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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

George Folsey remembers Hepburn in STATE_OF_THE_Union

I had to make a (screen) test cold of

Katharine Hepburn when she replaced

Claudette Colbert in The State of the Union.

A very charming, delightful person.  Just

wonderful.  During the time I'm making

the test, she said, "Now make me fat.

Make me Fat!"

She didn't want to be gaunt and thin, she

wanted to be nice and round and fat,  And

I said, "Miss Hepburn, I've been trying

to make myself fat for years."

She said, "Don't give a damn about you,

just make me fat!"  Talked like a rubber

band at you.   What a charming, delightful,

wonderful person she is.  And, of course, she

was an excellent person to photograph as

long as you, as she says, "Don't show my

chicken neck!"

FROM Hollywood: The Oral History  (2022)

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