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 But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them. You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
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I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
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John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn`t have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
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On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn`t agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
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But it`s much more difficult on a shoestring. You spend a lot of your time going from shop to shop trying to find the same thing, but a bit cheaper.
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It`s nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you`ve given them.
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I would loathe to work on modern films.
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I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.
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But I think that I was lucky in that I didn`t get anybody who was too difficult. I didn`t get any of the Faye Dunaways of the world.
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Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don`t see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.
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You are lucky that I can`t sing tonight because I might get carried away.
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That`s another thing about today`s stars that makes me glad that I`m not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don`t know how you ever make any personal contact with them.
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There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920`s musicals.
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I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.
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Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.
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I don`t know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
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I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.
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I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.
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It varies. Darling, obviously, is a favourite because it had the happy ending with the Oscar, which I never might have believed beforehand.
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When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.
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The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don`t always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.
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I don`t understand what modern clothes are about at all.
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I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.
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I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.
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I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.
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With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
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I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
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A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
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I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
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I didn`t know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.
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God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It`s a way of expressing our humanity.
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And I would never have believed that 20 years on I would have met Gower Champion and that I would have danced with Gower Champion.
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You do sketches first when you do period films. People think that the sketches are quite pretty and they like that and that`s how it`s got to be.
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The Americans thought that swinging London and that Darling look were great. But it didn`t cut any ice here. There was not even a nomination.
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Trivia
Julie Harris is the most honored performer in Tony history with ten nominations and five victories. She won the award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "I Am A Camera" (1952), "The Lark" (1956), "Forty Carats" (1969), and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1973); and as Best Actress (Play) for "The Belle of Amherst" (1977). Her five additional nominations were: for Best Actress (dramatic), "Marathon `33" (1964) and "The Au Pair Man" (1974); for Best Actress (musical), "Skyscraper" (1966); and for Best Actress (play), "Lucifer`s Child" (1991), and "The Gin Game" (1997).
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First directed by Tony Abatemarco in Lucifer`s Child (1995) (TV) on Broadway, for which she received a Tony nomination.
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She has one son named Peter with her second husband Manning Gurian.
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Recipient of the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipients were Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, and Suzanne Farrell.
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Elia Kazan, in his autobiography "A Life," said that he was grateful to have Harris on the set of East of Eden (1955) because she had a calming influence on James Dean. Kazan praised Harris as both an actress and as a human being.
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She and producer Robert Whitehead, were named two recipients of Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater, May 2002. It was her sixth Tony award.
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Suffered a stroke. [30 May 2001]
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Fell backstage in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, requiring surgery to drain fluid from her head. [3 April 1999]
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