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Actress Kerr added to the season's fine stockpile of feminine oomph. Heading the list was Audrey Hepburn, who, as the mermaid of Jean Giraudoux's rather waterlogged Ondine, proved a sprite that never was on sea or land. Equally near (though never under) the water, Shirley Booth was the principal lure of By the Beautiful Sea, while France's Jeanmaire brought something boyish, girlish and impish to the lumpish Girl in Pink Tights...
When Joan Greenwood opened on Broadway in The Confidential Clerk most critics were so anxious to unravel the play's meanings that they relegated Miss Greenwood to their 20th paragraphs. Shortly afterward, Audrey Hepburn came to town in a less murky production and had every reviewer reduced to ardent grovelings. It never seemed quite fair...
...days--three years ago--the situation was reversed. Joan Greenwood starred in Young Wives' Tale and she managed to make Miss Hepburn's brief role in the film seem even more negligible than it was. The picture deals with the problems of two young couples and their children sharing a house. Thrown in also is a perplexed nanny, baffled by the interchangeable embraces the spies between the various mates. Miss Hepburn is on hand as a man-hungry secretary who considers any male civility a proposition...
Just to prove that superior acting ability can be passed off as mere frosting on the cheesecake, Actress Audrey Hepburn, who won this year's Hollywood Oscar for her starring role in Roman Holiday and the top "Tony" award for her performance in the Broadway hit Ondine, expertly struck a pose for photographers to help ballyhoo her forthcoming movie, Sabrina...
...Best actress: Audrey Hepburn, for her wistful princess in Roman Holiday...