Distraught, she steadfastly avows not to marry and proclaims herself a life-long "bachelor":Christina: This eternal talk about Charles.Patience searched on the Internet about cats in history to learn more about the Egyptian Mau.Back at Ophelia""s house, she discovered that the Maus were sacred messengers of the Egyptian goddess Bast ("a goddess of the moon and of the sun") that represented duality ("docile, yet aggressive, nurturing yet ferocious").Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), a prominent, rich and elegant Southern belle widow, matriarch, dowager and harridan in the community.She retrieves it when she stands to dance with a steady procession of admirers and guests.Her girlish naivete and modern-day leanings (and exasperation with endless functions) are expressed when she is tucked primly into her bed in an old-fashioned nightgown by her lady-in-waiting chaperone, Countess Vereberg (Margaret Rawlings):Ann: I hate this nightgown.In 1992, a posthumous Oscar was properly credited and given to blacklisted Hollywood Ten author Dalton Trumbo, who actually wrote the screenplay.