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Hartford Bound. From London, Kate is looking forward to October, when she will bring The Millionairess to the U.S. for its New York opening. She says philosophically: "It might lay an egg or it might be successful. No one can tell." And she adds: "I think it went over so well here because American vitality has a great appeal for the British. You can see that in the popularity in England of Judy Garland, Danny Kaye and others. But back home, vitality is not so bloody unique."
Next year she will do another movie for John Huston, an adaptation of a British novel called Miss Hargreaves, in which she plays a 70-year-old woman who scandalizes a cathedral town. Beyond that, she has no plans — "But that could change tomorrow."
In one respect, Kate agrees with some of her critics: "I've never considered myself necessarily an actress. I've always felt I might do something else one day —something in which I won't be personally so prominent. And it will be something where I don't have to try to sell myself, which is a humiliating endeavor, although very well paid. I've always had a strange and strong dream that if I stopped and went back to Hartford, I wouldn't remember a thing about my acting career." She paused meditatively, and added: "Not one damn thing."