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Chyler Leigh

  • Profession = actress
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    Janet Leigh

  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "never smoked on-screen, [but] wide shots of the set during intros and credits show a pack of cigarettes and lighter on the table next to her and an ashtray with a cigarette in it on the floor under the table.", City Lights (Canada), '84
  • Pictures of her smoking
              •  candid, holding, from '59, The Making of Psycho documentary, Psycho (1960) DVD
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • holder, 32k
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  • eight, lighting, dragging, exhaling, 108k
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  • holding, Jet Pilot (1957), 543k
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  • posed, holder, Apr. 4, '60, 89k
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  • holding, '51, 41k
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  • holding, Dec. 29, '51
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  • dragging, Dec. 23, '58
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  • holding, c. '58
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  • holding, '50s
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  • dangling holder, '63
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  • holding on the set of Psycho (1960)
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  • holding, '56, 40k
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  • candid, holding, '51, 617k
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  • dragging, Hollywood, Dec. 23, '58, 37k
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  • holding, Hollywood, '51, 44k
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  • holding, Jet Pilot (1957), 487k
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  • posed, holder, 31k
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    Jenna Leigh

  • Profession = actress
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    Jennifer Jason Leigh

  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Yes
  • Quit = Probably has
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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  • Miscellaneous information
              •  told Leno she hadn't had a drag in 3 days and she was ready to kill people, the Tonight Show, Jan. 16, '96
              •  smoked playing the character of Sally Bowles in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of "Cabaret", New York Post, Jul. 26, '01
              •  "If the character smoked, I'd immediately think it was a pretty good script.", New York Times, Jun. 2, '02
              •  smoked in the Broadway production of Abigail's Party, Variety, Dec. 5, '05
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "Jennifer Jason Leigh loves to smoke. But she doesn't smoke. But she's smoking. 'I'm about to play a chain-smoker,' the actress explains, nestled in a sofa in a Manhattan hotel room. 'So why stop and begin again?'", Newsday, Mar. 6, '94
              •  "Dressed all in black -- cotton trousers, jacket and T-shirt -- chain-smoking camel lights, the finest american actress of her generation looks as strung-out and dislocated as any earthquake victim", for her role as Dorothy Parker she "took up smoking again", Vogue (UK), Apr. '94
              •  "here at the 47th Cannes movie festival, she has something even better: the freedom to light up at will. 'I love it, I can smoke anywhere', sighs the young star, exhaling the fumes from a Marlboro as she relaxes poolside at the posh Majestic Hotel", Toronto Star, May 20, '94
              •  "At a press conference for Hudsucker Proxy, the production-direction team of Joel and Ethan Coen lit up first, followed in rapid succession by Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins, the moderator of the conference and his assistant", South China Morning Post, May 26, '94
              •  "puffing on a cigarette ... 'I know I like it here. I can even smoke in the elevator if I want to'", Toronto Star, Sep. 11, '94
              •  "She's thin to the point of gaunt, wrapped in beads and homemade tattoos and pounding Marlboro reds", Seattle Times, Sep. 30, '94
              •  "She cracks her knuckles and stubs out one of an endless series of Camel Lights", Esquire (UK), Dec. '94
              •  "she lights up ... Leigh has finished her french fries and has moved on to Camel Lights. ... peppering her speech with four-letter expletives, fishing for another cigarette and finding the box empty", USA Today, Jan. 6, '95
              •  "smoking is now the one vice that straight-arrow Leigh shares with her disturbed screen incarnations ... Besides smoking, one thing Leigh does share with the likes of Parker and Selena is a driving sense of perfectionism", Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 2, '95
              •  when asked "Any vices?" she replied "I smoke", Los Angeles Times, Nov. '95
