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I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography ReviewI've always had my doubts about Charlotte Chandler but I'm not that familiar with the subjects of her other biographies. However, I have read both Katharine Hepburn's books as well as all her published interviews and have viewed all her televised interviews. Hepburn had a very distinctive "voice".Much of this book sounds nothing like Katharine Hepburn. It, in fact, reads like bad fan fiction. If Chandler ever interviewed Hepburn, which I doubt, she has dramatically embellished whatever Hepburn told her. This book is simply a fake.
Chandler combines quotes from Hepburn that have been seen elsewhere in Hepburn's own books and published interviews but then expands them with purported quotes from Hepburn that sound nothing like her and which, of course, are sexually and personally revealing because we know that's what sells books.
A good example is the first chapter of the book which is about the death of Hepburn's brother, Tom. Katharine Hepburn wrote about his death in her own autobiography, Me, Stories of My Life. The version in that book bears little resemblence to the over-wrought nattering in Chandler's book. Why would Hepburn have related this version of his death to Chandler but use an entirely different version, in tone and and detail in her own book? As far as I know, Hepburn never used the word "onliness" ever. Its such a idiotic choice of a word and is an immediate tip off that the book is a fraud.
Sometimes, Chandler just makes factual errors. For example on page 3 of the book she has Hepburn saying: "The next day, our uncle Floyd took us out sightseeing. He was my father's brother, and a bachelor. We had a wonderful time with him. . . " Hepburn didn't have an uncle Floyd. She did have an uncle Lloyd Powell Hepburn. He was, however, married to a woman named Harriet Dawson in 1904. He was not a bachelor.So this is obviously a fabricated quote and, needless to say, isn't in Hepburn's own book.
Another example of a factual error in a purported quote from Hepburn. In 1934 Katharine Hepburn obtained a Mexican divorce from her only husband, Ogden Ludlow. Chandler says in her book that "a little more than two months later he remarried." And then she has Hepburn saying: "I had encouraged him not to wait. Why should he? He deserved a real marriage. . . . " In Hepburn's autobiography she tells an entirely different story correctly saying that her ex-husband did not remarry until 1942 after she met Spencer Tracy (8 years after the 1934 divorce). Clearly Chandler just made up the quote from Hepburn about Ludlow's remarriage. She does this sort of thing repeatedly.
On the other hand Chandler does quote Hepburn accurately at times. The reason we know this is that these quotes are in Hepburn's own books or published interviews. These sound like Hepburn because they came directly from her. But most of the purported Katharine Hepburn quotes in Chandler's book sound nothing like Hepburn. What are we to make of "Howard (Hughes) was the best lover I ever had. No doubt about that. Our relationship was sexually charged." In her own book, Me, Hepburn said this about her sex life with Hughes. "I think that I must have been lonely, because Howard and I had supper with one another after the performance that first night. Thus proving that persistence pays. We had supper the next night too --- so . . . . ." Somehow I don't see Hepburn telling even her pal, Charlotte Chandler, that Howard was her best lover. Katharine Hepburn never made statements like that. Its ridiculous to think they she would. She didn't discuss her sex life.
Which comes to to the heart of the matter. Chandler claims that she somehow became close enough to Hepburn to record extended interviews in which Hepburn made statements about her life that she never made to any other interviewer and that she never included in her own books. Why should we believe Chandler? How is it that Chandler ingratiated herself with so many great stars who revealed so much about their personal lives? Why would the notoriously private and un-analytical Hepburn indulge in all the pop psychology that is in this book. The answer is she wouldn't.
I seriously doubt that Chandler ever met Hepburn much less interviewed her. This book is a rehash of the life of Katharine Hepburn with an overlay of fabricated quotes. This book adds nothing to what has been previously written about Hepburn. And by the way, amateur writer that she was, Katharine Hepburn was a much better writer than Chandler. Go read Hepburn's book, Me, Stories of My Life, instead of this. You'll like it a lot more.I Know Where I'm Going: Katharine Hepburn, A Personal Biography Overview

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