“He is probably best known as an appendage to Katharine Hepburn, with whom he made nine movies and conducted a more-or-less open affair from 1941 to his death in 1967. Indeed, the Tracy-Hepburn romance is the only thing that the average under-50 moviegoer knows about the man whom John Ford called ‘the best actor we ever had…'”
Archives for December 12, 2011
TT: Just because
Elaine Stritch and Kim Stanley in a short excerpt from the original Broadway production of William Inge’s Bus Stop, telecast in 1955 and introduced by Farley Granger:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
TT: Almanac
“I never did write a biography, and I don’t exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, letter to Harriet Anderson, Mar. 15, 1856