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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.