YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE
James Franciscus
Genevieve Page
Eva Gabor, Mary Astor,
Lee Bowman, Edward Andrews,
Don Porter, Mildred Dunnock, Kent Smith,
John Dehner, John Emery, Mark Miller,
Hayden Rorke, Werner Klemperer,
Berry Kroeger, Rusty Lane
Year:
1964
Name: Jeanne Green, book
editor
Music: Max Steiner
Costumes: Howard Shoup,
who costumed Pleshette in
ROME
ADVENTURE, WALL
OF NOISE,
and A DISTANT
TRUMPET
Hairstylist: Jean Burt
Reilly, who coiffed Pleshette in
ROME
ADVENTURE, WALL
OF NOISE,
and A DISTANT
TRUMPET
Source: YOUNGBLOOD
HAWKE by Herman Wouk
Writer/Producer/Director: Delmer
Daves
Studio: Warner Brothers
Of her role in YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE, Pleshette said, "I'm the kind of person who reads a script as soon as it's available and thinks about the role. If I can, I'll build the character way ahead of time. The part of the [woman] in YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE really interested me. I thought about her for a month before we began shooting.
"For example, it said in the script that she smoked a great deal. I evolved the idea of taking a round cigarette lighter about the size of a Mexican peso, having a little loop soldered to it and having it dipped in gold, then attached to a chain to hang around my neck. It's a functional piece of jewelry. It's the kind of thing she would wear.
"The script had the character wear glasses too. But what kind? I went to an optician and had myself fitted. There were only two ways to go, small or large. I decided that she was the kind of [woman] who would say 'the heck with it, there is no use in pretending,' and wear the largest frames she could find. So I bought a pair of those round shell-rim spectacles. That's the way she is--forthright, candid, direct."
Pleshette also said, "Except for Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Anne Bancroft and maybe Lee Remick, how many [women-type] roles have there been recently? In YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE, I have a good role as female roles go, a sharp and sensitive book editor named Jeanne. But it's Jeanne I play, not Youngblood."
Of Eva Gabor, Pleshette said, "She's the only woman I know who could wear ice cubes for jewelry and have people believe they were diamonds."
"Suzanne Pleshette hasn't much room to display talent in role of Hawke's editor who becomes his long-suffering sweetheart. Her portrayal is APPEALING, however." --VARIETY
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