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Katharine Hepburn: Plays
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Universal bought the rights to Ruth Gordon's play "A Very Rich Woman" for Hepburn. Gordon had co-written "Adam's Rib" and "Pat and Mike," but Hepburn--despite a long friendship with Gordon--wasn't interested in this material.
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Synopsis: Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry was especially written by playwright James Prideaux for Katharine Hepburn. It would have been impractical to attempt a live staging, so the script was committed to a TV movie, under the direction of Hallmark Hall of Fame veteran George Schafer. Hepburn plays anotherRead More
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In an interview in Playboy, Huston spoke of how on their days off, he and Bogart would go hunting for big game, and how one day Hepburn asked to go along. He described her as a "Diana of the Hunt", utterly fearless, and able to shoot with the best of them.
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A packet of correspondence from 1971 concerned Hepburn's use of a four-letter word in "Coco," a play based on the life of designer Coco Chanel. Her latest collection having bombed, the character utters the profanity.
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