Katharine Hepburn
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1907-05-12
Locus Natus: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Et ut: Кэтрин Хепберн, Katherine Hepburn, 캐서린 헵번, Kate Hepburn, Katie Hepburn, Кетрін Хепберн
Bringing Up Baby
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the...
release : 1938.02.18popularis : 11.469
The African Queen
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...
release : 1952.01.07popularis : 11.438
The Philadelphia Story
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
release : 1940.12.05popularis : 10.955
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
release : 1967.12.11popularis : 12.516
Woman of the Year
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess'...
release : 1942.02.05popularis : 9.326
On Golden Pond
For Norman and Ethel Thayer, this summer on golden pond is filled with conflict and resolution. When their daughter Chelsea arrives, the family is...
release : 1981.12.04popularis : 15.93
Desk Set
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff.
release : 1957.08.02popularis : 6.175
In Search of Tracy Lord
Playwright Philip Barry and actor Katharine Hepburn, both experiencing career downturns in the late 1930s, worked closely together to create the...
release : 2017.11.07popularis : 0.386
Sylvia Scarlett
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with...
release : 1935.12.25popularis : 7.404
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on...
release : 2004.10.26popularis : 3.076
Without Love
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer...
release : 1945.03.22popularis : 4.351
Morning Glory
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a...
release : 1933.08.18popularis : 4.784
Adam's Rib
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers...
release : 1949.11.18popularis : 14.895
Keeper of the Flame
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 3.491
Pat and Mike
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she...
release : 1952.06.13popularis : 4.252
State of the Union
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
release : 1948.04.30popularis : 9.938
Early Directors on Directing
There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.472
The Iron Petticoat
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain...
release : 1956.09.01popularis : 2.806
Suddenly, Last Summer
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went...
release : 1959.12.22popularis : 16.082
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife,...
release : 1962.10.09popularis : 4.174
The Rainmaker
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that...
release : 1956.12.13popularis : 8.096
Christopher Strong
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.
release : 1933.03.09popularis : 4.919
Stage Door
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a...
release : 1937.10.08popularis : 7.307
Mary of Scotland
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
release : 1936.07.28popularis : 6.298
The Little Minister
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one...
release : 1934.12.28popularis : 2.961
Alice Adams
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible...
release : 1935.08.23popularis : 4.684
Becoming Cary Grant
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant,...
release : 2017.05.23popularis : 4.406
Love Affair
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship...
release : 1994.10.21popularis : 7.697
Undercurrent
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an...
release : 1946.11.11popularis : 6.032
Holiday
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent...
release : 1938.05.26popularis : 12.597
Stage Door Canteen
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a...
release : 1943.06.24popularis : 4.785
Spitfire
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a...
release : 1934.03.08popularis : 4.233
A Delicate Balance
In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing...
release : 1973.11.12popularis : 7.309
Rooster Cogburn
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the...
release : 1975.11.01popularis : 21.694
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other...
release : 1995.01.16popularis : 2.298
The Trojan Women
In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to...
release : 1971.05.01popularis : 12.366
Little Women
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is...
release : 1933.11.24popularis : 11.504
The Lion in Winter
Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
release : 1968.10.30popularis : 16.079
Call Me Kate
A feature documentary which captures Katharine Hepburn's spirit and determination, exploring her story using her own words, through a combination of...
release : 2023.05.12popularis : 3.044
Summertime
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she...
release : 1955.06.21popularis : 12.317
Quality Street
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.
release : 1937.03.26popularis : 3.156
A Bill of Divorcement
Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his...
release : 1932.09.28popularis : 2.888
The Glass Menagerie
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and...
release : 1973.12.16popularis : 2.345
Grace Quigley
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. On the day she's being evicted, she witnesses a murder being...
release : 1985.05.17popularis : 5.098
Smash His Camera
A film centering on the life and work of Ron Galella that examines the nature and effect of paparazzi.
release : 2010.07.30popularis : 4.671
The Sea of Grass
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
release : 1947.04.25popularis : 4.325
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...
release : 1972.01.10popularis : 8.408
A Woman Rebels
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
release : 1936.11.06popularis : 3.204
Dragon Seed
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in...
