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I was A BIT apprehensive
as I walked up to the
Birdcage, the big house high
above Beverly Hills where
Katharine Hepburn lives.
For all practical purposes, she
had not talked to an interviewer
about her personal life since she
won an Academy Award for
""Morning Glory" 30 years ago.
Since then. Miss Hepburn has
been nominated for Oscars eight
times (including this year for
"Long Day's Journey into Night"),
yet she has remained the mystery
woman of Hollywood, granting
few interviews and even then
volunteering little more than pro
fessional opinions about her work.
But for some inexplicable rea
son, the afternoon I saw her she
was in a mellow and talkative
mood, willing to discuss anything.
When interviewed 30 years ago.
Miss Hepburn struck back at what
she considered an invasion of her
privacy by. telling the reporter
that she had been married 3 times
and had 10 children.
This time, however, she dis
cussed her one unsuccessful mar
riage with little hesitation: "It
happened in 1928 and lasted six
years. Unfortunately, we had no
children." Her husband was Lud
low Smith, an industrial engineer.
Since then, she never has been
even close to matrimony.
Katharine is a mystery not
only to the public but to her
co-workers as well. Only a handful
of people are close to her among
them George Cukor, who directed
some of her most successful pic
tures, and Spencer Tracy, with
whom she co-starred in eight films.
Her other friends are not in the
entertainment industry.
In all Katharine's years in Hol
lywood, she never has been to a
night club, and she admits, "I can
count on the fingers of one hand
the times I've been to a restau
rant." What's more, she has ig
nored the folkways of filmland by
never attending a movie premiere.
Her reason: "I don't want to go.
I just wasn't brought up that way.
My family never went out; we
always had a very good time at
home. When I go out, I. get ex
cited and it gives me indigestion."
. Yet when you meet Katie, you
find there is nothing of the
dour recluse about her. She is a
vigorous, exciting, and hospitable
woman, who refers to her Califor
nia home and her town houses in
Katharine Hepburn:
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Hollywood's Mystery
Woman No star has been more
adroit at dodging personal questions, but here
the curtain surrounding her private life lifts a
little as she gives her first really revealing
interview in 30 years By peer J. OPPENHEIMER
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