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Katharine Hepburn: Trojan Women
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More than any other Hollywood heroine, Katharine Hepburn embodied dynamism, courage and idealism. Although compromised by many of her roles, she opened up visions of a fuller life to generations of women.
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After this film, Hepburn's career was sporadic, with several noble attempts to translate great theater to the screen. The Madwoman of Chaillot (Bryan Forbes, 1969) was too literal minded in its approach to the Giradoux play. The Trojan Women (Michael Cacoyannis, 1971) sported a jaw-dropping cast (Hepburn co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas and Geneviève Bujold) but failed in the difficult task of making Euripidean tragedy cinematic. A Delicate Balance (Tony Richardson, 1973), co-starring Paul Scofield, seems to have brought out the best in Hepburn, whose performance is admirably fierce, although the film is cramped by the two room set-up of the Edward Albee play. She ... did Love Among the Ruins (1975) with Lawrence Olivier, and a version of The Corn is Green (1979), both done for TV, and her last films with the man who discovered her, George Cukor.
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Hepburn was educated at the elite women's college Bryn Mawr, in Pennsylvania, and graduated with a major in history and philosophy. She went straight into the theatre, where she earned a reputation for being headstrong and undirectable. She was smart, and she mixed profound reticence with abrupt surges of outspokenness. Fighting her own reserve made her impulsive and perilous. She seemed mannered sometimes, but rather more in a social than a theatrical sense.
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Hepburn continued to do filmed stage dramas, including The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), The Trojan Women (1971) by Euripides, and Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (1973). In 1973, she first appeared in an original television production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.
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If acting had not worked out, Hepburn would never have moped. She would have played golf and tennis, travelled, driven and flown, perhaps; and she would have devoted herself to feminist causes long before they became fashionable. She would have had enduring friendships with women, and a string of bantering relationships with strong, tough men of the world.
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