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Wait Until Dark (1967) Warner Bros.
Producer: Mel Ferrer
Director: Terence Young
Screenplay: Robert & Jane-Howard Carrington from the play by Frederick Knott
Cinematography: Charles Lang
Art Direction: George Jenkins
Music: Henry Mancini
CAST: Audrey Hepburn ( Suzy Hendrix), Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna,
Efrem Zimbalist,jr., Jack Weston, Julie Herrod, Samantha Jones |
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| Julie Herrod, Audrey Hepburn |
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| Richard Crenna, Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Jack Weston |
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| Richard Crenna, Audrey Hepburn |
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| Alan Arkin, Audrey Hepburn |
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Audrey Hepburn is Suzy, a recently blinded young woman still learning how to live in a sighted world. By chance her boyfriend brings in her apartment a heroin-stuffed doll slipped in his luggage at the airport. A band of crooks led by a psychopathic killer, (Arkin) play cat-and- mouse with Suzy, trying to secure the doll, but the scheme unravel, leading to a heart-pounding one-on-one confrontation between Hepburn and Arkin.
The film is one of the screen most memorable thrillers and Audrey earned her fifth Best Actress nomination for the role. She lost to the other Hepburn, Katharine (Guess who's coming to dinner)
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| Audrey Hepburn, Jack Weston |
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| Samantha Jones, Audrey Hepburn |
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| Richard Crenna, Audrey Hepburn |
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| Richard Crenna, Audrey Hepburn |
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After appearing in "Wait until dark", Audrey Hepburn for all career purposes said goodbye to Hollywood. Home and family were her announced reasons- in 1969 she moved to Italy with her new husband.
But there was likely a cool professional appraisal in the decision, at 39, she had stretched the gamine motif to its farthest reach and ,while as dramatic actress she lacked the range of a Bergman or Katharine Hepburn, she was not the kind of actress who could tackle the sexual roles of the new Hollywood of "Carnal Knowledge' or "The Graduate". She opted to retire at the apex of her career,rather that fade in wrong roles.
She appeared only as host on TV for the program" A World of Love" in 1971.
She would remain absent from the screen for nine years. |
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