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Katharine Hepburn: Acting
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Hepburn remained energetic into her 80s, rising at dawn and going to bed at seven. She worked in her garden, made anonymous gifts to her small community, and was considered a good neighbor. Slowed by arthritis, hip replacement surgery, tremors and pneumonia, she quipped in 1990, “I’m gradually disintegrating.”
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Off-screen, their relations were perhaps more complicated than Hepburn chose to declare. "I don't believe in marriage," she would proclaim. "It's bloody impractical to love, honour and obey. If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."
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Tuesday, remembering Hepburn's Broadway career, the lights of the Great White Way will be dimmed at 8 p.m. in tribute. But the real Hepburn tribute will be happening at video stores and living rooms all over America, as people celebrate the actress who just left off, through the films that will never go away.
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In 1993 she appeared in an autobiographical television documentary, "Katharine Hepburn: All About Me," made for the TNT cable network. She began: "So this is about Katharine Hepburn, public, private. Can you tell which is which?" She added, laughing, "Sometimes I wonder myself."
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By the time she went to Hollywood in 1932, Hepburn was regarded as difficult and lofty. Her first employer, David O Selznick, was horrified: she wasn't beautiful, she wasn't sexy, she talked back, she didn't flatter fools. How could she survive?
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Constance Collier was a drama coach for many famous actors, including Hepburn during her world tour performing Shakespeare in the 50s. Upon Collier's death in 1955, Hepburn "inherited" Collier's secretary Phyllis Wilbourn, who remained with Hepburn as her secretary for 40 years.
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