Katharine Hepburn

During the Second World War EB became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton (with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper , and actress Dame Edith Evans . Later she also became a friend of MGM

Critics who attended the New York production saw the play as little more than a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn , and a bad one at that. The Times called it a sad sack of a...

At a Philadelphia preview of EB 's final play, A Matter of Gravity, Katharine Hepburn stopped her performance mid-sentence when a photographer attempted to take her picture.

After New York, the play toured America, making considerably more money than expected thanks to surprisingly receptive audiences in the Midwest. EB earned £1,000 a week in royalties, her highest rate ever. Part way through...

Katharine Hepburn was given the new form of the play to read and loved it, but still vacillated for a year before accepting the role. Christopher Reeve took on the role of Nickie (the new...

This was released as a film by MGM on 1 August 1944, with Katharine Hepburn in the starring role and no Chinese actors in the cast.

The film was directed by George Cuckor , and starred John Barrymore , Billie Burke , and Katharine Hepburn .

ZS excels at what could be called appreciation pieces. She published a hyperbolic and loving eulogy on the recently dead Katharine Hepburn in 2003, and a fine assessment of Graham Greene for his centenary in...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...