Katharine Hepburn was an American actress renowned for embodying strong, independent, and spirited women on screen and stage. Her career, spanning over six decades, was marked by exceptional versatility across a wide range of genres, from screwball comedies to literary dramas. She frequently collaborated with Spencer Tracy, resulting in nine films and a legendary screen partnership. Hepburn continually challenged herself, embracing classic roles and appearing in television films, cementing her status as a towering figure in cinema.
This book will tell you What it was like for me to meet John Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall In London and in Africa For the first time. To work with them nonstop for about three months. And why — Come hell or high water Through thick and through thin For better and for worse But not quite until death did we part — It was great fun. — K. H.
A hard-drinking river boat man (Bogart) and a stern, puritanical lady missionary (Hepburn) are thrown together in the war-torn African jungle as they embark on a perilous mission to destroy a German gunboat.
Stories of my life
Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir. A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year A Book-of-the-Month-Club Main Selection
Katharine Hepburn reflects on her childhood and youthful misadventures. She tells us about the ups and downs of her career, her early experience in the theatre and her rise to stardom. She describes her warm and sometimes stormy relationships with David Lean, George Cukor, Howard Hughes, Leland Hayward, Cary Grant and Louis B. Mayer among others. And in a book that is pervaded with love - love of parents, love of family, being loved and loving - she tells us about the love of her life: Spencer Tracy.
Ship from Germany, hardcover. Знаменитая актриса Кэтрин Хепберн подробно и трогательно описала свою жизнь, которую можно считать целой эпохой в истории американского театра и кино. Хепберн рассказывает о своем детстве; приглашает нас в театральные залы, где она блистала и в шекспировских пьесах и мюзиклах; раскрывает `кухню` Голливуда, с которым ее связывает не одно десятилетие; не умалчивает о срывах в карьере и трагических эпизодах личной жизни; знакомит с людьми, которые встречались на ее жизненном пути: президентом Рузвельтом, загадочным миллионером Говардом Хьюзом, актерами Спенсером Трейси, Алеком Гиннесом и целой когортой мирового масштаба, которые, как и миллионы зрителей во всем мире, были пленены обаянием Кэтрин Хепберн.
