He was twice my age and, besides, I was dating someone else. As the evening wore on, I realised that he was being overly attentive, which I really did not appreciate. ![]() It was Howard Hughes, who had just bought RKO studios. I was at Mr Mayer's house one evening and was introduced to this tall, taciturn, thin man with a moustache. Leigh's charms meanwhile had attracted the attentions of the millionaire producer Howard Hughes: Mr LeRoy was great - he put up with us and still turned out one of the most beautiful films I was in.Ī less successful literary adaptation, of The Forsyte Saga, retitled That Forsyte Woman (1949), cast her as the trusting June Forsyte who loses her architect lover (Robert Young) to her aunt, Irene (Greer Garson). June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien and myself really did assume the aura of four sisters and had a ball. It kind of brings you back to the values we all had as children. ![]() "The picture has such wonderful warmth," she said: She then made a perfect Meg March in Mervyn LeRoy's loving transcription of Little Women (1949), a perennial favourite. In Fred Zinnemann's bleak film noir Act of Violence (1949), she had her most demanding role to date as a housewife whose husband, a former prison-camp informer, is stalked by a vengeful survivor.
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