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Stage:
Appeared in "Arsenic and Old Lace", Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA.
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Publicity Listings:
2 Print Biographies
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2 Interviews
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3 Articles
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1 Magazine Cover Photo
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Height:
5' 3½" (1.61 m)
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Personal Quote:
[about her Oscar-winning role in
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)] It was not at all certain I would do the movie. As a matter of fact, I had to test for it twice. First, I did a film test in New York with
Elia Kazan. Then I got a call telling me to come to California for another test. They weren't happy with my hair.
Vivien Leigh was going to wear a blonde wig, and for some reason they wanted me ...
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Trivia:
Political activist, she signed several civil rights petitions and was a sponsor of a 1949 World Peace Conference in New York - which triggered her label of being a Communist sympathizer, for which she was blacklisted in films and TV even though she never even held pro-Communist views. Her testimony to the New York Supreme Court in 1962 against the publishers of "Red Channels" helped pave the way ...
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