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Audrey's female friends

posted 17 years ago by capt-harlock
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I liked this movie quite a bit. One thing I liked was the friendship between Martha and Karen. I was thinking, though, that this movie is sort of unique in that it is one of very few Audrey Hepburn movies where it focuses on a friendship between Hepburn's character and a female friend rather than a male friend or love interest. How many other female friends does Audrey have in any of her other movies? I haven't seen all her movies, but still, I don't think very many of them focused on her friendship with women. I thought that was interesting. Maybe you all know of some other examples.

[–] Sweet_Tangerine50 17 years ago

Well, in Wait Until Dark, she has a little bit of a relationship with the neighbor girl, Gloria, but that's not nearly as close as in this movie. She also has a good female friend in Charade, but you only see her in the beginning and a few parts towards the end; plus the main relationship is with Cary Grant's character. But in Wait Until Dark, she has a relationship with Gloria and her Husband; Rogue? (I'm terrible with character names if it's a movie I don't know by heart) and the others aren't a relationship, just her stalkers!

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[–] usersince03 17 years ago

In Two For The Road she was friends with those girls she's in the choir with.

[–] jopeabody 17 years ago

Women stars rarely had the chance to work with other women stars the way men get to do as a matter of course in war movies, westerns, courtroom dramas, political films, etc.

When women get to co-star, they're rivals for a man.

Look at Katharine Hepburn. She had a female co-star ONCE: Ginger Rogers in Stage Door. After that, it was all men.

[–] Landslide54321 17 years ago

^^^And they were GREAT together in Stage Door...I know in "Grand Hotel" that the reason Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo have no scenes together is becuase they kept trying to upstage each other lol...Too bad cause I would have LOVED to have watched them in scenes together.

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[–] tkrolak 17 years ago

"Look at Katharine Hepburn. She had a female co-star ONCE: Ginger Rogers in Stage Door. After that, it was all men."

If you're considering her whole career, "ONCE" is wrong. Before she did Stage Door, Hepburn acted as Jo March in Little Women. Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, and Jean Parker co-starred as her sisters.

Also, in Suddenly, Last Summer, Elizabeth Taylor played a main character, Cathy. She was the niece of Violet, portrayed by Hepburn.

[–] filmbuff87 13 years ago

Capt, I'm glad you recognized the closeness between the two women. I definitely think those types of relationships are rare in film (which is where the "Bechdel rule" comes from).

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[–] Emmywins305 10 years ago

In War and Peace, Audrey is friends with Sonya throughout most of the film. In The Nun's Story, she is "friends" with many of the other nuns. Although technically, the nuns were all supposed to be a bit detached from one another. In Funny Face, she is initially enemies with Maggie Prescott, the magazine editor, but they later warm up to each other. In The Unforgiven, she also has a female friend named Georgia.

But your right. In some movies, Audrey is actually the only real female character. How to Steal a Million, for example.