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Post by karina on Jul 9, 2005 13:35:36 GMT -5
What sort of Mother do you think Kate would have been, had she had children? I know she claimed she wouldn't have had the time or patience for them, but she seemed to have a pretty good relationship with children, whether in real life or on screen.
She could be quite maternal with her younger sisters and nieces & nephews and always seemed concerned about and up-to-date with their progress. She reacted well with the little boy in Summertime and the kids in Olly Olly Oxen Free, talked commonsense into her children in Delafield and On Golden Pond. Admittedly, the mothers she played in Suddenly Last Summer and The Lioin in Winter were far from loving (!), but do you really think she'd have treated her own kids like the one she briefly adopted in Woman of the Year?
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Post by Cate on Jul 9, 2005 13:52:31 GMT -5
Contrary to what Katharine says I think she would have been a wonderful mother. I think that if she had a child mid-career, her career wouldn't have spanned as long as it did. She was such a surprisingly caring person that I am sure if she had a baby she wouldn't suffocate it mid-cry because she had to be somewhere else  I think maybe she would have raised her child similar to the way she was raised, with freedom, encouragement but with more discipline. I remember her saying once she was raised without any discipline which is amazing being the disciplined person she was, but she also thought children needed discipline. Wasn't she a little insane in Suddenly, Last Summer? Not sure that is a good comparison. You would think that she might have some of the same maternal problems as she did in Woman of the Year since she was so caught up in her own life but in her real life, she was always surrounded by children. I'm sure she would know not to leave one of them home alone... she did have common sense. |
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Post by dreamer on Dec 30, 2006 15:05:22 GMT -5
Would like to share this with you guy's - not aware of how many of you have read Kanin's book. In his book Irene's son Jeff tells a story from a summer at Fenwick. Reading it, wouldn't you just have loved being one of the children there for a summer ?  "Jeff Selznick has a memory of adventure at the place: "Kate, I guess was the first girl I was ever in love with. I didn’t seem strange to be because she never treated me as though I were young and she were older. There wasn’t any of that adult-child nonsense. I was a boy and she was a girl and even though I don’t think anybody could say I’d lived a sheltered live, I sure had never run into anything like her. Once I was visiting Fenwick and we went out in a twenty-two-foot boat. There was Kathy Grant and one for the other nieces and we were going along fine, and don’t ask me how it happened, but all of a sudden we lost the motor. I mean it just fell overboard. So I sat there looking down and the next thing you know, Kate dove right in. We were scare to death and kept yelling at her that we were in the marshes and that is was dangerous and please cut it out, but she kept diving over and over, getting madder and madder. She couldn’t find it, so she got a fix on exactly where we were and the next day she got us all to go back there. Well, no. Not the girls. She got her brother, Richard and me, and we went back to the spot and she supervised the whole operation and got Dick and me to dive down, looking for the motor. I was terrified but since she’d done it the day before it would’ve seemed sissy not to. After a while Dick found it, but he couldn’t raise it. About this time, I was exhausted-breathing hard and gasping. She pulled me back into the boat. Dick was saying, “The hell with it.” You know what she did? She pulled the anchor. Next thing you know, she’d hooked it. She started to pull on it and yelled for help, and we all pulled on it an pulled. All of a sudden, we had the goddam motor back in the boat! “It means a lot to a kid growing up, hanging around with a dame like that.”" From Tracy and Hepburn by Kanin |
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Post by Richard on Dec 31, 2006 21:36:31 GMT -5
Sweet story. Thanks!
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Post by di on Jan 23, 2007 20:14:54 GMT -5
I think she would of been a great mom but she choose not to be which I have always respected. She knew herself and what she wanted and she got it by God! I think her kids were her nieces and nephews. She often said that. I respected that she knew you cannot do it all. She was the type of lady that gave something her all and probably felt she would never be able to give her career 100% if she had kids.
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Post by asyla15 on Mar 29, 2010 0:53:14 GMT -5
hmm...I was wondering what kate and spencer's child would have looked like....If they ever had one.
What do you think?
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Post by CrazyForKate on Mar 29, 2010 12:41:31 GMT -5
Presumably strange and redheaded.
I just got a cool interview with KH (the Ladies' Home Journal Oct 1991) where she's pretty candid about the whole not-having-children thing (and a lot of other stuff). Basically, more of the stuff she said in "Me" (thought she was too selfish, etc), but clarified a bit further. Enough to make me wonder if it's reliable...but surely if it was outrageously wrong she would have said something? I know some of you have read it and could judge it better...but it's a really good article anyway. She's incredibly adorable.
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I think maybe she would have raised her child similar to the way she was raised, with freedom, encouragement but with more discipline. I remember her saying once she was raised without any discipline which is amazing being the disciplined person she was, but she also thought children needed discipline. 
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