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Hollywood prejudice is unlikely to break down all the way in one year, so the odds are that the winner will be one of the other four nominees-Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Piper Laurie (The Hustler), Geraldine Page (Summer and Smoke) or Natalie Wood (Splendor in the Grass). Sophia's work in Two Women is more than comparable to any in that list, and she is going to fly 6,000 miles on the chance that Hollywood has the courage to agree. "Imagine," she says, "if an Italian girl gets an Oscar for an Italian picture...
...name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
...announcing that he had won the New York contest and a prize of $100. "I remember," says Parrott, "that he had a handful of letters from agents asking to handle his writing and he took them and went 'eeny, meeny, miney, mo.' " Mo turned out to be Audrey Wood, a shrewd New York agent who has been a devoted godmother to Williams ever since...
...much of the film is directed-somewhat surprisingly, considering Wyler's reputation-on the assumption that the perceptive level of the audience is that of a roomful of producers' relatives. Audrey Hepburn, the other teacher, gives her standard, frail, indomitable characterization, which is to say that her eyes water constantly (frailty) and her chin is forever cantilevered forward (indomitability). Little is asked of James (Maverick) Garner, and he gives...
Hysterical parents shut down the school, Actress MacLaine gives viewers a touching and indelible lesson in what cinema acting is all about, and finally in despair she hangs herself. What should have been the final scene follows: Audrey Hepburn looking in horror at her friend's body...