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I know where I'm going : Katharine Hepburn, a personal biography
Chandler, Charlotte.
Adult Nonfiction PN2287.H45 C43 2010
From Library Journal:
Despite several career lulls and setbacks, Katharine Hepburn was a new and exciting presence in early American sound films and captured four Oscars in a career spanning six decades. She was notoriously standoffish with reporters and interviewers, but she agreed to a wide-ranging series of talks several decades back with Chandler, whose popular biographies have featured Joan Crawford (Not the Girl Next Door), Ingrid Bergman (Ingrid), and Bette Davis (The Girl Who Walked Home Alone), among others. Hepburn describes her early family life, the trauma of her brother's apparent suicide, her later passionate affairs with notables like Howard Hughes, and her long relationship with Spencer Tracy. Although Chandler doesn't paint an entirely flattering portrait, readers will be entertained and enlightened. Verdict Chandler avoids much of the excess speculation found in William J. Mann's Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. Though it somewhat neglects Hepburn's extensive stage career and is marred by her repetitious ruminations on her need for independence and aversion to marriage, this still ranks as a first-rate biography. Recommended.-Stephen F. Rees, formerly with Bucks Cty. Free Lib. Syst., PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Chandler, Charlotte.
Adult Nonfiction PN2287.H45 C43 2010
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From Library Journal:
Despite several career lulls and setbacks, Katharine Hepburn was a new and exciting presence in early American sound films and captured four Oscars in a career spanning six decades. She was notoriously standoffish with reporters and interviewers, but she agreed to a wide-ranging series of talks several decades back with Chandler, whose popular biographies have featured Joan Crawford (Not the Girl Next Door), Ingrid Bergman (Ingrid), and Bette Davis (The Girl Who Walked Home Alone), among others. Hepburn describes her early family life, the trauma of her brother's apparent suicide, her later passionate affairs with notables like Howard Hughes, and her long relationship with Spencer Tracy. Although Chandler doesn't paint an entirely flattering portrait, readers will be entertained and enlightened. Verdict Chandler avoids much of the excess speculation found in William J. Mann's Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. Though it somewhat neglects Hepburn's extensive stage career and is marred by her repetitious ruminations on her need for independence and aversion to marriage, this still ranks as a first-rate biography. Recommended.-Stephen F. Rees, formerly with Bucks Cty. Free Lib. Syst., PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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