Word: hepburn
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...subtle shades of delight or disapproval - passion rendered with delicacy. In Sabrina she must spend most of her time hiding her true feelings from two men who can't decide if they love her. The whole enchanting performance, like so many that would follow, is a private conversation between Hepburn and her 35mm confidante...
...Hepburn women were often women apart, like the Green Mansions Bird Girl, quarantined in her aviary. Race was the improbable barrier in The Unforgiven, where she got a great tan to play Burt Lancaster's "l'il red-hide Injun," the pretty pelt in a sociological showdown...
...more common hurdle for a Hepburn heroine was age. Time and again, Hollywood accented her gamine charm by teaming her with male stars who could have been her father. Half of her first dozen leading men were 20 to 30 years older than she: Humphrey Bogart (54 to her 25) in Sabrina, Henry Fonda (51 to her 26) in War and Peace), Astaire (58 to her 28) in Funny Face, Gary Cooper (56 to her 28) in Love in the Afternoon, Cary Grant (59 to her 34) in Charade, Rex Harrison (56 to her 35) in My Fair Lady...
...Perhaps the men who directed her in this period (and all but four of them were over 50) determined that her age was no hurdle at all for Hepburn - that a connoisseur's maturity was needed to appreciate her unique vintage. She was courted on screen by nearly every hunky Hollywood relic until, in The Nun's Story, only God could be her best beau...
...Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and How to Steal a Million: kooks in capers. And she prepared audiences for the ground-level anxieties that Hepburn characters endured in The Children's Hour, Two for the Road and Wait Until Dark...