Kate Remembered
by A. Scott Berg

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Book Review: Katharine the Great
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'Kate Remembered' is not just a biography of the most exceptional and lengthy career in the annals of Hollywood, it lets us vicariously into the star's inner most sentiments, thoughts and beliefs as revealed to the author in their long conversations during a close 20 year friendship.

It was only after Kate's death on 29th June 2003 that this book was published. F. Scott Berg had agreed with his legendary friend not to make public any of the details of their discussions until she had passed away. Indeed, to have confided in anyone at all was remarkable as Katharine Hepburn was second only to Garbo in guarding her privacy. This fact alone is testament to the trust and closeness of the friendship between the star and the biographer.

In this book we witness her thoughts on, amongst others, the actor Spencer Tracy, with whom she had an iconic but very private relationship for 27 years:
"After 34 years of living for me! me! me! (he) taught me how to love."
His effect on her was like being "hit over the head with a cast-iron skillet".

On Garbo:"You simply couldn't take your eyes off her. You wanted to know everything about her and you knew she wasn't going to give it to you. That's a movie star and that's what we all wanted to be."

An eventful evening spent in the company of a 25 year old Michael Jackson: I can't recall a more peculiar night in my life!"

For me personally what makes this book different to those that have gone before is more than just the funny, sometimes mischievously bitchy insights into her contemporaries, but the exquisitely intimate and warm images Berg conjures up of the Hepburn household in her later years and all the fascinating personalities involved therein including brothers, sisters, domestic staff and friends of the star.

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