reach for the stars

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward at the New York Film Critics Awards, 1969.

As a personal friend, I have often and often teased her with the observation that no beautiful woman has the right to be so clever, and that no clever woman has the right to look so lovely. She is the nonpareil of hostesses, and has a sound taste in wine which is the rarest thing of any sort. She has a passion for Charles Dickens, another for solving crosswords, and a third for gardening, for gathering flowers, and for arranging them. She is shrewd, witty, wise and observant, and she is a genius of a wife, which is just as we’ll if one is married to a man of something remarkably like genius and six years her senior. —Alan Dent

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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Vivien Leigh, 30’s

Orson Welles dancing in ‘Citizen Kane’.

Jimmy Stewart

The lights of London’s theatres were darkened for 1 hour during the following week’s memorial service, paying tribute to her lifetime work on stage. Many of Vivien’s peers said her passing left an unbelievable gap in the theatre world - an actress that could never be replaced.