GEORGE FOLSEY: I had to make a test cold of Katharine Hepburn when she replaced Claudette Colbert in 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
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