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  31 “Mother was outraged”: Kanin, pp. 115-116.

  32 “perhaps all”: Ralph G. Martin, “KH, My Life and Loves,” LHJ, August, 1975.

  “If I haven’t”: Bryan.

  “Silly isn’t it”: Ibid.

  “Would look”: Ibid.

  34 “being cuffed”: Kanin, p. 139.

  35 “I mean a real”: Ibid., pp. 59-60.

  “There are men”: Ibid.

  36 “Here I go!”: Bryan.

  “That gave me”: Ibid.

  “Don’t clutter up”: Kanin, p. 138.

  “Here comes 3405”: Bryan.

  “whip-snapped”: Ibid.

  “Sir, your little girl”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 3

  37 “scientifically and”: Oliver Jensen, Life.

  “Oh”: Ibid.

  “Some day”: Look, July 11, 1967.

  “I want to tell”: Ibid.

  38 “in the English tradition”: Kingswood, Fifty Years, 1916-1966, p. 14.

  (fn) “to the middle-class”: Brendan Gill, TV Guide, October 30, 1982.

  “Oh she was so”: The Kingswood-Oxford Today magazine, Commemorative Issue, 1909-1984, p. 68.

  39 “Niles to Woodland”: Ibid.

  “straight out”: Ibid.

  “I was never a member”: Bryan.

  “I still remember”: Kingswood-Oxford Today, p. 68.

  40 “I wouldn’t play Eva”: Bryan.

  41 “faithful picturization”: NYT, April 1, 1920.

  42 “My son was normal”: NYT, April 4, 1920.

  43 “I am now convinced”: NYT, April 5, 1920.

  44 “Whenever I needed them”: Ralph G. Martin, LHJ, August, 1975.

  CHAPTER 4

  46 “Oh, with what”: NYT, June 18, 1967.

  “your beaux”: Bryan.

  47 “Ah! Conscious beauty”: Ibid.

  “exhaustingly intense”: Ibid.

  48 “If I had a patient”: Ibid.

  “a very nice man”: Vogue, November, 1981.

  “What are you”: Ibid.

  49 “sometime sullen”: May Day Revels and Plays (program), Bryn Mawr College, May 4 and 5, 1928.

  “You can take them”: Ibid.

  “Her forehead”: Ibid.

  50 “You see Eve”: Ibid.

  “You want to be”: Ibid.

  “I don’t want”: Ibid.

  “All right”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 5

  56 “never seen anyone”: Bryan.

  “I won”: Bryan.

  59 “I want to be”: Miss Frances Robinson-Duff interview, Night Life, April, 1939.

  “Sometimes we have”: Ibid.

  “Darling”: Ibid.

  “You hold your hands”: Ibid.

  60 “I thought”: Higham, Kate.

  “You won’t wear”: Ibid.

  61 “she was carelessly groomed”: Helburn, p. 136.

  “that Park Avenue amateur”: Bryan.

  62 “Aren’t you proud”: Ibid.

  “You don’t mean”: Bryan.

  “I’d have”: Ibid.

  63 “I’m getting married”: Ibid.

  “If you want”: LA Herald Examiner, April 14, 1968.

  (fn) “We’ve had some nuts”: NYT, June 18, 1967.

  (fn) “I wasn’t fit to be married”: Ibid.

  64 “What am I doing?”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 6

  66 “Resign hell!”: Dickens, p. 6.

  “They’re absolutely right”: NYT, June 18, 1967.

  “I tried to put her”: Higham, Kate, p. 11.

  67 “However, if I”: Ibid., p. 11.

  68 “Cheryl, I want you”: Ibid.

  69 “skinny red-haired girl”: Higham, Kate, p. 14.

  “she played”: Bryan.

  “You’re a fool”: Ibid.

  “Well, I like that”: NYT, June 18, 1967.

  70 “Miss Hepburn, you”: Bryan.

  71 “I asked for decent,” Lee Israel, “Last of the Honest to God Ladies,” Esquire.

  “disruptive perverseness”: Bryan.

  “I just don’t like”: Ralph Martin, “KH, My Life and Loves,” LHJ.

  72 “What does she use”: Bryan.

  73 “Didn’t I ask you”: Bryan.

  “promise of”: Ibid.

  “I don’t think”: Ibid.

  74 “outrageous posturings”: Higham, Kate, p. 16.

  “The Hepburn house”: “The Hepburns,” Life, December 1939.

  “pink, arty and Godless”: Ibid.

  “high-class broad”: Kanin, p. 36.

  “la-de-da”: Ibid., p. 66.