release : 1944.07.20popularis : 3.914
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
release : 1986.03.30popularis : 1.777
Love Among the Ruins
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé....
release : 1975.03.06popularis : 4.809
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...
release : 2018.07.27popularis : 4.442
Break of Hearts
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance...
release : 1935.05.31popularis : 6.36
Song of Love
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their...
release : 1947.10.09popularis : 5.412
One Christmas
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
release : 1994.12.19popularis : 2.67
The Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in...
release : 1969.10.12popularis : 9.064
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
The childhood, adolescence, and incredible adult years of Al Hirschfeld, celebrated creator of thousands of line drawings of famous people - many in...
release : 1996.09.27popularis : 1.843
The Corn Is Green
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she...
release : 1979.01.29popularis : 5.094
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
Elderly, eccentric Miss Pudd (Hepburn) is the owner of a store she considers an antique shop but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses...
release : 1978.08.11popularis : 4.635
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
release : 2019.10.13popularis : 5.981
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put...
release : 2021.03.26popularis : 4.662
Laura Lansing Slept Here
With a glittering cast that includes Katharine Hepburn and Karen Austin in lead roles, Laura Lansing Slept Here is a humorous family movie. Hepburn...
release : 1988.03.06popularis : 2.31
The Man Upstairs
Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.
release : 1992.12.06popularis : 0.917
This Can't Be Love
Two aging actors, who had a brief but intense marriage in the 1940s, are reunited decades later to find that issues between them are not resolved.
release : 1994.03.13popularis : 2.003
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Music documentary directed by Patrick T. Kelly.
release : 1988.01.02popularis : 4.311
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me
In a rare interview, Katharine Hepburn shares her memories and memorabilia.
release : 1993.01.18popularis : 2.862
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
release : 1961.12.31popularis : 3.001
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews. Produced as S18E03 of the long running...
release : 2004.06.01popularis : 2.982
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and...
release : 1989.06.26popularis : 1.796
Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.
release : 1990.05.21popularis : 2.129
Bacall on Bogart
Lauren Bacall tells the story of her late husband Humphrey Bogart, presenting clips from his movies and interview clips with his peers.
release : 1988.03.13popularis : 2.425
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
release : 1974.06.21popularis : 3.57
Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm.
release : 2003.12.15popularis : 1.76
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.
release : 1988.06.05popularis : 5.454
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
release : 1964.09.02popularis : 2.127
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and...
release : 1986.03.09popularis : 3.181
That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...
release : 1994.07.01popularis : 4.303
Directed by John Ford
A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
release : 1971.09.06popularis : 5.23
Women in Defense
Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific,...
release : 1941.12.24popularis : 0.982
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real...
release : 2010.03.23popularis : 3.074
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
release : 1987.05.18popularis : 1.204
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...
release : 1940.07.31popularis : 2.374
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
release : 1975.08.06popularis : 6.197
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
A peep behind the scenes of the golden era of Hollywood to discover exactly how and why Katharine Hepburn became one of the most famous actresses in...
release : 2014.03.02popularis : 1.548
Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...
release : 2003.05.06popularis : 3.674
That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...
release : 1976.05.16popularis : 6.283
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
release : 1944.01.01popularis : 1.763
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...
release : 1940.10.24popularis : 5.716
Bogart: The Untold Story
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends...
release : 1997.01.05popularis : 6.46
The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
release : 1988.10.01popularis : 4.339
Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms
Four-time Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn called herself a "personality" as well as an actress, and rightfully so. This biography chronicles her life...
release : 1996.10.04popularis : 3.086
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...
release : 1994.12.19popularis : 2.499
The Costume Designer
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...
release : 1950.07.13popularis : 2.004
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.
release : 1996.03.17popularis : 2.367
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
release : 1985.03.03popularis : 7.581
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
release : 1988.11.22popularis : 4.187
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...
release : 2010.05.05popularis : 2.865
Fonda on Fonda
Jane Fonda hosts a tribute to her father.
release : 1992.01.13popularis : 1.596
True Blue
Stamatis cannot get over his breakup with Katerina. He stays locked inside, until one night Katerina visits him with one purpose only: to get him out...
release : 2024.09.03popularis : 1.998