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...turning point for me came, I guess, with Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The critics said it was overly simplistic, but it was designed to be a fairy tale...This black guy had it made, he didn't need Tracy and Hepburn. They were basic 40's, 50's liberals. If they hadn't let their daughter get married, it would only have been because Poltier's black...
FUNNY FACE (CBS). Sandy Duncan stars in this show, which owes nothing to the 1956 Audrey Hepburn movie musical and everything to TV's That Girl and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Sandy plays an aspiring teacher working her way through college doing TV commercials. The package is too cute for comfort...
With Good Reason. Back in 1967, Audrey Hepburn played a blind girl pursued by a homicidal maniac. But in Wait Until Dark, Playwright Frederick Knott used a series of ingenious devices to keep the killer and the audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That...
...have hit the road with a touring company of the musical Coco, but, fumed Katharine Hepburn, she has not been reduced to selling pickled herring for a living. Charging that the makers of Vita products had been imitating her distinctively nasal tones in radio commercials, the actress sued the herring marinaters and their advertising agency, Solow/Wexton, Inc., for $4,000,000 in damages. What they had done, said Hepburn, was to lead her fans to think that she had "stooped to perform below her class, stature, prestige and prominence...
...that he would pay $4,000 for them. Hayward promptly turned agent and arranged the deal. "I decided this was my line of work," he said after collecting his 10% commission. After that, he steered the careers of James Stewart, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn-also such writers as Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber and Ben Hecht. In 1944, he moved to Broadway, producing or co-producing, among other hits, A Bell for Adano, South Pacific, Gypsy, The Sound of Music...