“If you don’t have the right people getting you those opportunities and then protecting you, then you can become over-exposed and have to talk emotionally about things you are not equipped to answer.” Once the darling of the press, stories of diva-like behaviour during My Fair Lady followed her to Hollywood, and the nation’s sweetheart developed a reputation for being difficult. "The papers in England were quoting me as talking like Dick Van Dyke at the Oscars and just demeaning me." There’s a much-repeated tale that she screamed at a studio executive to “get off my bleedin’ dress”, Eliza Doolittle-style, at an Oscars party, which she denies.
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