They emotionally reveal their true natures (and their love) to each other during tongue-in-cheek romantic banter.Pendergast (Richard Gaines).Joe offered a parting gift ("peace offering") to Connie as he was about to move out and journey o Africa in a few days: "Just a sort of genuine top grade cowhide traveling bag with all the accessories" - and she was flabbergasted by his generosity and attentiveness, but said she had o refuse it because her fiancee Mr.She made her first stage appearance, at the age of four, inMidsummer Night""s Dream.She played a fairy and entered - quite unexpectedly - stark naked.She has been a Star ever since.Margo is a great Star.A true star.She never was or will be anything less or anything else.Miss Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), an actress who we soon learn "all about" in flashback, is being honored as the youngest recipient ever to win he Sarah Siddons Award as Best Actress - "such a young lady, young in years, but whose heart is as old as the theater.A news report announced the weather anomaly of gale force winds and torrential rainfall that were "threatening to destroy the nation""s entire coffee crop for the next five years.I was doing everything like in a dream.Like I was watchin"" myself, but I couldn""t help it - like a dream." She punctuates her entire rendition of the events of the day of the shooting with eating episodes (two rare hamburgers and lemon meringue pie, for instance), capped by her final line:Doris:.