Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn

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Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn

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Pros

The author takes a more sobering look at what motivated her to maintain this dichotomy throughout her life. He respects her even more so when his research (including fresh interviews with her surviving siblings, who were more candid than usual after h... Read More

i am sorry it (predictably) ruffles so many feathers, but it is an important work on a huge figure in the history of american culture. Mann admires and respects hepburn. He just challenges the story that first garson kanin and then hepburn herself wov... Read More

Hadleigh shows how attitudes toward * have evolved through hepburn and her circle.

Much of the book focuses on deconstructing hepburn’s relationship with frequent co-star spencer tracy. tracy, a miserable mess of a human being, is the great mystery here. Mann convincingly presents his case here.

Cons

The author uses a witness, scotty, who has said before that he has lied to biographers. That a hollywood legend is self-interested is not a revelation, nor should it be cause for over 500 pages of condemnation. His skills as a writer are employed in t... Read More

Mann takes comments out of context and manipulates them to suit his own purposes. At one point mann says that hepburn spat at director joe mankiwicz after filiming suddenly last summer.

I think what drove me to finish it was the ever fainter hope that i would finally read something interesting," says one reviewer.

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Quality

He scrutinizes the myth of kate that was created by the hollywood publicity machines with the active participation of hepburn h... Read More

She pushed her relationships with women into the shadows and carried on the heterosexual ones with the greatest possible publicity

I have read all of the hepburn biographies starting with charles highams which was reportedly the only authorized one in the se... Read More

Price

And that as she grew into her 20s and 30s she became determined to be famous and to stay famous whatever the cost

Packaging/appearance

One wouldve thought the last thing the world needed was another hepburn bio but william manns found a fascinating way to tell t... Read More

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This product had a total of 128 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 28 2022.