Word: hepburn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months ago. Actress Katharine Hepburn got a phone call in Hollywood...
...suits have yielded to two-piece costumes for girls. "Janes," as Moscow University jets call their girls (after the heroine in antediluvian Tarzan movies that reached Russia after World War II), are discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell-bottom trousers, longtime mark of Soviet...
Hollywood prejudice is unlikely to break down all the way in one year, so the odds are that the winner will be one of the other four nominees-Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Piper Laurie (The Hustler), Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke) or Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass). Sophia's work in Two Women is more than comparable to any in that list, and she is going to fly 6,000 miles on the chance that Hollywood has the courage to agree. "Imagine," she says, "if an Italian girl gets an Oscar for an Italian picture...
...Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
...Hour cannot forgo a graveyard scene, and afterward viewers are treated to another study of the Hepburn chin, as she walks down the obligatory poplar-lined pathway toward Understanding Fiancé Garner (who had deserted briefly under fire). There is no way for viewers to ignore the implied happy ending (the Broadway version ended grimly), for a great surge of it's-really-all-right music spills into the theater. It is really not all right; it is not all right...