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  “The title part”: NYWT, LCLHA, 1941.

  “his face all”: Kanin, p. 3.

  222 “like an animal”: Ibid., p. 5.

  “On the conscious level”: Ibid.

  “Actors Tracy and Hepburn”: Agee, Time, January, 1942.

  223 “each complements”: Donald Kirkley, BS, January, 1942.

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  224 “Size 17”: Bacon, p. 186.

  225 “He could be a mean”: Ibid.

  “Kate and I”: Ibid, p. 183.

  “every name”: Ibid.

  “a shot or two”: Harris, p. 53.

  226 “Why?”: Bacon, p. 262.

  “The play never jelled”: Langner, p. 219.

  228 “a nice speech”: Life, May 3, 1942.

  “Its Broadway opening”: LCLHA.

  “girls, all sorts”: Daily Express, London, April, 1950.

  229 “Where were you?”: Kanin, p. 108.

  230 “a big put on”: Carey, p. 129.

  “the simple and pure”: Newsweek, January, 1963.

  231 “The story was”: Lambert, p. 169.

  “a wax work”: Ibid.

  “marvelous as the”: Ibid.

  “as a piece of”: Ibid.

  (fn) “The film is . . .”: Ibid, p. 170.

  232 “romantic glamor”: Ibid.

  234 “like an old bum”: Earl Wilson, Journal American, June 15, 1943.

  “wonderful English”: Ibid.

  “I get my hands”: Ibid.

  235 “Really deep consideration”: LAT, March 12, 1943.

  “I will fight”: Ibid.

  237 “he was intense”: Signe Hasso, Deschner, p. 185.

  “Peck and Peckish”: James Agee, Time, April, 1944.

  “twangy New England”: Ibid.

  “a rather wondrous”: Barnes, NYHT, April, 1944.

  238 “People always said”: Higham, Kate, p. 120.

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  240 “spark off each other”: Beaton, p. 100.

  “dispense with all”: Ibid.

  “like a couple of”: Ibid.

  241 “their extravagances”: Ibid.

  “The Hepburns all love”: Kanin, p. 114.

  “First time I got”: Capra, pp. 391-392.

  243 “Most of all”: Kanin, p. 96.

  “I could be good”: Ibid.

  (fn) “Tracy quit”: The Burns Mantle Theatre annual, 1945.

  244 “Damn place”: Kanin, p. 98.

  “gave a performance”: George Jean Nathan, NYT, November 11, 1945.

  “I had tried to convey”: Kanin, p. 99.

  “too dumb to quit”: Carey, p. 146.

  “a lot of high-flown”: Ibid., p. 147.

  245 “everything you own”: Kanin, p. 109.

  246 “You already have”: Good Morning America interview, November 5, 1984.

  “where in the bedroom”: Kanin, p. 54.

  “no-nonsense”: PI.

  “considerate”: PI.

  “unprotected”: PI.

  “Fear is no builder”: PI.

  247 “I’m sure we’ll”: Minnelli, p. 176.

  “getting the right”: Ibid. p. 181.

  248 “Can you see”: Ibid.

  “You know young man”: Ibid.

  249 “the proper techniques”: Dickens, p. 138.

  “with skill and feeling”: Time, February, 1947.

  “[he] plays Brahms”: John McCarken, The New Yorker, February, 1947.

  “vast, flat New Mexico”: John McManus, PM, February, 1947.

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  252 “At first I was”: Carey, p. 151

  “J. Parnell Thomas”: NYT, May 22, 1947.

  (fn) “Before every free”: Edwards, Judy Garland, p. 117.

  253 “very special”: Carey, p. 152.

  “Waal, come to”: Capra, p. 389.

  (fn) “the triumph of honesty”: Katz, pp. 203-204.

  254 “There are women”: Capra, p. 389.

  “Scratch a do-gooder”: Carey, p. 154.

  “You scratch some”: Capra, p. 389.

  “wisecracking, witty”: PI.

  255 “go off the deep end”: PI.

  256 “the happiest when”: Edwards, Vivien Leigh, p. 154.

  258 “Hepburn’s antics”: Lambert, p. 200.

  259 “followed or appeased”: NYT, June 9, 1949.

  260 “the product of liars”: Ibid.

  “refused to dignify”: Ibid.

  “Kate definitely”: Helburn, p. 308.

  261 “I was so happy”: NYT, January 22, 1950.

  262 “There is too much”: Brooks Atkinson, NYT, January 22, 1950.

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  264 “I don’t want”: Earl Wilson, Journal-American, September 27, 1950.

