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I Wanted to Be an Actress - The Autobiography of Katharine Cornell

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Contents PAGE Foreword by Guthrie McClintic xi Introduction by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick xiii 1 . Apprenticeship 3 2. Broadway - zj 3. Stardom 7 4. Actress-Manager 07 5 . Transcontinental Tour 125 6. The Record Is Brought Up to Date 1 53 7. A Record of Katharine Cornells Stage Career 1 8 1 With reviews and articles by the following Alexander Woollcott Walter Winchell Hey wood ...more
Paperback , 420 pages
Published March 1st 2007 by Spargo Press
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The Tad Mosel biography of Cornell and everything I've read about her having a conniption over Quicksilver made it sound like Cornell was not ~really~ lesbian (just erotic letters between pals of course) and like she very actively fought that image of her-- but her reminiscing over her wedding with Guthrie McClintic could not make more explicit that McClintic was gay and from the start not romantically or sexually interested in her and for some mysterious reason that didn't bother her, all of he ...more
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