              •  "her slender fingers draw a cigarette from a pack of American Spirits", New York Daily news, Dec. 4, '95
              •  "Jennifer Jason Leigh, a teensy woman with alabaster skin, dishwater blond hair and a penchant for pastels, is picking at a Cobb salad with one hand and smoking a long, white-tipped cigarette with the other. ... exhaling a polite stream of smoke", San Francisco Examiner, Dec. 31, '95
              •  "Since I myself like to smoke, I accept roles in which I have to do that", TV Movie magazine (Germany), c. '95
              •  "'Do you mind?' she asks, lighting a cigarette and looking around for an ashtray. Of course not. One would expect Jennifer Jason Leigh to smoke. She is sitting up straight in her chair, looking demure and girlish, bare legs and bobby socks offsetting the powder-blue elegance of a pleated skirt and matching jacket. The cigarette, and wary darkness in her eyes, are all that connect this small, pale, delicate woman to the visceral characters she portrays on-screen", MacLean's Magazine, Jan. 15, '96
              •  "I don't think that I'm self-destructive in my life, except for my smoking", Boston Phoenix, Jan. 25-Feb. 1, '96
              •  "she took a drag on a Marlboro Light", Boston Herald, Jan. 25, '96
              •  "She drags on a cigarette", New York Newsday, Jan. 29, '96
              •  "She lights up a cigarette", Chicago Tribune, Feb. 16, '96
              •  quit - "I quit smoking in January as my New Year's resolution. That was my only real addiction", Calgary Sun, Aug. 11, '96
              •  "Jennifer was more interested in searching out the pool table in the apartment club room for middle-of-the-night pool parties and Camel short cigarettes", Kansas City Star, Jul. 27, '96
              •  "between puffs on a cigarette", City Beat,'96
              •  "smokes in real life", Bizarre, Mar./Apr. '98
              •  "A bleached haired Jennifer Jason Leigh smiles painfully in between drags on her cigarette", If magazine, Dec. 17, '99
              •  quit - said she had to start smoking again for the Parker movie and continued to smoke after it was finished, Interviewer: "And do you still smoke?", JJL: "No, I quit three years ago.", Inside the Actor's Studio (Bravo), c. '99
              •  "Wearing an impenetrable pair of sunglasses during a recent interview, Leigh, 39, works her way through a pack of cigarettes, a cup of tea and a plate of French fries on the patio of the hotel Chateau Marmont", Los Angeles Times, May 13, '01
              •  "Jennifer Jason Leigh takes a drag of her American Independent cigarette and looks rather disdainfully at it as she's reminded that she stopped smoking years ago when she was doing the turn-of-the-century period movie 'Washington Square,' when even radical outspoken women didn't smoke. 'And guess what?' she says, putting on a bit of her 'Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle' faux nastiness. 'I started again... Yeah, I started smoking during editing [of The Anniversary Party]'", website, Jun. 29, '01
  • Pictures of her smoking
              •  posed, holding, I-D (UK), Feb. '89
              •  posed, holding, from "Short Cuts", Empire, Feb. '94
              •  unlit cigarette (backwards), Interview Magazine, Jan. '96, cover
              •  same, Interview Magazine, Jan. '96, cover
              •  posed, holding, Bizarre, Mar./Apr. '98
  • Collections of pictures of her smoking
              •  Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
              •  Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
              •  Cigar Glamour
              •  Celebs Smokers
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
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  • holding a cigarette, Heart of Midnight (1988), 5k
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  • holding, Heart of Midnight (1988), 67k
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  • same, smaller, holding a cigarette, Heart of Midnight (1988), 8k
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  • holding, Short Cuts (1993), 32k
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  • holding, small, "Abigail's Party", Acorn Theatre, New York, Dec. 1, '05-Apr.8, '06, 42k
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  • holding, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
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  • holding, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
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  • holding, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
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  • dangling, reversed, Interview, Jan. '96, cover, 125k
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  • posed, holding, Jul. '84, 47k
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    Suzanna Leigh

  • Profession = actress
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    Vivien Leigh

