Katherine Hepburn is dead

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Dang it...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(sob)

more in the morning...

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww. Goodbye Katherine Hepburn.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"Of her advanced years and declining health, Ms Hepburn said in 1990: 'I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating ... I think [people] are beginning to think I'm not going to be around much longer. And do you know, they'll miss me, like an old monument. Like the Flatiron Building.'"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

goodbye and god bless kate

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

wonderful actress, but what I'll always remember is her journal from the set of the African Queen that I bought my ex-girlfriend. It's a trip and a half (she writes like she talks, which is like nobody else on this earth).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

She wrote me a letter once, it's hanging on the wall at my parent's house.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

:-(

― lyra (lyra), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Katharine

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

D'oh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 June 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

p-(

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 30 June 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/hepburn/phepbrn27.jpg

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http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/hepburn/tphepburna.jpg

http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/hepburn/twithoutlove.jpg

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G'night, Kate.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 30 June 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, man. Remember when "Best Actress" meant best actress? Neither do I. But I can still watch Katharine's movies and remember.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 30 June 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

:-<

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That first photo is gorgeous. She was a great comedic actress, too.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 30 June 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

she had an affair with john ford!

not to mention her bond with spencer tracy which even his wife (!) respected.

she was an independent woman. went back to the theater from hollywood when she didn't like the roles and salaries she was being offered. returned triumphantly.

willful blue-bloods are HAWT!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The third photo is my favorite. She looks like Annie Hall after a day of riding.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 30 June 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

she was born the same year as my grandma! :-) (tho they were worlds apart.)

also she won her oscars for films that were far from her best. should've won for "sylvia scarlett" of course!

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My, she was yare.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 30 June 2003 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

You ever think about eulogizing professionally, spencer?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 30 June 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

no, I've just always had a special affection for her and Tracy, my partial namesake; and I shiver whenever I hear her say that line.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 30 June 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Spookily, I spent the some of the weekend watching 'Adam's Rib' and 'Holiday' and had been moved to wonder about the state of her health...

I can't improve on Thomson: "Her best work has not dated a fraction of an inch: from 1932 to 1945, she had it in her to be the most interesting, difficult, challenging woman in American pictures. Why? I’d guess it had to do with her confusion, for she loved movies while disapproving of them."

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 30 June 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

this morning the stupid rte announcer said that audrey hepburn had died and then corrected himself. i loved watching her films when i was a teenager. her smart, quick-talking, elegant and tough characters were what i wished all grown-up women would be like.

― angela (angela), Monday, 30 June 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I know. The Philadelphia Story is one of my favourite films of all time, mostly because of her character. And I'm not even a woman.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 June 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

RIP Kate

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 30 June 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh that's a shame. She was a pretty amazing lady.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 30 June 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

:'(

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 30 June 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

:''(

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 30 June 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

:''(

(gah, that was me, not Jerry, sorry)

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 30 June 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Stage Door is an underrated film, and The Philadelphia Story is one of the best movies of all time.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 30 June 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

She was talented and gorgeous; a strong argument for the gentility of years gone by.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

My, she was yare.
That's what I was going to say.

96! Wow!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

So Ally, what's the deal with the letter? /jealous

I spent most of my early adolescence in Pendleton shirts, turtlenecks and chinos in tribute, encouraged by a Hepburn-loving granny (though this was narcissism, the two women could have passed for sisters). I tried to find a Sylvia Scarlett suit as well, but then new wave started making an impact on my wardrobe. KH used to live in a really nice townhouse in Turtle Bay (eastside neighbourhood by the UN) which my friend Ashley (whose cat was called CK Dexter Haven in homage to Cary Grant in TPS) and I would walk by every Saturday, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. Whenever lesser stars popped clogs, we were prone to saying 'could be worse. Could be Katharine Hepburn.'

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

CK Dexter Haven is the best name for a cat ever!

