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...STEAL A MILLION. Ars graftia artis. Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in an elegant comedy about the joys of burgling and forging the old masters...
That fawnlike look is Audrey's special domain as a comedienne, and her partner in crime on this elegant occasion is Peter O'Toole, also treading very lightly as a debonair art-world detective whom Audrey has mistaken for a fellow burglar. Together they hurdle a large chunk of plot by stealing a marble Cellini nude from a Paris art museum, armed only with a magnet, a boomerang and a mop bucket...
...Steal a Million. "It's only a day's work for you, but it's my first burglary," says Audrey Hepburn, her doe eyes alight with the giddy, girlish flame so often kindled in a very proper romantic heroine who has just discovered the joys of going gaily to hell...
Thinly disguised for a time as a charwoman, Audrey plays the daughter of a fine old French family with a congenital weakness for forging old masters. Papa is Hugh Griffith, a shaggy rogue whose wickedly rolling orbs make him look like a cross between a pinball machine and a Rembrandt portrait. Griffith has turned Sunday painting into a world-famous collection of Cezannes, Van Goghs, Renoirs-all part of $100,000 worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand...
...Second Base. Continental's celerity is largely the work of its longtime (since 1938) President Robert Forman Six, a onetime merchant seaman who built the airline up from a puddle jumper. Six, 58, is a theatrical sort whose three marriages-to a California socialite, Actresses Ethel Merman and Audrey Meadows, his present wife-created a standard gag at Continental: "Bob is batting .500. Three for Six." With a flair for gaudy promotion, he has equipped his golden-tailed jets with golden toilet seats. His public-relations men once hired two dozen dwarfs, dressed them in golden space suits...