I waded through all of this information, most of which I already knew, to hear two sentences of “I love you”, between two people, which don’t even sound of an amorous nature, but more in a friendship way. I feel click baited.
I'm struggling to see what was twisted about Katherine Hepburn's life. She came across as a woman who lived on her own terms and was rather brave considering the times she lived in and the recorded coversation between her and John Ford just sounded like affection between old friends. I'm a big fan of Golden Age Hollywood and Ms Hepburn was a major part of that era.
I can't stand these click bait titles...They made it sound like there was going to be some sort of real scandolous conversation they had...I can get more scandal watching the news...they need to stop it...
Infuriates me when they say a woman is lesbian because she never married or had a child, what BS..I am a retired 66 year old woman who had a successful career, my own home, lots of passing relationships, a couple of big loves, and enjoyed the company of nieces, nephews, godchildren, without wanting children myself full time. Totally heterosexual, totally comfortable in my own skin and my own company. God bless women like Katherine Hepburn, icon and one of the greatest actresses ever.
In spite of the negative comments posted here, this is a very informative video. Yes, I knew a lot of this, but not all. I've been an avid fan of old movies and those actors since the early 1970s. I enjoyed this very much.
theres sonething totally fishy about the top comment and the THREE HUNDRED PLUS negative commebts to that ONE click bait comment... and ALMOST ALL 10 months ago EXACTLY... as if it was a BOT and came with a trail. theres a few now and then of real people but they are mostly fake. in truth, do you think factinate has some unknown corner on SECRETS of even long dead people they had no way of really knowing? so I dont know what you expect on a UA-cam channel... but they do a really nice job on these videos, compiling the narrative of facts and musings, pics and video clips... they are always enjoyable and done really well❤❤
Telling someone that you love them does not imply anything more serious than a platonic situation. If she said "I love you too" or there was some indication that they kissed or more then maybe you might read something into it. But responding "it's mutual" is not an especially romantic response.
I'm still friends with my ex-wife, and with another girlfriend I lived with for four years. Whenever I talk to either of them, whether on the phone or in person, I tell them, "I love you" and they say it too. No sex is involved. That time has passed.
You must be very young she had an adulterous affair with married Spencer Tracy for 30 years, I am almost 70, it was an open secret, he didn't want to divorce Louise Tracy because he was catholic, THE PERFECT DEFINITION OF AN OXYMORON, LIKE BEING CATHOLIC SINNING, NOT GETTING A DIVORCE, WHILE HAVING AN AFFAIR, WILL GET YOU SAVED, SATAN BLINDED BOTH OF THEM
I don't think she was a very romantic type of person. And besides, platonic love can be just as strong and important and romantic love, and often lasts longer.
You really don't need click bait titles. People who enjoy stories about actors will still watch if you have more honest titles. Nothing twisted about this. Your title makes it sound like she was a satan worshipper or a cult member or some crap. That recording was nothing but sweet. It's sad. I wanna watch more of your videos because you do a great job, but I won't because I despise click bait titles. It's a slap in the face to anyone who views your videos thinking that there's something crazy they didn't already know about someone. Stop slapping viewers in the face. It's rude.
I concur. Ms. Hepburn would ride her bicycle over to Saks to shop and was always lovely. Kind, personable and polite. (She was likewise when ordering on the phone.) It was amazing that no one bothered her.
What's twisted 🥨 about her life? It's a long life filled with love, romance, and adventure. What I found twisted was the public's perception of her re: her dress and outspokenness. I celebrate her for being a strong force 💪 that was no push over. Way to go, Katherine!
Well if extramarital affairs are okay to you. If you think she was a strong force fine. To me that is immoral. Classy women don't cheat or get another women's husband. Put the muscles up whatever. That is the Hollywood way immoral and do whatever. I rather be a classy woman. Katherine was a excellent actor I honor that that is all period.
@@weekendatBernies-k6cI agree and the saddest thing is his wife’s statement to Hepburn on his death , “ I thought that you were a rumour “ . Wicked pair of adulterers . She was an amazing actress , one of the best .
Katherine Hepburn was quite a woman and incredibly talented. I loved the movie that she made with Bogart, “The African Queen.” I remember watching it with my parents. Back in those days in Hollywood, a star had to be beautiful, dance, sing, and act. Those were the real Hollywood legends. Hepburn had that unique voice. You knew who was speaking the minute Hepburn uttered a word.
I love The African Queen, too, and have watched it many times. She was her forties, and didn't appear to be wearing much makeup. I thought she was lovely. I read that Bogart chose her as his leading lady. She was truly a force of nature!
You are correct. Most people do not know the difference between loving someone and Being in love with someone They are two totally different things The uneducated masses seem to think that the two are interchangeable . THEY ARE NOT. The same applies to the words Some'one' and Some'body' Somebody refers to the DEAD. A BODY is a DEAD ENTITY One is the cardinal number One is alive One is unique One is irreplaceable { There has NEVER been one like YOU in existence on this earth before you were born - and there will NEVER be one like you after you die ] Everybody is the same : Rotten and stinking after four days You will find every'body' buried in the cemetery It's full of bodies.
I was brought up in Connecticut, but In the 1970's I was living in Massachusetts. I discovered that Hepburn was starring in a play (A matter of gravity) that was on tour and would have a run in Boston. My girlfriend, Lauren, and I went to the theatre to get tickets for the next evening, and then go to dinner. But we discovered that there were two tickets available for that evening. Since there was no time to eat, we were just hanging out in the long lobby hallway. I was facing the entrance, and Lauren was facing me. We were the only ones there. One of the entry doors opened and Katherine Hepburn walked towards us. Went she got close enough to make eye contact; she gave me a subtle look- a gentle plea just to let her pass. I complied. I directed my gaze back to my girlfriend. After she had passed Us, i told Lauren who the person was who she could see the back of. Lauren, said, "why didn't you tell me?" There would have been time enough for her to turn around and face Hepburn. I did not do it because New Englanders are brought with a very strong belief in the right of personal privacy. Not to comply with Hepburn's subtle, but clear, request would have been a violation of that. Hepburn's lifelong desire for privacy was simply a deeply ingrained New England trait. What I remember of her in that 1977-8 moment was, first how small she was. We forget how short most of the leading men were of her time. Second, how great she looked- slim and youthful. She had to have put on a lot of make-up to look old enough for the part. The play itself was forgettable. I was just a vehicle for her. If you have not done so, please watch the Philadelphia Story. it
In my area, there is a youngish man who participated in an Oscar-winning song project. I ran into him in a convenience store one day and we had that same silent exchange. We live in Tennessee; it's not just New England. 🙂🙋💙
Lovely story. Thank you. I wd've done the same. I'm not a New Englander, but her unspoken plea touched my heart. What a gift you were able to give Ms. Hepburn! Respectful anonymity. Wonderful. She probably remembered you bc of the rarity of that gift. Blessings to you. 🕊
@@rhusradicans2122 I agree with you there, too many people confuse love with sex - as all people are different then I decline to make any definitions or comparrisons. I never met her, but i know that I would have (and indeed do) loved her for her mind and looks - her strong persoanilty is something I admire and respect.... and her looks, beautiful.
@@rhusradicans2122 I've been in a long term relationship with a woman and several of my female friends regularly tell me they love me. I'm more like Hepburn and say things like "same" or "it's mutual." Nothing salacious about it. Just old friends.
Thank you for taking the time to know her. Ms Hepburn was fabulous. On stage, in movies, in the press, and in her private times in her life. I miss her.
Katharine Hepburn’s ‘family home’ was Hartford, CT, where she grew up. Fenwick, in Old Saybrook, CT, was her family’s summer ‘compound’ on Long Island Sound. She did live there at the end of her life, and died there.
I knew a guy in the Marines way back when who was from Old Saybrook Connecticut. Never knew there was any connection to anything with it. I was driving up to Boston a few years ago and remember seeing road signs for Old Saybrook.
@@FRLN500I’m thinking we all love our families. Is it more honorable if an actress loves hers? Does she deserve some sort of acclaim for that? Maybe it’s because a lot of people in Hollywood don’t. I love and have sacrificed for my entire family my whole life. I don’t want any acclaim. I do it because I’m genuinely concerned for their welfare.
Anecdote: Katherine survived the catastrophic hurricane that caused huge destruction and over 600 deaths in New England in September 1938 by struggling through the storm surge that wrecked her family’s home at the shore. Howard Hughes dispatched an airplane to send her food and water afterwards.
I once watched in 1981 a play in a Broadway theatre I think it was called Woman of the Year with Katherine Hepburn, after the play was over we all waited for her to exit the theatre, so when she left we all applauded her whilst she was walking towards the open door of her car, and all the time she retributed giving us large smiles.
Fairly accurate overview of Hepburn’s life. We’ll never know. She, herself joked about being a lesbian, but her history with men belie that. Your presentation is based on assumption and the recording of Ford and Hepburn doesn’t warrant a salacious interpretation. He was a dying man telling a woman he cared for that he loved her and her response “it’s mutual” I appreciate hearing it, and more than anything, thanks for providing that.
You are the first person to mention that film!!! I fell in love when I watched it with my parents as a kid. At Christmas time, no less, and on television. Great film, great cast and a perfect Christmas movie!
@adalouellis5706 I fell partially in love with Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. By the time I had finished watching the Lion in Winter, I had totally lost my heart to him ❤️❤️❤️❤️ He was one of the famous rabble rousers Richard Harris, Burton, and O' Toole. We will never see their like again! Also, the late, great, Olly Reed!
It wasn't a big success initially, but it's become far more popular over the years and a cult classic. Why else would they make "Whats Up Doc?" with Streisand and O'Neal - its not a remake but sure pays homage to Hepburn & Grant
She was dedicated to her craft. She loved Spencer Tracy. And She loved John Ford. She was complicated but heroic in her beliefs. The death of her brother took a toll on her. So she acted as though he was still alive but thru her. 4 Academy Awards. However, she was in Stage Door the film. And all her films are loved by many. We today realize the great actress, caretaker, lover, and dedicated to her craft. Love her for standing up for women's rights. God bless her soul.
This was such a kind story. She always reminded me of my mom. Mother actually handed down the book Tracey & Hepburn to me. Thank you for keeping it kind.
I looked her up in "Who's Who" in the Eighties, and found a P. O. box address in West Hartford, where she was known to reside. I had read that she loved letters from her fans, and would correct any grammatical or spelling mistakes and send them back to the sender. lol Well, after she won her 4th (and record-setting) Oscar for her role in, "On Golden Pond" with Henry & Jane Fonda as her co-stars, (a must-see film from 1980), I decided to write her a congratulatory note, expecting nothing in return (nor requesting), but used my return address on the envelope, should she wish to respond. She was then in Boston, performing in a play at that time, as I had read that in a newspaper. Two weeks later, a letter arrived with a Boston postmark, and no return address -- my mother wondered who that could be, and I instantly knew! The Great Kate! :) It was on a note paper with, "Katherine Houghton Hepburn" in orange letters at the heading, and she used Roman numerals for the date. It was perfectly typewritten on a manual typewriter she apparently took with her, and she wrote: "Dear Laura, thank you for your nice letter. I am sorry, but I do not sign nor send photographs." She signed it, too. I wish I still had that letter, as it's sadly long lost, but it was a very cool thing -- and sooooooooooooooo Hepburn! I don't believe she was into women, nor even bi. I myself love wearing men's clothes -- they are more comfortable, and I wear men's shoes, as my feet are too wide. A gay woman wouldn't marry three times, either. There was nothing written in stone that Kate had to marry ANY of them, let alone the guys she did. I can also relate to not becoming a mother. Not every woman feels the need or the urge to nurture any children. I love kids, but it wasn't my purpose this time around, so I wasn't blessed with any. So, we cannot judge people by the way they choose to dress or whether or not they should be in traditional "normal" family roles. I played with dolls, but loved being the father whenever I played, "house", because I didn't like the role of a mother (housework -- yuck!), and preferred to "work" instead. Men have that escape, no matter how stressful their jobs may be, whereas women are stuck with never-ending chores at home, plus dealing with kids when they come home from school. lol I also was raised like a son by my dad -- and did few "girly" things with my mother. So, tomboy that I am -- is exactly what Kate was. Nothing wrong with that! (In contrast, I read that if Barbra Streisand is up the street, and she breaks a fingernail, she needs it immediately repaired! If THAT is not "girly", I don't know what IS! lol
That's great that you got a note from the Great Kate. She was married only one time, to Ludlow Ogden Smith, when she was very young. They divorced several years later and remained friends for life.
@laurabulla2834 That's a great story. It would have never occurred to me that someone of Hepburn's status, and a legend by that time, would answer fan mail. But she was certainly unique. Though I did cringe when you mentioned losing the letter.
Katherine Hepburn and my father were extremely close from the late 20's when they partied together a LOT at Hearst Castle. They remained very close throughout their lives and she also became close to my father's wife when he married. There is a nice story about him by producer Jerry Skinner called Joel McCrea, and I am in it also. Katherine said on more than one occasion that she felt Joel was more talented and a better actor than most other actors in Hollywood, including Spencer Tracy and Bogart.