  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Probably, unconfirmed
  • Profession = actress
  • Her entry in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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  • Cigar/Cigarette Brand
              •  Players
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "She lit a cigarette; she smoked heavily, but elegantly, using the cigarette as much to emphasize her points as to inhale...She smoked a lot. Too much. But this was before smoking was known to be such a killer...the only sign of edginess was the number of cigarette packs scattered around the room, a new brand called 'Olivier' [a brand named after her husband, Sir Laurence Olivier]", "Vivien - The Life Of Vivien Leigh" by Alexander Walker, '87
              •  "Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable are seen smoking cigarettes, in full costume", Newsweek, Mar. 3, '99
              •  "Vivien Leigh smokes a cigarette while receiving the attentions of a makeup artist", People Magazine, Mar. 8, '99
              •  home movie footage lighting up aged 18 in '32, candid still holding at a picnic in '53, news footage lighting up in '57, "Legends: Vivien Leigh", Carlton Television (UK), '00
              •  "a combination of time, cigarettes and gin had lowered [her voice] considerably", Mail on Sunday, Jan. 12, '03
              •  " She'd had TB as a youth but still smoked like a chimney and drank martinis like there was no tomorrow", Sunday Age (Australia), Sep. 14, '03
              •  "She was also a heavy chain smoker, inhaling four packs' worth of ciggie smoke a day during production of Gone With the Wind", "Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon - The Case Against Celebrity" by Andrew Breitbart, '05, p. 73
              •  "Despite her TB, she refused to quit smoking Players, her favorite cigarette", website
              •  "Despite her TB, Vivien refused to quit smoking. Up until her death, Vivien continuously smoked, even in bed", website
              •  several biographies
              •  movie from behind the scenes of Gone with the Wind, "The never-before-shown footage shows a hoop-skirted Vivien Leigh smoking cigarettes", website
              •  "There is a fairly faraway outdoors shot of Vivien in Scarlett O'Hara costume, from the side and she didn't know she was being filmed, sitting in a chair between scenes. One shot, she takes a drag. No exhale.", website
              •  "A heavy smoker, Vivian Leigh was smoking almost 4 packs a day during filming of _Gone With The Wind_", Internet Movie Database bio, when?
              •  "she was a heavy smoker", website
              •  "was a heavy smoker", website
              •  "Likes: Smoking. A bad habit which did little to help her physical condition", Vivien Leigh FAQ, when?
              •  "Habits: Smoking and drinking. Favorite brand of cigarettes: Players", Vivien's Stats website, when?
              •  "an inveterate smoker", French website, when?
              •  "A notorious chain smoker (during the filming of Gone With the Wind, Selznik had to supply her daily with 4 packs of her favorite English cigarettes)", website
              •  "smoked a brand of cigarettes called 'Olivier' [named after her actor husband]", fansite, when?
              •  "seemed to make her disease worse by drinking a lot of alcohol and smoking cigarettes, which she had been advised not to do", website
              •  "Coughing up blood between puffs off her cigarettes", vivien-leigh.com
              •  "chain-smoked four packs a day while saving Tara from the carpetbaggers", Chicago Tribune, when?
  • Pictures of her smoking
              •  color, candid, on set of Gone With the Wind, where?, '38
              •  holding, autographed promo picture, Gone With the Wind (1939), c. '39
              •  at home, biography "Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh", c. '64
              •  many pictures in exhibition of Vivien Leigh photographs, Royal Festival Hall, London, c. 80's
              •  publicity pose, holding a non-filter in Scarlett O'Hara costume, "Vivien Leigh" by John Russell Taylor, '84
              •  backstage candid from '42, family candid from c. '60, posed with holder from '65, Vivien Leigh: A Delicate Balance (A&E), '00
              •  two, one with holder, Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love (2001) (TV), '01
              •  set of Gone With The Wind, "Great Lost Color Pictures of Hollywood"?, when?
              •  "clearly sloppily retouched out of Vivien's right hand", "Making of Gone With the Wind"?, when?
  • Collections of pictures of her smoking
              •  Celebs Smokers
  • Pictures from the net
             
  • holding, 14k
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  • holding, small, 104k
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  • holding, 28k
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  • dangling, awaiting light, '61, 14k
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  • South Sea Bubble, stage play, '56, 68k
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  • holding, Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951), 43k
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  • holding, Jan. 25, '35, 33k
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  • holder
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  • holding, 218k
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  • holding, 100k
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  • posed, holding a non-filter in Scarlett O'Hara costume, off-set of Gone With The Wind (1939), 70k
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  • holding a non-filter in Scarlett O'Hara costume, off-set of Gone With The Wind (1939)
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  • candid, holding, Aug. '57, 110k
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  • holding, New York, Feb. 2, '60
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  • holding, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (1961)
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  • holding, Aug. 25, '57
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  • holding, Jan. 25, '35
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  • holding, Italy, Aug. 15, '57, 72k
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  • holding, 21k
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  • holding
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  • posed, holding a non-filter in Scarlett O'Hara costume, off-set of Gone With The Wind (1939), 111k
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  • posed, holding, Jan. 25, '35, 36k
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  • posed, holding, 66k
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  • holding, Ship of Fools (1965)
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