(凯瑟琳·赫本传) Katharine Hepburn: An Independent Woman
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作者： Ronald Bergan著
出 版 社： 上海蓝泉外文图书有限公司
出版时间： 1996-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 192印刷时间： 1996/10/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781559703512包装： 精装内容简介
When Katharine Hepburn arrived in Hollywood in1932, RKO studio executives escribed her aslooking "like a cross between a horse and a monkey."
But she soon confounded everyone by emerging,with her high cheekbones and "natural" looks, as arare beauty. She also displayed both animperturbable sense of humor and an intelligentsensibility: nobody on screen could be so funny andso moving in making a fool of herself, or so touchingin reclaiming her dignity. According to GeorgeCukor, her friend and director of eight of her films,
she was "never a 'love-me-I'm-a-lovable-little-girl'kind of actress. She always challenged the audience,and that wasn't the fashion in those days."
Her career, which spans seven decades, follows noconventional pattern-from her debut, opposite JohnBarrymore in A Bill of Divorcement, she was a breath
of fresh air. Her screen personae have ranged fromthe headstrong girl of her early appearances to thevaguely authoritative spinster of her later films; herperformances have won her a string of accolades,from her first Oscar for Morning Glory in 1933 to herfourth for On Golden Pond in 1981 -with which shebecame the first (and to date only) winner of fourBest Actress Oscars, from a record 12 nominations.
Along the way, she costarred with Cary Grant (in,among others, The Philadelphia Story), HumphreyBogart (The African Queen), Montgomery Clift(Suddenly Last Summer), Spencer Tracy (in ninefilms, culminating with Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner), and Peter O'Toole (The Lion in Winter),while her off-screen partnerships included romanceswith director John Ford, dashing young millionaireHoward Hughes, her agent Leland Hayward, and,most famously and most enduringly, Spencer Tracy,from whom she was seldom apart for 27 years.
But she was always her own woman, insisting onand retaining the respect of all who worked with her.
She refused to give in to the studio's publicitydemands, avoiding interviews and always wearingpants off the set, With her fierce no-nonsense beauty-to which the 150 sumptuous photographs in thisbook amply testify-her strong-mindedoutspokenness, and her controlled yet sparklingperformances, she will always be one of the cinema'smost seductive illustrations of the advantages of
independence.