  75 “a fish wife tirade”: Ibid.

  “I think Leslie Howard”: Lee Israel, Esquire, November, 1967.

  76 “bounded down”: Ibid.

  “They didn’t like me”: Ibid.

  77 “Hello, everybody!”: Bryan.

  “Kate had some little”: Bryan.

  78 “I’m just sort of making”: Ibid.

  “sort of a John Held”: Israel.

  79 “She had this very”: Lambert, p. 60.

  “She’s too marvelous”: St. John.

  “Take my word for it”: Ibid.

  80 “Not bad for”: Gottfried.

  CHAPTER 7

  83 “the very rich”: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Rich Boy” from All the Sad Young Men, 1926.

  85 “This is what”: Dickens, p. 9.

  “haphazard impediments”: Cecil Beaton, p. 61.

  86 As long as I live”: St. John.

  “I’m sure Miss”: Lambert.

  89 “I also hit the”: Higham, Kate, p. 25.

  “You!”: Bryan.

  90 “Something about her”: Barrymore interview (undated), AFI.

  “I learned a”: Look, July 11, 1967.

  “You’re not much”: Ibid.

  “Then I stopped”: Barrymore interview.

  91 “She just stood”: Ibid.

  “a creature”: Ibid.

  92 “Just because”: Lambert, p. 99.

  “the cold”: Ibid.

  “made for the screen”: Ibid., p. 101.

  “odd awkwardness”: Ibid.

  93 “It’s your job”: Burke, p. 31.

  “practically naked”: TV Guide, December 16, 1973.

  94 “So I did it”: Ibid.

  “Everybody was”: Memo from David O. Selznick.

  95 “There’s no reason”: Higham, Kate, p. 37.

  97 (fn) “God, what a”: Ibid., p. 33.

  98 “No, no!”: Bryan.

  “didn’t emerge”: Higham, Kate, p. 33.

  “I could look over”: NYT, December 9, 1973.

  “If my feet”: Ibid.

  99 “Everybody watches”: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Crazy Sunday.”

  CHAPTER 8

  101 “I think men”: Ralph Martin, LHJ, August, 1975.

  103 “She resembles”: NYS, Jack S. Cohen, Jr., March 10, 1933

  104 “a woman of breeding”: Lambert.

  “right up there with”: Hayward, p. 317.

  “A certain look”: Ibid.

  “an air both”: Ibid.

  105 “The wives of the moguls”: Ibid.

  106 “I thought”: LAHT, January 19, 1976.

  “This is what I’d”: Ibid.

  “your friend”: Lambert, p. 99.

  (fn) “one of the most”: Bankhead, p. 305.

  (fn) “Sherman was gifted”: Sarris, p. 136.

  107 “Suddenly, the front door”: Higham, Kate, p. 45.

  “Miss Hepburn shines”: NYT, July, 1933.

  “I can remember”: NYT, December 9, 1973.

  108 “the jitters”: NYT, 1937.

  “The way she walks”: Ibid.

  “a story that”: Lambert, p. 75.

  “admirable New England”: Ibid.

  109 “a spell of magic”: Ibid., p. 77.

  “no obvious effects”: Ibid.

  “Once, I actually hit”: Lambert p. 99.

  110 “Kate [who had not . . .]”: Lambert, p.
101.

  “Again she weaves”: Advertisement, AFI.

  “The radiant Star”: Newspaper advertisement, AFI.

  111 “a genius for”: Gottfried, p. 6.

  “he had the grin”: Ibid., p. 90.

  “his athletic use”: Ibid.

  112 “her parents had”: PI.

  113 “. . . with a free and”: Dickens, p. 56.

  “her artistry”: The New Yorker (undated), LCLHA.

  “You make other”: Bryan.

  114 “Bow-Gaynor-”, LAT, November 14, 1933.

  “kind of off-beat”: Hayward, p. 166.

  115 “when in New York”: Colliers, March 17, 1934.

  CHAPTER 9

  116 “a play with”: NYT (undated), LCLHA.

  117 “I could see”: Higham, Kate, pp. 56-57.

  “If she turned her head”: Bryan.

  “I could have loved”: Higham, Kate, p. 56.

  “I never thought”: Ibid.

  118 “. . . she was totally”: Ibid.

  “an agent”: Bryan.

  119 “staccato”: WP, December 18, 1933.

  “There was never”: Ibid.

  “My dear”: Bryan.

  120 “Miss Hepburn began”: NYT, December 27, 1933.

  “Don’t let it get”: Bryan.

