Hepburn gay

Mann, a gay novelist and film historian (Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood), opens the closet door on Hepburn and two men she loved, Spencer Tracy and director John Ford. Add Topic. The answers aren't going to please everybody, and despite the book's extensive research and interviews, may be met with skepticism.

His Hepburn is a bisexual who didn't much enjoy sex. But this Hepburn feels like the real not the reel thing. According to Mann's research, the couple never lived together. Hepburn was a contradiction. Hepburn dismissively addressed the lesbian rumors in Me.

And Mann notes that Hepburn had many lesbian friends throughout her life, and she turned to female companions for comfort after unhappy relationships with men some of which seemed concocted merely to promote her latest movie.

Larry Kramer claims Spencer

Charley Gallay/Getty Images for DSquared2 Insiders have said that Hepburn and Tracy’s apparent romance was hiding the true secret: That they were engaging in other relationships, and that Hepburn was a lesbian and Tracy possibly gay or bisexual. In Mann's eye, Hepburn was at heart "Jimmy," the carefree persona she called herself as a tomboy growing up in Hartford, Conn.

A feminist icon who wasn't a feminist. Most of all she wanted to be famous, whatever character revisions it took. Certainly there would seem to be little we don't know about the Great Kate. Katharine Hepburn, who lived nearly a century, liked to say she was as familiar as the Statue of Liberty.

Veteran screenwriter and author Larry Kramer says some of the biggest movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Age -- including Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy -- were gay. Mann's portrait of Hepburn's sexuality is complex. A box-office bomb sparked speculation about Katharine Hepburn's sexual gay, according to the new book 'Moxie: The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood'.

Her life has been recounted in numerous biographies and in her own best-selling memoir, Me. Biographer William J. Mann wants to deconstruct the myth, to strip away the layers of reinvention that made Hepburn the Madonna of her time.

In the new documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, former V.F. editor Matt Tyrnauer shines a light on the sexual fixer who catered to secretly gay Golden Age stars. Called mannish by critics early in her career, the actress learned the hard way that gender-bending films such as Sylvia Scarlett weren't going to win her fans.

And so in the s she reinvented herself as the feminine Tracy Lord of The Philadelphia Story and the woman paired with Tracy's he-man in Woman of the Year. Her point of view was decidedly masculine, not a bad option for a freethinking woman born in Mann's Kate may not be the old familiar one we remember from On Golden Pond.

But she did love him, even though her devotion was motivated by her need to hepburn a caregiver. Quoting sources such as the screenwriter James Prideaux, Mann states unequivocally that Hepburn and the socialite Laura Harding were lovers.

But Mann has made Kate a page-turner and a revelation. An independent, pants-wearing woman who was drawn to masculine "real men" who put women in their place. What of her epic love for Tracy?