Evelyn Laye

She died in London from respiratory failure. In 2001, she married Atlanta, Georgia businessman Rhett Hartzog. During a tribute in 1992 at the London Palladium the actor John Mills described her as "the fairest prima donna this side of heaven". MacDowell was married between 1986 and 1999 to former model and rancher Paul Qualley; the couple have a son and two daughters. Her acting career ranks as one of the longest in British theatre. Director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape; her performance earned her several award nominations and led to a series of starring roles in films such as Green Card, The Object of Beauty, and Short Cuts. As of 2004, her biggest successes were in the box office hits Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral. Awarded an OBE in 1973, Laye continued acting well into her nineties. Four years later, in 1989, she hit her professional stride.

Her other stage successes included Silver Wedding (1957) with Lawton, and The Amorous Prawn (1959) and Phil the Fluter (1969). Elmo's Fire, but her film career seemed to have stalled. She acted several times opposite her second husband, the actor Frank Lawton. In 1985, she had a small part in St. She continued acting in such productions as The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. A series of television commercials for Calvin Klein drew attention to her and led in 1984 to her film debut in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, a role in which her lines were rerecorded by Glenn Close. Married to the actor Sonnie Hale from 1926, Laye received widespread public sympathy when Hale left her for the actress Jessie Matthews in 1930. She appeared in print and televion advertisements for the cosmetic and haircare company L'Oreal, a job she continued even after she got her first job as an actress.

Elmo's Fire (1985). St. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). Green Card (1990).