Joel Mcrea was tops in my book,tho I'm a little surprised she liked his artistry as much as she did. I ABsolutely adored her,as a young woman she was excruciatingly attractive and mysteriously marvelous and sexy at once to my aching heart.
There's still that tremendous desire of movie star worshippers that seeks to normalise the abnormal personal lives of these ego driven individuals. Hepburn was rumored to be predominantly lesbian in her sexuality. But the movie aficionados wanted on and off screen romance and the studios were intent on giving it to them. Remember, actors are the great illusionists, even unto themselves and the movie business ran on the basis of creating fantasy. It's interesting that the alcohol/drug filled lives of these stars of the silents and following decades, up until the 70s, are no longer so evident amongst modern stars, whose lives are lived more honestly.
@Gerhold102 couldn’t agree more. Actors/movies sell fantasies about romance, sex, philosophy. They are skilled in illusions/myths/lies. But I think they still do it, though narrative and lies are somewhat shifted. They still drink, take drugs and alter themselves with pharma etc.
The woman lived her life as she wished. I wish today’s young people would stop living their lives with herd-mentality … one can’t reach their dreams if they see themselves as victims. Ms. Hepburn made waves because she moved alone.
😂 they are bed hopping just as much, truth is bed hopping leads to mental break downs and after decades of little regard to others you get a broken society. Unbelievable you didn't figure that out by now 😂
After watching an listening about Katherine Hepburn an my family worked with her in film,an stage. They grew to appreciate her own style an acting talents an being herself. My relatives some were able to meet her. An she was an spitfire of an person an just as sweet as honey. Beautiful as an rose in full bloom. My she R.I.P.❤
Katharine Hepburn could be called the Scarlett O'Hara of her time. Like the fictional character, Hepburn had little time for convention or the expectations of others. She demanded and got terms from the masculine powers that be in Hollywood at a time when no woman had ever had such influence or control of her own destiny. Hepburn was a trailblazer and a superb talent. She was tough and she was strong when women were supposed to be anything but. More than anything, I think it simply boiled down to the fact that Katharine Hepburn knew who she was, what she wanted, and how to get it. She would probably laugh at the notion that women today somehow need to be "empowered." Hepburn WAS empowered!
i could care less who Kate slept with but i'm always amused at her being called a tough trailblazer "who knew who she was" when her and Tracy were faking a grand Hollywood affair to convince the studio and the public that she was straight.
I Remember reading what she wrote about Spencer's death. She said that night he could not sleep & was extremely restless. About 20 minutes before Spencer Passed, he woke her up saying he was going to warm up some milk & asked her if she wanted some also. K.H. said she told him she would get up to do it for him, but he said no, he would do it. She said he left the bedroom & about ten mins later, she heard something fall (the glass & pan) & then, a loud thud. She said she KNEW what it would be, before she found him. Sure enough, Spencer Tracy Passed on her kitchen floor. Back then, you would dial "0" for police. But she called Tracy's best friend. Also, K.H. wrote him a beautiful letter & if I remember correctly, it was read at the 1968 Oscars. Knowing her penchant for privacy & her lifelong love for discretion, I may be wrong. But I know she DID read it, Maybe it was on a talk show, but I know she did read it. I read it in the book she wrote. It TRULY was a love letter. Today's youth have NO idea what a "TRUE STAR" REALLY is.
@@FortescueGimlet Sorry, you ARE ABSOLUTELY wrong. I say & use the word "Pass" & I ALWAYS capitalize it, because in my own way, I am showing MY respect for DEATH !! Just as I say & use the word Life. ONLY a fool would think NOT saying the word Death, is some sort of protection and would think differently. Death comes for us ALL.. I SAY Pass & YOU can say what you like. You do NOT know me to make such an asinine judgement.
@@FortescueGimletDude why are you arguing about death and how someone describes it? Also why would you think just because someone or something dies it no longer needs respect? There are laws against desecrating corpses for crying out loud.
@@FortescueGimlet It makes me smile too whenever I see yet another person who thinks they are actually intelligent. In fact I find it hilarious. I enjoy when unintelligent people pretend that they’re smart. Please don’t stop pretending. 🤣
I am tired of hearing that a woman who is ambitious, not interested in marriage, and more comfortable in pants has to be a lesbian. Not there is anything wrong with being a lesbian, but it is ridiculous to ascribe her strength, determination, and independence to “masculine traits.” They belong exclusively to neither gender.
She remained "independent" of the fake moral superiority she put on in public. You are defending phoniness and dishonesty in the name of VIRTUE. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
@@alwilson3204 The traits are human, not gender-specific. Some are allotted by culture to and encultured in one sex, and the others in the other sex. "Nurturance," as example, is ascribably "female"/"feminine," but men can also be nurturing. "Aggression" is typically considered "masculine," but it isn't unknown for women to be aggressive. And the only observable difference between male and female ambition is that women's is usually hidden behind other behaviors -- as example, sex not only sells but also "buys".
In an age of Conformity, she actually couldn't help being who she was; not a rebel as much as an actual person. She was herself. Most of us would consider that so be a painful way to live, but she could live no other way. For many of us she is loved even more for it. She was a Genuine Human Being...
@semigoth299 I like her brutal honest character in The Rainmaker. I knew she was bad as a person but I didn't know she was that deeply rebelliously wicked. However like all adulterous sinners she will have her part in the eternal lake of fire and brimstone forever and ever.
So, no conversation about her gender nonconformity, nor probable bisexuality. Not a mention about how she kept finding men her father's age and alcoholics or why. Pretty skimpy research. Unsubscribed.
Are you serious? THAT was the bombshell? "I love you." "It's mutual." That was so benign a "confession"; it was like saying, "The weather is turning cold." "Yes, it is." Geez, what a let down. Anyway, very good work. Good research and editing. Thanks for posting.
I may be wrong, but I always thought that the role of Captain Janeway in Star Trek Voyager seemed modelled on Katherine Hepburn and wonder if anyone else thought that.
She was a fascinating lady. A very strong woman especially for her time. She didn't allow society's norm of feminine affect her. She had pretty marked ideas about how she wanted to live her own life. I think she really loved her brother and his death had a huge effect on her. In a way, I feel like her having a somewhat masculine Tom Boy style was her way to embody her brother and carry on with a part of him within her in a tangible way. I love her style, I love that she wore menswear suits and wingtips shoes and loafers, was fearless in her expression, didn't objecify herself, and owned her own vibe. She was different and unique, and full of confidence. A wonderful actress, and a force to be reckoned with. I wish there were more women like her, willing to be different and swim against the tide of ever changing social fads.
yes adultery with Spencer Tracy was true independence and class - but the affair really wasn't sinful since it was fake, to save her from lesbian rumors in old school hollywood.
I knew she was bad as a person but I didn't know she was that deeply rebelliously wicked. I like her brutal honest character in The Rainmaker. However like all adulterous sinners she will have her part in the eternal lake of fire and brimstone (smelly liquid hotter than fire) forever and ever.
@@GTKJNow you know, sin is sin, and no one is without sin. Let him without sin cast the first stone - Jesus- Judge not lest you be judged. Only God can judge. Your comment is crazy as hell ☺️. Why would you say such a thing? Now go look in the mirror and think about Jesus' words, his teachings, and who he hung out with. Peace..
It is AMAZING that the “truth” comes out long after actors are dead. I have read her memoir and could not in any way that said she was a lesbian, nor Tracy gay! His wife would not allow a divorce as they were both Catholic.
I've got issues with this. I read her bio too and felt it was honest. She didn't have lesbian tendencies but if she did, I feel like she would have come out at some point.
The only "evidence" of this was a Hollywood pimp, Scotty Bowers, who claimed to have supplied Hepburn and Tracy with lovers ... he was also peddling a solacious book he'd written at the time :::::rolls eyes :::: The reason I don't buy the lesbian/gay thing is that the guy was CLEARLY using Hepburn and Tracy's secrecy and mysterious get-togethers to imply things, hoping the shadowy nature of their relationship would cause enough people (those who love to bathe in scandal) to be curious enough to buy the book. This guy [Scotty Bowers] would also claim that ex-British King Edward VIII and his wife, American socialite Marry Wallis Simpson, were also gay and that he also provided them with lovers. Out here in Hollywood, EVERYONE knows the real secrets. Bowers knew he couldn't shock the jaded masses with aything, so he goes big with unheard-of/unverified tales of the already whispers-behind-her-back Hepburn and Tracy (to say nothing of ex-King Edward and Simpson). The people who like to keep their lives the most private are the most vulnerable to opportunists who like to make up tales and/or provide people with an opportunity to "fill in the gaps" about the things they haven't been privy to.
It seems to be a movement now to go back and make ALL old movie stars gay or lesbian. I am sure some were, but not all of them. I am tired of the trying to blow your mind efforts to destroy your image of ALL the old movie stars. I will continue to use my own judgement about the older movie stars.
@@petehart6722 Other than personal fantasies, I just don't understand why people are so obsessed with famous people's personal preferences that have NO impact on their talent or performances.
This is a beautiful portrayal of her. It is absolutely a difficult job to condense her life story into 20 minutes. She was a difficult person at work and home. Thank you.
I remember reading in a Ladies Home Journal article about Hepburn that in her senior years she Skateboarded down the driveway to get her mail. Katherine Hepburn and Rosalind Russell were my two Favorite Actresses of all time. Namaste . Carpe Diem.
@@JoaninFlorida If you knew anything about Broadway in the Golden Theatre days you would know that those so called "loud mouth" ladies were talented and well trained in Projecting their voices for speaking dialogue or singing to be heard easily by the back of the theatre seating and the back of the balcony seating. Many Broadway / Theatre trained actors and actresses in those days tended to appear more loud and flamboyant due to such training. Later as they assimilated to Film Acting more regularly than theatre , they learned to adapt to more normal tones that technology of audio could regulate for their audience. Back in those days Theatre did not have computerized audio volume systems in place for most Theatrical productions. I hope you will be more generous with kinder praise of such gifted Actors who worked Very Hard to entertain us all. Namaste . Carpe Diem.
If Katherine would see these social media comments she would say how boring they all were, and for young people to take the high road always. She was the best in everything. Her fashion style is as current and timeless as is possible...
I love every movie she had made however the best one was The mad woman of someplace it’s about a elderly lady who lived in the past and some unsavory characters wanted to take advantage of her however she got them all.
@@semigoth299 I like her brutal honest character in The Rainmaker. I knew she was bad as a person but I didn't know she was that deeply rebelliously wicked. However like all adulterous sinners she will have her part in the eternal lake of fire and brimstone (smelly liquid hotter than fire) forever and ever.
@@GTKJNow Since when did they put you in charge of judging people oh that’s right you’re one of those people who can’t do no wrong and the rest of us are eternally doomed because we’re not as prefect as you, then just blow it out of your pipe
A friend of mine in Vancouver was sitting in his back yard when he heard a clunk and up popped an older lady who had placed a ladder on the other side and climbed the ladder leaning over she yelled, Hello have you seen Yul, they said no but he’s usually there, this was Katherine Hepburn who had come to see Yul Brynner who had cancer at the time and was staying for at this house
Honestly, the recorded clip between John Ford and Hepburn was no different from what friends say to each other all the time, making it borderline click bait. I don’t appreciate that. The rest of the episode was fabulous.
Hepburn was always in love with Spenser Tracy. My father was friends with John Ford , I never saw Hepburn anywhere around him. She did sleep with Howard Hughes regularly I was told. ... She may have had a fling with Ford but it was ancient history by 1960. Should have asked mom - she knew everybody in Hollywood as see worked the Oscars .
most people knew john ford was a very private man. he seldom talk about himself. his grandson talked about this. your father is not in his circle. and every one in hollywood knew the hughes story is total fiction.
The thing no one talks about is that she had an intense relationship with Howard Hughes. (He used to date all the starlets) Before Hughes moved into Vegas, he was a Hollywood producer/director and wanted to put Hepburn in his movies. It’s been said she was the only woman he ever loved and wanted to marry. Their break-up came when they argued over Spencer Tracy.
Did you actually watch this video? She dates Hughes before she ever met Spencer Tracy. Their relationship broke up because he didn't pass the parental test, this was in the late 1930's. She didn't meet Tracy until they starred in Woman of the Year (1941).
I have always loved her and all her peculiar attitudes and actions , she was her own person , and that voice was hers and hers alone , she stood on her own feet , not a push over , she did not bend , she forged her own path , her wardrobe were hers , pants or dresses she was her own person , she was her own not to be messed with , gay or not , who cared what people thought she held her own , and demaned respect and got it ! If more people had her guts and stand AMA we as a people would be the better for it , we grown into weak minded slugs , no guts , no back bones , just weak , women are desusting, men are lamb , our leaders are pussies , our backs are turned from God like washington on our quarters , we and Rome have becomed bed fellows , wollonging in fifth and self destructions All started because we have no back bone , Katherine Hepburn , had back bone , a strong woman ashard of herself , not afraid to step on toes when needed ,NOT SOFT ❤ we have digressed cave men are stronger in spirit than us ! 😢
i could care less about who Hepburn slept with but it's always amusing to hear her praised as a trailblazer who knew who she was when her and Spencer Tracy were faking a love affair to convince the studio and the public she was straight. if she was such a trailblazer she would have said 'fuck it' grabbed Patsy Kelly and had a real affair.
