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...Sometimes I feel like an actress myself," allowed Lynda Bird Johnson, 20, during a backstage visit with Elizabeth Ashley, star of Broadway's Barefoot in the Park, "even if I forget my lines once in a while." Lynda Bird, sympathized Actress Ashley, is just a "normal girl who's been thrown into something she's not rehearsed for. She's a marvelously girl-girl person...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Before the rice is out of their clothes, Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are into neighbor, in-law and apartment tangles that are joyously unraveled by love, tiffs and laughter...
...such girls in particular are the talk of Broadway's present season: Sandy Dennis, the coy mistress of a corporate president in Any Wednesday; and Elizabeth Ashley, who, as a new bride living in a fifth-floor walkup, is part wife, part nut in Barefoot in the Park...
Never to Cleveland. Barefoot's Elizabeth Ashley is somewhat more expectable. She is a 24-year-old girl from Baton Rouge who has used up a few million ergs making good on the stage. She has checked hats. Off-stage she wears denim slacks, a turtleneck jersey, desert boots, and about three tablespoons of mascara. At work, she consciously seems to be imitating Audrey Hepburn (just as Sandy Dennis, disconcertingly enough, seems to be copying Marlon Brando), but inside this derivative shell a considerable talent seems to be winning in its effort to come...
Odds & Symbols. Elizabeth Ashley got her first toe in as understudy to Barbara Bel Geddes in Mary, Mary. Soon she was all over the big TV shows, like Hallmark Hall of Fame and The Defenders. "The only person who ever believes in you is you, and I believed in me a lot," she remembers. Her first major Broadway chance finally made hay out of her belief: in 1961's Take Her, She's Mine, she turned the daughter's role into a Tony...