Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sandy an agent who wheedled her into a Palm Beach production of William Inge's Bus Stop. At the same time, Elia Kazan was casting Inge's new Broadway production, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and when Tuesday Weld suddenly lammed for Hollywood, Sandy became understudy for two roles. She used to report in with a pun reflecting her desperation: "Dennis, anyone...
George Segal, cast as her husband, pronounced Sandy "100% disciplined." Unlike the run of Hollywood girls he had played opposite, he found that stage-steeped Dennis "really listens; she isn't just waiting to speak. You are really talking to someone." Richard Burton found her "exceptionally professional." Or as Elizabeth Taylor put it, "terrifyingly professional." Which doesn't suggest, added Liz, that Sandy isn't "rather nitty at times-I mean she is not like your next-door neighbor...
...time she had finished bubbling and won her Oscar, Sandy's market value had more than doubled, to $125,000 a picture. A garden-variety Hollywood Venus would henceforth instruct her agent to go after only big-budget, reserved-seat extravaganzas and leading men of maximum candlepower. Not Sandy. Her concern is not the price but the property, not her image but her interest in the work. She settled on The Fox, based on a D. H. Lawrence novella, in which she plays a lesbian, hardly a career-booster...
Realities /. Unrealities. Bregman politely points out that she could earn eight to ten times as much per week in pictures, but for all the trauma and financial sacrifice, Sandy is happier on Broadway than in Hollywood. "Standing around waiting for sets to be lit and scenes to be shot is a bore. I'd do plays all the time," she says, "but there really aren't that many good ones around...
...until the actor disappeared, taking days to perfect his makeup, spending weeks learning every nuance of the characters he portrayed-an arrogant gangster in Scarf ace (1932), a fierce patriot in Juarez (1939), a dedicated scientist in The Story of Louis Pasteur, which won him a 1936 Oscar. His Hollywood appeal faded in the 1940s, but he made a triumphant return on Broadway as Clarence Darrow in 1955's Inherit the Wind...