Ms Hepburn is one of the most diversified actresses of all time… I appreciate each role she played and the talent she portrayed. She had an independence about her that I loved, and display myself. She will always be one of my most favorite actresses…and respected ladies of the screen, for her views and beliefs! God Bless Kathryn for giving so much of herself to the screen, for all of us to enjoy.♥️💜❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌈🥰
Our Uncle Dana fixed a couple of appliances in her lodging, while she was filming "On Golden Pond", in the neighborhood where he lived most of his life. He said she didn't pay much attention to him. It's in writing; those weren't his exact words. (Years earlier, Norbert Wiener had talked with Dana as a habit, at the family hardware store). I loved Katherine Hepburn's performance in in "Mary of Scotland".
I read Katharine Hepburn's Autobiography and her love for Spencer Tracy was real. They lived together until the end, the only way Society and Hollywood would allow it, back then. In Heaven, all that works out. God bless Ms. Hepburn and her full life and career. Amen ✨️💞🙏😇🕊
@@JoaninFlorida One of the famous and popular hairstyles of the 1920's was the Eton Crop which was severely short as the name suggests. Women were seen to go to barber shops for the cut as women's hairstylists were not yet experienced in the new short styles. Also, Chanel promoted trousers for beach and pyjama type casual wear which quickly caught on and developed into day wear.
@user-tk1ht6wn3j Yeah Boyish short. Women were wearing shorter than she did. It was the style at the time. Im not disputing she was a tom boy. I'm disputing the examples. She wasn't a nice or good person. She was an entitled b17ch and treated people like sh17. She looked down on everyone she believed was beneath her which was everyone not wealthy. She had an affair with a married Spencer Tracey and had the nerve to call his wife after his death and suggest they be friends. Tracy's wife rightly hung up on her.
Spencer Tracy’s wife was an incredible woman. First off, their son, John was born in 1924 - way before Tracy met Hepburn. Louise Tracy worked hard for her son and eventually starting an institute for the deaf. She nursed John through polio. John became an accomplice artist and photographer who married a deaf woman and had a family.
The attempt to wipe out the well documented history of this woman that was recorded overtime coming from her own mouth is disgusting! Educated interviewers over the past three decades have revealed a very complex but also very compassionate and loving human being who was as stern as a ship captain. Everyone has their flaws and it is certainly humanity propensity to tear down its past and remake it through the eyes of the current time. That is our biggest mistake and we shouldn't just blame media for it.
All of this speculation about peoples lives is so unfortunate. What does any of it ultimately matter. The bigger truth here is the other hypocrisy of Spencer, Tracy, not wanting to divorce his long suffering, wife, because of his “faith“. Such bullshit, if faith meant anything to him, his behaviour would reflect it.
There is a propensity as of late of the Democrat(ic) Party/the Left to ("by any means necessary")... remove / erase / hide their Party's (Ray cyst, Big 0 Ted) history before even MORE people are TAUGHT... EDUCATED... INFORMED... or might just accidentally LEARN the TRUTH about their horrifically Ray cyst past & the powerful Democrats who shaped their Party & Democrats into who & what it was & IS STILL today. Their efforts extend far beyond the destruction & removal of statues. Their actions ALSO include: Revising/rewriting/eliminating textbooks & completely changing/totally eliminating WELL-Documented, Historical FACT-based "History," "Civics," "Social Studies" Classes/Curriculums in OUR Schools. Of course, they remove a statue of a Republican now & then in their efforts to disguise their ACTUAL OBJECTIVE, which is to hide & erase THE TRUE HISTORY of THEIR Party Also, today... Democrats in DC are attempting the systematic removal of historical portraits of Democrats displayed throughout our nation's U.S. Capital Bldg. The portraits are of Congressional Democrats; of their Legislators, Politicians, Bureaucrats... of Party "Leaders" who formed their Party's Platform/Agendga throughout history. For example, there are Portraits of: • Southern Democrats who, during the Civil War, fought AGAINST freeing the Slaves. • Democrat Legislators who VOTED AGAINST the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments. • Democrat Legislators who WROTE, SUPPORTED & ENFORCED JIM CROWE LAWS. • Democrats who WROTE, SUPPORTED & ENFORCED SEGREGATION LAWS. • Democrat Legislators who VOTED AGAINST the 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS Amendment. The above citations are only a small part of the despicable, truly horrific history that defines the Democrat(ick) Party. It's no surprise Democrats are trying to re-write, erase & eliminate it. As Malcolm X once said: "THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE BLACK MAN IS A WHITE LIBERAL." (Translation: A DEMOCRAT.) There are millions of informed, educated, intellectually-honest Americans who are keenly aware of who Democrats were throughout history... the history that formed the Democrat(ick) Party into who & what it continues to be TODAY. Please... don't let Democrats fool you. EDUCATE yourself. INFORM yourself... AND OTHERS. They can remove portraits & statues. They can re-write textbooks... change/re-write/eliminate curriculums... TRY to indoctrinate & poison the minds of OUR innocent children with Ray cyst Cee Are Tea. BUT... THEY CANNOT CHANGE THE TRUTH. Nor can they UN-EDUCATE or UN-INFORM the TRUTH-TELLERS. So TELL THE TRUTH my friends. TELL THE TRUTH to MANY others, far & wide. Then... respectfully ASK THEM to: P A S S . . . I T . . . O N. 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸 Thank you. May God bless you & all those you love. May He bless & protect our innocent children. And may Almighty God bless, restore, preserve & protect our Constitutional Republic, the USA, our beloved Home, as ONE NATION, UNDER GOD. I humbly pray. Amen.🙏♥️🇺🇸🙏
{a]s stern as a ship['s] captain" -- in her phony moral superiority, while a decades-long adulterer -- "compassionate"!? -- with no regard for the damage done to the marriage or his spouse.
Leave the dead Rest In Peace ,whatever they liked it’s their business ,she was a great actor and freedom icon to many woman ,especially in that generation ,honest woman and great personality Kate Hepburn ,rest in peace !
You make it seem as if lesbianism were something to avoid or to be ashamed of. Would you have been so circumspect if she had been totally heterosexual?
The truth matters, it's absolutely important, be it about the past or present, we should not lionize nor vilify the dead, merely tell the unvarnished truth, lies and being obtuse about who someone was serves no purpose and creates nothing of consequence, lies through omission or for any other reason teach us nothing, carry no weight in the world....
Me too. Loved watching her movies with my mother in law in the 1980’s. Katherine was all the rage when my mother in law was a young girl adolescent woman. Treasured memories.
She was so freakin cool. I loved her and I LOVED Spencer Tracy. The video mentions her college several times. She went to Bryn Mawr, one of the seven sisters schools, outside Philadelphia, from whence my big girl graduated five yrs ago.
I just watched Adams Rib today with Katherine and Tracy. Kind of funny that your video popped up on me a few hours later. 😊 It’s such a great movie and what makes it so good is their chemistry.
If this was a man controlling his life, not wanting children, doing business on his terms, there would be no problem. But, this was a woman, and society has always had a problem with strong minded women.
I saw her in Matter of Gravity in L.A. I didn't really listen or watch the play, as I watched just Hepburn through the binoculars I'd brought with me. I think Christopher Reeves was in it as well. I just got lucky that I was able to see her. She was in a sense very awkward, yet as she said in a Cavett interview, people think I'm fascinating, and she was.
I enjoyed your biographical presentation of Catherine Hepburn. As a young child in 1960s middle-class America, I became vaguely aware she had a somewhat scandalous questionmark over her public reputation. At age 16, I learned about the rumors of an affair with Tracy when watching a sappy movie they did together. It seemed sad for her and also wrong of her that she would enter an affair with a married man ... IF the rumors were true. Hearing this serialized exposé of her life's string of love affairs seems even sadder to consider the ironic fact she considered herself too selfish and yet she was caught up in a terminal affair with a man to whom she gave her all, when he could give her nothing but a dark secret affair ... no home, no family, no name, no faith, and no sunlight! I'm left wondering if her brother's death broke her so badly or if some devilish spirit plaged her. I think the gay rumors are just a vein attempt to provide a redeemable reaon for her inappropriate closeness with Tracy. On the whole of it, I'm left wondering who she really is ... a selfish ambitious woman who used men to fuel her evokative rise to stardom? Or a sad broken hearted girl, who patched her heart with stolen loves that she couldn't publicly claim because she didn't feel deserving of happiness after her brother's tragic death. Either way is tragic.
@@natmanprime4295 Meaning what exactly? She and Tracy had to hide their relationship because of people like you. Judgemental know it alls who pronounce their morality to be the only way to live. People like you were annoying then and still are today. She had parents that nurtured good self-esteem, not easy for a nontraditional woman in those days, and to think independently from know it alls like you, and she left a body of work that is breathtaking. What have you done? Right, made a self righteous pronouncement about her parents and how somehow, though you never met them, they raised her wrong. Snore. I'll take her and her 'progressive' parents over pearl clutching hypocrites like you any time.
@@natmanprime4295 because parents that beat the crap out of her and shamed her for being female would have been SO much better? The kind of parents that are now causing millions of women worldwide to eschew marriage, child bearing, relationships and even engaging with men anymore? Mmmm, that makes sense.
Those clearly aren’t the only two options. Tracy and Hepburn lived together for years. It was an open secret. There’s little doubt his wife knew. In those days people didn’t divorce so quickly. His wife enjoyed status, wealth and privilege. She likely was very happy with the arrangement. Hepburn and Tracy found love and devotion. Their making a life together while accommodating his wife does not seem inappropriate or ‘tragic’ to me, especially if their marriage was over in every way except the name.
On my humble opinion, your channel would gain even more followers if you consistently utilized this narrator, who is human, has empathy in his voice, and the quality of the voice itself is soothing. Very important for many listeners 👍🏻❤️
Secretly some women don’t want to divorce because they don’t want to be out on their own and secondly, they don’t wanna have sex with that man they may be having affair with someone else
Phenomenol women way ahead of her time I would have loved to have spent just five minutes in her company so interesting but really nothing scandalous here but loyalty and love .
Katherine was one woman, not many as you've implied by calling her women in your opening sentence, that aside Kate Hepburn was a fantastically strong woman, intelligent, beautiful and complicated, more needed to be said about her relationship with Howard Hughes, many believe she WAS the only woman he wanted to marry.....Katherine certainly loved animals more than children, she had many cats and dogs instead, there's many reputable tales of her affairs with women all throughout her time in Hollywood, Kate partied with ALL the best, lived to tell and was frank about her views on everything, a true feminist ahead of her time... .
My all time favorite movie is The Lion In Winter with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Their on-screen chemistry (or was it just talent?) was amazing. She was magnificent in that film! Peter was one of the original great men about town, closing down the bars and pubs with his pals, not remembering a bit of it when he sobered up. The lines delivered by both Katharine and Peter rivaled Shakespeare, in my opinion. That movie also gave us a glimpse of the beginnings of the careers of Anthony Hopkins and the best James Bond since Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton. Amazing woman, Katharine Hepburn!
I’ve always loved Katherine Hepburn as an actress and a human being. She was definitely one of a kind. Her “scandalous” behavior was only due to the times and never shocked me anyway - big deal! I’ve watched Philadelphia Story so many times I could recite it by heart… “oh, we’re going to talk about me, are we… Goody”. She was awesome!
Katharine Hepburn did indeed star in "Stage Door." She and Hayward remained on good terms for the rest of their lives. Her first choices as leading men for "The Philadelphia Story" were Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable, who they couldn't get, but Stewart and Grant worked out awfully nicely. After her brother's suicide, which she also refused to see for what it was, she took his birthday as her own. When she finally wrote "Me," her memoir, she corrected the record and revealed her real birthday. You don't mention Laura Harding, a serious relationship Hepburn had when she first came to Hollywood. Hepburn never worried about money. She was a Corning Glassware heiress, through her mother's family. Had she lived in these times, she probably would've identified as non-binary.
I was only 13 when Kate and Spencer Tracy made "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" in 1967; it was a big deal in the media at the time because everyone knew about the Tracy/Hepburn affair and his alcoholism was well-known. But it was the daring plot of the movie - an interracial marriage - that was a sensation in the racism-plagued United States. The movie was very good, and was well-made, featuring good performances from a hugely talented cast, but when it was made, Emmett Till had been beaten to a pulp for whistling at a white woman only 12 years before, and less than a year earlier interracial marriage was miscegnation and was illegal in more than a dozen states. Martin Luther King, Jr, was still alive, but it was a VERY dangerous time for a movie like this to show up in America. It was even more unrestful for young people; the joke among my friends who went to public school(I attended a Catholic school) was "Guess who's coming to dinner? Jimi Hendrix!" And when Spencer Tracy died two weeks after the film came out, my mother was able to tell me ALL about why this story was "a scorching epochal sensation." Mom was, like many military wives, a big fan of TV and movies(and all the juicy gossip), and this story had all the angst and weeping and wailing someone like that could wish for. But Katherine Hepburn was able to live with herself after all the hoop-la of her career - and she managed to turn out good work most of the time. She held her own against 2 generations of Big Star Hondas in "On Golden Pond"(which had a great complaint from aging Henry Fonda about "You keep saying we're 'late middle aged;' you have to face it, we're OLD, Dammit!") and co-starred Henry AND Jane Fonda as her husband and daughter. She showed that she still had it, too - she and Henry both won Oscars for that film, which also is some slick 1980s eye-candy - watch it if you've never seen it. "On Golden Pond" was a play that was a farce, at first, about 2 old people facing their mortality, that was played mainly by younger actors. The Producer had the script-writer rewrite the script to make it more dramatic, because Fonda and Hepburn really were old people by that time; and it made for a great film.
