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...Kate Hepburn's 24 years on stage and screen, her detractors have been many. Yet most of them have had to eat their words. The most damning thing ever said of her was in 1938, when Harry Brandt, a movie exhibitor, labeled Kate "boxoffice poison." But this year Kate is stronger than she ever was: her last two films, The African Queen and Pat and Mike, are top box-office hits of the season...
Passionate Pro. Her great personal success in the Shaw play may be explained by the fact that the part suits her down to the ground. For Kate Hepburn is a Shavian heroine in real life: strong-minded, talkative, alternately irritating and fascinating, bursting with electric energy and remedies for all the world's ills. In Shaw's words, she is the born "decider, dominator, organizer, tactician and mesmerizer...
Whacked Children. The angularity of mind and body was hers by inheritance. She was born 42 years ago in Hartford, Conn., the second of the six children of Katharine Houghton and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a noted urologist and surgeon. Her father, a transplanted Virginian, was so moved by Brieux's crusading play about syphilis, Damaged Goods (and by the preface written to it by Bernard Shaw), that he risked ostracism by his campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate...
...rapt and rambling Hepburn household, no one ever changed the subject when young Kate came into the room: she heard all there was to hear. But freedom had its limits. When his children's squabbles got beyond the control of reason, Dr. Hepburn whacked them all impartially. Kate was spanked until she was nine, when she figured out how to stop the spankings: by taking them without crying...
Hartford's more orthodox citizens looked somewhat askance at the perpetual ferment seething in the Hepburn house, and this attitude was sometimes reflected in the brutal behavior of the neighbors' pitiless young. Kate took to shaving her head every summer so as to give her playmates less of a hand-hold when they locked in combat. One day, a cattily candid friend remarked to Mrs. Hepburn that it was a pity Kate was such a frail child. Kate, seeing through the pity to the insult, charged across the lawn and hurled herself headlong against a tree. If that...