Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn
By (Author) William J. Mann
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st August 2007
7th June 2007
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Individual actors and performers
Film history, theory or criticism
791.43028092
Physical Properties
Paperback
672
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 40mm
495g
Description
William 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 74 and across seventy years in the public eye, she was a cut above the usual screen queen. Now William 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.
Reviews
"'A significant biography.' Gore Vidal"
Author Bio
Born in Connecticut, 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.
