Today is Katharine Hepburn’s birthday. And like every year for the past 10 years, I am having a marathon to celebrate. And of course, I couldn’t let May 12th go by without writing a little something about her here on the Garden. I’ve already talked about several of her movies and the many, many things I love about her, so today I thought I’d do a fun list of 5 things I love about 5 of her movies. Of course, there are many more, but I’ll leave those for next year.
Here they are!
Bringing up Baby (1938)
- – George, the dog
- – Baby, the leopard
- – Major Applegate and Aunt Elizabeth’s banter
- – The dinner scene
- – ‘I can’t give you anything but love, Babyyyy…’
Stage Door (1937)
- – The calla lilies monologue
- – The dialogue! Especially the insults
- – Terry (Kate) and Jean (Ginger Rogers)’s relationship
- – The cast
- – THAT Andrea Leeds scene
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- – All that champagne!
- – Ruth Hussey’s performance
- – The swimming pool
- – The drunken scene with Jimmy and Cary
- – Dinah performing ‘Lydia’
Woman of the year (1942)
- – THE LOVE
- – THE LOOKS
- – Ahead of its time
- – The breakfast scene
- – ‘Do you speak Chinese?’ ‘Fluently.’
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- – Spencer’s final monologue
- – Sidney Poitier’s performance
- – ‘Glory of Love’ theme tune
- – Christina’s epic speech to Hillary
- – How bittersweet it is
Happy Birthday, Kate ❤
The Old Hollywood Garden 
Love the movie choices and the moments!! There are so many wonderful movies to choose from with Ms. Hepburn. Bringing Up Baby is a joy to watch. I love all of the Tracy/Hepburn movies, The Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond, etc etc etc etc. Bonne fete a Kate!!! 🙂
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Thank you!! 😀
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Such a great actress. I like your choices. My top five are Summertime, The Philadelphia Story, The Lion in Winter, Woman of the Year and Holiday.
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Thank you! 😀
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That was fun.
“Don’t speak, Hillary. Just go.” Priceless!
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Fantastic! 😀
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Happy Katharine Hepburn day Carol!! Enjoy your marathon movie watch . I like your takes on the films- you always have a different spin in your blogs which I enjoy 😀😀
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Thank you so much! That’s what I’m always trying to do! I like to surprise my readers 😀
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A great list of great movies
Ohhh… Just the other day ‘I had I can’t give you anything but love, Babyyyy’ stuck in my mind 😀
The insults from Stage Door… I think it’s what remember more clearly about the movie lol
The drunk scene that had Cary Grant breaking character ahah
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Haha!!! 😀
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Like how you boil it down to the essentials! Love that you included Stage Door.
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Thank you!! 😀
That’s always been one of my favorites!
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Oh my this is great! The breakfast scene from Woman of the Year is gold haha!
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Thank you! 😀
Haha yeah, I love that scene!
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