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| | Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | The divine Ms H: Zadie Smith on Katharine Hepburn |
 | | Hepburn said they "gave me the impression that the bitterer the medicine, the better it was for you," and this strikes us as absolutely commensurate with her image on the big screen; never indulgent, always somehow utilitarian; only doing and using what was necessary. |
 | | Hepburn didn't help herself, either, with her on-set behavior, which was noted and commented upon by the usual LA gossip columnists sent by the magazines to investigate the potential starlet. |
 | | She needn't have worried: Hepburn's romantic dedication to Tracy is now legendary, and I remember, again, as a child, hoping for the sort of relationship that seemed symbolised in the fact that even as he lay dying, Hepburn spent every day with him, lying on the floor beside his bed. |
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