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  • Describing Spencer Tracy as a potato, due to how contented he was with a basic way of living.
  • When asked by Barbara Walters whether she owned any skirts and/or dresses, Hepburn replied bluntly, "I have one," adding, "I'll wear it to your funeral."
  • During the making of The Philadelphia Story, Jimmy Stewart confided with Hepburn that he was nervous about the scene in which Macaulay carried drunken Tracy home because he was embarrassed about his legs. Hepburn ordered him to show his bare legs to her and claimed they were perfect for the moment because of their skinniness.
  • Peter O'Toole told Esquire magazine that Hepburn once turned up at his front door wearing three coats and hiking boots (two belonged to her late friends Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart). His young daughter thought she was an Irish traveller (O'Toole recalled that an elderly traveller woman used to steal flowers from the neighbourhood).

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