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Anonymous asked: Do you know the reasons behind any of the nicknames Spence had for Kate?I should think that most of them are/were pretty self-explanatory? From Kanin’s book: “Spencer Tracy usually called her Kathy; occasionally Kath, and sometimes Flora Finch; Olive Oyle; Laur read more

Anonymous asked: Kate didn't want a memorial sevice. Why not?Quite simply, because Hepburns don’t moan about death. Life goes on. Ya’ plow on ahead, and before too long, someone’s plowin’ you. …or something like that. Read her book.Here’s a glimpse of Hepburn&rsq read more

We have gotten into a terrible situation in the world today where the law is representing entirely the moron, the worthy person who’s sort of hewed the line and dug the potato patch and planted the potatoes and kept the thing going is absolutely disregarded because they say, ‘T read more

A 1922 photo of Kate, age 14, published in The Hartford Daily Times on August 18th, 1923, upon her taking first place in a golf tournament at Fenwick. read more

Anonymous asked: Oz Anon again! By the way hope you are enjoying the holiday season :-). 'Nother question coming up ... What to do you know about ST's daughter, Susie Tracy? From my googling, I know she gives out the prestigious Spencer Tracy award every now and again (although read more

“This is the story of Philip Barry’s play, The Philadelphia Story, and of Katharine Hepburn. Kate and Mary Martin, incidentally, are two of the finest women I have known in forty years of the theatre.Philip Barry, very Irish, tempermental and delightful, had been having a bad time as a p read more

eccentricks asked: I don't know what country you live in, but in the US, video tape-to-DVD converters run as low as $20.00. I'm only saying because I would love to see the rest of that 60 Minutes interview! Haha.I live in AMURRICA, yes. $20 is a bit steep for me, at this time. But thank you very, ve read more

“…from the impacts of Miss Garbo and the redoubtable Miss O’Brien, I looked about me and discovered that there are many other performers in motion pictures who could have walked a stage with Sir Henry Irving, or with anybody. It would be an impertinence for me to take an read more

Anonymous asked: The word is "independence" I'm told by an expert.Oh? Thanks, “expert”!

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Anonymous asked: Hello, I think I read somewhere about Katharine having hyper-thyroid. Could that possibly be what caused her head tremors later in life?Yknow, about a solid 80% of the questions I get on this blog are from the great abyss. I often wonder if ya’ll think I’M the one who&r read more

“I liked both Spencer and Katharine. Katharine was like my wife, Molly, who knew no limit to what she’d do for a cause she believed in. The cause Hepburn believed in was Tracy. She’d watch him do a scene, and before I could comment on his work even fav read more

At her press conference in Melbourne last night Miss Hepburn looked exactly as one had been led to expect. With a beige slack suit — of mannish cut — she wore a white cotton high-necked jumper; no make-up, except a clear red lipstick; her hair piled, somewhat haphazardly, on the read more

Anonymous asked: Kate didn't want a memorial sevice. Why not?Quite simply, because Hepburns don’t moan about death. Life goes on. Ya’ plow on ahead, and before too long, someone’s plowin’ you. …or something like that. Read her book. Here’s a glimpse read more

Anonymous asked: Hello, I think I read somewhere about Katharine having hyper-thyroid. Could that possibly be what caused her head tremors later in life?Yknow, about a solid 80% of the questions I get on this blog are from the great abyss. I often wonder if ya’ll think I’M the one who’s se read more

noyoudontoprah replied: LOL, you freak.These are her baby hair clippings.Allow me to school your ass in the fine art of one-uppment, my good man. ;-*

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callmecordelia asked: I can't even begin to express how much I love your blog. I am a rather new Kate lover (discovered her in "Bringing Up Baby" this past May), and I haven't looked back! I think your commentary is so interesting and witty, and your blog brings me so much joy as I learn more about read more

bon-aventures:Katharine Hepburn photographed by Ernest A. Bachrach, 1936.

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mindofataurus: The week of the natural.  Attraction, rebellion, inhibition and lack of it, mischievousness and acting out of unconscious wishes all play a part in Taurus III’s lives.  Taurus III’s are highly sensitive individuals who need to be left free to express themselves as directly a read more

Anonymous asked: Hi Amber, can you fill me in on the Laura/glass figurine rumor? Even if it's not true, you got me curious about it. Evelien xxxEVELIEN! OH MY, OH NOES. (Can I… call you “Evie”? Would that be too presumptuous? I just really, really unabashedly love THE read more

filmefatale asked: i love your tags most of all, scarecrow.Oh, but it is I that love you most of al–blech. This isn’t a love-in. But thaaaaaank yoooooou, my man!

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