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Take the relationship the title seems to promise; it never becomes a relationship at all. Gregory starts mooning after Dorothy (Dee Hepburn) when she beats him out of his position on the boys' soccer team at school. A liberated lady, she throws him into total confusion by accepting his first offer of a date, then does him the favor of standing him up. Three of her pals take him over, passing him along from one to the next over the course of an evening. He ends up on a hillside with Susan (Clare Grogan), who likes him best...
...film, a surprise hit, yields Oscars for Fonda and Hepburn...
...extraordinary time in a very ordinary ceremony. Within a few short minutes, two stars in their 70s beat off the young and the beautiful to win two of Hollywood's most prestigious prizes, Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. But then Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn are not just old folks, and On Golden Pond, the film that carried them to victory (see TIME cover, Nov. 16), is not just a movie. It is one of those rare and phenomenal successes that surprise everybody-including their makers. Admits Co-Producer Jane Fonda: "I thought it would...
...himself, does offer and explanation for the story's appeal, and his answer is doubtless the right one. "There is tremendous love in the film. It is about imperfect people loving each other. The Henry Fonda character is a real bastard when you get down to it, but Hepburn puts up with him anyway. Everyone wants someone like that-to put up with him until he dies...
...tears in his eyes, and they told me he was overwhelmed with a sense of profound Writer Thompson happiness. 'Hell, if I hadn't won,' he said, 'I wouldn't have been able to walk with my head up any more.' " Hepburn, was who had already one three Oscars, was astonished-and delighted-to recieve a fourth...