Grace May Carter

“declined the deal, she flew to London, and from her hotel room at Claridge’s, made a series of desperate phone calls to the Woolf brothers, offering to work for nothing so she could pay Sturges. While the Woolfs appreciated Sturges’s clever script and agreed that Kate was perfect for the role, they were concerned that the story and its characters would not transition well to the big screen. What finally doomed the Hepburn-Sturges version of The Millionairess – which she later called the biggest disappointment of her career – remains a matter of speculation, especially since Kate does not mention the episode at all in her memoir. Some thought Kate, in her mid-forties, was becoming too”
― Grace Carter, Katharine Hepburn