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Post by martha on Sept 17, 2008 16:46:01 GMT -5
So there is a lovely little vid posted recently on the blog (love this blog!) for "the kate" .. you know .. www.katharinehepburntheater.org/ [heck most of us make comments there on the postings  ] ... September 15, 2008's entry gives us a link to "Treasures of The New York Public Library Video Series: The Katharine Hepburn Papers" oh my. a little vid and more stuff to visit and rifle through .. www.nypl.org/news/treasures/index.cfm?vidid=6a minute or so into the vid, there is a still of a letter from our Ms. Garland (whose Ms. Garland? why, all of ours) ... to Kate. This undated letter (hence my lack of wits about this guessing game) is typed on Garland monogrammed stationary .. and says: "Dear Katie. I've always said you were our leading actress, and what everyone is saying out here about you in the new play just about cinches the title for you."
hmm. there are hints here, but my feeble brain, even after scanning the listing at katethegreat.net/theatre.htm can't quite discern the facts. this will be an easy question for some here .. but WHAT play is being referenced by Garland in this letter to Hepburn? |
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Post by Judy on Sept 17, 2008 18:17:51 GMT -5
So there is a lovely little vid posted recently on the blog (love this blog!) for "the kate" .. you know .. www.katharinehepburntheater.org/ [heck most of us make comments there on the postings ] ... September 15, 2008's entry gives us a link to "Treasures of The New York Public Library Video Series: The Katharine Hepburn Papers" oh my. a little vid and more stuff to visit and rifle through .. www.nypl.org/news/treasures/index.cfm?vidid=6a minute or so into the vid, there is a still of a letter from our Ms. Garland (whose Ms. Garland? why, all of ours) ... to Kate. This undated letter (hence my lack of wits about this guessing game) is typed on Garland monogrammed stationary .. and says: "Dear Katie. I've always said you were our leading actress, and what everyone is saying out here about you in the new play just about cinches the title for you."
hmm. there are hints here, but my feeble brain, even after scanning the listing at katethegreat.net/theatre.htm can't quite discern the facts. this will be an easy question for some here .. but WHAT play is being referenced by Garland in this letter to Hepburn? Martha: I believe this letter is among those from 1952, so she would be referring to THE MILLIONAIRESS. J |
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Post by martha on Sept 17, 2008 18:34:27 GMT -5
ah, judy. your wealth of knowledge, even informed guesses .. is, well, precious. yea. that's a start!
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Post by dreamer on Sept 18, 2008 3:39:27 GMT -5
ah, judy. your wealth of knowledge, even informed guesses .. is, well, precious. yea. that's a start! Martha - am guessing Judy was being polite in saying it's her believe that it would be referring to THE MILLIONAIRESS. There has been several articles written about the Garland letter in the news - only those said something else/more than the letter shown in the video did Some examples: blogs.nypost.com/movies/archives/2007/10/katharine_hepbu.html# Letter to Hepburn from Judy Garland, after Hepburn opened on Broadway in "The Millionairess, " October, 1952: "I've always said you were our leading actress, and what everyone is saying out here about you in the new play just about cliches the title for you. Congratulations. I am getting fat and pregnant and mean. It is fun, most of the time, but I am getting terribly impatient about now [sic]. I wish you would come out here so I could see you. Love and kisses, Judy." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/31/whepburn131.xmlJudy Garland wrote in 1952: "I've always said you were our leading actress. I am getting fat and pregnant and mean." www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/theater/30kate.html “I’ve always said you were our leading actress,” Garland wrote during the 1952 run of “The Millionairess,” before complaining, “I am getting fat and pregnant and mean.” I find it quite annoying to find out that the articles said more than the letter did - that is, if it wasn't added with a PS after 'Love and kisses'  |
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Post by martha on Sept 18, 2008 9:25:58 GMT -5
yes, this "fat and pregnant and mean" letter has always entertained me ... [part of this screen shot letter in a p.s.? we could assume .. yet ANOTHER reason to look at the archives i guess ..] i would love to hear garland's voice delivering those lines. .. the pregnancy referenced, then, would be lorna (born november 1952) ... thanks group. ..
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