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Leighton, Margaret

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Leighton, Margaret (1922–76), actress. The slender English leading lady first came to America with the Old Vic in 1946, but did not receive major attention until she essayed two disparate roles in Terence Rattigan's double bill, Separate Tables (1956). After playing Beatrice to John Gielgud's Benedick in 1959, she won praise for her gentle spinster Hannah Jelkes in The Night of the Iguana (1961). Subsequently Leighton was seen as the starchy Englishwoman Pamela Pew‐Pickett in Tchin‐Tchin (1962), in two roles in Tennessee Williams's double bill, Slapstick Tragedy (1966), and as Regina in a 1967 revival of The Little Foxes.

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