Katharine Hepburn by Anne Edwards

Author:Anne Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493039203
Publisher: Lyons Press

Footnotes

* Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), knighted in 1972, gained fame as a photographer of the British Royal Family and of noted personalities. He was a great artist in design and won the Academy Award for his work as designer for Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964).

† One of the plays Ruth Gordon was working on at this time—Over Twenty-One—was successful on stage and screen. At the same time, Kanin had begun work on his play Born Yesterday (1946).

* Mainbocher—the designer. The Duchess of Windsor also wore his clothes almost exclusively.

* The Burns Mantle Theatre annual for 1945 also claims, “Tracy quit in Boston, walked out one night, but returned a few days later and went on with the play to New York.”

* Melvyn Douglas (1901–1981). One of the most popular leading men in films during the thirties and forties, Douglas was also an acclaimed stage performer. He won a Tony for The Best Man and by the sixties became a much honored supporting player. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Hud, 1963.

† Elia Kazan (1909– ) went on to become a celebrated theater and film director. His stage credits include: All My Sons (1947), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949). His best known films are Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955), A Face in the Crowd (1957), Splendor in the Grass (1961) and America, America from his own novel (1963).

* Robert Mitchum (1917– ) catapulted to stardom in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His most memorable films include The Night of the Hunter (1955), The Longest Day (1962), Two for the Seesaw (1962) and Ryan’s Daughter (1970).

† Robert Taylor (1911–1969), one of M.G.M.’s principal players. Best known for his roles in Camille (1936), Waterloo Bridge (1940) and Johnny Eager (1941).

* Edmund Gwenn (1875–1959) played Hepburn’s father in the film as he had a decade earlier in Sylvia Scarlett.

† Robert Walker (1918–1951) had played Hepburn’s son in The Sea of Grass.

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