Subdeacon Joe Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Peter O'Toole on Henry II, a king he portrayed in both "Becket" (1964) and "The Lion in Winter" (1968): "I like the man. He interests me. He never lost a battle, and yet he never fought a battle if he could arrange it diplomatically. The last thing he ever wanted was to fight, but when he did, he fought. A man of great wit - funny, a lawgiver - and yet at the same time, frail, human. Now, am I describing me? I don't know. I like to think it is, perhaps, just merely a fabulation but I like to think it." Katharine Hepburn bested Peter O'Toole as the top dog on the set of "The Lion in Winter". Known to be something of a tyrant on most of his shoots, O'Toole meekly obliged, when she told him, "Peter, stop towering over me. Come and sit down and try to look respectable." O'Toole readily admittedly in her presence that she reduced him "to a shadow of my former gay-dog self. She is terrifying. It is sheer masochism working with her. She has been sent by some dark fate to nag and torment me." Her reply: "Don't be so silly. We are going to get on very well. You are Irish, and you make me laugh. In any case, I am on to you, and you to me." Although Hepburn and O'Toole had met several years earlier, and she was a great admirer of his work, she had no intention of putting up with the rather bad behavior he often exhibited on his productions. "You're known to be late", she told him on the first day of work. "I intend for you to be on time. I hear you stay out at night. You'd better be rested in the morning if you're going to work with me." When filming wrapped on the movie, Hepburn said to O'Toole, "When I started off in this business, my agent said to me, never act with children and animals, but you, Peter, are both." O'Toole on Hepburn: "I worship that bloody woman. I've never enjoyed working with anyone so much in my whole life, not even Richard Burton. There were no problems, not a one." (IMDb) Happy Birthday, Peter O'Toole! 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 She was admitted to a NYC hospital some years ago and the doctors and nurses were in awe of her. Very interesting woman. The only character flaw in her was that she was, at one time, in a relationship with John Ford. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Back in my phone company days back in the 70s, I got to fix her phone for her. She was staying at her sister's in West Hartford,CT. healing from a car accident. She was pretty nice to me! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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