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for March 1936
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The many-mooded Hepburn, shown at left from the time she entered pictures to the present: recall the weird coiffures and hand-clasps? Then note Kate with her "publicity" monkey! It was "Little Women" that made Hepburn world-popular — see the scene with Douglass Montgomery. Finally, the vivid, vital actress and woman of today.
Jay Brien Chapman
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sponsibility. You wish to be wholly sincere in your dealings with it, not only in what you offer on the screen but in the way you represent your real self. Now isn't that remarkable? Why it demands this part of you that is beyond your work and apart from it, I can't imagine. But it does, doesn't it?"
As I remember the incident, she glanced as though for corroboration at her director, the late Lowell Sherman. Sherman, a sophisticated, and in many things a cynical man, nodded soberly. Katharine then glanced back at us, and as she resumed speaking, the connection between her remarks and Doug's writing became apparent.
"But how to supply this demand? Write about yourself ? Let others do it ? Must one learn not only acting but the art of reporting oneself to press and public? I shrink from it, because it is so easy to be misunderstood."
How clearly her words reveal certain things, despite the reserve, the proud refusal, so characteristic of Katharine Hepburn, to cry to her friends for aid ! We learn that she has realized the responsibility of a motion picture star to the film patrons. And we recognize instantly that the fierce resentment so often charged against her, a thing some writers have branded hatred of the public, is a myth. She wants public sympathy and understanding.
Yet even this revealing view of the real Katharine Hepburn — (sadly overworked, that word real!) — has been through a veil. Certain mysteries remain. What powerful shackles bind her not to clear up her misunderstanding (Continued on page 70)