie acting was simpler than the stylized stage acting of the day.
She also came from stage acting and had a girlish / whimsical charm to which audiences responded.
She helped Henry Fonda begin his acting career and fueled her son Marlon's interest in stage acting.
She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the lead role in Wallace Shawn's new play, Grasses of a Thousand Colours at the Royal Court Theatre.
She brought forth mankind by spontaneous generation, a view that, removed to the molecular stage, and stripped of its anthropomorphism, is the same as in today's biological chemistry.
She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.
She funded the film, which was written by Adam Carl and based on a stage play he wrote in 2003.
She has spoken of being embarrassed about handing President Bill Clinton a silenced tambourine when he joined Fleetwood Mac on stage.
She was often the only functional intellect on the stage.
She scored her first professional gig, unaware that she would soon be center stage.
She continued her work in the theater and on television, although she lacked " vocal horsepower " and would likely not have had a lengthy stage career.
She was related to stage actresses Minnie Maddern Fiske and Emily Stevens.
She claimed that during her illness she rose from the lowest stage, " recollection ", to the " devotions of silence " or even to the " devotions of ecstasy ", which was one of perfect union with God.
She had previously won an Obie in 1982 for her role in the play on stage.
She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala ( known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala ) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine.
She took on the stage name " Jane Seymour " after King Henry VIII's third wife.
She made her stage debut in 1961, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet.
She uses the stage name " Chea Courtney ".
During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

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