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From his solemn mien and the badge pinned defiantly on his lapel, anyone who spotted Orville Freeman on the street in recent weeks might have concluded that he was rehearsing for a cigarette commercial. And in fact, though his badge, I WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO THE BREAD TRUST, was hardly aimed at the consumer, the Secretary of Agriculture proved as unswitchable as they come...
Last week Lynda Bird Johnson wanted to be alone. She made a four-day, 42-mile trek through the lonely lakes of Northern Minnesota with an entourage of eleven canoes, several Secret Service men, Mrs. Orville Freeman, tables, benches, portable lavatories and plenty of steaks. Because the trip was being financed by the National Geographic, Lynda had banned the press and was traveling incognito: floppy madras hat, dark glasses...
...even for lunch," Samantha recalls. "On both Saturdays and Sundays I was obliged to rehearse from 11 in the morning to 7 at night, every weekend. It was murder. It was fantastic. I lived on my nerves." To coach Samantha, Wyler called in Character Actress Kathleen Freeman, who not only forced Samantha to struggle with the role, but hyped it up further with horror stories about a paranoid schizophrenic relative until Samantha was thoroughly psyched and having nightmares. The turning point came when Samantha was watching Stamp sing a merry-mad cockney song and, as she watched, a tear came...
...Wyler never left her free; in 42 days of shooting in Hollywood, Samantha's only outing was a Dodgers-Giants baseball game. Wyler followed the unusual practice of shooting all the interiors first, and in sequence. "The intense growth she achieved was, jeepers, a tremendous leap," says Kathleen Freeman. "It was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life to watch a character being made at the same time an actress is reaching her own stature." Samantha remembers it otherwise: "I guess I was supposed to feel trapped, and I did. I lost about ten pounds. Wyler loved...
...CHARLES FREEMAN New York City...