| re: Maude Adams and Laurette Taylor Screen Tests. |
| Last Edit: singleticket 07:30 pm EDT 03/28/24 |
| Posted by: singleticket 07:23 pm EDT 03/28/24 |
| In reply to: Maude Adams and Laurette Taylor Screen Tests. - kieran 12:25 am EDT 03/28/24 |
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| I’ve seen this before and I found it a bit frustrating. Adams definitely gets better with each take but she seems ill at ease. Maybe she thinks the material stinks, still she could have tried to connect more with the other actor. The part was cast with Minnie Dupree who projects sweetness and granny glamour (probably the thing the Selznick studio was looking for). Adams does have an intelligence and a certain luminous quality herself here but it is hard to see what made J M Barrie want use her over and over again for his feminist heroines. Katherine Hepburn would play at least two of those Maud Adams/Barrie roles on film in films that feel like the magic had already been drained from them. Helen Hayes on the other hand does a superb job with the heroine in the film of “What Every Woman Knows”. |
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