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	Vera Leigh - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vera Leigh was born Vera Glass on March 17, 1903 in Leeds, England.
		On May 13 1944 Leigh was taken from Fresnes prison to 84 Avenue Foch, the Paris headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst.
		On 6th July 1944, Vera along with Diana Rowden, Andrée Borrel and Sonya Olschanezky, were taken to the Concentration Camp at Natzweiler.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Vera_Leigh (557 words)

	Learn more about SOE F Section timeline in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vera Leigh, Julienne Aisner, Sidney Jones and Marcel Clech arrived by Lysander at a location in the Cher Valley, near Tours and were met by F Section's air movements officer Henri Dericourt.
		Vera Leigh was arrested at a café near the Place des Ternes in Paris and taken to Fresnes prison.
		Vera Leigh, Andrée Borrel, Odette Sansom, Diana Rowden, Yolande Beekman, Eliane Plewman and Madeleine Damerment were taken from Fresnes prison to 84 Avenue Foch, where they were joined by Sonya Olschanezky.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/soe_f_section_timeline.html (1027 words)

	Mike Leigh's Vera Drake. - By David Edelstein - Slate Magazine
		Leigh is obviously aware that, whatever you think of a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, the procedure is a brutal one, likely to leave physical and emotional scars.
		Leigh's method of working with actors—allowing them to research their own parts for months and improvise much of their dialogue before a script is hammered together—produces amazing bits of business, dialogues breathtaking in their intimacy (these actors are immersed), and also a lot of dead ends.
		Leigh has devised a subplot—really, a counter-plot—in which the daughter (Sally Hawkins) of the well-to-do family for whom Vera cleans is date-raped.
	www.slate.com /id/2107999 (1058 words)

	Film Comment
		Vera manages to do a great deal for others by refusing to imagine situations that might be too much for her to cope with.
		Leigh depicts the procedures in exacting detail, but also with great discretion, as though Chardin had painted the implements Vera uses-a syringe, rubber tubing, a grater, a bar of soap, and a basin of water-arranged on a bed, in a still life.
		About halfway through the film, Vera is arrested and the rest of the narrative deals with the reactions of family, friends, the police, and the courts to the news that a woman regarded as the soul of goodness is a criminal.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/9-10-2004/veradrake.htm (1499 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Vera Drake'
		Vera is the Mother Courage of her block, visiting the sick and the wretched.
		Vera (Imelda Staunton) is a cleaning lady with a secret life; she really sees no difference between heating water for a homemade abortion and putting the kettle on for one of her endless pots of tea.
		Leigh delineates the shortages, the fl-marketing, the efficient and unquestioned force by which the police and the courts bulldoze Vera.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.20.04/vera-0443.html (796 words)

	DVD RE-RUN INTERVIEW: Secrets and Lies: Mike Leigh Exposes the Truths and Subtleties Behind "Vera Drake"
		Leigh: I do what I do, which is to collaborate with the actor by the various esoteric means at our disposal (that I don't talk about) to bring this woman to existence.
		Leigh: If the question is if I hadn't made "Topsy Turvy," is it the case that I wouldn't have made "Vera Drake," that isn't relevant.
		Leigh: My natural inclination is to deal with these things in a subtler way; this arises from the actual issue and what I feel about it.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_041011leigh.html (1791 words)

	'Vera Drake' focuses on character, not politics
		The second hour of the movie is taken up with what happens when one of Vera's young patients nearly dies, the police come and arrest her, and she and those around her (all of whom emotionally depend on her) have to deal with the tragic consequences.
		Leigh balances his abortion theme with subplots involving an unwanted pregnancy from a date rape and a much-wanted pregnancy in Vera's sister-in-law, but he doesn't express a strong opinion on the subject.
		For instance, the sequence in which Vera is taken to the local precinct and interrogated by a group of extraordinarily polite police goes against all the cop-movie clichés and is utterly mesmerizing in its sense of absolute veracity.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/196240_vera22q.html (709 words)

	Reviews: Vera Drake - Christianity Today Movies
		Vera Drake succeeds as a brilliant film in its portrayal of Vera's activities as an extension of her Martha-like devotion to meeting the needs of others.
		As Vera dusts and scrubs, Susan is as unaware of Vera as is her snobbish mother.
		Eventually, one of Vera's girls becomes violently ill and is on death's door before she is taken to the hospital.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/veradrake.html (1594 words)

	Vera Leigh
		Leigh became a racehorse trainer in France with stables at Maisons Laffitte near Paris.
		Vera now joined the French Resistance and became involved in the underground escape lines guiding fugitive Allied servicemen out of the country.
		The fourth woman (Vera Leigh) of the party was wearing a brownish tweed coat and skirt.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SOEleigh.htm (1807 words)

	New Line Cinema \| Press Releases \| 2005
		In typical Mike Leigh fashion, Vera Drake's story, characters and script were built from an intricate improvisation process, resulting in a film that burns with depth, realism and seemingly effortless performances from an outstanding ensemble cast.
		Imelda Staunton is Vera Drake, beloved wife and mother who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family.
		Vera spends her days cleaning houses for money and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother.
	www.newline.com /press/2005/0131_veradrakeDVD.shtml (495 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Mike Leigh: Vera Drake and Naked
		Vera’s furtive ministrations are a far cry from the hygienic, discreet services available to Susan Wells (Sally Hawkins), for whose family Vera cleans; Susan’s desperation is no less acute than that of the women Vera assists.
		Leigh lingers on their immediate connection through suffering and “lost mates,” their conversion from a life of utmost violence to the restraint necessary in peacetime.
		Vera’s tendernesses create a world, her affection expansive and inclusive, accepting of much that others judge — the married client, for example, who finds herself pregnant though her husband has been in Korea for many months.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /47/vera.htm (1300 words)

	SEROVERA®: Processing of Aloe Mucilaginous Polysaccharides Explained
		That method is known as Lyophilization, or in leigh mans terms: freeze-drying.
		D., M.D. The Therapeutic Component in Aloe Vera - in which he scientifically explains how the manufacturing process is key in the betterment of your health.
		As a result of his unique training and background, he is considered the worlds foremost expert on medically active plant molecules and, in particular, the functional component of aloe vera - aloe mucilaginous polysaccharide.
	www.serovera.com /articles/freeze-dried-vs-other-processes.php (475 words)

	catch a falling star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Vera Leigh sounds very cool to me. I hate the word cool but it's the only word I can think of to describe how my name makes me feel all sunny and powerful.
		The woman told her she has a daughter named Vera Leigh.
		My mother must have lodged a little secret in her head that very moment, with the woman's voice trailing off as she began imagining her own Vera Leigh.
	veraleigh.blogspot.com (709 words)

	Vera's Crafty Blog
		I remember my mother telling me that she felt her first labor pain at 3:30pm, and I was born at exactly 7:30 pm that evening.
		She always felt she would have a girl, and was going to name me Vivien Leigh, but changed it to Vera after seeing Vera Miles in Backstreet.
		I often think how my mother felt that day--she was only 19--and how she would end up only a few years later alone with five children in New York City.
	vhanna26.typepad.com /verascraftyblog (3378 words)

	Rachael Leigh Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Minneapolis native Rachael Leigh Cook began her career as a model at the...
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	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000337 (421 words)

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