Is this Hepburns worst performance?
All actors have bad performances now and again, and Kates were surely few and far between, but this has to be her worst. She seems to not know how to play the character at all. She tries to make her sympathetic when she is clearly a monster. Her acting seems to be all over the map with really no focus. Maybe she just didn`t get the story. Maybe that`s why she hated Joe Mankewietz.
Elizabeth Taylor is just plain bad and in reality has only ever given a handful of GOOD performances. Clift is the only one who comes out ok in the film. Hepburn has always given good perfomances (almost always anyway) but here seems totally lost.
Of course the film itself is so overblown and convoluted that it couldn`t possibly have helped. They should have kept it as a one-act and had another of Williams plays as a companion to it. Sort of a double feature in one film. To try and flesh out the story they just went no-where and took the audience along with them.