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...Madwoman of Chaillot, with Hepburn, Boyer and Danny Kaye, Friday and Saturday...
...worth seeing on the big screen in color if you've only seen it in the box up til now. Made in 1951 in England by Sam Spiegel and director John Huston, about an African river trip in 1915. C.S. Forester's book is laughable, but Bogart and Hepburn--who somehow built up one of the most exciting rapports ever on film (they really seem to understand each other in a larger way as film characters)--turn James Agee's script into something literate as well as movie-blissful...
Rugged Terrain. That famous high-cheekboned face with its imperial, sloping mouth seems to defy much of the tragedy in her life. She played the other woman in a 20-year affair with the late Spencer Tracy, who remained married. Only nine months ago, Hepburn underwent hip surgery. "I don't believe in advertising aches and pains," she said. Instead, she invaded Wayne's rugged terrain, riding and shooting her way across Oregon for six weeks, despite not having been on a horse in 30 years...
From the beginning, Hepburn refused to allow her young double to do any of the hazardous sequences. "I haven't waited all these years to do a cowboy picture with Wayne to give up a single moment of it now," she said. The only concession she made to her age was to skip the daily rushes "because I'm too aware of my lines and wrinkles." Between takes, her makeup man handed her a special enlargement mirror. "That way," she said, "I don't have to look at my face when I do my lips...
...mobile-home dressing room for a siesta. Kate dunked herself in the icy water of a nearby mountain stream. "Spencer Tracy and John Ford also took lunchtime naps," she said. "My God, it must be exhausting being a strong man." Apparently it is not exhausting being Kate Hepburn. The grips, sound men and other technicians on the set have been doing Wayne pictures for years and are devoted to their man. Most of them display bumper stickers on their cars reading: GOD BLESS JOHN WAYNE. On a VW minibus belonging to one of Wayne's propmen, a penciled notation...