Word: millionairesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Katharine Hepburn, 44, traveling in slacks as usual, arrived in England to discuss playing the title role in a movie of George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, the play which seemed tailored to order...
...Millionairess (by George Bernard Shaw) is probably one of the best plays ever written by a man near 80, but it is one of the least satisfactory of Shaw's. It might by now have been thankful for shelf space without aspiring to stage production, had not Katharine Hepburn dared the termagant title role in London last summer and achieved a sensation. As the richest and presumably the most roughshod-riding woman in. England-possessing 30 million pounds and probably 40 million horsepower-she makes every entrance an eruption and every exit a bombardment...
...have been said to show promise. As it stands, it is simply a vehicle-a monster bulldozer-for Actress Hepburn, who bangs about in it with gusto. She has come far from the days when Dorothy Parker described her as running the gamut from A to B. In The Millionairess she runs it from ff to fff. The effect is often enjoyable and ultimately monotonous...
Soon after she returned to the U.S. from her hit London stage run in The Millionairess, Katharlne Hepburn entered Hartford (Conn.) Hospital. Said officials: "She's all right." The attending physician: Kate's father, Dr. Thomas Hepburn...
Hartford Bound. From London, Kate is looking forward to October, when she will bring The Millionairess to the U.S. for its New York opening. She says philosophically: "It might lay an egg or it might be successful. No one can tell." And she adds: "I think it went over so well here because American vitality has a great appeal for the British. You can see that in the popularity in England of Judy Garland, Danny Kaye and others. But back home, vitality is not so bloody unique...