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Katharine: Hepburn THE MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN: OR HOW I WENT TO AFRICA WITH BOGART, BACALL AND HUSTON AND ALMOST LOST MY MIND Alfred A. Knopf 039422034X / 9780394220345 Hardcover Good 039422034X Hardcover with dust jacket, author: Katherine Hepburn, illustrated with black and white 'insider' photos of the film's shooting, 134 pages, 1987, Alfred A. Knopf publishers. Usually ships with delivery confirmation. Where available a photo of the actual cover has been provided. Small coffee stain on lower right of dust cover on the edge is the only major flaw, some typical used book wear to the dust jacket in the form of wrinkling along the edges, book itself is very lightly used. From the first page: I've never written a diary - well, I mean, put down dreary things like when did my eye start twitching? when did it stop? why did it do it? - well, you know, things the doctor asks you and you've always forgotten them because they are really fundamentally dull. Then, when you've lived as long as I have, you usually wish that you had kept one because you can't even remember the plot of many of the movies you've made - or the plays - really not anything about them or who or why. But there are some happenings you can't forget. There they are. A series of facts - pictures = realities. This happened to me with The African Queen. I remember it in minute detail - I can see every second of its making and of me at the time of - Well, I thought, so many people have asked me - What was it like? And I got to jotting down bits here - bits there - And then I thought: Come on, dear - pull it together. So here it is - thirty-odd years after the fact. Price:
19.97 USD
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