It's hard to know how to take this picture; it's very much a part of its own time, which is very different from ours.
Eva Lovelace is so caught up with theater that she always seems to be playing a part, especially early on in the movie when she tells Easton that she plans to die on stage at the peak of her career. That's all a little hard to take.
But there are moments when there seems to be much more to her than just the affectations. When she plays Juliette's balcony scene - after making a shambles of Hamlet's soliloquy - you suddenly think: but she has talent, she does. (And, let it be said, Hepburn never looked more beautiful than the way she is shot close up near the end of Juliette's speech.)
Much of this movie is stagy in the worst sense: overacted and melodramatic. But there are wonderful moments in it.
Eva Lovelace is so caught up with theater that she always seems to be playing a part, especially early on in the movie when she tells Easton that she plans to die on stage at the peak of her career. That's all a little hard to take.
But there are moments when there seems to be much more to her than just the affectations. When she plays Juliette's balcony scene - after making a shambles of Hamlet's soliloquy - you suddenly think: but she has talent, she does. (And, let it be said, Hepburn never looked more beautiful than the way she is shot close up near the end of Juliette's speech.)
Much of this movie is stagy in the worst sense: overacted and melodramatic. But there are wonderful moments in it.