I can't remember the black actor's name, but I always found him to be the boringest actor I ever saw. I think he was just a token black actor they used at the time to let blacks play something other than slaves or clowns.
@@mauricemason2914 Sidney Poitier was never a "token black actor." Poitier was, in fact, the first black actor to be nominated for and win a Best Actor Oscar: he and Tony Curtis co-starred in the Stanley Kramer directed adventure film, The Defiant Ones.
@@mauricemason2914 wow, what an ignorant comment about Sidney Poitier . He started his acting career in 1947 , this movie was made in 1967. He had been in 30 movies or shows by that point. Hardly some token black “clown”. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in the late 50s with Defiant Ones , winning an Oscar in 1964 for Lillies of the Field…Maybe do some research next time and learn something before insulting a fine actor like Sidney Poitier.
Independent of the very moral superiority she put on publicly. Being a hypocrite is not being independent; it is being duplicitous, dishonest. She was a nasty narcissist.
@@jnagarya519 As someone put it in comments here, "she was Scarlet O'Hara of her times" - no wonder she thought she was perfect for that role - she would just be herself.
Ludlow Ogden Smith was a cousin of my Mother's and with only the one picture of them on the dock, I really didn't know much about their life. Thank you for the video!!
Honestly, Kathrine Hepburn didn't have what the Gone With The Wind's role of Scarlett O'Hara needed, but practically no other Hollywood actresses did either. That's why Vivian Leigh was essentially the only film actress who could have pulled it off. Leigh was practically born for the part. Nobody else had a chance.
Scotty Bower has written: "Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn did not actually live together and weren’t a couple at all, but the big shots thought it would be better to pawn them off as an adulterous duo than a gay man and a lesbian." Stranger things have happened.
In spite of Bowers opinion you can’t pretend chemistry. And Hepburn and Tracy had an incredible,”something .” You only have to watch Tracy’s speech In Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner to see the profound love between them. RIP.
I loved and still love KH. What a strong courageous Lady in her decade epochs. She lived ahead of her time. In today’s world there would be nothing twisted about her regarding her strong views about her progressive thinking; about careers for women; her rejections of marriage and motherhood; her progressive family, her wearing pants and wardrobe; her athletic capabilities. She WAS elegant with her exquisitely chiseled beauty, and becoming well educated (unusual then for women). She forged a hard journey for women who have benefitted from her life decisions. In spite of the downturns she faced because of her tenacity to keep to her beliefs, desires and wishes. Her personal love life is just that. She will be the one to answer to God for it (even though she was an aethiest). … as we all will.
One of my favorite actresses of all time and I think this story embellished for some Hollywood sensationalism. How on Earth do you get from that recording they played---any type of scandal?
What a wonderful video. A great piece of work. I love your narration - actually using your own voice, with a wonderfully chosen script - brilliant. Thank you so much for posting. Katherine Hepburn was always a favourite of mine, of all Hollywood icons. Good production values and full of so many great Hollywood photos. You should’ve had one of Howard Hughes with Katherine though, rather than Ginger! But I loved Ginger too! Thank you. Best regards from the Giant’s Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland. 😀👍☘️🎬
"I love you." "It's mutual." Oh, my god, the romance, I can't handle it...! 🤨 Yeah, that's not romantic - in fact it's almost the *opposite* of romantic.
As someone from CT. She actually lived in Old Saybrook, CT, of which Fenwick was a part. I x-rayed her hip in her later years in the 90's and she did not have dementia, she had Parkinson's Disease.
You may have x-rayed her hip, good! But she didn't have Parkinson's disease. She sd herself that her head tremors were a family trait she inherited from her father.
@@trishsiprell6996 pretty sure Parkinson’s could be considered a family trait as it’s end-stage autism (the pathogenic etiology of which is postpartum psychosis or wish for the child to become “unborn“). Doesn’t get much more family than that, and explains why she didn’t want kids too.
Katherine was a great Human being she didn’t care about the haters who spewed conspiracy theories and stated untruths to I suppose to make themselves feel important she was strong in her convictions and you always knew were you stood in her life if you could be so lucky to be in it
When I was a toddler, Katharine used to go through Maine every summer. She would always stop at this little shop called The Old Timers' Shop. Of course, when I met her, I had no clue who she was as I was only a toddler.
Gee, a woman doesn’t want to marry or have children - she must be a lesbian! After all who could resist a big strong man and screaming babies. She had a strong mother, who raised a strong woman with the ability to live her life as she wanted and not by the norms of the days. Lovers without marriage , how shocking! She was simply ahead of her time. As to both Hepburn and Tracy being gay, this only came out of a book written by an old man who waited till everyone was dead and then wrote a scurrilous book for the money which some were only too pleased to believe was all true. According to him everyone in Hollywood was gay! Gossip at its worst. And if they were that was their business and no one else’s. Outing someone, even after death is disgusting. I also believe that if it were true of Hepburn she would have been out and proud and damn the consequences.
Hepburn out and proud? please. despite her reputation for being a trail-blazer she also wanted to stay employed in 1930's Hollywood and a fake love affair with Spencer Tracy was the ticket. I don't buy all of Scotty Bower's stories but i'm also not an idiot - Kate wanted a paycheck.
So odd, a secret affair, he couldn’t divorce, but all these angry wives-to cover up Spencer being gay and her being a lesbian? I circle back and bump into impossible facts. Howard Hughes certainly loved Katherine. She built him a shower at her home so he would visit her there. But ultimately who could live with him? He had those quirks and germs phobia. Yikes. John Ford didn’t want to lose custody so she must have been serious about him. She wouldn’t be the first woman who thought wives actually are not the queens some seem to think. I have been married fifty years. I buy my own Christmas and birthday gifts. I took him to his birthday dinner and paid for it. He was happy to go. But he took a nap afterwards as usual. At this time in our lives we appreciate each other’s love and kindness.
I love Katherine Hepburn. She is my favorite older actress. After she passed a book came out called Kate by a man named Scott Berg. He met her in the 80's and they became good friends and she asked him to write her biography but she didnt want it released til after she died. He spent years with her , hearing her life story and irs an amazing book . A must read for fans of Kate
Like your Irish accent!However Katharine Hepburn was a force to reckon with but I loved her performance especially in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"She had me really Cracking up!!😅
It was Clark Gable and Spenser Tracy that Hepburn wanted to star with her in the Philadelphia story but had to settle for Grant and Stewart. It was her next movie that she finally picked Tracy as her leading man. But that probably because she co wrote the film and this time really did get what she wanted.
I saw her at the Oscars in the eighties they gave an Oscar for the best actress in movie history. So they got that fact wrong that she never went to a Oscars, she had Parkinson's and shook terribley but gave a brave speech. To this day African Queen is one of my top three movies.
Ms. Hepburn sd of herself "I do NOT have Parkinson's disease. The head shaking is a family trait; it comes from my father." This was in.a special called "All About Me," which I saw twice to remember all that she said. She also talked about swimming in the ocean every day all her life and thanked Mr. Tracy "for showing me what love is." It was lovely and memorable to hear her speak of her life and address the myths in her own words. 🌺
I waded through all of this information, most of which I already knew, to hear two sentences of “I love you”, between two people, which don’t even sound of an amorous nature, but more in a friendship way. I feel click baited.
Thank you I won’t bother watching now.
Thanks for the warning, I’ll skip this.
Thank you🙋🏼♀️
Ty, I hate the bait too.
Thank you! Won’t bother now.
I'm struggling to see what was twisted about Katherine Hepburn's life. She came across as a woman who lived on her own terms and was rather brave considering the times she lived in and the recorded coversation between her and John Ford just sounded like affection between old friends. I'm a big fan of Golden Age Hollywood and Ms Hepburn was a major part of that era.
I can't stand these click bait titles...They made it sound like there was going to be some sort of real scandolous conversation they had...I can get more scandal watching the news...they need to stop it...
She loved women, didn't she?
@@mckavitt13the love of her life was Spencer Tracy. He was married at the time they met but I don’t know if he ever divorced his wife.
She was an Undoubtedly Demoralized Woman.... dating a married man....
No one SHOULD EVER GET IN BETWEEN A Married Woman or Man!!
‼️Period‼️
the labels on youtube are almost a scam at times, very deceptive.
Infuriates me when they say a woman is lesbian because she never married or had a child, what BS..I am a retired 66 year old woman who had a successful career, my own home, lots of passing relationships, a couple of big loves, and enjoyed the company of nieces, nephews, godchildren, without wanting children myself full time. Totally heterosexual, totally comfortable in my own skin and my own company. God bless women like Katherine Hepburn, icon and one of the greatest actresses ever.
Delusional people 🤷♀️ they have to make up stuff to make themselves feel less weird.
Amen!
You must be a lesbian.
such small minded people
Yeah, their relationship was a complete secret until the 80s, so the theory that their relationship was a cover makes no sense.
In spite of the negative comments posted here, this is a very informative video. Yes, I knew a lot of this, but not all. I've been an avid fan of old movies and those actors since the early 1970s. I enjoyed this very much.
theres sonething totally fishy about the top comment and the THREE HUNDRED PLUS negative commebts to that ONE click bait comment... and ALMOST ALL 10 months ago EXACTLY... as if it was a BOT and came with a trail. theres a few now and then of real people but they are mostly fake. in truth, do you think factinate has some unknown corner on SECRETS of even long dead people they had no way of really knowing? so I dont know what you expect on a UA-cam channel... but they do a really nice job on these videos, compiling the narrative of facts and musings, pics and video clips... they are always enjoyable and done really well❤❤
My daughter and I used to have Katherine Hepburn days where we both talked like her all day.
Omg ! That is the best comment I've read all day ! 😂And I love that you and your daughter do that 😂 How fun you must be . Want to be friends ?
😅 😅 😅
Weird
That is awesome !!!
LOVE this!!
Telling someone that you love them does not imply anything more serious than a platonic situation. If she said "I love you too" or there was some indication that they kissed or more then maybe you might read something into it. But responding "it's mutual" is not an especially romantic response.
I'm still friends with my ex-wife, and with another girlfriend I lived with for four years. Whenever I talk to either of them, whether on the phone or in person, I tell them, "I love you" and they say it too. No sex is involved. That time has passed.
You must be very young she had an adulterous affair with married Spencer Tracy for 30 years, I am almost 70, it was an open secret, he didn't want to divorce Louise Tracy because he was catholic, THE PERFECT DEFINITION OF AN OXYMORON, LIKE BEING CATHOLIC SINNING, NOT GETTING A DIVORCE, WHILE HAVING AN AFFAIR, WILL GET YOU SAVED, SATAN BLINDED BOTH OF THEM
Anything for clicks.
I don't think she was a very romantic type of person. And besides, platonic love can be just as strong and important and romantic love, and often lasts longer.
Thanks for saving me time.
You really don't need click bait titles. People who enjoy stories about actors will still watch if you have more honest titles. Nothing twisted about this. Your title makes it sound like she was a satan worshipper or a cult member or some crap. That recording was nothing but sweet. It's sad. I wanna watch more of your videos because you do a great job, but I won't because I despise click bait titles. It's a slap in the face to anyone who views your videos thinking that there's something crazy they didn't already know about someone. Stop slapping viewers in the face. It's rude.
I don't like click bait and I chose not to watch this video because of it.
Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one that hates these lying titles.
I met Katharine Hepburn in 1985 as a young man. She was humanistic, warm, natural, and kind.
Oh! I'm so jealous! I love her.
Yeahhhh SURE you did!!
I concur. Ms. Hepburn would ride her bicycle over to Saks to shop and was always lovely. Kind, personable and polite. (She was likewise when ordering on the phone.) It was amazing that no one bothered her.
she spent the rest of her life not thinking of you one time, and here you are still talking about ot 40 years later
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What's twisted 🥨 about her life? It's a long life filled with love, romance, and adventure. What I found twisted was the public's perception of her re: her dress and outspokenness. I celebrate her for being a strong force 💪 that was no push over. Way to go, Katherine!
Love, romance, adventure are by words for degeneracy. No problem with degeneracy but we need to call it by its name.
Yeah. Real woman don't have affairs with married men that is low class and immoral but everybody is entitled to their opinion .
