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I love Katherine Hepburn. It's funny, Gregory Peck dies and the only movie I know that he made that I loved was "To Kill A Mockingbird" but Katherine Hepburn ahhhhhhh !! My Mama loved her, has all the videos and passed the love on to me:
The Lion in Winter
On Golden Pond
Rooster Cogburn
The African Queen
Anything with Spencer Tracey
The Phildelphia Story
Bringing Up Baby
She was a very cool lady.
smith
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smith,
I heard that on the radio this morning on my way to work. I have heard of her before but couldn't have told you what she was in or what she did besides that she was an actress. Well now I know thanks to you what movies she was in. What I learned this morning though is she is known for "starting the trend" of women wearing men's trousers/pants (back in the day when women wore dresses all the time...yuck!!).
smith she may no longer be here on earth but we will always have her movies!!
Danielle 
"To the world you may be but one person, but to one person you may be the world!"
"Some people love you and some hate you.. those who hate don't know what they're missing and they're missing out!"
"Never underestimate your power to change yo
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smith
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Movies are funny. Nowadays, there's a big movie and bunches of people in that we'll never see again. The movie is the attraction. But, when Katherine Hepburn was a movie star, they created a movie around her.......she was the attraction, like John Wayne, Cary Grant, etc...I love the old movies.
{{{hugs,Danielle}}}
smith
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Ol hump.bogart was my hero next to John Wayne
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It was indeed a shock...I love her to bits as well.
smith, good list for starters on her movie "Great Moments".
Don't forget all the oldies she was sooo terrific in.
"The Philadelphia Story" leads her oldies greats for me.
I hope they put out some DVD's with compilations or something.
"Always forgive your enemies...nothing annoys them quite so much." Oscar Wilde
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This past Saturday afternoon, the cable TV channel American Movie Classics showed ¡§Rooster Cogburn¡¨ (I found it while ¡§channel surfing¡¨ after the New York Yankees baseball game was over!). Since it was ¡§feeding time¡¨, my father and I watched it together while eating supper. We commented on how the pairing of John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn seemed on paper to be quite an odd one, but that there was definitely a special chemistry between them that was undeniable. My father asked me if Katharine Hepburn was still alive, and I told him I had heard quite recently that she was still living in the same seaside home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut (just down the line from us on Long Island Sound) she¡¦s lived in for many years.
Twenty-four hours later (again during supper time), the news came on after the last round of the golf tournament my father was watching ended, and their lead story reported the passing of Katharine Hepburn.
She was ¡§a very cool lady¡¨ indeed; and even though smith¡¦s list only ¡§scratches the surface¡¨ (to list all her films would probably take up a whole page of this message board!), it definitely includes all the ¡§essentials¡¨ (and if I were to single out one of those films with Spencer Tracy, my choice would definitely be his last film, ¡§Guess Who¡¦s Coming to Dinner¡¨, which also starred another class act: Sidney Poitier).
Still, my all-time favorite Katharine Hepburn film is ¡§On Golden Pond¡¨. Every frame of that film is a masterpiece, I think. Right from the very beginning, with those quietly breathtaking views of that beautiful lake (Squam Lake in New Hampshire), coupled with that equally understated score by David Grusin, you just know you¡¦re in store for something really special. A couple of bits of trivia about this film (which you may have heard on the news, but I¡¦ll pass along anyway!): that hat Henry Fonda wore almost throughout belonged to Spencer Tracy, and it was given to him by Katharine Hepburn; also, I¡¦ve been told that Katharine Hepburn, even though she was already into her 70¡¦s, insisted on doing her own ¡§stunts¡¨ (which included frantically running up onto the prow of a boat and diving into the lake).
Don¡¦t worry, David, the release of a comprehensive DVD collection of her films is a foregone conclusion (btw, my guess is you¡¦re ¡§airborne¡¨ as I type this! [ƒº]). And it would be a crime if, at next year¡¦s Academy Awards presentation, she doesn¡¦t posthumously receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
A great human being indeed!
P.S.: While typing this, I¡¦m reminded of the recent passing of actor Hume Cronyn. The last of the many acting projects he did with his long-time wife Jessica Tandy was a made-for-TV film called ¡§To Dance with the White Dog¡¨. In many ways, it¡¦s on the same level as ¡§On Golden Pond¡¨. It is available on video and DVD, and I recommend it highly.
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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trevor
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this way because the lesser-known talent have a chance to make it big either based on their talent or because of a mega-hit movie like Harry Potter.
I mean, I understand in the days of the "silver screen" where there just weren't that many movies produced, and the leading roles were more of a draw than the plot. Maybe, too, I'm just less of a "character" person?
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My apologies for all that "funky" punctuation. I was in the middle of typing the above reply when a pop pop-up ad wiped out what I had typed (grrr!). I started again, this time on Microsoft Word, and then copied and pasted it here (I didn't notice that the punctuation didn't "translate").
Sorry
We do not remember days...we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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timmy
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But there were shedloads of movies produced. They churned them out at the rate of about one a week!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Not totally true though.... In the early years from about 1928 until about 1958 or so... (about the time the advent of the TV became popular) there were more movies produced per-capita per month than there are now.
In the early years there were of course the stars, but also there were the famous directors, set designers, costumers, make up artists... all coming together to use only color and film and light and sound to make the best films....
Now though all you need are a few computer design specialists...
The special effects are the stars.
But nothing that is current today can compare to Cecil B DeMile's scene of Moses parting the red sea....
That was sheer magic.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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