Article: Two letters from Katharine Hepburn.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Claude Lewis

Although Katharine Hepburn didn't win an Oscar for her brilliant performance in "The Philadelphia Story,'' that may have been her most popular performance.

Hepburn played the role of Tracy Lord. One scene summed her up perfectly. Cary Grant, as C.K. Dexter Haven, says: "There's magnificence in you, Tracy. I'm telling you ... a magnificence that comes out of your eyes, that's in your voice, in the way you stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, bright, bright, bright. There are fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts."

"You _ I don't seem to you _ made of bronze, then," Hepburn/Lord says ...

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