@@weekendatBernies-k6c, I almost agree with you. I would change the word “real” (ie enviable)
Well if extramarital affairs are okay to you. If you think she was a strong force fine. To me that is immoral. Classy women don't cheat or get another women's husband. Put the muscles up whatever. That is the Hollywood way immoral and do whatever. I rather be a classy woman. Katherine was a excellent actor I honor that that is all period.
@@weekendatBernies-k6cI agree and the saddest thing is his wife’s statement to Hepburn on his death , “ I thought that you were a rumour “ . Wicked pair of adulterers . She was an amazing actress , one of the best .
Katherine Hepburn was quite a woman and incredibly talented. I loved the movie that she made with Bogart, “The African Queen.” I remember watching it with my parents. Back in those days in Hollywood, a star had to be beautiful, dance, sing, and act. Those were the real Hollywood legends. Hepburn had that unique voice. You knew who was speaking the minute Hepburn uttered a word.
I thought that she looked better in that movie than at any other time I'd seen her.
She was great in that movie, but kind of a nag in her role.
I love The African Queen, too, and have watched it many times. She was her forties, and didn't appear to be wearing much makeup. I thought she was lovely. I read that Bogart chose her as his leading lady. She was truly a force of nature!
Telling someone you love them doesn't mean your "more than friends"
Especially when the reply is a curt "mutual.
You are correct.
Most people do not know the difference between loving someone and Being in love with someone
They are two totally different things
The uneducated masses seem to think that the two are interchangeable .
THEY ARE NOT.
The same applies to the words Some'one' and Some'body'
Somebody refers to the DEAD.
A BODY is a DEAD ENTITY
One is the cardinal number
One is alive
One is unique
One is irreplaceable
{ There has NEVER been one like YOU in existence on this earth before you were born - and there will NEVER be one like you after you die ]
Everybody is the same : Rotten and stinking after four days
You will find every'body' buried in the cemetery
It's full of bodies.
Very wise…..one vs body
*you're
@@mariahenrich9602😢
I was brought up in Connecticut, but In the 1970's I was living in Massachusetts. I discovered that Hepburn was starring in a play (A matter of gravity) that was on tour and would have a run in Boston. My girlfriend, Lauren, and I went to the theatre to get tickets for the next evening, and then go to dinner. But we discovered that there were two tickets available for that evening. Since there was no time to eat, we were just hanging out in the long lobby hallway. I was facing the entrance, and Lauren was facing me. We were the only ones there.
One of the entry doors opened and Katherine Hepburn walked towards us.
Went she got close enough to make eye contact; she gave me a subtle look- a gentle plea just to let her pass. I complied.
I directed my gaze back to my girlfriend. After she had passed Us, i told Lauren who the person was who she could see the back of.
Lauren, said, "why didn't you tell me?"
There would have been time enough for her to turn around and face Hepburn. I did not do it because New Englanders are brought with a very strong belief in the right of personal privacy. Not to comply with Hepburn's subtle, but clear, request would have been a violation of that.
Hepburn's lifelong desire for privacy was simply a deeply ingrained New England trait.
What I remember of her in that 1977-8 moment was, first how small she was. We forget how short most of the leading men were of her time.
Second, how great she looked- slim and youthful. She had to have put on a lot of make-up to look old enough for the part. The play itself was forgettable. I was just a vehicle for her.
If you have not done so, please watch the Philadelphia Story.
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In my area, there is a youngish man who participated in an Oscar-winning song project. I ran into him in a convenience store one day and we had that same silent exchange.
We live in Tennessee; it's not just New England. 🙂🙋💙
I also saw her and Christopher Reeve as well in that play. It was a dream come true to see my favorite actress. I think I still have the Playbill.
Philadelphia Story was tiresome pretentious and boring.. three creeps looking for a life
Love Philadelphia Story ❤
Lovely story. Thank you. I wd've done the same.
I'm not a New Englander, but her unspoken plea touched my heart. What a gift you were able to give Ms. Hepburn!
Respectful anonymity. Wonderful. She probably remembered you bc of the rarity of that gift.
Blessings to you. 🕊
No mention of her final award winning performance opposite Henry Fonda in “On Golden Pond”.
I was waiting for that too... It was just a brief millisecond clip of Kat & Henry
"I love you." "It's mutual." Truly scandalous. They said it as friends and not lovers.
I agree that the friends explanation is very plausible. I said the same to a childhood friend of the opposite gender who was dying of cancer.
@@rhusradicans2122 I agree with you there, too many people confuse love with sex - as all people are different then I decline to make any definitions or comparrisons. I never met her, but i know that I would have (and indeed do) loved her for her mind and looks - her strong persoanilty is something I admire and respect.... and her looks, beautiful.
She was a lesbian
@@rhusradicans2122 I've been in a long term relationship with a woman and several of my female friends regularly tell me they love me. I'm more like Hepburn and say things like "same" or "it's mutual." Nothing salacious about it. Just old friends.
I've been in a similar relationship. We are more than lovers, less than friends. Our exchanges are very much like this
Thank you for taking the time to know her. Ms Hepburn was fabulous. On stage, in movies, in the press, and in her private times in her life. I miss her.
Katharine Hepburn’s ‘family home’ was Hartford, CT, where she grew up. Fenwick, in Old Saybrook, CT, was her family’s summer ‘compound’ on Long Island Sound. She did live there at the end of her life, and died there.
Yes and for most of the week she lived in New York but travelled to Connecticut each weekend.
She truly loved her family.
@@ganymeade5151 I love my family and you probably love yours.
I knew a guy in the Marines way back when who was from Old Saybrook Connecticut. Never knew there was any connection to anything with it. I was driving up to Boston a few years ago and remember seeing road signs for Old Saybrook.
@@FRLN500I’m thinking we all love our families. Is it more honorable if an actress loves hers? Does she deserve some sort of acclaim for that? Maybe it’s because a lot of people in Hollywood don’t. I love and have sacrificed for my entire family my whole life. I don’t want any acclaim. I do it because I’m genuinely concerned for their welfare.
Anecdote: Katherine survived the catastrophic hurricane that caused huge destruction and over 600 deaths in New England in September 1938 by struggling through the storm surge that wrecked her family’s home at the shore. Howard Hughes dispatched an airplane to send her food and water afterwards.
influence saves
I saw the video on this storm. What a traumatic event. Quite the story .
@@richardrobinson601I saw a picture of her after this storm with Hepburn in a boat on a beach showing some of the aftermath.
I once watched in 1981 a play in a Broadway theatre I think it was called Woman of the Year with Katherine Hepburn, after the play was over we all waited for her to exit the theatre, so when she left we all applauded her whilst she was walking towards the open door of her car, and all the time she retributed giving us large smiles.
What a wonderful memory, lucky you.
Retributed?? Did you mean reciprocated?
@@Lesleyanna-p2g yes, reciprocated.
Fairly accurate overview of Hepburn’s life. We’ll never know. She, herself joked about being a lesbian, but her history with men belie that. Your presentation is based on assumption and the recording of Ford and Hepburn doesn’t warrant a salacious interpretation. He was a dying man telling a woman he cared for that he loved her and her response “it’s mutual” I appreciate hearing it, and more than anything, thanks for providing that.
I Agree with you 💯
Ample evidence that she was an active lesbian.
@@maryshanley329and there is nothing wrong with that, each to their own.
and so what?@@maryshanley329
@@maryshanley329
I don't have an issue if she was but whät evidence?
Katharine Hepburn was a sophisticated woman ahead of her time. Her blunt opinions often offended but I found her refreshing and very entertaining.
SHE USED TO SNEER AT PLANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought she was a brilliant actress. Her role in the Lion of Winter was magnificent!
That is my favorite. She and Peter O'Toole were amazing in that.
You are the first person to mention that film!!! I fell in love when I watched it with my parents as a kid. At Christmas time, no less, and on television. Great film, great cast and a perfect Christmas movie!
@adalouellis5706 I fell partially in love with Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. By the time I had finished watching the Lion in Winter, I had totally lost my heart to him ❤️❤️❤️❤️ He was one of the famous rabble rousers Richard Harris, Burton, and O' Toole. We will never see their like again! Also, the late, great, Olly Reed!
The Lion in Winter was one of the greatest movies! It ranks with Casablanca!
It's a great movie. KH won an Oscar for it. She tied with Barbra Streisand , who won for Funny Girl
"Bringing up Baby" has always been one of my very favorite movies. I love everything about it. 🐆
It wasn't a big success initially, but it's become far more popular over the years and a cult classic. Why else would they make "Whats Up Doc?" with Streisand and O'Neal - its not a remake but sure pays homage to Hepburn & Grant
I loved it but good God I almost had a nervous breakdown
I loved that movie too as well as The Philadelphia Story!
Yes, one of very few movies I never get tired of. A great feel good movie.
The leopard emoji...nice touch.
She was dedicated to her craft. She loved Spencer Tracy. And She loved John Ford. She was complicated but heroic in her beliefs. The death of her brother took a toll on her. So she acted as though he was still alive but thru her. 4 Academy Awards. However, she was in Stage Door the film. And all her films are loved by many. We today realize the great actress, caretaker, lover, and dedicated to her craft. Love her for standing up for women's rights. God bless her soul.
This was such a kind story. She always reminded me of my mom. Mother actually handed down the book Tracey & Hepburn to me. Thank you for keeping it kind.
I looked her up in "Who's Who" in the Eighties, and found a P. O. box address in West Hartford, where she was known to reside. I had read that she loved letters from her fans, and would correct any grammatical or spelling mistakes and send them back to the sender. lol Well, after she won her 4th (and record-setting) Oscar for her role in, "On Golden Pond" with Henry & Jane Fonda as her co-stars, (a must-see film from 1980), I decided to write her a congratulatory note, expecting nothing in return (nor requesting), but used my return address on the envelope, should she wish to respond. She was then in Boston, performing in a play at that time, as I had read that in a newspaper. Two weeks later, a letter arrived with a Boston postmark, and no return address -- my mother wondered who that could be, and I instantly knew! The Great Kate! :) It was on a note paper with, "Katherine Houghton Hepburn" in orange letters at the heading, and she used Roman numerals for the date. It was perfectly typewritten on a manual typewriter she apparently took with her, and she wrote: "Dear Laura, thank you for your nice letter. I am sorry, but I do not sign nor send photographs." She signed it, too. I wish I still had that letter, as it's sadly long lost, but it was a very cool thing -- and sooooooooooooooo Hepburn! I don't believe she was into women, nor even bi. I myself love wearing men's clothes -- they are more comfortable, and I wear men's shoes, as my feet are too wide. A gay woman wouldn't marry three times, either. There was nothing written in stone that Kate had to marry ANY of them, let alone the guys she did. I can also relate to not becoming a mother. Not every woman feels the need or the urge to nurture any children. I love kids, but it wasn't my purpose this time around, so I wasn't blessed with any. So, we cannot judge people by the way they choose to dress or whether or not they should be in traditional "normal" family roles. I played with dolls, but loved being the father whenever I played, "house", because I didn't like the role of a mother (housework -- yuck!), and preferred to "work" instead. Men have that escape, no matter how stressful their jobs may be, whereas women are stuck with never-ending chores at home, plus dealing with kids when they come home from school. lol I also was raised like a son by my dad -- and did few "girly" things with my mother. So, tomboy that I am -- is exactly what Kate was. Nothing wrong with that! (In contrast, I read that if Barbra Streisand is up the street, and she breaks a fingernail, she needs it immediately repaired! If THAT is not "girly", I don't know what IS! lol
That's great that you got a note from the Great Kate. She was married only one time, to Ludlow Ogden Smith, when she was very young. They divorced several years later and remained friends for life.
I don't understand, did you ask for a photograph?
@laurabulla2834 That's a great story. It would have never occurred to me that someone of Hepburn's status, and a legend by that time, would answer fan mail. But she was certainly unique. Though I did cringe when you mentioned losing the letter.
Katherine Hepburn and my father were extremely close from the late 20's when they partied together a LOT at Hearst Castle. They remained very close throughout their lives and she also became close to my father's wife when he married. There is a nice story about him by producer Jerry Skinner called Joel McCrea, and I am in it also. Katherine said on more than one occasion that she felt Joel was more talented and a better actor than most other actors in Hollywood, including Spencer Tracy and Bogart.
Mr, McCrea (you dea Dad)was a multi-talented man and from everything I've read, a decent, good, person. What were your thoughts on Ms Hepburn?
Joel Mcrea was tops in my book,tho I'm a little surprised she liked his artistry as much as she did. I ABsolutely adored her,as a young woman she was excruciatingly attractive and mysteriously marvelous and sexy at once to my aching heart.
There's still that tremendous desire of movie star worshippers that seeks to normalise the abnormal personal lives of these ego driven individuals. Hepburn was rumored to be predominantly lesbian in her sexuality. But the movie aficionados wanted on and off screen romance and the studios were intent on giving it to them. Remember, actors are the great illusionists, even unto themselves and the movie business ran on the basis of creating fantasy. It's interesting that the alcohol/drug filled lives of these stars of the silents and following decades, up until the 70s, are no longer so evident amongst modern stars, whose lives are lived more honestly.
@Gerhold102 couldn’t agree more. Actors/movies sell fantasies about romance, sex, philosophy. They
are skilled in illusions/myths/lies. But I think they still do it, though narrative and lies are somewhat shifted. They still drink, take drugs and alter themselves with pharma etc.
