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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
&
nbsp; “scrupulous honesty”: Ibid.
“reasonable script supervision”: Ibid.
181 “I got too much sun”: Kanin, p. 142.
183 “When I started”: Bryan.
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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.
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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.
