Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn

Author: William J. Mann

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Price : $33.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780571229789
Publisher : Faber & Faber, Limited
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Publication date : December 2009
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Author : William J. Mann
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 791.43028092
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Pages : 656
BIC subject : Biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre; Individual actors & performers; Film theory & criticism
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William J. Mann charts the journey by which Kathy Hepburn of Hartford, Connecticut, became the star who dazzled audiences for decades in the company of such luminaries as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and, most memorably, Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine movies and conducted a long off-screen romance. Hepburn won her fourth Oscar aged seventy-four and across seventy years in the public eye, she was a cut above the usual screen queen. Now, William J. Mann looks beyond the legend to consider apart the life and the persona of Katharine Hepburn, from her movies, her loves, her bisexuality and her extraordinary life in the golden age of film-making.

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"'A significant biography.' Gore Vidal"

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William J. Mann is the author of Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910-1969, Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines and Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger.

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