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2 unusual facts about Rex Harrison


Dodge Aspen

In print and media actor Rex Harrison was spokesman for the Aspen, whose advertising campaign was inspired by the "Ascot Gavotte" scene in Harrison's My Fair Lady.

Kurt Kreuger

One of Kreuger's few opportunities to play a non-Nazi role was in 1948's Unfaithfully Yours, in which he played Rex Harrison's personal assistant.


Albert Lieven

He appeared on the London stage in 1939 in the comedy Rake's Progress (Not the later Rex Harrison film of the same title), but was largely acting in films (among them The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943).

Aren't We All?

After nineteen previews, it opened on April 29, 1985 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it enjoyed a sold out limited run of only 93 performances; the all-star cast that included Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, Lynn Redgrave, John Michael King, and George Rose.

Cathryn Harrison

She is the daughter of the actor and singer Noel Harrison and Sara Lee Eberts and also the granddaughter of actor Sir Rex Harrison.

Cecil Parker

Parker was also the original Charles Condomine in the West End production of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, a role subsequently played on Broadway by Clifton Webb and in the 1945 film by Rex Harrison.

Cesare Danova

He tested for a part in Ben Hur, but his big break was the role of Apollodorus, Cleopatra's personal servant in the 1963 film, Cleopatra directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison.

Heartbreak House

A major Broadway revival was mounted in 1984, with an all star cast headed by Sir Rex Harrison as Shotover (a role for which he was nominated for a Tony), and featuring Amy Irving, Rosemary Harris, Dana Ivey, George N. Martin, and Tom Aldredge.

I Live in Grosvenor Square

He is befriended by the Duke and British paratrooper Major David Bruce (Rex Harrison), who has taken leave to contest a parliamentary by-election.

Liverpool Playhouse

Other artistes who gained experience at the theatre include Robert Donat, Lilian Braithwaite, Cecil Parker, John Gregson, Clive Brook, C. Aubrey Smith, Richard Burton, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Rex Harrison, Patricia Routledge, Anthony Hopkins, and Richard Briers.

Patrick Hines

He created the role of Orsini-Rosenberg in the original New York production of Amadeus and appeared with Sir Rex Harrison in the 1979 revival of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra in the role of Pothinus.


see also

Lympne

Lympne was the setting (though not the filming location) of the 1945 David Lean's film production of Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford (filming was actually done in and around Denham, Buckinghamshire).