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Deny Fear

Feb 26 • 13 tweets • 7 min read

Celebrate the Margaret Leighton Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Cecil Beaton, 1956
Leighton was such a fine actor that in 1962 she & Anthony Quinn showed up on The Ed Sullivan Show in a Betty Comden & Adolph Green sketch which involved reading from the telephone book.

I love this shot of Margaret Leighton by fashion photographer Louis Faurer, for Vogue, 1962
#MargaretLeighton100

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Myrna Loy & Margaret Leighton at a party for the opening night of Noël Coward's "Sail Away".
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1961
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You always want to sit at the fun kids' table.

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Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn in the stage production Tchin-Tchin
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1962
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Margaret Leighton and Bette Davis in rehearsal for The Night of the Iguana
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1961
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Coffee with a great playwright & a great cast ☕️
Margaret Leighton, Tennessee Williams, Patrick O'Neal & Bette Davis during rehearsals for The Night of the Iguana
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1961
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Peter Donat and Margaret Leighton in Enid Bagnold's "The Chinese Prime Minister"
📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1963
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Noël Coward & Margaret Leighton by Reg Lancaster, 1966

Laurence Harvey & Margaret Leighton by A. W. Cox, 1957
The two were married from 1957 to 1961. Leighton's first husband was Max Reinhardt, & her third was Michael Wilding.
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A wonderful shot of Kay Kendall & Margaret Leighton backstage at 'Night of 100 Stars', July 24, 1958
📷 M. McKeown
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Rex Harrison & Margaret Leighton in Sidney Gilliat's Marriage a la Mode
📷 Norman Hargood, 1955
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I'd love to see this: The Importance of Being Earnest, with John Gielgud, Edith Evans & Margaret Leighton. It was shown on ITV September 24, 1955
📷 Thurston Hopkins

Ralph Richardson & Margaret Leighton on the set of Home at Seven. This was Richardson's only time directing a film; his assistant director was Guy Hamilton.
📷 D. Thiel, 1952
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📷 William Grimes, c. 1940
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