  “any woman”: Ibid.

  “We would have”: UP, November 11, 1950

  266 “a gin-swilling”: Dickens, p. 149.

  267 “It is difficult”: David Lewin, Daily Express, April 17, 1951.

  268 “The thing about life”: Ibid.

  “I’m tall, skinny”: Ibid.

  (fn) “She has the air of”: Ibid.

  (fn) “She wore her”: Sunday Express, April 22, 1951.

  269 “Katie starts out”: David Lewin, Daily Express, April 17, 1951.

  “I’d say I”: Ibid.

  (fn) “There was a press”: Bacall, p. 181.

  270 “a battery of press”: Ibid.

  “get on board”: Ibid.

  “natives dancing in”: Ibid.

  271 “The natives didn’t”: Ibid., p. 185.

  272 “I hope you’re not”: David Robinson, LCLHA.

  “Now you know”: Ibid.

  “Well, what is it”: Ibid.

  “I thought you said”: Huston, p. 200.

  273 “Upon meeting”: Alistair Cooke, p. 129.

  “dark haired juvenile”: Ibid.

  274 “the cryptic Hemingway”: Ibid.

  “The big joke”: David Lewin, Daily Express, June 27, 1952.

  275 “soft and sleek”: McDowell, p. 23.

  “with my Bdingo”: Bacall, p. 187.

  (fn) “he got the meat”: Huston, p. 196.

  276 “You seem to be”: Ibid., p. 201.

  “Presently we entered”: Ibid.

  277 “Stop Katie”: Ibid.

  “sit in camp”: Ibid.

  277 “all at once”: Ibid.

  “The water was”: Behlmer, America’s Favorite Movies, p. 245.

  279 “the many nights”: Huston, p. 202.

  “That’s what they all”: PI.

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  281 “a smooth, fast-talking”: Dickens, p. 152.

  “in one frame”: Kanin, p. 187.

  “She can swing”: Bosley Crowther, NYT, November, 1952.

  282 “I am finishing”: Saturday Review, November 1, 1952.

  283 “Is she a good”: Ibid.

  284 “with such a furious”: London Times, June 27, 1952.

  “so vivid”: Ibid.

  “hit London with such”: A. A. Darlington, London critic, NYT, July 6, 1952.

  “exhibition of personality”: NYT, July 6, 1952.

  “This millionairess”: Ibid.

  285 “a shade more edge”: NYT, October 12, 1952.

  286 “Drive on”: Daily Express, September 25, 1952.

  “indeterminate”: Lesley, p. 317.

  “fat little”: Ibid., p. 318.

  287 “Miss Hepburn had”: Brooks Atkinson, NYT, October 18, 1952.

  “beautifully conceived”: Kanin, p. 166.

  “to forego reimbursement”: Ibid.

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  290 “how old and gaunt”: Korda, p. 388.

  “no bare arms”: Ibid.

  291 “If you think”: Ibid.

  “vind machines”: Ibid.

  292 “It tastes lousy”: Ibid.

  “Nobody asked me”: Thomas Wiseman, Evening Standard, September 14, 1954.

  293 “the sad mouth”: Saturday Review, April, 1955.

 
; “the greatest calcium”: A. A. Darlington, The London Times, June 5, 1955.

  “was to make”: Lesley, p. 338.

  294 “the best loosener-upper”: Ibid.

  295 “I have no idea”: The Melbourne Sun-Times, June, 1955.

  296 “The great shallow”: Edwards, Vivien Leigh, p. 200.

  297 “secretary-companion”: Kanin, p. 196.

  “gentle-gentlewoman”: Ibid.

  “he would often”: Ibid.

  “Mind you”: Selznick.

  300 “local people”: Baker, p. 598.

  301 “browned to a colour”: Ibid., p. 601.

  302 “blow-torched out”: Dickens, p. 166.

  “I used to get by”: Thomas Wiseman, Evening Standard, January, 1956.

  “She never lost”: Higham, Kate, p. 159.

  “to the cheap tricks”: Dickens, p. 165.

  303 “too fat and rich”: Baker, p. 627.

  “hoped to get through”: Ibid.

  “about the milder terrors”: Dickens, p. 170.

  304 “it almost burst”: Ibid.

  “they lope through”: NYT, May, 1957.

  305 “Goodbye, Spence”: Carey, p. 187.

  “Bogie’s going”: Ibid.

  “getting on”: Films in Review, May, 1957.

  “People kept coming”: Newsweek, May, 1957.

  306 “getting drenched”: Houseman, Final Dress, p. 80.

