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: The Lake (novel)|The Lake is also a novel by Yasunari Kawabata. Ned Chaillet#The Lake|The Lake is also a 1993 BBC Radio 4 play by Ellen Dryden. The Lake (school production)|The Lake is also a 2010 school musical production. For other uses, see Lake (disambiguation) .
The Lake was a United Kingdom|British play written by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald. It debuted on Broadway theatre|Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933 and was one of acting legend Katharine Hepburn 's first major Broadway roles.
Directed by Jed Harris , the infamous "big bad wolf" of American theater, the play was a critical and popular flop, though it had a respectable run of 55 nights. Hepburn in particular drew sharp rebukes in the newspapers, many of which were penned by the same critics who loved her in ''The Warrior's Husband . One infamous review, by Dorothy Parker , said Hepburn "ran the gamut of emotions & mdash; from A to B."cite news|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816908,00.html|title=Cinema: The Hepburn Story |date = September 1, 1952|newspaper= Time |accessdate=August 21, 2011 Despite the poor response, Harris decided to take the show to Chicago, saying to Hepburn, "My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you." Hepburn refused, and paid Harris everything she had, $13,675, to close the production instead.Berg, Scott (2004). Kate Remembered: A Personal Biography of Katharine Hepburn , p. 93.Hepburn later referred to Harris as "hands-down the most diabolical person I have ever met",Berg (2004), p. 91. and claimed this experience was important in teaching her to take responsibility for her career.Hepburn, Katharine (1991). Me: Stories of my Life , p. 4.
In 1937, Hepburn included a include a line from The Lake in the film Stage Door , thus making fun of her biggest failure.Berg (2004), p. 116. The line became one of Hepburn's signature catchphrase s: "The Calla lily|calla lilies are in bloom again, such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion..."
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