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Katharine Hepburn Talks Tennessee Williams

Katharine Hepburn Talks Tennessee Williams

Possibly the greatest actress of her generation says she had to work for it, but Tennessee Williams was a natural genius.

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"I work at being good. Mine is not a natural talent, a great talent. Mine is an earned talent. I want to be good, and I get to be good through hard work and good luck and the aid of others. But Tennessee [Williams] was a bolt of lightning, a mountain, a blooming tree of immense size. He was breathing--so natural and so necessary. Now, the man could not …

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