Katherine Hepburn's birthday is on Saturday May 12th. To celebrate all week TCM has been showing Hepburn's movies. Today they showed the following Hepburn films:
"Woman of the Year (1942, another Oscar® nomination), would kick off a 25-year partnership (on and off the screen) with Spencer Tracy. Few critics, let alone moviegoers, were expecting the chemistry and comic brio that these two stars would create when they were first paired. Hepburn's biggest box office hits of the '40s were films co-starring Tracy: Cukor's Keeper of the Flame (1942); Harold Bucquet's underrated Without Love (1945); Elia Kazan's soapy melodrama Sea of Grass (1947); Frank Capra's political satire State of the Union (1948), and of course, Cukor's superb battle-of-the-sexes farce Adam's Rib (1949)."
Tomorrow they will be showing The African Queen, Suddenly, Last Summer, and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. The last movie has been remade into the 2005 movie Guess Who? starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher. Spencer Tracy passed away seventeen days after Guess Who's coming to Dinner finished filming. That would be the last movie filmed between the two actors. Also last night they showed a documentary on Katherine Hepburn from 1992. She lived an interesting life indeed. The most shocking to me is that at a point in her career she when she was considered "Box Office poison" and that she had a secret affair with Spencer Tracy that produced numerous films starring the two of them. The gossip columns back in that day chose not to write about the relationship although it was one of the worse kept secrets in Hollywood. Far cry from the gossip columns of today. There are a few films of Katherine that I missed this week that I want to see that includes The Philadelphia Story. She maintained the rights to The Philadelphia Story after the role won her rave reviews on Broadway before it became a film. The film also starred Jimmy Stewart.
Katherine Hepburn passed away in June 2003 at the age of 96.
Links:
Tuner Classic Movies
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