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- From: msp@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Michael S. Pettersen)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Katharine Hepburn
- Message-ID: <15677.2b663797@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:19:51 GMT
- References: <C1FJn2.4oI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <1k1o7pINNj7t@mizar.usc.edu> <mattm-250193155612@mcmelmon.apple.com> <1k4ld7INNgd5@mizar.usc.edu>
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- In article <1k4ld7INNgd5@mizar.usc.edu>, adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
- of Katherine Hepburn:
-
- > Of course she'll still manage to sleep nights. I think she's
- > a great movie star (but one I don't care for), on the level of
- > Bette Davis and Greta Garbo. I do not think she's a great
- > actress, but then I don't think Davis and Garbo are great
- > actresses either. Acting is sort of beside the point.
- >
- > Arne
-
- It strikes me that the people you call "great movie stars but not
- great actors" are the ones who have enormous screen presence, as though
- you look at them and think, "Ah, Garbo," and not "Ah, Ninotchka."
- (I got the laser disc of this movie for Christmas: I was so pleased.)
- But this doesn't mean that she's not a great actress. The projection
- of that screen presence requires great talent, I think. The fact
- that Garbo made the character of Ninotchka her own doesn't mean that
- Ninotchka was Garbo. Compare Cyd Charisse in Silk Stockings, if you
- need convincing that Garbo did something special with the character.
-
- Perhaps it would help me understand what _you_ mean by "great actor"
- if you gave me an example of someone you thought was one.
-
- --
- Mike Pettersen, Ecole Normale Superieure
- msp@physique.ens.fr
- Perfect love casteth out fear.
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