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...first New York press conference for Hollywood Ingénue Katharine Houghton, 22, and she got things going by demurely introducing her aunt. So much for Katharine Houghton. Her aunt turned out to be Katharine Hepburn, 60. And for the rest of the interview, young Katharine sat awed as auntie discoursed on Novocain-free dentistry ("A little pain builds your character"), her campaign cap ("I was in the Confederate army"), and the acting simplicity of her late, longtime co-star Spencer Tracy ("a baked potato"). Not quite forgetting the purpose of the conference, Hepburn did offer a few professional words...
...photographer (Ephrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has no idea where it is. To break down her story, the crooks concoct a series of elaborate disguises, posing as old men, young men, policemen and friends...
...under treatment, and Miller has had a number of celebrity cases in his practice. He claims to have cured Kirk Douglas' apricot poodle of "terribly regressive" characteristics, disposed of the "postman syndrome" in the dogs of Lauren Bacall and Anthony Franciosa, and erased the dominance frustration in Katharine Hepburn's German shepherd. He did not have much luck with a case of sibling rivalry in Bob Hope's dogs, but he blames that partly on the Hopes, who did not show up for most of the counseling sessions. But Miller says that he had enormous success with...
...carrying a parasol. It is not long before we realize that this Portia, in the hands of Barbara Baxley, is a thoughtless, superficial woman, and probably frigid to boot. Miss Baxley's nasal and mindless mode of speaking doesn't help much, either; she constitutes no improvement over Katharine Hepburn, who was so disastrous a Portia in the Festival's 1957 production...
...spurred the development of contact lenses. During the long Victorian era, wit had hardly been considered a feminine attribute. Dorothy Parker proved again that bitchiness could be the soul of wit. When she heard the news that Calvin Coolidge had died, she asked: "How can they tell?" Of Katharine Hepburn she said: "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." After a Broadway evening, she reported: "The House Beautiful is the play lousy...