| Show IN STEP WITH: ® BY JAMES BRADY 0 I 111 e I tO " a I I BORN: Nov 6 1909 in Hartford Conn PERSONAL: Married to Ludlow Ogden '41' frA" vo' a (a'DI) IL fipetar-- e' Smith q" 4' O ixe:c4-- 4 417' - it' I I- - k ' e'4 )1 N li 1 '1912:4 ' lei Holiday1938 The Philadelphia Slaty 1940 Woman of the Year 1942 Adam's Rib 1949 VH - v on LIS jV The African Queen 4 1' 1932 Morning Glory 1933 Little Women 1933 Stage Door 1937 Bringing Up Baby 1938 ' 0 oep 4 Include A Bill of Divorcement svm Pifp4 1928-3- i 45orot 1951 Pat and Mike 1952 The Rainmaker1956 you want Katharine Hepburn to be when you finally get around to meeting her When I asked if she preferred "Miss" or "Ms she plied "I don't give a damn" In getting ready to meet The Great Kate I'd read her g bio Me and screened a new best-sellin- 90-min- special that Turner Network Television (TNT) will air to- morrow evening in which Miss Hepburn talks about herself and her life and shows some brief clips from her films (good and bad) There also are some great home movies with her husband Luddy and her long- time love Spencer Tracy of 11' less ' 11 i special tomorrow I 11 evening-- - and at home In person— Katharine Hepburn turns out to be everything you want her to be played the Paris designer Coco Chanel Miss Hepburn cast a quick eye over the names "God" she said quietly "they're all dead I told her that I'd screened tomorrow's TV special "I haven't" she said explaining that she never looks at her old you should—it's good" I responded m:bowaruti7th:"'I should see it" she said s''""cantY N A CHILLY MANHATTAN MORNING I WENT my house langettletnacen n 4d7r hm7 townhouse 's H Katharine II warhoeurnedhteor epsbhuomw k'11a the mai c Nor 1 S - — edmeup Iyart stairs to a sat g I tittu7lac: de old sat-i- n furniture Then Miss Hepburn tc: in came up the stairs herself shouting as she da(ItLye—s and she the came And after we said r'serget I made sure I had coffee and she had a glass ix PetPetaersButLdeeLreed the of water she got down on one knee to light the showed"' metoo Late when flame nice a it into a fire and poke "ening the kon "It's all in the wood" she said "You tecatekwfouteaun7he°4 against getting want good wood from the country" She is s on me" she now 83 and still working and everything bouble1 1bleituilthenthpf"eoucha:boutgSaterkit:a13Anc IdlYb 1 lw I said I had the impression she was taller "I used to be" she said grinning "I was 5 feet 7 Now I'm 5 feet 5 I'm shrinking!" has an artificial hip or two and she badly banged up her right ankle 10 years ago in a car crash but Miss Hepburn still swims all year round in Long Island Sound "Don't ask me why" she said "but I'm still at it—if it doesn't kill me" ai I PAGE 20 JANUARY 1 In a new BRorst3in ''''' to uln plus footage from her child- hood (the year she cut her hair and said she was a boy named "Jimmy") her college days at Bryn Mawr and even some terrible audition film—hammy and posed It is just wonderful stuff At one point we see Kate and Norah and others load- ing up the car to drive to her country place in Connecticut (Norah is carrying what bottle of Scotch) and looks like a ic they're all piling flowers and plants into the car "But why take flowers to the country?' I asked and she re a "I don't like to leave them home alone Flow- ers are expressive They die alone" Miss Hepburn admitted to having been dif-ficult at times while young I knew she'd been Talking witli fired from several acting jobs and I said "But lialhatiniepkurn in Just bounced back" She replied "You have to you egetspid a:1heeml:t don't you? Otherwise you bounce out of here" with:f refrnteestnibeias:171:levielstu uk atnin When she was shown a copy of the album for casiesWas edopingacacriedental of the 1969 Broadway musical Coco in which she Crant Long Day's Journey Info Night 1962 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 The Lion in Winter 1968 On Golden Pond 1981 TV: Includes The Man Upstairs1992 BOOKS: Include Me: Stories of My Life 1991 Ni I 17 1993 PARADE MAGAZINE IIf a n I |
