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The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost...

Katharine Hepburn

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Jul 14, 2024 Janet rated it liked it

Short and sweet. There wasn't much in the book I didn't already know about Hepburn's experience in Africa. She wasn't there very long, but I enjoyed her very perceptive descriptions of local people. Lots of photos too. ...more

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Sep 04, 2016 Terri marked it as around-the-world

Shelves: film-history-studies, memoir-general, calif-old-hollywood-history, film-actress-biographies, african-culture, film-humphrey-bogart, film-katharine-hepburn

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