I Wanted To Be An Actress: The Autobiography of Katharine Cornell

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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 her stories with him are just like two idiot friends getting into charades, and she has a habit of going deep into the descriptions of beauty of exclusively women who were also attracted to women. One story involves talking about how stately and elegant Clemence Dane was, how happy she was to finally get to spend a good deal of time with her friend Clemence Dane, and ends with them sneaking into Cornell's hotel through a back elevator. And this was originally printed in a fucking theater magazine. She also talks about Marlene Dietrich cooking for her, which I'm not sure how well known it was then that Dietrich went into huge German hausfrau cooking marathons for people she was interested in but the Riva bio makes it sound notorious and I've read jokes about it in some Photoplay magazines, I mean I don't think that Cornell wouldn't expect the reader to grasp the significance. However unlike the typical German hausfrau Marlene Dietrich wore giant emeralds while cooking that apparently would get lost and turn up in the dessert. That and blowing off Garbo is the Katharine Cornell life. Even though it's just a transcription of Cornell talking the writing is good, impressive eloquence. I adore Katharine Cornell.

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