She graduated in 1928 with a degree in history and philosophy.īut Kate’s time at Bryn Mawr wasn’t the college experience you’d expect of the spunky, highly vocal and opinionated Katharine Hepburn of legend.īy the time Kate arrived at Bryn Mawr in 1924, she’d become a withdrawn, reclusive young woman. Like her mother Kit, Katharine Hepburn went to Bryn Mawr. Knowledge! Education! Don’t give in! Make your own trail. Onward! You don’t have much money but you do have independent spirits. Kate follows Shaw’s words with a stretch of classic Hepburn editorializing that’s further telling of the Hepburn home: “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” It’s telling of the tone set in the Hepburn home that Kate chose to share these words by George Bernard Shaw when writing of her family life in Me: Stories of My Life : The Hepburn children were encouraged to have goals, dreams, to think for themselves, and to push themselves mentally and physically. No topic was off limits, be it suffrage or venereal disease.
Mother became the head of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association.”Įngraved on the fireplace mantle of Katharine Hepburn’s childhood home was the phrase “Listen to the Song of Life.” These were words the Hepburn family lived by. Dad obviously had begun to realize that Mother was getting restless about her spot in the world.
A woman named Emmeline Pankhurst is speaking about women and the vote tonight, let’s…’. She went home sort of puzzled, and Daddy came rushing in and said, ‘Look here in the paper. I have a Bachelor’s degree, I have a Master’s degree. But me, what of me, what of me? Is this all that I’m here for? There must be something. “Well, thought Mother, here I am, these two adorable children, a handsome, brilliant husband looking forward to his brilliant career. And Tom was there for Kit when she sought a career to complement the joys of motherhood.Īfter the births of her first two children, Tom in 1905, followed by Kate on May 12, 1907, Kit found herself looking for a cause outside of the home to get excited about. Kit was there for Tom as he worked hard to provide for his young family, and establish his medical practice in Hartford.
But it was also a perfect pairing of intellect and spirt. "You make many jokes," he tells her as she repeatedly deflects him, "but inside I think you cry.The marriage of Tom and Kit Hepburn was one of romance and passion. Finally, the stranger - whose name is Renato (Rossano Brazzi) - comes to find Jane at her hotel, where she again shies away from his attention.
Later, she accidentally runs into the man in the antique shop he owns, when a red glass goblet in his window lures her inside (as if a cruel reflection of Jane's situation, the goblet is the only of its kind immediately available, without the match to make it a pair).
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Jane notices the stranger's open attraction to her - something she's spent a quarter of the movie longing for - but shies away from it, awkward and rigid as she tries to escape the encounter without meeting his eyes again. Yet true to the promised magic of Venice, Jane eventually has her meet-cute: a local Italian who calls the waiter for her when she can't get the cameriere's attention on the piazza. "Two," she remarks much later, with envy, to a friend who is having marital troubles, "is the loveliest number in the world." For the whole first half hour of the film, there is no love interest for Jane at all instead, she wanders the city by herself, noticing the couples that always seem to appear everywhere when you yourself are alone. On multiple occasions, her expression is tight with the effort of pridefully holding back tears. But her dry humor is clearly a shield for her loneliness, and not a very good one at that: in wordless, private moments, her face falls with embarrassment and self-pity and the repeated rejection from her fellow travelers, whom she tries to befriend.
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