Ebook {Epub PDF} Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J. Mann

 · The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart, complicated, and sophisticated woman behind the image. Onscreen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's /5(4).  · In Kate author William J Mann tries to separate Katherine Hepburn the icon from Kate Hepburn the person. This task seems like a herculean process because much of what is known about the life of Katherine Hepburn was created by Katherine herself. The real Katherine was kept for /5. At the time of her death in , Katharine Hepburn was burned into public consciousness as a feisty early feminist who battled her way to the top of the heap without selling out to the Hollywood machine, a brilliant actress whose romances with the likes of Leland Hayward and Howard Hughes were famous—and whose decades long affair with co-star Spenser Tracy was concealed from the world out /5().

In Kate author William J Mann tries to separate Katherine Hepburn the icon from Kate Hepburn the person. Gore Vidal's review of this book sums it up better than I could: "William Mann has produced a truly significant biography of a woman whose complicated personality has never been fully captured. Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn: William J. Mann: www.doorway.ru: Books. Hollywood Divas. American Actress. Biography. howard hughes:: the women in his life. books about katharine hepburn - Google Search. Hollywood Divas. William Mann's story of Katharine Hepburn is certainly that kind of read. Enjoyable, witty and well researched. Never stiff or boring, he asks the questions that other bios have seemed to tip-toe around. What exactly were Ms Heburn's relationships like and with whom?

Kate.: William J. Mann. Macmillan, Oct 3, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 3 Reviews. The first major Katharine Hepburn biography independent of her control reveals the smart. Book Overview. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year One of Publishers Weekly 's Best Books of the Year Katharine Hepburn was her own creation--an ambitious, vulnerable woman who charmed the public with the image of an East Coast aristocrat, wearing pants and freely speaking her mind. But that show didn't come easily to her, or without tremendous effort and concealment. William J. Mann, Katharine Hepburn’s latest biographer, says Hepburn’s father was still paying her bills when this feisty, starchy, no-nonsense American idol was Not that there was.