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Sometimes, though, fed up with her good-girl reputation. Julie has a tomboy temptation to bitch it up a little. She can use a four-letter word when she has to; and one day when a shapely young actress was making her usual bid for attention, Julie sneered: "Oh, if I had a bosom, I could rule the world!" Says Julie: "I really hate to be well-bred!" The fact is, she has little choice in the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Fiery Particle | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Julie Harris, 28, elfin-faced Broadway actress who became an overnight success in 1950 as a tormented tomboy in The Member of the Wedding, later starred in I Am a Camera and Mademoiselle Colombe; and Manning Gurian, 41, theatrical manager; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...bright, alert, gay and affectionate tomboy, she was educated at home by her strict mother and an English governess. Frederika was 17 before she was sent off to school, first in England, then in Florence. The Italian school was typical of many which catered especially to wealthy American girls. Its proprietor. Miss Edith May, was hesitant when the Duke of Brunswick sought to enter his daughter. Her school, she said, was not for princesses: it was a democratic institution where all girls would be treated alike, make their own beds and call each other by their first names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The King's Wife | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Hepburn-Ruston, was a high-pressure business promoter and rabid anti-Communist who, after leaving Audrey's mother, joined Sir Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts (British Union of Fascists). Audrey's earliest companions were her two older half brothers, with whom she spent many hours in tomboy comradeship, climbing trees and racing across the green fields of their Belgian estate. Unlike most little girls, she did not care for dolls. "They never seemed real to me," she says. She preferred instead the company of dogs, cats, rabbits and other animals with as much vitality as herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Princess Apparent | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...November 1951, Audrey opened at Manhattan's Fulton Theater in the title role of Gilbert Miller's production of Gigi, a sophisticated Gallic story of a 16-year-old French tomboy who dreams of bourgeois marriage while her female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Princess Apparent | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

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