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The Great Kate: Another Perspective on Hepburn's Best Work
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Long Day's Journey Into NightLong Day's Journey Into Night
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Eugene O'Neill's masterwork provides Hepburn with her most textured role, the morphine-addicted Mary Tyrone, and in response, she delivers her greatest performance in Sidney Lumet's 1962 film version.
Summertime - Criterion CollectionSummertime - Criterion Collection
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Hepburn captures the deep loneliness and romantic exhilaration of a "fancy secretary" finding passionate love in Venice in David Lean's panoramic 1955 film classic.
The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)The Philadelphia Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Her most defining role as socialite Tracy Lord who cannot seem to make up her mind over three men in George Cukor's scintillating 1940 film version of Phillip Barry's drawing room comedy.
Woman of the YearWoman of the Year
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The first pairing with Spencer Tracy is really more a Hepburn vehicle as she expertly plays multilingual political columnist Tess Harding learning to become a wife in George Stevens' 1942 comedy.
The Lion in WinterThe Lion in Winter
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Her towering late-period performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine dominates Anthony Harvey's 1968 film version of James Goldman's biting historical play opposite a grizzled Peter O'Toole as Henry II.
Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Hepburn at her most lovably exasperating as dizzy heiress Susan Vance in love with Cary Grant's absent-minded paleontologist David Huxley in Howard Hawks' hilarious 1938 screwball classic.
Little Women (1933)Little Women (1933)
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Filled with youthful exuberance and pride, Jo March turns out to be the ideal Hepburn heroine in George Cukor's 1933 translation of Louisa May Alcott's perennial literary work.
Adam's RibAdam's Rib
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Sparring over the pending guilt of a woman who shoots her philandering husband, Hepburn and Tracy play married courtroom adversaries in George Cukor's classic 1949 battle-of-the-sexes comedy.
HolidayHoliday
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Hepburn and Cary Grant play kindred spirits as liberated Linda Seton and her sister's non-conformist intended, Johnny Case, in George Cukor's delightful 1938 comedy.
Alice AdamsAlice Adams
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As a small-town girl with uptown aspirations, Hepburn is poignant and completely out of her persona in George Stevens' 1935 shrewdly observant slice of Americana.
Suddenly, Last SummerSuddenly, Last Summer
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Violet Venable is one of Hepburn's rare villainesses, and she plays it to the hilt opposite a luscious Elizabeth Taylor and a preoccupied Montgomery Clift in this 1959 Tennessee Williams melodrama.
The African Queen [Region 2]The African Queen [Region 2]
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Rollicking, character-driven 1951 adventure directed by John Huston with Hepburn in her first spinster role as a psalm-singing 'skinny old maid' opposite a grizzled, smitten Bogart.
Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive)Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive)
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Hepburn successfully tackles delusional Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield in this splendidly acted 1973 adaptation of Tenessee Williams' classic play.
Pat and MikePat and Mike
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Showing off her considerable athletic prowess on the course and the courts, Hepburn finds time to win the heart of Tracy's shady sports manager in George Cukor's proto-feminist 1952 comedy.
Stage DoorStage Door
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"The calla lillies are in bloom again" for Hepburn's Terry Randall as she lives with the other struggling young actresses (including a tart-tongued Ginger Rogers) in Gregory La Cava's 1937 classic.
On Golden Pond (Special Edition)On Golden Pond (Special Edition)
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With autumnal grace and humor, Hepburn teams with Fonda in this 1981 dramedy about a couple celebrating the husband's 80th birthday with their estranged daughter and her soon-to-be stepson.
Morning Glory (1933) [VHS]Morning Glory (1933) [VHS]
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Hepburn's first Oscar came with her breathless but affecting portrayal of would-be actress Eva Lovelace, who only wants stardom in this otherwise dated 1933 drama.
Bill of Divorcement (1932) [VHS]Bill of Divorcement (1932) [VHS]
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Her star-making film debut came opposite John Barrymore as her estanged father just released from an asylum in this 1932 melodrama directed by George Cukor.
Desk SetDesk Set
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As whip-smart TV researcher Bunny Watson, Hepburn comes closest to her real personality in this zingy 1957 rom-com on the perils of automation with a tired-looking Tracy.
State of the UnionState of the Union
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Capra-corn well served by Tracy and Hepburn as a presidential candidate and his estranged wife in this 1948 dramedy with Angela Lansbury aces as a homewrecking newspaper publisher.
Love Among the Ruins [VHS]Love Among the Ruins [VHS]
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Long-awaited union with Olivier in a charming Edwardian romantic comedy as Hepburn plays aging actress Jessica Mendicott who can't remember a youthful tryst with her barrister in this 1975 telefilm.
The RainmakerThe Rainmaker
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Plain-faced Lizzie Curry meets charismatic Bill Starbuck in drought-ridden Texas as Hepburn poignantly plays a prairie spinster in this 1956 movie opposite Burt Lancaster.
Guess Who's Coming to DinnerGuess Who's Coming to Dinner
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Tracy dominates his last film with Hepburn more on the sidelines as his art gallery-owning wife most capable of standing her ground in Stanley Kramer's 1967 race-relations dramedy.
Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])
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"Morning Glory" and five of her lesser films are included in this 2007 DVD set with some of her most mannered work on display from her convincing masquerade as a boy in "Sylvia Scarlett" to a Chinese peasant girl in "Dragon Seed".
A Delicate BalanceA Delicate Balance
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Hepburn plays the wealthy, dominating wife in a household full of characters in various states of dysfunction in this 1973 filmization of Edward Albee's vitriolic play.
The Trojan WomenThe Trojan Women
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As the dethroned Hecuba, Hepburn is part of quite an international ensemble cast in Michael Cacoyannis' 1971 film version of Euripides' classic tragedy.
Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady)Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady)
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Hepburn teamed with Wayne in this tepid 1975 rehash of "The African Queen" that really does little to enhance the reputation of either star.
The Dick Cavett Show - Hollywood GreatsThe Dick Cavett Show - Hollywood Greats
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A genuine character, Kate is at her most ribald in her first-ever TV interview with a constantly blushing Dick Cavett taped in two parts in 1973 and now on DVD.