― Sarah MCLusky (coco), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, suzy, it was nothing of a story really--we were given a class assignment when I was in elementary school to pick a famous person we liked and write them a nice letter. I picked Katharine Hepburn, which kind of freaked out my teacher (everyone else like wrote to Michael J. Fox). I was the only one who got a letter in return, it was brief, along the lines of "Thank you for your nice letter. I wish you lots of luck" etc etc, on her stationary with her signature and everything. It was pretty cool. It is nice that she took time to write people back, I am sure she had plenty of things to do besides write to 8 year olds.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, you see, Ally, she was so well brought up that she probably had thank-you-note writing dinned into her at an early age. She was also very famous for NOT giving autographs so basically cherish that letter.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know this (from amg):

"...in 1938, she was deemed "box-office poison" by an influential exhibitor's publication. Hepburn's career might have ended then and there, but she hadn't been raised to be a quitter. She went back to Broadway in 1938 with a part written especially for her in Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story. Certain of a hit, she bought the film rights to the play; thus, when it ended up a success, she was able to negotiate her way back into Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars. Produced by MGM in 1940, the film version was a box-office triumph, and Hepburn had beaten the "poison" label."

I mean, wow.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

:( I saw this morning and been down ever since.
Katharine was one of my favorite actresses and what Dan said.

― H (Heruy), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Geoff, she borrowed the cash to buy the rights to TPS from HOWARD HUGHES. Who, to be fair, had a few bob kicking around.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Agree with all that's gone before. But an interesting question might be, who might the Hepburn of 2003 be? Will any of the current lot ever have the stature to hold a candle to her?

Apparently Cate Blanchett is playing her in an up-coming film about her and Tracy. One radio pundit here in Melbourne suggested Sharon Stone as a possibility. Any other ideas?

― Fred Nerk, Monday, 30 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Nicole Kidman has the red hair and the faculty-brat background...

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sharon Stone is a little too crazy to be the modern Katharine Hepburn (plus she showed her hoohoo on camera and did "Police Academy 4", "King Solomon's Mines" and "Action Jackson").

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

That part Blanchett was given was offered to N.K. first, according to the same source, but she wasn't available.

― Fred Nerk, Monday, 30 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sharon Stone also has the problem of being a fucking horrible actress, but other than that, yeah, legend of the silver screen.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Even her voiceover in Antz was unbearable! Our KH? Christ, what an insult (haha wrote inslut there).

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

GC, I can't stand Shazza any better than you (as an actress she is very well named) but KH wasn't universally admired whan she was La Stone's age either. It was reflecting on that that made me stop laughing when I first heard the suggestion.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.pathfinder.com/Life/covers/1968/cv010568.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

This move not done by stunt double, dysentry in Dorsoduro, bleurgh:

http://www.lynnpdesign.com/classicmovies/hepburn/summertime1.jpg

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"She was also very famous for NOT giving autographs so basically cherish that letter". Hence:

http://www.historyforsale.com/html/prodetails.asp?prodid=13046&start=1

― Dbryn, Monday, 30 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lord, that's a lot of cash for someone's signature.

I have no intentions on selling it off, it's a lovely thing. I also write thank you notes!! I sometimes feel ridiculous for it cos no one ever does it anymore, it's good to know Kate approved off on it,

There is no K. Hepburn of 2003. People are not brought up that way anymore--just like any ideas of there being a modern Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly or Liz Taylor is ludicrious. It's not a snub on modern actresses, it's just that there is no comparison.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 30 June 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally do you have people writing you for your autograph?

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The most valuable things I own are things I would never, ever sell so when people say something is worth a bomb, it's kind of a moot point, right?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

That kind of wasn't my point, amateurist, wtf? Anyway, I didn't write her for her autograph.

suzy OTM.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

that's awful, I loved Katharine Hepburn. :-(

she did outlast pretty much every one of her leading men, didn't she?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

When my friend got to work today someone asked him if she was in Charlie's Angels. "The old one or the new one?" he replied The new one? they asked "No" he replied. The old one? They asked. "No" he replied, frostily.
R.I.P Katharine.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Search and destroy those random TV movies she did in the nineties?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally I was just joking. I liked the idea of people writing you fan letters and you responding,

Why thank you dear! I wish you all the best XOXO. I hope you enjoy the enclosed head shot!
(signed)Ally

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

If you liked Philadelphia Story, Ally, check out Holiday: it has Hepburn and Grant and great dialogue and one of the best non-corny happy endings evah.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 30 June 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