Your father was a wonderful actor.
Not-so-secret affair with Spencer. Saying "I love you" doesn't mean a sexual relationship. Didn't even sound that way on the recording.
The recording was not with her and Spencer. It was with her and Ford. And it was recorded decades after their affair had ended.
Everyone knew about her and Spencer, you do know the recording discussed was between her and John Hughes, not Spencer Tracy?
The Spencer Tracy thing was a fake relationship
@@susanwhite7474 yep. She was a lesbian
@@bethewalt7385You misappropriated Howard Hughes and John Ford. The. latter is the correct name
The woman lived her life as she wished. I wish today’s young people would stop living their lives with herd-mentality … one can’t reach their dreams if they see themselves as victims. Ms. Hepburn made waves because she moved alone.
Brilliant comment!
Perceptive, but sounds kind of lonely.
She was mediocre actress and a home wrecker
😂 they are bed hopping just as much, truth is bed hopping leads to mental break downs and after decades of little regard to others you get a broken society. Unbelievable you didn't figure that out by now 😂
After watching an listening about Katherine Hepburn an my family worked with her in film,an stage.
They grew to appreciate her own style an acting talents an being herself. My relatives some were able to meet her. An she was an spitfire of an person an just as sweet as honey. Beautiful as an rose in full bloom. My she R.I.P.❤
Katharine Hepburn could be called the Scarlett O'Hara of her time. Like the fictional character, Hepburn had little time for convention or the expectations of others. She demanded and got terms from the masculine powers that be in Hollywood at a time when no woman had ever had such influence or control of her own destiny. Hepburn was a trailblazer and a superb talent. She was tough and she was strong when women were supposed to be anything but. More than anything, I think it simply boiled down to the fact that Katharine Hepburn knew who she was, what she wanted, and how to get it. She would probably laugh at the notion that women today somehow need to be "empowered." Hepburn WAS empowered!
Beautifully and accurately expressed, thank you!she was a Trail Blaster! ❤😊❤
i could care less who Kate slept with but i'm always amused at her being called a tough trailblazer "who knew who she was" when her and Tracy were faking a grand Hollywood affair to convince the studio and the public that she was straight.
Scarlett O'Hara was 100% straight though
I Remember reading what she wrote about Spencer's death. She said that night he could not sleep & was extremely restless. About 20 minutes before Spencer Passed, he woke her up saying he was going to warm up some milk & asked her if she wanted some also. K.H. said she told him she would get up to do it for him, but he said no, he would do it. She said he left the bedroom & about ten mins later, she heard something fall (the glass & pan) & then, a loud thud. She said she KNEW what it would be, before she found him. Sure enough, Spencer Tracy Passed on her kitchen floor. Back then, you would dial "0" for police. But she called Tracy's best friend. Also, K.H. wrote him a beautiful letter & if I remember correctly, it was read at the 1968 Oscars. Knowing her penchant for privacy & her lifelong love for discretion, I may be wrong. But I know she DID read it, Maybe it was on a talk show, but I know she did read it. I read it in the book she wrote. It TRULY was a love letter. Today's youth have NO idea what a "TRUE STAR" REALLY is.
@@FortescueGimlet Sorry, you ARE ABSOLUTELY wrong. I say & use the word "Pass" & I ALWAYS capitalize it, because in my own way, I am showing MY respect for DEATH !! Just as I say & use the word Life. ONLY a fool would think NOT saying the word Death, is some sort of protection and would think differently. Death comes for us ALL.. I SAY Pass & YOU can say what you like. You do NOT know me to make such an asinine judgement.
@@FortescueGimletDude why are you arguing about death and how someone describes it? Also why would you think just because someone or something dies it no longer needs respect? There are laws against desecrating corpses for crying out loud.
@@FortescueGimlet Because you don’t have an explanation. 🙄
@@FortescueGimlet It makes me smile too whenever I see yet another person who thinks they are actually intelligent. In fact I find it hilarious.
I enjoy when unintelligent people pretend that they’re smart. Please don’t stop pretending. 🤣
@@FortescueGimletThis also annoys me too. People don't pass, pass over or any other metaphor. They die plain and simple.
I am tired of hearing that a woman who is ambitious, not interested in marriage, and more comfortable in pants has to be a lesbian. Not there is anything wrong with being a lesbian, but it is ridiculous to ascribe her strength, determination, and independence to “masculine traits.” They belong exclusively to neither gender.
Towanda...keep it real...there is something wrong & un natural about it. Kate was not an L & deep loving woman with men many couldn't love
She remained "independent" of the fake moral superiority she put on in public.
You are defending phoniness and dishonesty in the name of VIRTUE. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
@@sandracrandall4561 Yes she was she had long term romances and lived with women long term.
@towanda1067 Really? Masculinity doesn't. Neither does femininity belong to both genders.
@@alwilson3204 The traits are human, not gender-specific. Some are allotted by culture to and encultured in one sex, and the others in the other sex. "Nurturance," as example, is ascribably "female"/"feminine," but men can also be nurturing. "Aggression" is typically considered "masculine," but it isn't unknown for women to be aggressive.
And the only observable difference between male and female ambition is that women's is usually hidden behind other behaviors -- as example, sex not only sells but also "buys".
In an age of Conformity, she actually couldn't help being who she was; not a rebel as much as an actual person. She was herself. Most of us would consider that so be a painful way to live, but she could live no other way. For many of us she is loved even more for it. She was a Genuine Human Being...
@semigoth299 I like her brutal honest character in The Rainmaker. I knew she was bad as a person but I didn't know she was that deeply rebelliously wicked. However like all adulterous sinners she will have her part in the eternal lake of fire and brimstone forever and ever.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... you need to get out of your bunker more often....@@GTKJNow
Never liked her as an actress.
So, no conversation about her gender nonconformity, nor probable bisexuality. Not a mention about how she kept finding men her father's age and alcoholics or why. Pretty skimpy research. Unsubscribed.
@Samyzu5 My my, fascinating to hear you knew her so well...
Are you serious? THAT was the bombshell? "I love you." "It's mutual." That was so benign a "confession"; it was like saying, "The weather is turning cold." "Yes, it is." Geez, what a let down. Anyway, very good work. Good research and editing. Thanks for posting.
I usually check the comments before I watch something like this article that sounds like clickbait. Glad I did. Saves a lot of time.
I may be wrong, but I always thought that the role of Captain Janeway in Star Trek Voyager seemed modelled on Katherine Hepburn and wonder if anyone else thought that.
you are correct. stat trek's creator knews her well
Has that feel to it
She would've been perfect for that role, as a younger actress.
Didn't know that but there is a huge likeness come to think of it.
YeH she had the same hairstyle first season
She was a fascinating lady. A very strong woman especially for her time. She didn't allow society's norm of feminine affect her. She had pretty marked ideas about how she wanted to live her own life. I think she really loved her brother and his death had a huge effect on her. In a way, I feel like her having a somewhat masculine Tom Boy style was her way to embody her brother and carry on with a part of him within her in a tangible way. I love her style, I love that she wore menswear suits and wingtips shoes and loafers, was fearless in her expression, didn't objecify herself, and owned her own vibe. She was different and unique, and full of confidence. A wonderful actress, and a force to be reckoned with. I wish there were more women like her, willing to be different and swim against the tide of ever changing social fads.
yes adultery with Spencer Tracy was true independence and class - but the affair really wasn't sinful since it was fake, to save her from lesbian rumors in old school hollywood.
I knew she was bad as a person but I didn't know she was that deeply rebelliously wicked. I like her brutal honest character in The Rainmaker. However like all adulterous sinners she will have her part in the eternal lake of fire and brimstone (smelly liquid hotter than fire) forever and ever.
@@GTKJNow you know, sin is sin, and no one is without sin. Let him without sin cast the first stone - Jesus- Judge not lest you be judged. Only God can judge. Your comment is crazy as hell ☺️. Why would you say such a thing? Now go look in the mirror and think about Jesus' words, his teachings, and who he hung out with. Peace..
@@GTKJNow Thank you Debbie Downer
@@joanofarcxxi He also said Sin no more lest a worse thing come upon you.
It is AMAZING that the “truth” comes out long after actors are dead. I have read her memoir and could not in any way that said she was a lesbian, nor Tracy gay! His wife would not allow a divorce as they were both Catholic.
I've got issues with this. I read her bio too and felt it was honest. She didn't have lesbian tendencies but if she did, I feel like she would have come out at some point.
The only "evidence" of this was a Hollywood pimp, Scotty Bowers, who claimed to have supplied Hepburn and Tracy with lovers ... he was also peddling a solacious book he'd written at the time :::::rolls eyes :::: The reason I don't buy the lesbian/gay thing is that the guy was CLEARLY using Hepburn and Tracy's secrecy and mysterious get-togethers to imply things, hoping the shadowy nature of their relationship would cause enough people (those who love to bathe in scandal) to be curious enough to buy the book. This guy [Scotty Bowers] would also claim that ex-British King Edward VIII and his wife, American socialite Marry Wallis Simpson, were also gay and that he also provided them with lovers. Out here in Hollywood, EVERYONE knows the real secrets. Bowers knew he couldn't shock the jaded masses with aything, so he goes big with unheard-of/unverified tales of the already whispers-behind-her-back Hepburn and Tracy (to say nothing of ex-King Edward and Simpson). The people who like to keep their lives the most private are the most vulnerable to opportunists who like to make up tales and/or provide people with an opportunity to "fill in the gaps" about the things they haven't been privy to.
It seems to be a movement now to go back and make ALL old movie stars gay or lesbian. I am sure some were, but not all of them. I am tired of the trying to blow your mind efforts to destroy your image of ALL the old movie stars. I will continue to use my own judgement about the older movie stars.
She was bi.
@@petehart6722 Other than personal fantasies, I just don't understand why people are so obsessed with famous people's personal preferences that have NO impact on their talent or performances.
This is a beautiful portrayal of her. It is absolutely a difficult job to condense her life story into 20 minutes. She was a difficult person at work and home. Thank you.
say what you want about Howard Hughes but I think he nailed it when he told her "your family's a bunch of snobs"
I've never been able to understand the comments about her looks. She was absolutely stunning! I've always admired her and loved her willful spirit.
Because you are brainwashed. Get over your ego woman.
I remember reading in a Ladies Home Journal article about Hepburn that in her senior years she Skateboarded down the driveway to get her mail.
Katherine Hepburn and
Rosalind Russell were my two Favorite Actresses of all time. Namaste . Carpe Diem.
@@JoaninFlorida If you knew anything about Broadway in the Golden Theatre days you
would know that those so called "loud mouth" ladies were
talented and well trained in
Projecting their voices for speaking dialogue or singing
to be heard easily by the back
of the theatre seating and the
back of the balcony seating. Many Broadway / Theatre trained actors and actresses in
those days tended to appear more loud and flamboyant due to such training. Later as they
assimilated to Film Acting more
regularly than theatre , they learned to adapt to more
normal tones that technology of
audio could regulate for their
audience. Back in those days
Theatre did not have computerized audio volume
systems in place for most
Theatrical productions.
I hope you will be more
generous with kinder praise of
such gifted Actors who worked Very Hard to entertain us all.
Namaste . Carpe Diem.
She lived by the ocean and swam every day.
If Katherine would see these social media comments she would say how boring they all were, and for young people to take the high road always. She was the best in everything. Her fashion style is as current and timeless as is possible...
I love every movie she had made however the best one was The mad woman of someplace it’s about a elderly lady who lived in the past and some unsavory characters wanted to take advantage of her however she got them all.
Always!
@@semigoth299 I like her brutal honest character in The Rainmaker. I knew she was bad as a person but I didn't know she was that deeply rebelliously wicked. However like all adulterous sinners she will have her part in the eternal lake of fire and brimstone (smelly liquid hotter than fire) forever and ever.
@@GTKJNow Since when did they put you in charge of judging people oh that’s right you’re one of those people who can’t do no wrong and the rest of us are eternally doomed because we’re not as prefect as you, then just blow it out of your pipe
"Best at everything sums up as best FAKE MORALIST.
She is certainly contender for #1 HYPOCRITE.
A friend of mine in Vancouver was sitting in his back yard when he heard a clunk and up popped an older lady who had placed a ladder on the other side and climbed the ladder leaning over she yelled, Hello have you seen Yul, they said no but he’s usually there, this was Katherine Hepburn who had come to see Yul Brynner who had cancer at the time and was staying for at this house
Probably with my old friend, Hugh Pickett.
That little taped snippet was as innocuous as anything can be. Sounded like friendship to me.
Honestly, the recorded clip between John Ford and Hepburn was no different from what friends say to each other all the time, making it borderline click bait. I don’t appreciate that. The rest of the episode was fabulous.
Hepburn was always in love with Spenser Tracy. My father was friends with John Ford , I never saw Hepburn anywhere around him. She did sleep with Howard Hughes regularly I was told. ... She may have had a fling with Ford but it was ancient history by 1960. Should have asked mom - she knew everybody in Hollywood as see worked the Oscars .
