Hepburn Centennial Remembers Kate

Katharine Hepburn was always punctual. Sometimes a bit too punctual --
which Joanna Miles learned as a young actress on location in London
with Hepburn for the 1973 ABC movie version of Tennessee Williams' "The
Glass Menagerie."



Save for Hepburn, the cast was living in a little townhouse decorated
with window boxes. One day, Hepburn was supposed to pick up Miles for
lunch."I had taken a nap," Miles recalls. "I had set the alarm to wake up on
time, but Katharine was always early. I heard outside the window
'Joanna, where are you?' I looked out the window, and she had climbed
up on window boxes of other people's homes looking in their windows for
me."



Hepburn had strict rules on set. "If a fellow was reading a newspaper
up in the rafters, he got fired because she wanted people to really
concentrate on what we were doing," Miles says.