Word: hepburn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think he couldn't really act. All he could do, so this position goes, was to be Bogart. The African Queen, showing at the Welles, certainly debunks the theory. His performance in John Huston's film of James Agee's screenplay of C.S. Forrester's novel almost rivals Katherine Hepburn's I overheard an unscrupulous wretch in the dining hall trying to start a rumor that the novel was actually by Stephen Foster, and was originally called Mississippi Queen, and started out with a man dying of Bayou fever, and that Bogart's ship was the Monitor...
SUNDAY, The Class Menagerie, terrible Katharine Hepburn TV debut, in a play with some unforgiveable lines. Watch for the glass unicorn to get his horn broken off. Channel...
...England family: Mother (Katharine Hepburn) is a shaky queen who fills her days presiding over a wealthy household. Father (Paul Scofield) is a cultivated patsy. Sister (Kate Reid) is a puffy rummy who sweeps about in caftans. Daughter (Lee Remick) keeps ricocheting home after unsuccessful marriages. They all congregate in the heavily furnished rooms of the house, congratulate or chastise each other for the considerable amount of alcohol consumed, and make glum speculations on their neurotic lives...
Their presence has generated a series of uneasy confrontations, and as they depart, Katharine Hepburn is inexplicably moved to praise the psychic release found in sleep. "They say we sleep to let the demons out," she proclaims...
MOST IMPRESSIVE DEBUT: Katharine Hepburn, who poignantly played her first TV role in The Glass Menagerie, and gave an even more varied and captivating performance as herself on the Dick Cavett Show (both ABC). Runner-up: Senator Sam Ervin as that perennial favorite, the shrewd, aw-shucks folk hero...