| • | had quit, but would chain smoke 3 packs a day before filming Exorcist in order to do the demon voice, BBC (documentary), '98 | |
| • | "uniquely rasping delivery, buttressed by a heavy smoking habit", The Guardian (UK), Mar. 18, '04 | |
| • | "She was chain smoking ", Daily Telegraph (UK), Mar. 19, '04 | |
| • | quit - "I've been off cigarettes for ten years", cinemaxs webpage, when? | |
| • | "now many years and many packs of cigarettes past Johnny Guitar", website | |
| • | same, The Exorcist: Special Edition DVD, when? | |
| • | "Decades of smoking had left McCambridge with a voice like a walking tumor which only just passes as human", website | |
| • | "Blair on actress Mercedes McCambridge preparing for the raspy voice of Blair when shes possessed (in The Exorcist): I know how hard she (Mercedes) worked because Billy Friedkin told me that he kept her up 24 hours, that he had her drinking and swallowing egg yolks and vomiting and smoking cigarettes and so she went through a lot", Interview with Linda Blair on The Exorcist DVD, when? |