I just re-read Doris' autobiography and Rock had such wonderful things to say about Doris.
The best acting lesson came from Doris. Her sense of timing, her instincts--I just kept my eyes open and copied her. Doris was an Actors Studio all by herself. When she cried, she cried funny, which is something I couldn't even try to explain; and when she laughed, her laughter came boiling up from her kneecaps. Half-way through the picture we had fallen into a style of playing together, an easy rapport, an instinctive give-and-take, that put our stamp on PT as well as on the next film we made, LCB.
I don't really know what makes a movie team. Galble and Lombard, Tracy and Hepburn. I recently saw an old flick starring Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy in a "team" picture, and that was a glaring example of what didn't work. Absolutely no chemistry between them. But when Tracy teamed with Hepburn, it worked like a charm. I'd say, first of all the two people have to truly like each other, as Doris and I did, for that shines through, the sparkle, the twinkle in the eye as the two people look at each other. Then, too, both parites have to be storng personalities--very important to comedy so that there's a tug-of-war over who's going to put it over on the other, who's going to get the last word, a fencing match between two adroit opponents of the opposite sex who in the end are going to fall in bed together. God knows Doris is a stong personality-- I used to call her Miss Adamant of 1959. But the great thing that Doris does in a film is the way she plays hurt when she realizes that she's been had --she is genuinely hurt and the audience's heart goes out to her. She's not a revengeful woman, and when she plays hurt over what the man has done to her, she wins hands down.
Well --I think they were one of the best movie teams in the history of movies !

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