He was swimming, he went on horseback, he was excellent in golf, he wanted to form a women’s team of cricket and excelled with the racket: Kate was perhaps the greatest actress ever, but he would have liked to be an athlete. And in one of his shots on the tennis court …
A group of researchers from the University of Calgary has managed thanks to sophisticated techniques to observe the aura, describing it as a sort of light emitted by the body that vanishes with death. Among the thousand images that could be used to illustrate this significant news, a small newspaper in the Canadian province chose a photo of Katharine Hepburn on a tennis court. An actress who died at 96 years old, in the now distant 2003. Why did anyone think in a remote editorial staff that that old black and white photo was the clearest demonstration of Aura? Because Katharine Hepburn’s aura was so bright as to resist time. And to say that in 1938, after a series of filler films, it had ended up in an advertising insertion on the Hollywood Reporter among the actresses reported as “poison for the box office”. His films did not work at the box office, Kate (photo above, in the film Pat and Mike) It was too far with the times. He consulted himself returning to the theater for a while, becoming a legend and winning four Oscars for best leading actress, none like her. But that had never been his ambition: to the classic question “What do you want to do when you grow up?”, The young Katharine always answered the same way. He wanted to become an athlete, and win.