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Katharine Hepburn Performances
Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an American actress of the 20th century, active in 44 feature films, 8 telemovies and 33 stage plays over 66 years from 1928 and 1994. thumb Hepburn began her career in theatre in 1928, and later appeared on the stage in every decade up until the 1980s. Productions Hepburn played in ranged from Shakespeare, to Philip Barry comedies, work by George Bernard Shaw, and a musical. Hepburn made her film debut in '' A Bill of Divorcement'' in 1932. Over the next six decades, she appeared in a range of genres, including screwball comedies, period dramas, and adaptations of works by notable playwrights Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ''The Zoo Story'' (1958), '' The Sandbox'' (1959), ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (1962), '' A Delicate Balance'' (1966) .... Her final appearance in a thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress in film, stage, and television. Her career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned over 60 years. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women. Her work was in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and earned her List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn, various accolades, including four Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress—a record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, greatest female star of Classical Hollywood cinema, classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, Progressive Era, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while at Bryn Mawr College. Favorable reviews of her work on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morning Glory (1933 Film)
''Morning Glory'' is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film which tells the story of an eager would-be actress and her journey to stardom, and her gains and losses. The picture stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou, was adapted by Howard J. Green from a then-unproduced stage play of the same nameAFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Morning Glory'' Linked 2013-11-02 by Zoë Akins, and was directed by Lowell Sherman. Hepburn won her first |
Mary Of Scotland (film)
''Mary of Scotland'' is a 1936 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn as the 16th-century ruler Mary, Queen of Scots. Directed by John Ford, it is an adaptation of the 1933 Maxwell Anderson play, with Fredric March reprising the role of Bothwell, which he also performed on stage during the run of play. The screenplay was written by Dudley Nichols. Ginger Rogers wanted to play this role and made a screen test, but RKO rejected her request to be cast in the part feeling that the role was not suitable to her image. Plot summary Note: Someone copied this plot summary from the TCM.com article. Wikipedia forbids this. Mary (Katharine Hepburn), by assuming her throne as queen of Scotland, strikes terror into the heart of Queen Elizabeth I ( Florence Eldridge). After languishing in jail for 18 years at Elizabeth's command, Mary is offered a pardon if she will sign away her throne. Will she accept the deal, or die instead? Cast Accuracy The film does not keep close to the historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Scarlett
''Sylvia Scarlett'' is a 1935 American romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on '' The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett'', a 1918 novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO makeup artist Mel Berns. This film was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who later starred together in '' Bringing Up Baby'' (1938), ''Holiday'' (1938), and '' The Philadelphia Story'' (1940). Grant's performance as a dashing rogue sees him incorporate a Cockney accent and remains widely considered the first time Grant's famous personality began to register on film. (Grant used the Cockney accent in only a few other films, notably 1939's ''Gunga Din'', 1943's '' Mr. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Stevens
George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.Obituary '' Variety'', March 12, 1975, page 79. Films he produced were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture six times while he had five nominations as Best Director, winning twice. Among his most notable films are '' Swing Time'' (1936), '' Gunga Din'' (1939) and the five movies for which he was nominated for Best Director: '' The More the Merrier'' (1943); '' A Place in the Sun'' (1951), for which he won the Best Director Oscar; '' Shane'' (1953), ''Giant'' (1956), for which he won the Best Director Oscar, and ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959). Biography Film career Stevens was born on December 18, 1904, in Oakland, California, the son of Landers Stevens and Georgie Cooper, both stage actors. Drama critic Ashton Stevens and film director James W. Horne were his uncles. He also had two brothers, Jack, a cinematographer, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Adams (1935 Film)
''Alice Adams'' is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Katharine Hepburn. It was made by RKO and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner, and Jane Murfin. The film was adapted from the novel '' Alice Adams'' by Booth Tarkington. The music score was by Max Steiner and Roy Webb, and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress. The film is about a young woman in a financially-struggling family and her pretentious attempts to appear upper class and to wed a wealthy man while she conceals her poverty. Hepburn's popularity had declined after her two 1933 film triumphs: her Oscar-winning performance in ''Morning Glory'' and her celebrated performance as Jo March in ''Little Women''. Her performance in ''Alice Adams'' made her a public favorite again. Plot Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is the daughter of the Adams family. Her father, (Fred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Moeller