Dang! That be interesting. So the lesbian thing I never believed.
most people knew john ford was a very private man. he seldom talk about himself. his grandson talked about this. your father is not in his circle. and every one in hollywood knew the hughes story is total fiction.
The thing no one talks about is that she had an intense relationship with Howard Hughes. (He used to date all the starlets) Before Hughes moved into Vegas, he was a Hollywood producer/director and wanted to put Hepburn in his movies. It’s been said she was the only woman he ever loved and wanted to marry. Their break-up came when they argued over Spencer Tracy.
Did you actually watch this video? She dates Hughes before she ever met Spencer Tracy. Their relationship broke up because he didn't pass the parental test, this was in the late 1930's. She didn't meet Tracy until they starred in Woman of the Year (1941).
I have always loved her and all her peculiar attitudes and actions , she was her own person , and that voice was hers and hers alone , she stood on her own feet , not a push over , she did not bend , she forged her own path , her wardrobe were hers , pants or dresses she was her own person , she was her own not to be messed with , gay or not , who cared what people thought she held her own , and demaned respect and got it ! If more people had her guts and stand AMA we as a people would be the better for it , we grown into weak minded slugs , no guts , no back bones , just weak , women are desusting, men are lamb , our leaders are pussies , our backs are turned from God like washington on our quarters , we and Rome have becomed bed fellows , wollonging in fifth and self destructions
All started because we have no back bone , Katherine Hepburn , had back bone , a strong woman ashard of herself , not afraid to step on toes when needed ,NOT SOFT ❤ we have digressed cave men are stronger in spirit than us ! 😢
and so much of it due to their depravity..................sexual and otherwise, take that how you want to.
But Katherine Hepburn constantly had affairs herself with married men? So she was no better than todays generation?
i could care less about who Hepburn slept with but it's always amusing to hear her praised as a trailblazer who knew who she was when her and Spencer Tracy were faking a love affair to convince the studio and the public she was straight. if she was such a trailblazer she would have said 'fuck it' grabbed Patsy Kelly and had a real affair.
Ms Hepburn is one of the most diversified actresses of all time… I appreciate each role she played and the talent she portrayed. She had an independence about her that I loved, and display myself. She will always be one of my most favorite actresses…and respected ladies of the screen, for her views and beliefs! God Bless Kathryn for giving so much of herself to the screen, for all of us to enjoy.♥️💜❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌈🥰
Nothing twisted about her life. On the contrary she was a strong woman who stood her ground, and was true to herself. I think she was fantastic!
Our Uncle Dana fixed a couple of appliances in her lodging, while she was filming "On Golden Pond", in the neighborhood where he lived most of his life. He said she didn't pay much attention to him. It's in writing; those weren't his exact words. (Years earlier, Norbert Wiener had talked with Dana as a habit, at the family hardware store). I loved Katherine Hepburn's performance in in "Mary of Scotland".
I read Katharine Hepburn's Autobiography and her love for Spencer Tracy was real. They lived together until the end, the only way Society and Hollywood would allow it, back then. In Heaven, all that works out. God bless Ms. Hepburn and her full life and career. Amen ✨️💞🙏😇🕊
"In heaven, all that works out" would you be so kind as to explain what you mean by this statement, I am a little confused by it..?
" cut her hair short." Short hair was the style at the time for young women.
@@JoaninFlorida One of the famous and popular hairstyles of the 1920's was the Eton Crop which was severely short as the name suggests. Women were seen to go to barber shops for the cut as women's hairstylists were not yet experienced in the new short styles. Also, Chanel promoted trousers for beach and pyjama type casual wear which quickly caught on and developed into day wear.
@user-tk1ht6wn3j
Yeah Boyish short. Women were wearing shorter than she did. It was the style at the time.
Im not disputing she was a tom boy.
I'm disputing the examples.
She wasn't a nice or good person. She was an entitled b17ch and treated people like sh17. She looked down on everyone she believed was beneath her which was everyone not wealthy.
She had an affair with a married Spencer Tracey and had the nerve to call his wife after his death and suggest they be friends. Tracy's wife rightly hung up on her.
Spencer Tracy’s wife was an incredible woman. First off, their son, John was born in 1924 - way before Tracy met Hepburn. Louise Tracy worked hard for her son and eventually starting an institute for the deaf. She nursed John through polio. John became an accomplice artist and photographer who married a deaf woman and had a family.
"It's mutual"
Wow, the feelings, the emotions. I almost teared up.
I cried like a baby, it was so romantic!😏
The attempt to wipe out the well documented history of this woman that was recorded overtime coming from her own mouth is disgusting! Educated interviewers over the past three decades have revealed a very complex but also very compassionate and loving human being who was as stern as a ship captain. Everyone has their flaws and it is certainly humanity propensity to tear down its past and remake it through the eyes of the current time. That is our biggest mistake and we shouldn't just blame media for it.
Thank you! You blooper gonna bloop for a buck! Once upon a time people actually worked for a living.
All of this speculation about peoples lives is so unfortunate. What does any of it ultimately matter. The bigger truth here is the other hypocrisy of Spencer, Tracy, not wanting to divorce his long suffering, wife, because of his “faith“. Such bullshit, if faith meant anything to him, his behaviour would reflect it.
I agree,my sentiments exactly
There is a propensity as of late of the Democrat(ic) Party/the Left to ("by any means necessary")... remove / erase / hide their Party's (Ray cyst, Big 0 Ted) history before even MORE people are TAUGHT... EDUCATED... INFORMED... or might just accidentally LEARN the TRUTH about their horrifically Ray cyst past & the powerful Democrats who shaped their Party & Democrats into who & what it was & IS STILL today.
Their efforts extend far beyond the destruction & removal of statues. Their actions ALSO include: Revising/rewriting/eliminating textbooks & completely changing/totally eliminating WELL-Documented, Historical FACT-based "History," "Civics," "Social Studies" Classes/Curriculums in OUR Schools.
Of course, they remove a statue of a Republican now & then in their efforts to disguise their ACTUAL OBJECTIVE, which is to hide & erase THE TRUE HISTORY of THEIR Party
Also, today... Democrats in DC are attempting the systematic removal of historical portraits of Democrats displayed throughout our nation's U.S. Capital Bldg. The portraits are of Congressional Democrats; of their Legislators, Politicians, Bureaucrats... of Party "Leaders" who formed their Party's Platform/Agendga throughout history.
For example, there are Portraits of:
• Southern Democrats who, during the Civil War, fought AGAINST freeing the Slaves.
• Democrat Legislators who VOTED AGAINST the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments.
• Democrat Legislators who WROTE, SUPPORTED & ENFORCED JIM CROWE LAWS.
• Democrats who WROTE, SUPPORTED & ENFORCED SEGREGATION LAWS.
• Democrat Legislators who VOTED AGAINST the 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS Amendment.
The above citations are only a small part of the despicable, truly horrific history that defines the Democrat(ick) Party. It's no surprise Democrats are trying to re-write, erase & eliminate it.
As Malcolm X once said:
"THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE BLACK
MAN IS A WHITE LIBERAL."
(Translation: A DEMOCRAT.)
There are millions of informed, educated, intellectually-honest Americans who are keenly aware of who Democrats were throughout history... the history that formed the Democrat(ick) Party into who & what it continues to be TODAY.
Please... don't let Democrats fool you. EDUCATE yourself. INFORM yourself... AND OTHERS.
They can remove portraits & statues. They can re-write textbooks... change/re-write/eliminate curriculums... TRY to indoctrinate & poison the minds of OUR innocent children with Ray cyst Cee Are Tea. BUT...
THEY CANNOT CHANGE THE TRUTH.
Nor can they UN-EDUCATE or UN-INFORM the TRUTH-TELLERS.
So TELL THE TRUTH my friends.
TELL THE TRUTH to MANY others, far & wide.
Then... respectfully ASK THEM to:
P A S S . . . I T . . . O N. 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
Thank you. May God bless you & all those you love. May He bless & protect our innocent children. And may Almighty God bless, restore, preserve & protect our Constitutional Republic, the USA, our beloved Home, as ONE NATION, UNDER GOD.
I humbly pray. Amen.🙏♥️🇺🇸🙏
{a]s stern as a ship['s] captain" -- in her phony moral superiority, while a decades-long adulterer -- "compassionate"!? -- with no regard for the damage done to the marriage or his spouse.
Leave the dead Rest In Peace ,whatever they liked it’s their business ,she was a great actor and freedom icon to many woman ,especially in that generation ,honest woman and great personality Kate Hepburn ,rest in peace !
You make it seem as if lesbianism were something to avoid or to be ashamed of. Would you have been so circumspect if she had been totally heterosexual?
The truth matters, it's absolutely important, be it about the past or present, we should not lionize nor vilify the dead, merely tell the unvarnished truth, lies and being obtuse about who someone was serves no purpose and creates nothing of consequence, lies through omission or for any other reason teach us nothing, carry no weight in the world....
@@bethewalt7385 Absolutely!
@@sg-yq8pm It's called freedom of expression, and the truth is still the truth.
Always loved Katherine Hepburn, still do!
Me too. Loved watching her movies with my mother in law in the 1980’s. Katherine was all the rage when my mother in law was a young girl adolescent woman. Treasured memories.
Katharine Hepburn, Cheryl.
She was so freakin cool. I loved her and I LOVED Spencer Tracy. The video mentions her college several times. She went to Bryn Mawr, one of the seven sisters schools, outside Philadelphia, from whence my big girl graduated five yrs ago.
I just watched Adams Rib today with Katherine and Tracy. Kind of funny that your video popped up on me a few hours later. 😊 It’s such a great movie and what makes it so good is their chemistry.
If this was a man controlling his life, not wanting children, doing business on his terms, there would be no problem. But, this was a woman, and society has always had a problem with strong minded women.
LOL!
A man who lives like Katherine Hepburn is usually deemed a homosexual.
She is one of my favorite ladies to watch, very smart, strong willed and beautiful talented lady/actress. ♥️🙏
I saw her in Matter of Gravity in L.A. I didn't really listen or watch the play, as I watched just Hepburn through the binoculars I'd brought with me. I think Christopher Reeves was in it as well. I just got lucky that I was able to see her. She was in a sense very awkward, yet as she said in a Cavett interview, people think I'm fascinating, and she was.
I enjoyed your biographical presentation of Catherine Hepburn. As a young child in 1960s middle-class America, I became vaguely aware she had a somewhat scandalous questionmark over her public reputation.
At age 16, I learned about the rumors of an affair with Tracy when watching a sappy movie they did together. It seemed sad for her and also wrong of her that she would enter an affair with a married man ... IF the rumors were true.
Hearing this serialized exposé of her life's string of love affairs seems even sadder to consider the ironic fact she considered herself too selfish and yet she was caught up in a terminal affair with a man to whom she gave her all, when he could give her nothing but a dark secret affair ... no home, no family, no name, no faith, and no sunlight!
I'm left wondering if her brother's death broke her so badly or if some devilish spirit plaged her.
I think the gay rumors are just a vein attempt to provide a redeemable reaon for her inappropriate closeness with Tracy.
On the whole of it, I'm left wondering who she really is ... a selfish ambitious woman who used men to fuel her evokative rise to stardom? Or a sad broken hearted girl, who patched her heart with stolen loves that she couldn't publicly claim because she didn't feel deserving of happiness after her brother's tragic death.
Either way is tragic.
I just read ‘full service’ very interesting…
she had 'progressive parents'. nuff said
@@natmanprime4295 Meaning what exactly? She and Tracy had to hide their relationship because of people like you. Judgemental know it alls who pronounce their morality to be the only way to live. People like you were annoying then and still are today. She had parents that nurtured good self-esteem, not easy for a nontraditional woman in those days, and to think independently from know it alls like you, and she left a body of work that is breathtaking. What have you done? Right, made a self righteous pronouncement about her parents and how somehow, though you never met them, they raised her wrong. Snore. I'll take her and her 'progressive' parents over pearl clutching hypocrites like you any time.
@@natmanprime4295 because parents that beat the crap out of her and shamed her for being female would have been SO much better? The kind of parents that are now causing millions of women worldwide to eschew marriage, child bearing, relationships and even engaging with men anymore? Mmmm, that makes sense.
Those clearly aren’t the only two options.
Tracy and Hepburn lived together for years. It was an open secret. There’s little doubt his wife knew. In those days people didn’t divorce so quickly. His wife enjoyed status, wealth and privilege. She likely was very happy with the arrangement.
Hepburn and Tracy found love and devotion. Their making a life together while accommodating his wife does not seem inappropriate or ‘tragic’ to me, especially if their marriage was over in every way except the name.
On my humble opinion, your channel would gain even more followers if you consistently utilized this narrator, who is human, has empathy in his voice, and the quality of the voice itself is soothing. Very important for many listeners 👍🏻❤️
Katharine Hepburn did appear at the Oscars to present a special award. The 45th year ceremony.
It's on UA-cam and totally amazing.
Tracy's wife was the one who would not give the divorce. She waas okay with him cheating on her as long as he did not get a do=ivorce.
She was a strict Catholic.
