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...nice enough coastal town, but, as regards Shakespeare, Connecticut's Stratford is spotty. In the nine years since its founding, Stratford's Festival Theater has followed a practice of putting big names in mediocre productions. Katharine Hepburn in 1960 did nothing to salvage a ragged Twelfth Night; Robert Ryan was a disaster in Antony and Cleopatra...
...Millionairess, a revival of the Shaw play (last seen on Broadway in 1952 with Katharine Hepburn), stars Carol Channing, who drew a favorable road review from Variety in her first attempt at a straight role. Millburn, N.J. (two weeks); Falmouth, Mass, (one week); Nyack, N.Y. (one week...
...Kennedy table-hopped to shake the generous hands. Alan Jay Lerner, the My Fair Lady lyricist and a Kennedy schoolmate at Choate and Harvard, directed a show-biz crowd that included Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, and Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford through some tired song-and-dance routines. Audrey Hepburn sang "Happy Birthday"−and it was all, according to at least three different witnesses, "just awful...
...right big picture, found it in 1951 on a shelf in the Warner Bros, story department. Spiegel dusted off The African Queen, surprised filmland by casting it not with regular types like Robert Taylor and Betty Grable, but with a combination considered far-out indeed-Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Queen became the first Spiegel film to get an Oscar (Bogart's), and others trod hard on its golden heels: Waterfront won eight, River Kwai brought the total to 16. Lawrence made...
...Hundred Roles a Day. Joan Hackett is typical of a relatively new and relatively unnoticed phenomenon: the television-trained pro. Before television, actresses whose ambitions ran to serious acting-Margaret Sullavan, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis-got their training in road companies, straw-hat theaters, or in Hollywood's now-all-but-vanished B pictures. Disdained by highbrows as inferior, ignored by serious critics in search of "specials," television nonetheless offers young actors a wonderfully flexible working stage and an audience millions of times greater than anything Ogunquit or Provincetown ever knew. There are a hun dred available roles...