  “She ran the gamut”: Dorothy Parker, Journal-American, December 27, 1933.

  121 “100 years from now”: NYT, January, 1934.

  “Ridiculous!”: Ibid.

  “With twelve million”: Ibid.

  STAR’S MOTHER: Ibid.

  “the women’s rights”: Ibid.

  “Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn”: Ibid.

  122 “I have ceased”: Ibid.

  “the suicide”: Ibid.

  “Nonsense!”: Ibid.

  123 “The pictures will be”: UP, March 19, 1934.

  “Miss Hepburn sought”: UP, March 26, 1934.

  124 “official spokesman”: UP, March 27, 1934.

  “Kate has no”: Ibid.

  “Miss Suzanne Steele”: Ibid.

  “Don’t be a mug!”: NYT, April 4, 1934.

  “I’m not”: Ibid.

  “Well—”: Ibid.

  “I never meant”: Ibid.

  125 “I just needed”: Ibid.

  “going to Key West”: Baker, p. 314.

  “need not wait”: Ibid.

  126 “Deep disagreement”: AP, April 27, 1934.

  “Miss Hepburn has no”: Miami Herald, April 30, 1934.

  “You pay a terrible price”: International News Service, May 3, 1934.

  127 “Mother has accomplished”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 10

  129 “criticism was a”: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night.

  130 “too young and too”: Time, January, 1934.

  131 “Louis B. said only”: Helburn, p. 276.

  (fn) “About Mourning Becomes Electra”: Ibid., p. 277.

  “I really didn’t want”: Carey, p. 73.

  133 “unconquerable gift”: NYHT, Richard Watts, 1934.

  “When I’m asked”: NYHT, LCLHA, 1934.

  134 “For the independent”: Ibid.

  “join them in Paris”: Ibid.

  “How she got on”: Ibid.

  “News gatherers”: Ibid.

  135 “labored and palpably”: NYWT, LCLHA, 1935.

  “Miss Hepburn makes”: Time, February, 1935.

  137 “It’s ridiculous!”: Bryan.

  “The Power Behind Katharine Hepburn”: Screenplay, March, 1935.

  138 “to stop living”: Higham, Kate, p. 64.

  “. . . it became clear”: Ibid.

  HEPBURN DARES death: NYWT, December, 1934.

  139 “I was in a blind”: Bryan.

  “swinging the basket”: Ibid.

  “Not at all”: Ibid.

  “What does it matter”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 11

  140 “What about your”; Edwin C. Hill, syndicated, 1935.

  143 “We got John Collier”: Lambert, p. 92.

  “This picture”: Robinson.

  (fn) “Up to then”: Lambert, p. 96.

  144 “Oh Kate”: Robinson.

  “Pandro, scrap”: Lambert, p. 97.

  145 “The dynamic Miss Hepburn”: Richard Watts, Jr., NYHT, January, 1936.

  “Sylvia Scarlett reveals”: Time, January, 1936.

  “And [Sylvia Scarlett]”, NYP, January, 1936.

  “She was this slip”: Wansell, p. 106.

  146 “a soft-focused”: Sarris, p. 48.

  “fought, bickered”: Ford, p. 98.

  148 “Mary of Scotland”: Ibid.

  150 “Kate was confused”: Higham, Kate, p. 77.

  “Eureka!”: PI.

  “I don’t think”: Higham, Kate, p. 77.

  151 “a little lost boy”: PI.

  “[I don’t know]”: Carey, p. 87.

  “Her Phoebe Throssel”: Frank Nugent, NYT, October, 1936.

  “Mr. Marshall”: Graham Greene, The Spectator, November, 1936.

  “clawing, scratching”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 12

  153 “In my relationships”: Ralph Martin, LHJ, August, 1975.

  “Well, I’ll never”: Ibid.

  154 “I’m like the girl”: Ibid.

  “getting up at 4:30”: Ibid.

  156 “You must be hungry”: PI.

  “her not too exacting”: Boston Globe, January 12, 1937.

  “thoroughly delightful”: Cleveland Plain Dealer, Janaury 21, 1937.

  157 “Charlotte Bronte’s”: Baltimore Sun, March 2, 1937.

  “applauded her the more”: Washington Post, March 19, 1937.

  “Kate . . . knew”: Helburn, p. 304.

  158 “You’d be lucky”: Bryan.

  159 “The situation for today”: Screenplay, August, 1937.

  160 “Ginger is strictly”: Ibid.

  “If it is real”: Ibid.

  “To both of its female”: Life, August, 1937.

