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Last year the Theatricals presented the award to actress Mary Tyler Moore Past winners include Katherine Hepburn Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor...
...star. But if Farmer was a blessed presence in Samuel Goldwyn's Come and Get It and a dozen B pictures, her life was one roiling curse. She was part of a movie age that glorified the strong-willed woman and punished the ac tresses who incarnated them. Hepburn, Davis, De Havilland were all mistreated by moguls who wanted their stars to behave like little women. Farmer was as willful as any of them-and far more troubled. The pressure drove her from the screen. It may have driven...
Some actors might be called the lion tamers of the theater. Katharine Hepburn may not be talking good sense in West Side Waltz, but when she puts her incandescent ardor behind any given sentence, you'd better believe it. Lauren Bacall is no great shakes as a dancer or singer, but when she fixes a playgoer with those tigress eyes, cool judgment succumbs to shimmering illusion...
Thayer's wile, Ethel--Norman and Ethel, now there's a pair of old folk's names--is utterly sunny. As Ethel. Hepburn, is a sort of superannuated dryad, prancing in the woods, picking berries, skinny-dipping and crooning paeans to nature. By no means an airhead. Ethel happily flips the birdie at a passing motor cruiser that ploughs by the Thayers' canoe. Moreover, she knows Norman is not the crotchety old coot he appears. Rather, he is a wonderfully warm fellow who happens to be obsessed with death. Norman and Ethel are, of course, very much in love...
...Golden Pond does not achieve what It's a Wonderful Life does. It oozes a bit too much. But thanks to some fine acting by Fonda and Hepburn it is not a completely intolerable blast of air from the land of Make-Believe...