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And I felt the enormous effect she must have had on my mother, the eldest of the three girls. “You’re a moaner.” Peg learned her lesson. Failure happens. You'll also gain insight into Katharine Hepburn's enduring cultural impact, her influence on future generations, and much more...
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They would scream and yell at each other. I mean of course my mother—my father. My background. Click the Buy Now Button to Get Your Copy Now!
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Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic.
Her mother was lovely-looking. She wanted to lead her younger sisters in the right direction and was not about to let Uncle Amory boss her around. She visited Bryn Mawr College with my mother. Now that you are paying up Mary Towle, how would it do to pay the various other accounts that you owe? He was found, dead of a self-inflicted gun wound in the head, on the railway tracks.
Caroline dreaded leaving her girls to be brought up by any of their available relatives, whom she considered hopelessly reactionary. Dive deep into her journey from a fearless young actress to a revered legend. Hers is an honest account of where a silly choice will take you, the six car pile-up that occurs at the wall of one's limitations, how regret, like a bad peach, must be noted only long enough to properly discard.
These girls wanted an education—to be independent. Thus I had them as my … Well, they were always for over forty years—there. All rights reserved.
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Before I tell you anything about myself, I would like to tell you, or at least identify for you, the world into which I was born. She made arrangements for Mother to go there and made arrangements for Edith and Marion to go to Miss Baldwin’s boarding school, almost next door to the college.
By the time her mother died, Katharine was sixteen, Edith fourteen and Marion twelve.
Then it was discovered that Caroline had cancer of the stomach. The girls went to Baldwin and later they both went to Bryn Mawr.
Just to give you a little idea of the atmosphere that Mother was born into, I’m going to insert here a letter from this same Uncle Amory to Mother in 1904. I suppose you will endorse on the back of this draft—Pay to the order of Mary R.
Towle, sign under it, Katharine M. Houghton, and then send the draft to Mary R. Towle.
disgusted
Your affectionate uncle
A. Houghton, Jr.
When you were a little girl and went into Buffalo and got trusted for some dry goods which you were not allowed to keep (they were returned) your father remarked “Kathie is a feather head.” It is true.
You've got to hand it to her.