  “If there was a”: John Gassner, NYT, June 11, 1957.

  “Miss Hepburn”: Walter Kerr, NYT, June 14, 1957.

  307 “I am sure that”: Houseman, Final Dress, p. 86.

  “unfeminine and”: Ibid.

  (fn) “watched a very young”: Houseman, Run-Through, p. 79.

  308 “weary but”: Houseman, Final Dress, p. 86.

  “I reminded him”: Ibid.

  “. . . at the knee of”: Ibid. p. 87.

  “not only shrewd”: Atkinson, NYT, August 8, 1957.

  309 “always with a mingling”: Houseman, Run-Through, p. 81.

  “she joyfully”: Ibid.

  “Finally, during”: Ibid.

  “traveled with trunkloads”: Helen Dudar, NYDN, 1967.

  “they were such”: Selznick, pp. 369-370.

  310 “I’ve joked about”: Swindell, p. 239.

  CHAPTER 22

  312 “the most talked about”: Tischler.

  “an oedipal relationship”: Geist, p. 293.

  “was somewhat damaged”: Dickens, p. 173.

  “starving Spanish”: Geist, p. 293.

  (fn) “his own homosexual”: Ibid.

  (fn) “whose sensibilities”: Ibid.

  313 “to disguise”: Ibid. p. 296.

  “Kate wanted very much”: Ibid.

  “gilded, ornately carved”: Ibid.

  “with a great”: Ibid.

  “haughty eccentricity”; Ibid.

  314 “If you only”: Ibid.

  “That’s the play”: Ibid.

  “worked diligently”: Bosworth, p. 339.

  “a crazy drunk”: Ibid.

  (fn) “a rare psychological”: Katz, p. 246.

  315 “added strength”: Bosworth, p. 247.

  “to get rid”: Ibid., p. 339.

  “he washed down”: Ibid.

  “He used to have”: Ibid.

  “none of my arguments”: Ibid.

  316 “I had all sorts”: Geist, p. 294.

  “was in”: Ibid.

  “in limousines”: Ibid.

  “When [Mrs. Venable]”: Ibid., p. 297.

  317 “Hepburn wanted”: Ibid., p. 298.

  “Are you absolutely”: Ibid.

  “To the best”: Ibid., p. 298.

  “When I disapprove”: McCall’s, February, 1979.

  (fn) “I didn’t spit”: Dick Cavett interview on ABC, October 2, 1973.

  318 “[He] has little”: Patrick Gabbi, London Daily Telegraph, December 23, 1959.

  “Kate is a playwright’s”: Tennessee Wiliams to NYT, October, 1959.

  320 “who maintained her”: McCall’s, February, 1970.

  (fn) “refrained from including”: PI.

  321 “a half-naked”: Saturday Review, August, 1960.

  “Miss Hepburn has”: NYHT, June 4, 1960.

  “You’d have to”: KH to Calvin Tomkins, Newsweek, September, 1960.

  “Tennessee Williams”: Ibid.

  322 “he was much too”: Deschner, p. 15.

  323 “breeze in ready”: Ibid.

  “if a makeup”: Ibid.

  “It’s his concentration”: Swindell, p. 248.

  “Tracy had no”: Deschner, p. 16.

  “Tracy didn’t want”: Ibid.

  “I finally stepped”: Swindell, p. 248.

  “I was afraid,” Deschner, p. 14.

  324 “thought and listened”: Ibid.

  “Nobody at Metro”: Swindell, p. 250.

  “the greatest actor”: Ibid.

  “Tracy was on”: Ibid.

  325 “he would twinkle”: Ibid.

  “still photographers”: Deschner, p. 15.

  “pretended that he”: Ibid.

  “Spence, these are”: Swindell, p. 250.

  “no matter what”: Deschner, p. 14.

  326 “casually picked up”: Dudar, NYDN, July, 1969.

  327 “he; was literally”: Deschner, p. 16.

  “As the presiding”: Larry Tubelle, Hollywood Daily Variety, 1962.

  328 “It was extraordinary”: Higham, Kate, p. 181.

  330 “Her transformations”: Arthur Knight, The Saturday Review, May, 1962.

  “From being perhaps”: Kael, pp. 298-299.

  “that terrible smile”: Dwight McDonald, Esquire, May, 1962.

  331 “Dad had a”: Leland Hayward Collection, LCLHA, January, 1963. “dimly remembered”: Arthur Knight, Saturday Review, May, 1962.

  CHAPTER 23

  333 “long, slow-paced”: Swindell, p. 262.

