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2 unusual facts about Lye


Lye, West Midlands

The memorial takes the form of a giant filmstrip, the illuminated cut metal panels illustrating scenes from some of his best-known roles, which include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Things to Come, and The Ghost of Frankenstein.

Stourbridge News

It is also circulated to the homes of readers living in the surrounding communities of Wordsley, Hagley, Amblecote, Pedmore and Lye.


Christine McGlade

In the 1981 season she played the old lady at the movie theater, a role that had been originated by Ruth Buzzi on Whatever Turns You On; in the same season, she also reprised Buzzi's role as Miss Take, the secretary to Lye's buffoonish "network president," L. Nicholson Dime.

Among cast members, only Lye (all 144 episodes) and Abby Hagyard (113) appeared in more.

Cynthia Asquith

"God Grante That She Lye Stille," collected in When Churchyards Yawn, was adapted in 1961 by Robert Hardy Andrews as an episode of the anthology TV series Thriller.

Frederick Lye

Frederick Arthur Lye (1881 – 3 October 1949) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party then of the Reform Party in the United Party coalition.

Harold B. Lee

When he was eight, he was sent to get a can of lye from the shelf and spilled the deadly product all over himself.

Josiah Clerk

He desired 'to be decently, tho' very privately, buried by night in the vault in St. Olave Hart Street Church, where my honoured mother and my children lye, if it may be done with conveniency.

Lands of Threepwood

Cotton cloth or linen was originally bleached by repeatedly steeping it in an alkaline solution or lye derived from ash tree or fern ashes, called 'bucking'.

Saint Lie

Saint Lie (Lié, Lyé, Laetus, Lætus) (died 533) of Orléans is a French saint.


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