Word: millionairess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, Kate dazzled Broadway and the road as Rosalind in As You Like It. This week, in London, she is playing to packed houses and critical huzzahs in the title role of Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess. Written in 1935 when Shaw was a spry septuagenarian, the play deals with a forceful, bossy young woman who makes her own rules and discards husbands and lovers the way other people discard paper napkins. The play was considered indifferent Shaw and dull theater until Kate turned it into a personal triumph. The critics drowned in their own superlatives: "A blockbusting...
...Touring England in George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, Actress Katharine Hepburn got an invitation in New-castle-on-Tyne to step out with 350 visiting sailors from two U.S. destroyers. Resourcefully she barred all visitors to her hotel room, had her phone disconnected, rushed straight back into seclusion after the show. Later she explained: "I fear no man. I hate being crowded by people, and sailors are people...
Dressed in jacket and well-creased slacks, highstrung Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn boarded the liner America for England, where she will play the lead in a Liverpool production of Shaw's The Millionairess. "I've always wanted to do this part," twanged Katy. "This is a wonderful character embodying everything in me that people dislike, but which I like very much...
There are two "Americans" involved in the story. Played by Martin Rudy and Hildy Parks, they are rather sad caricatures of a big Texan and a flamboyant millionairess; the blame for this however, must go to author Roger McDougall who seems to have gotten the impression that all Americans mix Coca Cola with their scotch...
...Walk Softly, Stranger" has less plot than a poor musical. Ostensibly, it is the tale of a gambler and petty thief who attempts to reform his life. After meeting the millionairess and developing the first symptoms of love, however, he is forced to team with one of his old buddies to pull one last job, a stickup of a gambling house. He is, of course, asking for it, and "it" almost catches up with him during the last reel. In the finale, he interrupts his now full-blown romance to spend three quiet years of atonement in prison...