By Grace Carter
The checklist of adjectives used to explain Hepburn - daring, obdurate, witty, appealing - in simple terms start to trace on the advanced lady who entranced audiences all over the world (she may be controlling, egocentric, and self-righteous). So this is the entire, epic tale of "the consumer saint of the self sustaining American female," as one critic defined her - from her step forward in Hollywood within the early Nineteen Thirties to On Golden Pond within the Eighties to her dramatic affairs with Howard Hughes and Spencer Tracy and past. along with her distinct, patrician voice and tsunami-force character, Hepburn constantly lived lifestyles strictly on her personal phrases. And oh, what a existence it was.
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