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 [on Julie Christie] She is marvelous, absolutely adorable, enchanting, sexy, alive, vibrant, astute, clever and knowledgeable. We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.
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I`ve always lived above my income. When I was earning $100 a week, I spent $200 . . . always borrowing against my future earnings. That`s why I`m not the only one who wants me to be a success.
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Trivia
Is portrayed by Jesse Pate in Domino (2005)
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He had a long run as King Arthur in the musical "Camelot" in Drury Lane, and was considered for the 1967 film version.
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Emigrated to South Africa at the age of 5 and grew up in Johannesburg, moving to London in 1946.
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He was originally cast in Rock Hudson's role in Ice Station Zebra (1968).
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In the period of 1959-1965, he appeared opposite three winners of the Best Actress Academy Award: Simone Signoret in Room at the Top (1959), Elizabeth Taylor in BUtterfield 8 (1960), and Julie Christie in Darling (1965). In that period, he also starred with Best Actress Oscar nominee Geraldine Page in Summer and Smoke (1961).
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Although he considered himself British (as well as South African), he was also quite proud of his Yiddish-Lithuanian heritage.
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His daughter, Domino Harvey, once a model, was a bounty hunter. She was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Los Angeles home, June 27, 2005, dying that day in a hospital of an accidental overdose of the painkiller, Fentanyl, at age 35.
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Adopted his stage name from the Harvey Nichols Group.
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First Lithuanian actor to be nominated for an Oscar.
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On acting with Harvey in Walk on the Wild Side (1962), Jane Fonda later commented, "Acting opposite Harvey is like acting by yourself--only worse!".
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While a teenager, he served in the South African Army's entertainment unit during World War Two.
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Was cast in the film version of "The Long and The Short and The Tall" (1959), the hit West End play that made Peter O'Toole a stage star, as the Hollywood money-men would not accept O'Toole or second-choice Albert Finney in the role that went to Harvey, who was a known quantity in films.
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His daughter, Domino Harvey, was born out-of-wedlock in Belgravia, London on August 7, 1969 to Vogue model Paulene Stone. Domino was the fruit of a three-year-long affair between Harvey and Stone during his second marriage to American multi-millionaire Joan Cohn. The former Joan Perry, she was Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn's widow and 17 years Harvey's senior. Harvey eventually divorced Cohn and married Stone shortly before his death from stomach cancer in 1973.
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During the launching of the James Bond franchise in the early 60s, he was strongly considered for the part of Bond.
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Appears briefly in a scene in Tony Richardson's 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), sitting in a theater audience near Trevor Howard as the crowd shouts out "Black bottle." Harvey had planned to make a film about the charge, even to the extent of bidding for the original Light Brigade bugle when it was up for auction in 1964. As part of a settlement with Woodfall Films, he was cast as a Russian prince in the film but his part was cut out completely except for this very brief (and uncredited) appearance in the final cut.
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