[Hollywood] Hepburn, Katharine. (1907–2003) Signed Letter about Joan Crawford

[Hollywood] Hepburn, Katharine. (1907–2003)

Signed Letter about Joan Crawford

A short but unusually revealing letter from the great American actress and Academy Award winner. 1p. 8vo. Dated January 2, 1995. Penned on her personal letterhead and signed in full, "Katharine Hepburn." In full: "Dear Terry, Thank you for being so kind - I do not buy all that about Joan Crawford - Those kids were spoiled..." Mailing folds, else fine.

In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, her daughter Christina published "Mommie Dearest," which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher. Many of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, and Crawford's other daughters, Cathy and Cindy, denounced the book, categorically denying any abuse. But others, including Helen Hayes and Crawford's rival Bette Davis supported Christina's version, with Davis saying that Christina could not have made it up (Davis, while still alive, would ironically later become the target of her own daughter B. D. Hyman's tell-all in 1985, My Mother's Keeper).[ "Mommie Dearest" became a bestseller and was made into the 1981 film "Mommie Dearest," starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. (5768)

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