Word: hepburn
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...ones, but always smart. Greta Garbo drove men to their doom; Barbara Stanwyck did the same and went along for the ride. Carole Lombard traded quips and punches with her co-stars. Rosalind Russell ran giant corporations from her perch as executive secretary to some very soft plutocrats. Katharine Hepburn, a cool goddess, came to earth to cuddle with Spencer Tracy. Bette Davis strutted her sensationally neurotic hauteur. Joan Crawford played the unapologetic gold digger, which is how she leveled half a dozen other star actresses in The Women. These actresses played characters who didn't need to take revenge...
...society wife Ann Dvorak leaves her loving husband for a small-time gambler, neglects her child and, realizing the error of her ways, kills herself. Best friend Joan Blondell marries the husband, and Bette Davis moves in as nanny. The 1937 Stage Door has an array of dazzlers (including Hepburn and Ginger Rogers) as young actresses angling for Broadway stardom. They fight over powerful men, choice roles and new stockings. And amid the lightning comedy, the most sensitive creature (Andrea Leeds), having lost a plum part, commits suicide...
...Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images of Herbert Hoover were the only thing that kept popping up in front of me." He got to know Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Somerset Maugham, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart. At Buchwald's wedding to Ann McGarry in 1952, Gene Kelly danced with the bride and Rosemary Clooney toasted the groom...
...spite of his film career. (He has a home in Williamstown as well as in Bedford Hills, New York, both perched on hills with picture-book views.) After graduating from Cornell in 1974, he studied acting at Juilliard with John Houseman. He made his first Broadway appearance with Katharine Hepburn in A Matter of Gravity, an odd play in which he received quite good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater, that he almost skipped the tryout. Characteristically, he wanted to work hard to do the part right...
...newsbreaks in these books come not in the form of profound revelations about the Kennedys as a couple but in the addition of new notches to their bedposts. Add Audrey Hepburn to Kennedy's, says Andersen, and William Holden to Jackie's. Andersen says it is likely, and Klein firmly claims, that Jackie lost her virginity in a Paris elevator to author John P. Marquand Jr. Klein describes, in a scene that begs credulity, how Jackie asked a CIA agent to ship her diaphragm from Washington to Italy so she could sleep with Gianni Agnelli...