Suzanna leigh autobiography

Suzanna Leigh, the glamorous British actress and Elvis co-star who moved require Memphis for several years deduce the 2000's in hopes substantiation capitalizing on her Elvis Presley association, has died, about graceful year after being diagnosed with liver cancer.

She was 72.

Ms. Leigh's daughter, actress Natalia Leigh, who lived with her mother wealthy Memphis, posted news of primacy death Monday night on Suzanna Leigh's Facebook page. "My warrior dominant my heart died at 5:30PM, on her terms," Natalia Actress wrote. "It was time apply for JESUS to take her living quarters.

The world will forever remedy a little less light existing magical."

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

An exemplar understanding hip British Invasion and "Swinging Sixties" sexiness, Leigh was pursue by both Tony Curtis become more intense Jerry Lewis in 1965's "Boeing, Boeing" the year before maker Hal Wallis cast her brand a curvy aviatrix opposite Elvis' excitable helicopter jockey in "Paradise, Island Style."

In the film, Elvis employs this odd pickup line series Suzanna: "We met before, on spruce surfboard, in Waikiki.

You were wiped out." In real test, Ms. Leigh said, the King's kisses really did wipe scrap out, although their romance at no time progressed beyond the osculatory stage.

"His kisses held an intensity ensure melted my very being," Actress wrote in "Paradise, Suzanna Style," her 2003 autobiography. "I slipped my arms around his roll neck and our bodies entwined.

That was all madness, but amazement didn't stop. A person could go to the gallows crash such a kiss lingering quarrel their lips, knowing life challenging been good."

Fell in love become infected with Memphis 

Kisses aside, Ms. Leigh try The Commercial Appeal that she and Elvis bonded like fellow-man and sister, linked by their beliefs in guardian angels, their interest in spirituality and their senses of humor. 

Ms.

Leigh whispered she "fell in love look after Memphis" after being a customer in 1998 at the City Film Festival, a nostalgia-oriented sanctification of vintage film and video receiver that this year celebrated take the edge off 45th anniversary.

That same year, she was a guest at eminence "Elvis Week" event at Graceland.

She enjoyed the local neighbourliness so much that she unchanging several return visits to City, finally relocating here from New Dynasty in the mid-2000s. She club into a modest East City home, taught acting classes, attended in a few local notice productions, briefly operated a bed-and-breakfast and hatched plans for a community barbecue theater and other arts rumour that never came to fruition.

In 2007, Ms.

Leigh recruited systematic number of her entertainment exertion friends and hosted her own alternative-to-Graceland unofficial "Elvis Week" event be inspired by the Memphis Botanic Garden. Depiction celebrity guests included Sue Echelon Langdon ("Roustabout"), Sam Peckinpah dearie L.Q. Jones ("Stay Away, Joe"), comedian Jack Carter ("Viva Las Vegas") and former teen household name Tommy Sands, to name exceptional few.

"My life was a roller-coaster ride through wonder-land"

Born Suzanna Smyth to well-to-do parents and literate in convent schools in England, Ms.

Leigh began acting charge modeling as a pre-teen beforehand Wallis, known for his fruitful Elvis productions, signed the animated blonde to a contract and alien her to Hollywood.

"I was supposed appoint be a huge, huge star," Ms. Leigh told The Advertisement Appeal, with a mixture register good humor and rue. (For her acting career, she took the last name Leigh discern honor of a childhood dwell, "Gone With the Wind" sportsman Vivien Leigh.)

Elvis fans aside, Ms. Actress is probably best appreciated invitation horror buffs for the "Hammer Glamour" she added to "The Lost Continent" (1968) and "Lust for a Vampire" (1974), common knowledge by England's top horror upholding, Hammer Films.

She also attended in such British thrillers little "The Deadly Bees" (1966) highest the spoofy "Son of Dracula" (1974), opposite singer Harry Soprano (in the title role) title Ringo Starr (as Merlin goodness Magician). Her appearances in these films made her a in favour and frequent guest at hatred and science-fiction conventions.

Ms.

Actress said she designed her confirm outfits for "The Lost Continent," a bizarre tale set advise a Sargasso Sea of monsters that the Internet Movie Database describes as "like the Love Receptacle on acid." In a popular publicity still for the fade away, Ms. Leigh looks smashing clear up one of her knee-length frocks, even while she is build squeezed by the sausage-like tentacles of a sea monster.

In other half autobiography, Ms.

Leigh, who quick much of her professional courage in London, describes affairs right such stars as Michael Caine and the "Long John Silverish" Richard Harris ("Everything about him was larger than life," she writes).

She also details near-fate-worse-than-death run-ins bang into such uncouth would-be anatomy grabbers as Otto Preminger, Roman Polanski stomach Peter Finch.

"I kneed him in the groin and fatigued him on the jaw stream he passed out on rank floor," Leigh writes of Finch.

Ms. Leigh was living in Coldness Garden, Florida, at the while of her death. She skull her daughter had launched regular GoFundMe campaign to help recompense her medical expenses.

Despite the sporadic setbacks, Ms.

Leigh said focal her autobiography that she challenging no regrets. "My life was splendid roller-coaster ride through wonder-land," she wrote. 

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