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Kate Remembered Paperback - 2004
by Berg, A. Scott
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Screen legend Katharine Hepburn met Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg in 1983 and spent the next 20 years confiding in him her thoughts and feelings on a remarkable life and career. Berg recorded all the candid and surprising stories for posterity and now shares the intimate conversations with the world. 0-425-19909-6$15.00 / Penguin Group
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- Title Kate Remembered
- Author Berg, A. Scott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st trade paper
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley / Nal, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-09-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ01SBT9_ns
- ISBN 9780425199091 / 0425199096
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses - United, Hepburn, Katharine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in the popular culture of the twentieth century - reigning as an admired actress, a beloved movie star, and a treasured icon of the modern American woman. She also remained one of the most private of all the public figures of her time.
In 1983 - at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting - the four-time Academy Award winner opened the door to biographer A. Scott Berg - then thirty-three - and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life.
From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intended his role to be not just that of a friend but also of a chronicler, a confidant who might record for posterity her thoughts and feelings. Over the next twenty years, Kate used their many hours together to reveal all that came to mind, often reflecting on the people and episodes of her past, occasionally on the meaning of life.
Here are the stories from those countless intimate conversations, and much more. In addition to recording heretofore untold biographical details of her entire phenomenal career and her famous relationships with such men as Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes, Kate Remembered also tells the amusing, often emotional story of one of the most touching friendships in her final years. Scott Berg provides his own memories of Katharine Hepburn offstage - quiet dinners in her town house in New York City, winter swims (she swam, he watched) in the Long Island Sound at Fenwick, her home in Connecticut, weekend visits with family members and dear friends...even some unusual appearances by the likes of Michael Jackson and Warren Beatty. Finally, Kate Remembered discusses the legendary actress's moving farewell, during which her mighty personality surrendered at last to her failing body - all the while remaining true to her courageous character.
Kate Remembered is a book about love and friendship, family and career, Hollywood and Broadway - all punctuated by unforgettable lessons from an extraordinary life.
In 1983 - at the age of seventy-five, her career cresting - the four-time Academy Award winner opened the door to biographer A. Scott Berg - then thirty-three - and began a special friendship, one that endured to the end of her illustrious life.
From the start, Scott Berg felt that Katharine Hepburn intended his role to be not just that of a friend but also of a chronicler, a confidant who might record for posterity her thoughts and feelings. Over the next twenty years, Kate used their many hours together to reveal all that came to mind, often reflecting on the people and episodes of her past, occasionally on the meaning of life.
Here are the stories from those countless intimate conversations, and much more. In addition to recording heretofore untold biographical details of her entire phenomenal career and her famous relationships with such men as Spencer Tracy and Howard Hughes, Kate Remembered also tells the amusing, often emotional story of one of the most touching friendships in her final years. Scott Berg provides his own memories of Katharine Hepburn offstage - quiet dinners in her town house in New York City, winter swims (she swam, he watched) in the Long Island Sound at Fenwick, her home in Connecticut, weekend visits with family members and dear friends...even some unusual appearances by the likes of Michael Jackson and Warren Beatty. Finally, Kate Remembered discusses the legendary actress's moving farewell, during which her mighty personality surrendered at last to her failing body - all the while remaining true to her courageous character.
Kate Remembered is a book about love and friendship, family and career, Hollywood and Broadway - all punctuated by unforgettable lessons from an extraordinary life.
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- New York Times, 10/03/2004, Page 34