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The life of legendary actress Katharine Hepburn will not be such a secret anymore, as the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will soon display thousands of her personal documents.
Thousands of Katharine Hepburn’s personal documents, including private letters, fan letters, scripts, notes, scrapbooks and photographs that she kept throughout her life and career will be donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, according to Reuters.
These documents will be on display beginning February 2008.
The documents are a sneaky introspection in the Hollywood star’s life. Hepburn died at 96 in 2003.They specifically include notes dating from the late 1920s, while a student at Bryn Mawr College, to 1982 when she played on Broadway in “The West Side Waltz,” and reveal more of her professional life, rather than personal life.
“She was such a private person, but she kept all this knowing that someday it would be made public,” says library curator Bob Taylor. “She was aware that she was motion picture and theater history.”
The only hint about her love life is in one leather scrapbook from the play “Coco,” which has the monogram “S.T.” on it. This is supposed to be that of her most famous lover, Spencer Tracy, Reuters reports.
The documents portray her as a woman of strong will, stubborn, determined and witty, as most of the characters played by her were.
A juicy note presents the night when she was arrested in Blackwell, Oklahoma by a police officer. She called him “moron” and “dumbbell” to his face, being very upset because her chauffeur was stopped for speeding.
“I have been arrested by this moron,” she says after arriving at a lawyer’s office. “If I ever found an Oklahoma car in Connecticut, I would flatten all the tires,” she wrote in that note.
There are also letters from actors Judy Garland and Charlton Heston, who praised her in 1981: “You have made all our hearts tremble, one time or another.”
“Miss Hepburn didn't throw away much, so there are boxes and boxes and roomfuls of material,” Cynthia McFadden, co-executor of Hepburn’s will said. Fans can therefore expect to have plenty of material at their disposal that once belonged to the four-time Academy Award-winning actress, beginning with February 2008, provided they make a trip to New York.
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