Secretly some women don’t want to divorce because they don’t want to be out on their own and secondly, they don’t wanna have sex with that man they may be having affair with someone else
She was Catholic that was why she would not divorce Tracy
And if he really wanted a divorce, he would’ve got it
I don't think she was OKAY with it, SHE was vindictive. AND besides that she wasn't going to leave the $$$.
Phenomenol women way ahead of her time I would have loved to have spent just five minutes in her company so interesting but really nothing scandalous here but loyalty and love .
Katherine was one woman, not many as you've implied by calling her women in your opening sentence, that aside Kate Hepburn was a fantastically strong woman, intelligent, beautiful and complicated, more needed to be said about her relationship with Howard Hughes, many believe she WAS the only woman he wanted to marry.....Katherine certainly loved animals more than children, she had many cats and dogs instead, there's many reputable tales of her affairs with women all throughout her time in Hollywood, Kate partied with ALL the best, lived to tell and was frank about her views on everything, a true feminist ahead of her time...
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@@bethewalt7385 ah auto correct I think, I meant woman of course ! My words still stand 😊
My all time favorite movie is The Lion In Winter with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Their on-screen chemistry (or was it just talent?) was amazing. She was magnificent in that film! Peter was one of the original great men about town, closing down the bars and pubs with his pals, not remembering a bit of it when he sobered up. The lines delivered by both Katharine and Peter rivaled Shakespeare, in my opinion. That movie also gave us a glimpse of the beginnings of the careers of Anthony Hopkins and the best James Bond since Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton. Amazing woman, Katharine Hepburn!
I’ve always loved Katherine Hepburn as an actress and a human being. She was definitely one of a kind. Her “scandalous” behavior was only due to the times and never shocked me anyway - big deal! I’ve watched Philadelphia Story so many times I could recite it by heart… “oh, we’re going to talk about me, are we… Goody”. She was awesome!
Katharine Hepburn did indeed star in "Stage Door." She and Hayward remained on good terms for the rest of their lives. Her first choices as leading men for "The Philadelphia Story" were Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable, who they couldn't get, but Stewart and Grant worked out awfully nicely. After her brother's suicide, which she also refused to see for what it was, she took his birthday as her own. When she finally wrote "Me," her memoir, she corrected the record and revealed her real birthday. You don't mention Laura Harding, a serious relationship Hepburn had when she first came to Hollywood. Hepburn never worried about money. She was a Corning Glassware heiress, through her mother's family. Had she lived in these times, she probably would've identified as non-binary.
I think at most she was bisexual, and at least, lesbian.
Thought she came from east lyme ct..?
He made a huge error with that gaffe about Stage Door.
Leland Hayward moved on and married Henry Fonda’s ex-wife, Margaret Sullivan.
@@wintercame I agree. That's always the elephant in the room whenever Hepburn's life is chronicled.
@@michaelterry4394 I've read that she was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut.
I was only 13 when Kate and Spencer Tracy made "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" in 1967; it was a big deal in the media at the time because everyone knew about the Tracy/Hepburn affair and his alcoholism was well-known. But it was the daring plot of the movie - an interracial marriage - that was a sensation in the racism-plagued United States.
The movie was very good, and was well-made, featuring good performances from a hugely talented cast, but when it was made, Emmett Till had been beaten to a pulp for whistling at a white woman only 12 years before, and less than a year earlier interracial marriage was miscegnation and was illegal in more than a dozen states. Martin Luther King, Jr, was still alive, but it was a VERY dangerous time for a movie like this to show up in America.
It was even more unrestful for young people; the joke among my friends who went to public school(I attended a Catholic school) was "Guess who's coming to dinner? Jimi Hendrix!" And when Spencer Tracy died two weeks after the film came out, my mother was able to tell me ALL about why this story was "a scorching epochal sensation." Mom was, like many military wives, a big fan of TV and movies(and all the juicy gossip), and this story had all the angst and weeping and wailing someone like that could wish for.
But Katherine Hepburn was able to live with herself after all the hoop-la of her career - and she managed to turn out good work most of the time. She held her own against 2 generations of Big Star Hondas in "On Golden Pond"(which had a great complaint from aging Henry Fonda about "You keep saying we're 'late middle aged;' you have to face it, we're OLD, Dammit!") and co-starred Henry AND Jane Fonda as her husband and daughter. She showed that she still had it, too - she and Henry both won Oscars for that film, which also is some slick 1980s eye-candy - watch it if you've never seen it. "On Golden Pond" was a play that was a farce, at first, about 2 old people facing their mortality, that was played mainly by younger actors. The Producer had the script-writer rewrite the script to make it more dramatic, because Fonda and Hepburn really were old people by that time; and it made for a great film.
I can't remember the black actor's name, but I always found him to be the boringest actor I ever saw. I think he was just a token black actor they used at the time to let blacks play something other than slaves or clowns.
@@mauricemason2914 Sidney Poitier was never a "token black actor." Poitier was, in fact, the first black actor to be nominated for and win a Best Actor Oscar: he and Tony Curtis co-starred in the Stanley Kramer directed adventure film, The Defiant Ones.
@@mauricemason2914 wow, what an ignorant comment about Sidney Poitier . He started his acting career in 1947 , this movie was made in 1967. He had been in 30 movies or shows by that point. Hardly some token black “clown”. He was first nominated for an Academy Award in the late 50s with Defiant Ones , winning an Oscar in 1964 for Lillies of the Field…Maybe do some research next time and learn something before insulting a fine actor like Sidney Poitier.
Katherine was an amazing truly independent woman.
Independent of the very moral superiority she put on publicly.
Being a hypocrite is not being independent; it is being duplicitous, dishonest. She was a nasty narcissist.
@@jnagarya519 As someone put it in comments here, "she was Scarlet O'Hara of her times" - no wonder she thought she was perfect for that role - she would just be herself.
I love your bios, the research you do and your narration. Excellent work.
Ludlow Ogden Smith was a cousin of my Mother's and with only the one picture of them on the dock, I really didn't know much about their life. Thank you for the video!!
Katharine Hepburn WAS in "Stage Door". She is one of the main characters.
The calla lillies were in bloom.
Honestly, Kathrine Hepburn didn't have what the Gone With The Wind's role of Scarlett O'Hara needed, but practically no other Hollywood actresses did either. That's why Vivian Leigh was essentially the only film actress who could have pulled it off. Leigh was practically born for the part. Nobody else had a chance.
Scotty Bower has written: "Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn did not actually live together and weren’t a couple at all, but the big shots thought it would be better to pawn them off as an adulterous duo than a gay man and a lesbian." Stranger things have happened.
In spite of Bowers opinion you can’t pretend chemistry. And Hepburn and Tracy had an incredible,”something .” You only have to watch Tracy’s speech In Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner to see the profound love between them. RIP.
If I have to choose between Kate Hepburn and Scottie, I'd take her word over his any day.
@@kathleenhartnellharper7234Well, he was a great actor
That guy is full of it
@@walterreeves3679exactly. Anyone who could attest or deny any of it were long dead
I loved and still love KH. What a strong courageous Lady in her decade epochs.
She lived ahead of her time. In today’s world there would be nothing twisted about her regarding her strong views about her progressive thinking; about careers for women; her rejections of marriage and motherhood; her progressive family, her wearing pants and wardrobe; her athletic capabilities. She WAS elegant with her exquisitely chiseled beauty, and becoming well educated (unusual then for women).
She forged a hard journey for women who have benefitted from her life decisions. In spite of the downturns she faced because of her tenacity to keep to her beliefs, desires and wishes.
Her personal love life is just that. She will be the one to answer to God for it (even though she was an aethiest). … as we all will.
A lot of devotion and respect to that wonderful human being I pledge to her with all my heart.
One of my favorite actresses of all time and I think this story embellished for some Hollywood sensationalism. How on Earth do you get from that recording they played---any type of scandal?
Bringing up baby is one of my favorite movies.
Amazing talent. Brilliant person . Wonderful amazing taste in scripts !
What a wonderful video. A great piece of work. I love your narration - actually using your own voice, with a wonderfully chosen script - brilliant. Thank you so much for posting. Katherine Hepburn was always a favourite of mine, of all Hollywood icons. Good production values and full of so many great Hollywood photos. You should’ve had one of Howard Hughes with Katherine though, rather than Ginger! But I loved Ginger too! Thank you. Best regards from the Giant’s Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland. 😀👍☘️🎬
Beautiful tribute. I read the autobiography many years ago, but you brought her reverence back to me. Thank you!
Thanks for the informative comments. Always good to read before wasting time on click-bait efforts…
"I love you." "It's mutual." Oh, my god, the romance, I can't handle it...! 🤨
Yeah, that's not romantic - in fact it's almost the *opposite* of romantic.
Click-bait aside: actually an interesting and concise bio on Katherine. Worth the watch.
As someone from CT. She actually lived in Old Saybrook, CT, of which Fenwick was a part. I x-rayed her hip in her later years in the 90's and she did not have dementia, she had Parkinson's Disease.
You may have x-rayed her hip, good! But she didn't have Parkinson's disease. She sd herself that her head tremors were a family trait she inherited from her father.
@@trishsiprell6996 pretty sure Parkinson’s could be considered a family trait as it’s end-stage autism (the pathogenic etiology of which is postpartum psychosis or wish for the child to become “unborn“). Doesn’t get much more family than that, and explains why she didn’t want kids too.
You're a delightful story-teller. I enjoy the musicality of your voice.
Katherine was a great Human being she didn’t care about the haters who spewed conspiracy theories and stated untruths to I suppose to make themselves feel important she was strong in her convictions and you always knew were you stood in her life if you could be so lucky to be in it
When I was a toddler, Katharine used to go through Maine every summer. She would always stop at this little shop called The Old Timers' Shop. Of course, when I met her, I had no clue who she was as I was only a toddler.
Gee, a woman doesn’t want to marry or have children - she must be a lesbian! After all who could resist a big strong man and screaming babies. She had a strong mother, who raised a strong woman with the ability to live her life as she wanted and not by the norms of the days. Lovers without marriage , how shocking! She was simply ahead of her time. As to both Hepburn and Tracy being gay, this only came out of a book written by an old man who waited till everyone was dead and then wrote a scurrilous book for the money which some were only too pleased to believe was all true. According to him everyone in Hollywood was gay! Gossip at its worst. And if they were that was their business and no one else’s. Outing someone, even after death is disgusting. I also believe that if it were true of Hepburn she would have been out and proud and damn the consequences.
Hepburn out and proud? please. despite her reputation for being a trail-blazer she also wanted to stay employed in 1930's Hollywood and a fake love affair with Spencer Tracy was the ticket. I don't buy all of Scotty Bower's stories but i'm also not an idiot - Kate wanted a paycheck.
you two should get married. you could be the next tracy and hepburn.
So odd, a secret affair, he couldn’t divorce, but all these angry wives-to cover up Spencer being gay and her being a lesbian? I circle back and bump into impossible facts. Howard Hughes certainly loved Katherine. She built him a shower at her home so he would visit her there. But ultimately who could live with him? He had those quirks and germs phobia. Yikes. John Ford didn’t want to lose custody so she must have been serious about him. She wouldn’t be the first woman who thought wives actually are not the queens some seem to think. I have been married fifty years. I buy my own Christmas and birthday gifts. I took him to his birthday dinner and paid for it. He was happy to go. But he took a nap afterwards as usual. At this time in our lives we appreciate each other’s love and kindness.
@@JoaninFlorida did you have a chance to pretend to be two beards?
@@JoaninFlorida ok i'm back and all grown up now so you leave me alone you big meanie or i'll tell mom
I love Katherine Hepburn. She is my favorite older actress. After she passed a book came out called Kate by a man named Scott Berg. He met her in the 80's and they became good friends and she asked him to write her biography but she didnt want it released til after she died. He spent years with her , hearing her life story and irs an amazing book . A must read for fans of Kate
Like your Irish accent!However Katharine Hepburn was a force to reckon with but I loved her performance especially in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"She had me really Cracking up!!😅
I LOVED KATHERINE HEPBURN SHE ALWAYS MADE ME SMILE AND SHE TOOK NO SHIT OFF ANYONE ♥️
It was Clark Gable and Spenser Tracy that Hepburn wanted to star with her in the Philadelphia story but had to settle for Grant and Stewart. It was her next movie that she finally picked Tracy as her leading man. But that probably because she co wrote the film and this time really did get what she wanted.
I knew when they started at the beginning of her life we were baited.
So did I.
I saw her at the Oscars in the eighties they gave an Oscar for the best actress in movie history. So they got that fact wrong that she never went to a Oscars, she had Parkinson's and shook terribley but gave a brave speech. To this day African Queen is one of my top three movies.
She didn't have Parkinson's.
Ms. Hepburn sd of herself "I do NOT have Parkinson's disease. The head shaking is a family trait; it comes from my father."
This was in.a special called "All About Me," which I saw twice to remember all that she said.
She also talked about swimming in the ocean every day all her life and thanked Mr. Tracy "for showing me what love is."
It was lovely and memorable to hear her speak of her life and address the myths in her own words. 🌺
I have admired her all my life and I named my daughter Katharine after her.