Katie Hepburn & The Making of "The African Queen"

Katharine Hepburn wrote about her adventures on the making of this John Huston classic. Boy...if you ever wanted to make movies, it's a great read. It's from her perspective of suffering through the jungles of Africa, sloughing it with Huston, Bogart and Bacall. It's fun, because she writes like she talks. You can almost sense the tremors in her New England patois. And she doesn't mince words. She is sassy and spry and even though this book was published in 1987 when most of the people she was talking about is alive, it didn't stop her from sharing her opinion of them.

Simply put, Katie Hepburn is who you see on screen. I especially like her butting heads with Huston about wardrobe, a similar incident in which I'd dealt with in one of my projects. Fun stuff to read, because no matter what budget, stars or what, when the elements of nature are introduced, it is surprising what most of us will endure to be immortalized in movies.

Who else would come up with a book title: "The Making Of 'The African Queen' or How I Went To Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind."

It's cheeky.
Here's Lauren Bacall talking about it: Lauren Bacall on Johnny Carson