Julie Harris
Julie Harris
Actress who received five Tony Awards, including one for her portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln in The Last of Mrs. Lincoln. She also received three Emmy Awards.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth2 December 1925
CityGrosse Pointe, MI
CountryUnited States of America
bit difficult shop spend time trying
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.
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.
people period quite sketches
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.
designing joined rung ten
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.
agency came deeply small today
We came today deeply saddened. It's a small agency and we are such a family.
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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.
cut darling ice london swinging
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.
revered
one of this country's most acclaimed and revered actors.
fell love
I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.
You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
elizabeth ourselves susan
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.
believed ending favourite happy might
It varies. Darling, obviously, is a favourite because it had the happy ending with the Oscar, which I never might have believed beforehand.
job
A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.
agree colours good neutral production
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.