  334 “Mr. Tracy”: Deschner, p. 17.

  “During the filming”: Ibid.

  335 “as soon as a visitor”: Carey, p. 206.

  337 “all dowdied up”: ATT, April, 1966.

  “In case my niece”: Ibid.

  “I’m the best”: Ibid.

  “I’ll give you”: Ibid.

  338 “[Kate] and I had”: Higham, Kate, p. 191.

  “She had to run”: Ibid.

  339 “he had finished”: Carey, p. 211.

  “I had the part”: Look, July 11, 1967.

  “the publicity guys”: Higham, Kate, p. 189.

  “She had declared”: Jack Hamilton, Look, July 11, 1967.

  341 “You know, I read”: Carey, p. 212.

  “Do you intend”: Kanin, p. 269.

  “Did you hear”: Ibid., p. 250.

  342 “To Spencer Tracy”: Ibid.

  “People said I”: Kramer, p. 277.

  343 “Mr. Tracy”: Brendan Gill, The New Yorker, December, 1966.

  “while either”: Penelope Mortimer, London Observer, January, 1967.

  CHAPTER 24

  348 “a remarkable legacy”: LAT, June 12, 1967.

  349 “Oh no”: NYT, December 9, 1973.

  “in order to better”: Ibid.

  350 “When she came”: Frook.

  “talk-singing”: Ibid.

  “She’s remarkably musical”: Ibid.

  351 “I sang for them”: Ibid.

  “working with”: Carey, p. 219.

  “She must have been”: Frook.

  “about the stage”: Ibid.

  “If we’d had a camera”: Ibid.

  “Look at this!”: Daily Express, November 20, 1967.

  352 “Peter, stop towering”: Ibid.

  “to a shadow”: Ibid.

  “Why on earth”: Ibid.

  “Triumphant in her”: Judith Crist, NYT, November, 1968.

  353 “her way through”: Alexander Walker, Standard, May 21, 1968.

  “It’s true”: Ibid.

  354 “like a machine gun”: Ibid.

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nbsp; “Deaf people”: Ibid.

  “Hide the ladder”: Ibid.

  “Well, I suspect”: Ibid.

  355 “I had twenty-five years”: Ibid.

  (fn), “It was delightful”: Kanin, p. 27.

  356 “Em enormously”: Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hep burn Archives.

  “Much of what”: Swindell, p. 250.

  CHAPTER 25

  357 “to end her”: Sunday Express, July 27, 1969.

  “I’m rich, fat”: Ibid.

  359 “I think”: Israel Shenker, NYT, April 28, 1968.

  “I was scared”: NYT, December 9, 1973.

  (fn) “Has anyone”: Tennessee Williams, Memoirs, p. 170.

  361 “from simplifying”: Newsweek, November 10, 1969.

  “She’s Man”: Ibid.

  “I’ve felt all along”: Ibid.

  “Now that Eve”: Ibid.

  364 “a disastrous party”: Time, December 19, 1969.

  “[Miss Hepburn’s] voice”: Clive Barnes, NYT, December 19, 1969.

  365 “It’s obviously”: Hepburn speech, last Coco performance, August 1, 1970.

  “The show has”: Walter Kerr, NYT, December 21, 1969.

  367 “Eve never done”: Evening Standard, September 11, 1970.

  368 “Do you know”: Ibid.

  “As the old queen”: Ibid.

  369 “Miss Chanel”: Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 12, 1971.

  370 “Why would Katharine Hepburn”: Ibid.

  371 “They said I was: Higham, Kate, p. 212.

  “over and over”: Ibid., p. 211.

  “The finger hung”: Ibid.

  (fn) “Attacking Katharine Hepburn”: NYT, November 11, 1971.

  CHAPTER 26

  374 “three or four people”: LHJ, August, 1975.

  “a great strain”: TV Guide, December 15, 1973.

  375 “There was a lifetime”: LHJ, August, 1975.

  “Well you know”: TV Guide, December 15, 1973.

  376 “the longest wooing”: Ibid.

  “That part belongs”: Ibid.

  “I can’t get the”: Ibid.

  377 “I’m too thin”: Ibid.

  378 “thought she was”: Higham, Kate, p. 214.

  “I didn’t have”: Ibid.

  “There’s a lot of”: Ibid.

  “I think we are”: NYT’ December 9, 1973.

  379 “more about what”: Higham, Kate, pp. 15-16.

  381 “Don’t tell me”: Gavett interview on ABC, October 2 and 3, 1973.

  “Do you want to hear”: Ibid.

 

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