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...Oscar as Best Actor) or across The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was equally at home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical business), he wooed Audrey Hepburn into maturity in Sabrina and shepherded Gloria Swanson through the gaudy dementia of Sunset Boulevard. His easy sexual authority dared women to try to impress him. One who did, Kim Novak, made film history with Holden: their slow dance in Picnic (1956) remains an electrifying expression of romantic passion...
...mysteries. Perhaps he had in mind a country-music remake of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night:eight characters play a romantic roundelay during a week in Manhattan. Maybe he wanted to reunite the galvanic stars of Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline: Ben Gazzara and Audrey Hepburn play the most prominent pair of lovers. Or did the director of The Last Picture Show and At Long Last Love hope to execute a triple homage to his former Galatea, Cybill Shepherd? The film's three ingenues all bear traces of the Delphic Cybill: Dorothy Stratten...
Whatever the intent, the result is an aimless bust, unencumbered by a visual or structural scheme. It wanders through a series of tony boîtes, boutiques and hotel lobbies in the vagrant hope of witnessing a privileged moment. Those are likely to occur only when Hepburn is onscreen. At 52, the eternal gamine has become a figure of icy chic; the lilt in her voice now has the gravity of years; she has barely a line to speak in the film's first hour, and too many silly words in the second. But she is still a radiant...
...aspect of the experiment, to be sure, but a source of infinite confusion all the same. Samuels' production, big and ornate, is patterned after a 1940s movie, along the lines of The Philadelphia Story or Bringing Up Baby. In the sumptuous settings and romantically stylized plots of these classic Hepburn-Tracy films. Samuels sees a modern theatrical framework that suits Shakespeare's comedies. His production, based on this motif, bursts with the jest and joys of love, as various sets of lovers "cast off their masks and earn the right to marry...
...when the team split, Astaire kept doing it all, on his own. Though his dancing partners in the next two decades included such game gals as Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn, Astaire's most famous dance numbers were now his solos. And alone he used the properties of film as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dancing to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in Easter Parade, defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in Royal Wedding, defied age by hoofing elegantly through his sixth, seventh...