Monday, July 18, 2016

Stanley Kauffmann

"Katharine Hepburn, as his wife, brings understanding and artistic plan to the part. She is simply miscast. Besides looking too young to be the mother of Jason Robards, Jr., her personality and temperament do no encompass this Irish-American woman whose religious-chromo dreams have wrecked her life. (For it is not cheap doctoring or an uncongenial theatrical life that have made Mary Tyrone a drug addict; it is her guilt at having betrayed a nun's vocation.) The whole tenor of Miss Hepburn's being--her Yankee accent itself-- is unsympathetic to this lace-curtain part. An actress of lesser talent and perception, better suited to the role, might have had greater effect."

Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, September 23, 1962

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