Name 10 Facts About This Actor

[Terrence1]

9.)  Her role in The Thornbirds won her both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.

[Paulll]

10). Barbara Stanwyck became a Ziegfeld Follies dancer at age 15!

Next: Vivien Leigh❤

[Terrence1]

1.)  She was born in England.

[Princess of Tap]

24 minutes ago, Terrence1 said:

1.)  She was born in England.

I believe she was born in India.

[Princess of Tap]

2) Actor Laurence Olivier was her second husband.

[Peebs]

3.  She and her family moved to England when she was six.  She attended a convent school where she became friends with Maureen O'Sullivan.

[Princess of Tap]

4) Vivien got the role of Scarlett O'Hara by having David O Selznick's brother-- Myron Selznick-- as her agent.

[Paulll]

5). Vivien Leigh had a photographic memory. She would remember all her lines for a play after only one or two readings. 

[Terrence1]

6.)  She won two Oscars, and played Southern belles  in both.

[Princess of Tap]

7) My second favorite role for Vivien Leigh is Mrs. Treadwell in "Ship of Fools".

[Terrence1]

8.)  She took her  stage name from the first name of her first husband,  Leigh  Holman.

[Princess of Tap]

9) Even after director George Cukor was fired and replaced by Victor Fleming in "Gone with the Wind", Vivien still took direction from Cukor over the phone.

[Terrence1]

10.)  Years before entering the movies, she was  a model for Vogue magazine.

Next:  Ann Sheridan

[Peebs]

1.  Ann Sheridan won the "Search For Beauty" contest which included a screen test for Paramount

[Terrence1]

2.)  After her contact with Warner Brothers, she made four movies for Universal.

[Peebs]

3.  Her nickname was "The Oomph Girl"

[Terrence1]

4.)  She starred in the TV series Pistols and Petticoats, a comedy Western.   The series was cancelled after her death.

[Princess of Tap]

5) She married Warner Brothers co-star George Brent.

[Terrence1]

6.)  She began her career at Paramount in bit parts under her real name,  Clara Lou Sheridan.

[Peebs]

7. Ann Sheridan was considered for the leads in Meet John Doe, Casablanca, and Mildred Pierce.

[Swithin]

8. She sings and does a hula in Navy Blues (1941).

 

[Terrence1]

9.)   She was a descendant of Civil War General Philip Sheridan.

[Det Jim McLeod]

10) She received second billing after Bette Davis in The Man Who Came To Dinner

Next-Alan Arkin

[Paulll]

1. Alan Arkin disliked filming the scene in Wait Until Dark (1967) where he scares Audrey Hepburn's character. 

*It's a great film, btw. Scary, dark and edgy.*

[Det Jim McLeod]

2. He received an Oscar nomination for his film debut in The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming