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Lee Grant

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Also known as Leonara Elizabeth Grant

New Zealand actress and singer

Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • I Said Yes to Everything
  • Everybody on the truck!
  • Our Vanishing Americana
  • Spiders, Snakes, and Swamp Witches

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
New Zealand
Active from
1931
Active to
2016

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
53
Total plays
126

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Quotes

  • I was a bird imitating the birds. And so it was their kind of imaginary world that I was raised in, and it was part delicious and part confusing.
  • The 1950s and early '60s were emotionally rough for me. In 1950, when I was 23, I was named a Communist by Red Channels, an anti-Communist pamphlet, and was blacklisted by Hollywood from 1952 until the early 1960s.
  • It was like, one day you were an actress who could do anything, and the very next day, you could not work in film or television again. And that was the temper of the times.
  • I had 12 years to make up for. I'm a very practical person. I had to support myself, I had to support my daughter, and I had to work. And if the way that I could work was to have the years taken off my age at that time, I was desperate to do it. I had to be able to go from one job to another and be pretty. And I achieved that for a good long time. I made up those 12 years.
  • I think the most important impetus in life, is that it not be boring. The fear of boredom drove me more than any yearning for something I wanted to achieve.
  • I don’t use a typewriter or a computer, so everything was written by pen and ink by my little desk. It took me four years to complete it, and as you can see, it wasn’t an easy book to write.

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date of death
2016-07-22
date of birth
1931-08-03
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Available in 5 languages

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