Favorite Katharine Hepburn films

[hubbellgardner]

Long Days Journey into Night

 

[Orlandude]

On Golden Pond

I love all her movies!

 

[josher]

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Bringing Up Baby
The Philadelphia Story
A Lion In Winter
Suddenly Last Summer
Pat and Mike
The African Queen
Holiday
A Bill of Divorcement
Stagestruck
Woman of the Year
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

 

[josher]

I forget:

Stage Door
Adam's Rib
The Rainmaker
Summertime

and at Christmastime:

Desk Set.

Needless to say, she is my favorite actress of all time.

 

[Yves]

Bringing Up Baby
Summertime

 

[scrapple]

Unlike Bette Davis, I never saw the appeal of Katharine Hepburn. She and Henry Fonda always semed to play the same role , no matter what movie they were in. I think both were highly overrated.

 

[scrapple]

Oh, come on now...Bette playing a shy, mother-dominated recluse in Now, Voyager then a Southern aristocrat with a heart of steel in Little Foxes, then a white-trash waitress in Of Human Bondage, then the star pushed off her pedastal in All About Eve...these were a wide range of roles, Hepburn, meanwhile, played the same feisty, independent woman in virtually all her films.

 

[hubbellgardner]

I have to agree a bit( sorry josher! ), Davis displayed much greater range overall and took bigger risks as an actress. Besides, that quack quack voice of Hepburn's could make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.. LOL ! I admire her enormously, but personally think in the long run BD was the finer actress....

 

[sunoftheskye]

Suddenly Last Summer.

 

[sshaffer15]

Katharine was my favorite actress so I watched everything she was in when it was on TV or otherwise. I consider myself lucky to have seen her on Broadway in her last live performance in "West Side Waltz." The play sucked, but really did not care. I was also fortunate to see her home in CT two weeks after she died.

 

[Mprov]

My favorites are Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and Woman of the Year.

 

[okiedokie]

desk set & guess who's coming to dinner, but she never made a bad film, IMO.

 

[pinest]

#1. The lion in winter.
#2. Guess who's coming to dinner?
#3. On Golden pond.

 

[josher]

Suddenly Last Summer was very hard to watch.

I fast forward through the scenes Kate isn't in.

"Viiolet and Sebastian, Sebastian and Violet." I loved it!

And my favorite line from A Lion In Winter comes just after the brothers have all tried to kill their father (and each other) and have knocked down their mother, and she looks into the camera and says, "Well, every family has its ups and downs."

 

[NineOfClubs]

Katharine was my favorite actress so I watched everything she was in when it was on TV or otherwise. I consider myself lucky to have seen her on Broadway in her last live performance in "West Side Waltz." The play sucked, but really did not care. I was also fortunate to see her home in CT two weeks after she died.

I saw the play also. It was magical being there.

Great actress!

Though I don't have one favorite film, if you put a gun to my head, I'd say The Lion in Winter.

 

[Joshua_me]

Another vote for 'Suddenly, Last Summer'.

Kate in full gay camp mode, Liz with about an 18 inch waist...

The film itself defies description, based on one of Tennessee Williams'
lesser known works...

(It appears 'they ATE him' !! )

If you haven't seen it yet, do so immediately

 

[grantt]

The Lion In Winter was fine film. Hepburn was one of a kind. How appropriate that her headstone is one big rock (or so I've read)!

 

[Ramindra]

For me it is a toss up between The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond, both of which I first saw on telly and fell in love with both movies. I now have On Golden Pond on DVD and give it a spin every few months. And I still have a little cry......

 

[GanymedeATL]

"Philadelphia Story" is the first film I saw her in, and I cannot NOT watch it any time it's on. She's awesome, and so is the rest of the cast, especially Cary Grant. Since then, I've tried to catch every film that I could that she's in, and I love her delivery and manner, and the fact that she aged in public, and couldn't care less how she was photographed as she did so. "Lion In Winter" is amazing. She actually made me look into the historical Eleanor.

 

[floorrunner]

I thought I would revive this thread since today would have been her 102nd birthday. Rooster Cogburn holds a special place in my heart for me because it is the first movie that I saw with Katharine Hepburn in and costarring with another legend John Wayne. It is hard to say which is my favorite so I will give my top 10 in no particular order.

1. Rooster Cogburn
2. Suddenly Last Summer
3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
4. Desk Set
5. Stage Door
6. On Golden Pond
7. The Lion In Winter
8. The Philadelphia Story
9. Bringing up Baby
10. Adam's Rib