Buy this book on-line MORLEY**, SHERIDAN: : KATHERINE HEPBURN - A CelebrationLONDON.PAVILION/MICHAEL JOSEPH,1984. ISBN 0907516513.
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Qrto,192pp,b/w photo-montage endpapers, profusely illustrated b/w photographs.
If GARBO was the first actress to give the cinema its true and subtle sexuality, then KATHERINE HEPBURN was the first to give it spirit and verbal intelligence.
Before her,women in films were either silent pioneers like LILLIAN GISH or mindless sex objects like MAE WEST.Hepburn
alone brought a mind and an intellect to her movies,she was the first woman on screen to suggest that she had actually thought long and hard about what she would
say next.It was with HEPBURN that women in
the cinema came of age; 'she didn't grow up to HOLLYWOOD',said her most characteristic and constant director, GEORGE CUKOR,'HOLLYWOOD grew up to her'.
But not easily: the fact that she came from Connecticut,of an already wealthy family,and had started on Broadway,did not endear her to the HOLLYWOOD establishment.
California she would take or leave,and often she left it; even when there she remained the aloof,aristocratic outsider,
a debutante moving through graceful middle -age to grande dame without apparent
effort.She was not a lady who left much to
chance or the studios; her support came from the press and the public,and it was strong enough to see her through the years
when exhibitors gleefully labelled her
'box-office poison',years which would have
finished many lesser careers and spirits.
In this lavish pictorial biography MORLEY,
provides a fitting tribute to KATHERINE HEPBURN in this her 71st year.
She traded in style,wit and grandeur.She married only once and had no children;the
three things she most cared about were SPENCER TRACY - their thirty year affair was legendary - her privacy and her career, roughly in that order.
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