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PART THREE:
In Memoriam: KATHARINE H. HEPBURN (1907-2003)
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AP) -- Quotes from Katharine Hepburn's 1991 book,
"Me."
(On her failed
marriage; she says she spent years "using" her husband.)
I am looking back
and realizing what the truth was. The motives back of the action. I don't think
that it was all as cold-blooded as it sounds. I hope not. But the truth has to
be that I was a terrible pig. My aim was ME ME ME. All the way -- up -- down --
all about.
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(On John Wayne,
with whom she worked on "Rooster Cogburn":)
He was always on
time. Always knew the scene. Always full of notions about what should be done.
Tough on a director who had not done his homework. Considerate to his fellow
actors. Very impatient with anyone who was inefficient. And did not bother to
cover it up. ...
And with all this
he has a most gentle and respectful gratitude toward people who he feels have
contributed very firmly to his success. His admirers. ... None of that
complicated Self-Self-Self which seems to torment myself and others who shall be
nameless when they are confronted with the Prize for good performance.
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(On her parents:)
The were indeed amazing, these two. The door of
our house was always open. Come In. Well, tell us about it. Come with us --
spend the night -- stay to lunch. No no, there's plenty of room, always.
And I think, How
I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have
you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong -- funny. Two
rocks. What you did for me -- wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live
in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.
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I never look at
notices. So they don't exist. Or at movies that I have made. They don't exist.
My past sins, so to speak.
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(On her first
major acting job, as an understudy:)
I learned the
part and sat on the sidelines quite convinced that I would be far superior to
the leading lady. ... She was a very competent actress who did not have the
advantage of being very young and absolutely outrageous and full of a sort of
wild confidence based on nothing but energy and ego. (Hepburn wrote she
eventually got the part, but then overconfidence ruined her opening night
performance and the original leading lady was hired back.)
The Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn romance was
true, but not always easy
A lobby card from WOMAN OF THE YEAR.
Hepburn makes an appeal for Red Cross blood
donations in December 1941 in her hometown of Hartford, Connecticut. The actress
was born, died and spent most of her life in the Nutmeg State.
With Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER.
With Fred MacMurray, Ann Shoemaker, Fred Stone
and Hattie McDaniel in ALICE ADAMS.
Goofing off with
Goofing off with Cary Grant on the set of
HOLIDAY.
With Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in MORNING GLORY.
With Henry Fonda in ON GOLDEN POND.
As Jo in LITTLE WOMEN.
With Fred MacMurray in ALICE ADAMS.
Falling into the river in SUMMERTIME.
With Spencer Tracy on the couch in ADAM'S RIB.
Getting a massage from Spencer Tracy in PAT AND
MIKE.
Academy Awards
Academy
Award Nominations for Best Actress:
Out of these, she won the award for:
Out
of all the people to ever be nominated in the categories of best director,
actor, and actress, she ties only with director John Ford in winning the most
Academy Awards ever, which is 4.
She also holds the
record number of Academy Award nominations (12), with Laurence Olivier (11, 10
for best actor, 1 for best director) and Spencer Tracy (9) following close
behind.
State
of the Union (1948)The Warrior's Husband
The
Czarina (1928) 
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A
publicity portrait from WOMAN OF THE YEAR.
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Contributors: The University of Southern California, Reel Classics, Kiera Caponi, Penelope de Vassy, Marie-Louise de Chambertin, Dr. Esther Cohen-Hamilton, Erica Soderholm, Valeria Constand, Erica Schuller, Carmen Ortega, RKO.