{"id":7615,"date":"2008-01-18T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:03:17","slug":"archie-leach-day-bowlegged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7615","title":{"rendered":"Archie Leach day: \u201cBowlegged.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fox talent scout saw Archie Leach’s screen test and was distinctly unimpressed. Wrote on the sheet of paper:<\/p>\n

“Bowlegged. Neck is too thick.”<\/p>\n

This is right up there with the notes written on Fred Astaire’s first screen test: “Bald. Can’t act. Can dance a little.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fox talent scout saw Archie Leach’s screen test and was distinctly unimpressed. Wrote on the sheet of paper: “Bowlegged. Neck is too thick.” This is right up there with the notes written on Fred Astaire’s first screen test: “Bald. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181461,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/181461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}