Thursday, June 21, 2012

Laurette Taylor, Anecdote #1, Ben Wiggins Contributor

Laurette Taylor - Anecdote #1, Ben Wiggins Contributor

Spencer was about to go into rehearsal in “The Rugged Path” and, having been of the stage for some fifteen years, was concerned about projection.

“Help me, Laurette,” he said. “How do you do it?”

She snorted, “How do I do it? Like this!”

She reached down, picked up one of her feet and lifted it so that we could see its blistered and bleeding sole. She dropped it and showed us her other sole. The same.

“That’s how,” she said. “I grab that goddam stage with my two feet and send it right up from there through the rest of me and out to them.”

Even Spencer was astounded.

— Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir by Garson Kanin

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