Yet the portrait is constructed so carefully that it never feels shocking. This interpretation also shatters the legend of her romance with Spencer Tracy-instead, Mann establishes a pattern of relationships in which the sex-averse Hepburn played emotional caretaker to a series of alcoholic, closeted homosexuals that, in addition to Tracy, included director John Ford. Mann's careful research on the longstanding rumors about Hepburn's lesbianism suggests that the notoriously feisty and tomboyish actress lived her life as a man with little empathy for women's issues. ), says at the onset it doesn't make sense to try to pin down Katharine Hepburn with modern labels of sexual identity. Mann, a skilled chronicler of gay Hollywood ( Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines
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