Philip Moeller (26 August 1880 – 26 April 1958) was an American stage producer and director, playwright and screenwriter, born in New York where he helped found the short-lived Washington Square Players and then with Lawrence Langner and Helen Westley founded the Theatre Guild. He was educated at New York University and Columbia University. Directing career Among plays he directed for the Theatre Guild were: *''R.U.R.'' (1922) *''The Adding Machine'' (1923) *''The Guardsman'' (1924) *'' They Knew What They Wanted'' (1924) *''Ned McCobb's Daughter'' (1926) *''The Second Man'' (1927) *''Strange Interlude'' (1928) *''Meteor'' (1929) *''Dynamo'' (1929) *''Hotel Universe'' (1930) *''Elizabeth the Queen'' (1930) *''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1931 - its first production) *''Biography'' by S. N. Behrman (1932) *''Ah, Wilderness!'' (1933) *''End of Summer'' (1936) Playwright *''The Battlefield'' (1913) presented May 14, 1913 at the Aerial Theatre, on the roof of the New Amsterdam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Break Of Hearts
''Break of Hearts'' is a 1935 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer. The screenplay was written by the team of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, with Anthony Veiller, from a story by Lester Cohen, specifically for Hepburn. Originally ''Break of Hearts'' was intended as a vehicle for Hepburn and John Barrymore. The film was promoted by RKO's advertising department with the catch phrase: "The star of a million moods ''together'' with the new idol of the screen." ( Francis Lederer actually was first signed-up lead, but the producers replaced him with Charles Boyer.) Plot summary Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer) is a passionate and eminent musical conductor; Constance Dane (Katharine Hepburn) is an aspiring but unknown composer. She wants to see his concert, but it is all sold out. When she sneaks into his rehearsal he is smitten by her devotion and gets his orchestra to get it right as they play just for her. Constance marries Franz: he says she is "a most exciting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Wallace (director)
Richard Wallace (August 26, 1894 – November 3, 1951) was an American film director. He began working in the editing department at Mack Sennett Studios in the early 1920s. He later moved on to rival Hal Roach Studios where he began directing two-reel films, on some of which he collaborated with Stan Laurel. In 1926, Wallace began directing feature-length films. Several of Wallace's memorable films include three Shirley Temple films, '' A Night to Remember'' (1943) with Loretta Young, and '' The Little Minister'' (1934) with Katharine Hepburn. He was a founding member of the Directors Guild of America. He died of a heart attack. Filmography * ''Starvation Blues'' (1925) * ''Beware of Your Relatives'' (1925) * ''Jiminy Crickets'' (1925) * ''One Wild Night'' (1925) * ''Ice Cold'' 1925) * '' Raggedy Rose'' (1926) * '' Syncopating Sue'' (1926) * ''The Merry Widower'' (1926) * '' Along Came Auntie'' (uncredited, 1926) * ''Never Too Old'' (1926) * '' Madame Mystery'' (1926) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Minister (1934 Film)
''The Little Minister'' is a 1934 American drama film starring Katharine Hepburn and directed by Richard Wallace. The screenplay by Jane Murfin, Sarah Y. Mason, and Victor Heerman is based on the 1891 novel and subsequent 1897 play of the same title by J.M. Barrie. The picture was the fifth film adaptation of the works, following four silent film versions. The original novel was the third of the three "Thrums" novels (a town based on his home of Kirriemuir), which first brought Barrie to fame. Plot Set in rural 1840s Scotland, the film explores labor and class issues while telling the story of Gavin Dishart, a staid cleric who is newly assigned to Thrums' Auld Licht church, and Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself as a gypsy girl in order to interact freely with the local villagers and protect them from her betrothed, Lord Rintoul, who wants to keep them under his control. The townsfolk christen Dishart “The Little Minister” on his arrival because of his yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cromwell (director)
John Cromwell (born Elwood Dager; December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979) was an American film and stage director and actor. His films spanned the early days of sound to ''film noir'' in the early 1950s, by which time his directing career was almost terminated by the Hollywood blacklist. Early life and education Born as Elwood Dager in Toledo, Ohio to an affluent Scottish-English family, executives in the steel and iron industry, Cromwell graduated from private high school at Howe Military Academy in 1905, but never pursued higher education. Early acting career, 1905–1912 Upon leaving school, Cromwell immediately began his stage career touring with stock companies in Chicago, then made his way to New York City in his early 20s. Billed as Elwood Dager in his youth, he changed his name to John Cromwell at the age of 26 following a 1912 New York stage appearance. Cromwell made his Broadway debut in the role of John Brooke in '' Little Women'' (1912) an adaptation of Louisa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spitfire (1934 Film)
''Spitfire'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film based on the play ''Trigger'' by Lula Vollmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and starred Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy.''Harrison's Reports'' film review; March 10, 1934, page 39. Premise Two engineers building a dam in the mountains, John Stafford (Robert Young) and George Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy), are attracted to local hillbilly "spitfire" Trigger Hicks (Katharine Hepburn) who is the local faith healer. Things come to a head when the locals think that she is a witch. Cast *Katharine Hepburn as Trigger Hicks *Robert Young as John Stafford *Ralph Bellamy as George Fleetwood *Martha Sleeper as Eleanor Stafford *Louis Mason as Bill Grayson *Sara Haden (as Sarah Haden) as Etta Dawson *Virginia Howell as Granny Raines *Sidney Toler as Jim Sawyer *Will Geer Will Geer (born William Aughe Ghere; March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
