Ruth Gordon (1)Reseñas

2023 movie #113. 1952. Pat (Hepburn) an up and coming woman athlete is discovered by Mike (Tracy), an unscrupulous sports agent. Hepburn, who really was a good athlete, performed the tennis and golfing shown in the movie.

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What a mind-boggling amount of trivia and inane observations, all but obscuring the interesting nuggets of information about Ruth Gordon's life and times! Fun, at first, but at almost 400 pages, I didn't think I'd ever get to the end. A must for fans, but otherwise...

ms. gordon's 1st memoir [there was at least one more, in 1976]. a wit on the page writing about her own life as lovely as her wit as quoted by anyone who knew her (including her husband garson kanin). and then there is the snappy and intelligent characters she wrote for the stage (e.g. BORN YESTERDAY) and the screen (e.g. ADAM'S RIB and PAT AND MIKE). you just wish you could have spent some time with her chatting about world events .. but i have a feeling my time would have been spent laughing so hard my nose would run.

In essence an annotated script / with scenes written and not filmed, notes about the scenes as actually filmed if they differ from details on the page ... the movie is one of the most charming pieces that ever graced the screen. delighted to find this used hard back and delighted to find that i'm as charmed by the script on the page as i have been by the completed film .. all these years ...

3

Not one of George Cukor's strongest. Good for fans of J Holliday.½

Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne

100 min