Hollywood grand dame Kate Hepburn at age 80 took home a Broadway boy toy half her age, plied him with booze before demanding a sultry command performance!
Vet thesp Robert Lindsay writes in his new memoir Letting Go that when he was 35 and starring in Me and My Girl on Broadway in 1984, he had a VERY special groupie – Katharine Hepburn!
Not only did she come to see the show four times, Lindsay writes, but after a performance she sent a note backstage that she was "dying" to serve a late supper to him at her chic Manhattan brownstone.
When Lindsay finally consented La Kate had a snit fit while he kept her waiting as he signed autographs for fans.
"Don’t keep me waiting any longer," Kate chided. "Why are you signing autographs? You’ve already thanked them with a curtain call."
No knowing what to expect Lindsay had arranged for his girl friend Diana Weston to join them while it was soon apparent that Hepburn "didn’t want her there at all."
When they arrived Kate’s other guests kept Diana busy with idle chit-chat,as Kate plied Lindsay with malt liquour before whisking him out to the back garden for some alone time!
"I’ve wanted to do this with someone for so many years," Kate whispered.
"When I saw you on stage, I knew I wanted to dance with you."
Which is what they did.
And despite all Hepburn’s flirting their relationship remained chaste in very sense of the word.