An ILXor once DID ask me for that! I sent him a photo cut out of the Victoria's Secret catalog and wrote "XOXO" on top of it. This was not behavior Kate would approve of, I think.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 30 June 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

This has upset me more than any celebrity death in ages. She was one of my two or three all-time favourite actresses, and The Philadelphia Story ranks in my top half dozen films, and Bringing Up Baby ranks even higher. All the stuff about her fight-back after being labelled box office poison, that sense of strength and pride and intelligence, her life and films with Spencer Tracy - I really adored her. I'm so unhappy she has died, silly as that may be for a 96 year old woman I've never met.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 June 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i rarely get upset when someone like this dies, because everything about them to which i felt attached--their movies--is still around.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved her, too.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 30 June 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

How could you not?
So, is there any 'Golden Age' star left?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 30 June 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

mickey rooney among others.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Elizabeth Taylor, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, Peter O'Toole (no no no no!), Paul Newman, d'oh!

― suzy posting on ed's computer (dali), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have placed all of them as starting their careers right after the 'Golden Age', but whatever, it's not like it's a definite point in time.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the "golden age" to you? the '30s?

because plenty of stars of the '40s and '50s are still around.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops you're mad; Elizabeth Taylor may have been a kid star in the 40s but she was HYOOGE as such. I'm thinking of age hgere, basically anyone 70 or over who has an Oscar. Otherwise we'd have to tally in Reagan...

Luise Rainer and Jennifer Jones I can think of just off the top of my head.

― suzy again (dali), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i guess i'm thinking 30s, early 40s. People whom the stars from the 50s looked up to.

(Taylor was the only one I could think of actually)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady Hepburn: she was a class act. We won't see her level of acting again...

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

im waiting for liz to go next, and if she does, ill be inconsoalble.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There never is a time / To make up your last mind

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

She was lovely and dignified and completely feminine and yet still strong and womanly - one of the few women in the public life that I respected. The world has lost a great guide.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 3 July 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

So I was sitting in the café reading Katharine Hepburn's last interview (1992!) and decided to go and buy a DVD of The Philadelphia Story. I tried 6 shops before getting home and discovering that one of the greatest films of all time isn't available in the UK. What madness is this? If I ever have to look at another box of Tom Hanks in bloody Philadelphia again I shall scream. Who on earth buys that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Seeing Kate Mulgrew at the end of Throw Momma From the Train made me think that she'd have made a better Hepburn than Cate Blanchett.

Though I'm not the first person to have spotted this, which is why Mulgrew was (is?) portraying her on stage in Tea at Five.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 5 March 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

"Grant winds up with Hepburn, and no paleontologist ever got hold of a more beautiful set of bones."
-- Pauline Kael

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 5 March 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Stage Door is really Ginger Rogers' movie, but Hepburn is better making fun of her imperiousness here than in The Philadelphia Story. Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Adolphe Menjou, and Lucille Ball (who really should have starred in more good movies) do their best to help her.

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)

African Queen is *finally* coming to DVD and Blu-Ray later this month!

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

so is A Delicate Balance worth a watch?

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:09 (eleven years ago)

yes. good version of a great play.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:14 (eleven years ago)

OK. I'm working my way through the seventies stuff.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 January 2014 23:22 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Tracy and Hepburn will track the on- and offscreen lovers from when Spencer and Katharine first met before making Woman of the Year (1942) together through to Tracy’s death just days after performing in his final scene in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967).

http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-romance-getting-screen-treatment/

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:02 (eleven years ago)

Cate Blanchett as Kate and Meryl Streep as Spence.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:06 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

I watched Christopher Strong, out on Warner Archive, her second film and first 'vehicle' -- she plays a British 'aviatrix' (same plane as Amelia Earhart) who falls in love with a married parliamentarian (Colin Clive, even drippier than he was as Dr Frankenstein). She's got the star stuff already, but the ending, man, if you thought Woman of the Year was misogynist... And this with a female screenwriter and a lesbian director (Dorothy Arzner).

Famous for this moth costume:

https://movieclassics.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/christopher-strong-2.jpg

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 20:46 (nine years ago)

there really isnt a decent thread for her, eh

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 02:08 (nine years ago)

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