Trivia of Rex Harrison


 Trivia of Rex Harrison (5 March 1908 - 2 June 1990)

*After graduating from secondary school at age 16, Harrison began a stage apprenticeship with the Liverpool Repertory Theatre. He first appeared on the London stage in 1930, the same year his first film, The Great Game, was released.
*His role in the 1945 released film ‘Blithe Spirit’ was very much appreciated. He attained international fame when he portrayed the King in ‘Anna and the King of Siam’ released in 1946. It was his first America film.
*Had an affair with struggling actress Carole Landis while still married to Lilli Palmer; he found Landis's body after she took an overdose of pills in 1948.It is believed that he was the reason behind starlet Carole Landis’s suicide.
*He bagged second Tony award for his portrayal of Henry Higgins in the film ‘My Fair Lady’ in 1963.Due to his association with the checked wool hat which he wore both in the Broadway and film versions of My Fair Lady (1963), the style of headwear was often named "The Rex Harrison."
*With the scandal surrounding the affair between Richard Burton and Dame Elizabeth Taylor on the set Cleopatra (1963), scant attention was paid to Sir Rex Harrison. He got the last laugh when he became the only one of the movie's three stars to receive an Oscar nomination for his performance as Best Actor in a Leading Role.
*He demanded that none of the supporting cast in Doctor Dolittle (1967) upstage him and refused to allow Sammy Davis Jr. be cast out of such a fear.Harrison got karma instantly, when he sang in the field of sheep, he had to be sprayed down repeatedly for flies. The sheep urinated on him, forcing multiple retakes.He behaved so badly on-set that he was nicknamed "Tyrannosaurus Rex".
*Was made a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 81.In age 82, Harrison died from the effects of pancreatic cancer at his home in Manhattan, New York City.His body was cremated, some of his ashes being subsequently scattered in Portofino, and the rest being scattered at his second wife Lilli Palmer's grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

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