  161 “She is completely”: Bryan.

  “Moreover, when the”: Ibid.

  “To win her”: interview, Movie Mirror, LCLHA.

  HEPBURN HURLS BOLT: NYT, LCLHA, 1937.

  “If Miss Hepburn”: Dickens, p. 95.

  163 “bullet-speed direction”: NYWT, February, 1938.

  “a man is measured”: Sarris, p. 53.

  “She has an amazing”: Dickens, p. 95.

  “For Bringing Up Baby”: Time, February, 1938.

  165 “Willie Wyler tells”: Bob Thomas, King Cohn, p. 117.

  “the quality of the”: Selznick.

  “You know what”: Bryan.

  168 “I accept”: Deschner, p. 47.

  “Mrs. Tracy”: Ibid.

  “everyone present got an”: Ibid.

  167 “went down, smiling”: Kanin, p. 155.

  “If you must drink”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 13

  170 “the belle of”: Lesley, p. 259.

  171 “Every time Kate looks”: PI.

  172 “handsome and attractive”: Kanin, p. 113.

  “It seems to me”: Ibid.

  “All you New England”: “The Hepburns,” Life, December, 1939.

  (fn) “There were Shubert”: Kanin, p. 113.

  173 “Health is youth”: Kanin, p. 89.

  “she use[d] cold baths”: Ibid.

  174 (fn) “I think we should”: Selznick, p. 180

  175 “For God’s sake”: Helburn, p. 307.

  (fn) “Not for anybody’s”: Selznick, p. 175.

  176 “the bloom would”: Helburn, p. 307.

  “Do anything you want”: Ibid.

  “so keen it was”: Newsweek, November 10, 1969.

  “This is Indianapolis”: Ibid.

  177 “I still grin”: Helburn, p. 304.

  178 “Ed find Kate”: Lee Israel, McCall’s, LCLHA.

  179 “still boyishly awkward”: Ibid.

  “which emphasized the droop”: Ibid.

  “Louis B. Mayer”: Look, July, 1967.

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nbsp; “scrupulous honesty”: Ibid.

  “reasonable script supervision”: Ibid.

  181 “I got too much sun”: Kanin, p. 142.

  183 “When I started”: Bryan.

  CHAPTER 14

  185 “she is the woman”: Mary Roberts Rinehart, Pictorial Review, January, 1935.

  186 “No other individual”: Ibid.

  187 “It’s magnificent”: Bryan.

  “Swell!”: Ibid.

  “Who wrote it—”: Ibid.

  188 “with generations of”: Speech by Spencer Tracy at Ripon College, June, 1941.

  189 “I wanted to help”: Swindell, p. 97.

  190 “never passed up”: Tracy’s speech at Ripon College, June, 1941.

  “itch to travel”: Ibid.

  “ruffians from the”: Ibid.

  “You know how it”: Kanin.

  191 “a silly idea”: Deschner, p. 35.

  “two steep, shady”: O’Brien, p. 63.

  “one flickering”: Ibid.

  “when the gray wind”: Ibid.

  “out of Egypt”: Ibid.

  “Kid, you’re the best”: Swindell, p. 103.

  192 “Spencer Tracy had a contract”: Geist, p. 78.

  “Christ, he used up”: Ibid.

  “his masterful technique”: Ibid.

  “almost the best”: Kanin, p. 49.

  “The thing about”: Ibid.

  193 “The only thing”: Ibid.

  “I’ve learned more”: Ibid.

  “a damn fine actress”: Ibid.

  “Tracy likes it”: Bryan.

  “put down—literally—”: Kanin, p. 1.

  “He began”: Look, July 11, 1967.

  “I’m afraid I’m”: Ibid.

  195 “Not me, boy”: Ibid.

  “and two clattering typists”: Kanin, p. 82.

  “always with enthusiasm”: Ibid.

  “gourmet stuff”: Ibid.

  “were too stiff”: Ibid.

  “Kate, I will give you”: Ibid.

  196 “It’s all right”: Bryan.

  CHAPTER 15

  215 “big-bear, Midwestern”: McDowall, Look, July 11, 1967.

  216 “I accidentally”: Higham, Kate, p. 105.

  “From the beginning”: Ibid., p. 107.

  217 “He’s a sort”: Kanin, p. 49.

  “She was the rarer”: Higham, Kate, p. 106.

  “I’m alive, alert”: Wayne Ober Park, WP, November 2, 1941.

  219 “The average”: Geist, p. 106.

  “completely fucked it up”: Ibid.

  220 “the worst bunch”: Ibid.

 

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