On the downside, she was by all accounts a lousy cook, though one imagines Cukor would have been able to find comic relief in that shortcoming. By her own estimate she traveled to more than 50 countries and owned houses in at least six of them. Her seemingly infinite list of famous friends included Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, H.G. James Gavin and billionaire Laurance Rockefeller. Blond and beautiful, she married Ernest Hemingway and counted among her lovers legendary World War II Gen. Louis family in 1908 and educated at Bryn Mawr (where she was two years behind Katharine Hepburn), Gellhorn went on to become one of her generation's most respected foreign correspondents, sending back dispassionate, shrewd dispatches from the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnamese conflict. If Martha Gellhorn had not existed, George Cukor would have probably invented her.
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