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...youngest (18) star, Susan Strasberg, returned to the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank before quitting Broadway for the starring role (and at least $75,000) in RKO's Stagestruck, a remake of Morning Glory, which established the stardom 23 years ago of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn...
...film's three stars, only Audrey Hepburn, with her precocious child's head set upon a swanlike neck, looks the part. She is perfectly the Natasha described by Tolstoy: "A dark-eyed little girl, plain, but full of life, with her wide mouth, her childish bare shoulders ... her black lair brushed back, her slender arms . . ." In her playing, Audrey catches the gamine qualities of Natasha, and her softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life...
...made by the Hecht and Lancaster Companies (it will be Hecht, Hill & Lancaster next year, when onetime Scriptwriter James Hill joins the partnership). Projected films include The Way West, from A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s Pulitzer Prizewinning novel with Lancaster and probably James Stewart, Gary Cooper and Katharine Hepburn; First Love, with Audrey Hepburn, adapted by John van Druten from the Turgenyev novel; George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, with Sir Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift and Lancaster; and Bandoola, to be filmed in Ceylon with Sophia Loren...
...good deal of the screenplay seems as dated today as the idle rich. Grace Kelly sings a duet with Crosby in a cool, innocuously pleasant little voice, does an alcoholic rumba with Sinatra, and looks thoroughly patrician, but she lacks the gawky animal energy that Katharine Hepburn brought to the 1939 play and the 1941 movie. Crosby seems as comfortable in the role of a singing millionaire as only a singing millionaire (which he is in real life) can be. but saunters through the part rather sleepily, without much of the old Bing zing. Sinatra plays the reporter like...
Summertime. Just one of those things, but it happens in lustered Venice to Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi, and Britain's Director David Lean is one of the best (TIME, June...