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This volume is an autobiography of American actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003). Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from comedy to literary drama, and received four Academy Awards for Best Actress, a record for any performer. In this work, Hepburn reflects on the events, people, and places that have shaped her life.
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A sweet and captivating look at a woman who was an inspiration for many and whose legacy endures. Ann Nyberg, delves into the long, extraordinary life of Katharine Hepburn through personal remembrances from people whose lives she influenced--even in the tiniest way. From tales from her beloved Fenwick in Connecticut to her time as an actress, endearing memories of Kate are recounted that highlight her individuality, confidence, determination, and...
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"Katharine Hepburn: grande dame of American actresses, fierce individualist, and Hollywood legend. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards and winner of four, Hepburn achieved stardom against formidable odds. The woman behind the legend emerges in this sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrait of her exceptional life and loves. Filled with accounts of her relationships with Spencer Tracy, Howard Hughes, and many others, here is the fascinating story of a determined...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida Lupino directed over a hundred episodes of "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Thriller," "Gunsmoke," and many independent features....
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The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image. Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine Hepburn: a Connecticut Yankee, outspoken and elegant, she wore pants whatever the occasion and bristled at Hollywood glitter. So captivating was her image that...
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Distributed by Random House
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1987
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This volume recalls the adventures of Katharine Hepburn, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall during the grueling, on-location filming of The African Queen which prove to be as entertaining and unforgettable as the film classic itself. Includes 45 behind the scenes photos. Hepburn recalls her experience of making this popular film, revealing her emotional highs and lows during the filming, her competitiveness, and her insecurities.
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"Of all the major Hollywood stars, Katharine Hepburn was the least conventional, conforming to none of the stereotypes of female superstardom. She was not an exotic outsider in Hollywood like Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich; nor was she a victim of the studios like Judy Garland or Marilyn Monroe; and she was certainly not a creature of the system like Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. Instead, she always appeared intelligent, willful, and independent,...
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2010
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"Drawing on a series of recordings made over many years, beginning in the mid-1970s, acclaimed biographer Charlotte Chandler has written the most intimate and personal biography ever published of Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn. Introduced by George Cukor, who directed Hepburn in such classic films as Little Women, The Philadelphia Story, and Adam's Rib, Chandler socialized with Hepburn at the Cukor estate, where the star was then living in a cottage...
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She is a living legend, a symbol of fierce independence who defied convention to live life on her own terms. He was the greatest screen actor of all time, the personification of the rock-solid American male. During their twenty-six years together, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy mesmerized the world with their famous on-screen chemistry. Yet their private love affair--which ended only with Tracy's death in 1967-- remained shrouded in secrecy....
14) Young Kate
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Andersen excavates the lives of Katharine Houghton Hepburn's grandparents (the Houghtons) and parents and Kate's early years up to graduation from Bryn Mawr, with the family always in foreground. This is a book that will win many hearts as it lays bare the divine chemistry of the Hepburn family that coalesced in Kate herself. On the maternal, Houghton side, Kate's great-grandfather and grandfather were businessmen-inventors--founders of the world-famed...