“It’s funny to say this, but women loved him. He treated women beautifully, had a kind of courtliness, which is almost gone today. I mean, he would open the door and he would pull your chair, he had a politeness. And I’m sure Janet, his mother, had a great deal to do with that. I’m sure he was a very well brought up boy.” — Marian Seldes on Anthony Perkins. ©

“Tony Perkins kept an eye on Audrey. If he saw her sitting off the set, maybe looking a little sad, he would jump in, shaking her chair until he had her laughing. Getting her a cup of tea, telling her a joke, anything that was perk her spirits up. They had a really good relationship, and he brought out a facet of Audrey’s personality that I had never seen before. At times they acted like two young kids. I think he was Audrey’s tonic on this film. Tony was easy-going. I had worked with him on a couple of films previously and he had a gentle personality, ever smiling without a lot of ego to deal with. A photographer’s delight. He seemed like a brother to Audrey, and watched over her. It was lovely to see them together.” — Bob Willoughby ©


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"Tony had passed up some enviable opportunities. Once on location in Australia, Ava Gardner asked him up to her hotel room for an intimate supper. “All shook up," he declined dessert. In Paris, Brigitte Bardot invited him to her penthouse and made it clear she was ready for action. “I was like an un-caged leopard," he says. “Sooner than get close to her I would have crashed through the window and fallen to the pavement 10 stories below."
Ingrid Bergman also took a fancy to Tony. “She would have welcomed an affair. Every day she invited me to her dressing room to practice a love scene. I insisted on standing near the door, which I kept open." Jane Fonda was more direct. Tony says that when they rehearsed in her dressing room, she took off all her clothes and sat suggestively powdering her petal-soft 22-year-old body while Tony hid his face in panic behind his sсript." ©