Filmography
Legends of Entertainment Video (1995) (V) (archive footage) .... Herself
One Christmas (1994) (TV) .... Cornelia Beaumont
Love Affair (1994) .... Ginny
This Can't Be Love (1994) (TV) .... Marion Bennett
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1992) (TV) .... Herself
Man Upstairs, The (1992) (TV) .... Victoria Brown
Tales of Helpmann, The (1990) (archive footage) .... Herself
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (1988) (V) .... Herself
... aka Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues (1988) (V) (USA: video box title)
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) (TV) .... Laura Lansing
Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987) (TV) .... Herself
Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn, The (1986) (TV) .... Host
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986) (TV) .... Margaret Delafield
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) .... Herself
Grace Quigley (1984) .... Grace Quigley
... aka Ultimate Solution of Grace Quigley, The (1984)
On Golden Pond (1981) .... Ethel Thayer
Corn Is Green, The (1979) (TV) .... Lilly C. Moffat
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978) .... Miss Pudd
... aka Great Balloon Adventure, The (1978)
... aka Great Balloon Race, The (1978)
Rooster Cogburn (1975) .... Eula
... aka Rooster Cogburn... and the Lady (1975)
Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV) .... Jessica Medlicott
Delicate Balance, A (1973) .... Agnes
Glass Menagerie, The (1973) (TV) .... Amanda Wingfield
Trojan Women, The (1971) .... Hecuba
Madwoman of Chaillot, The (1969) .... Countess Aurelia
Lion in Winter, The (1968) .... Eleanor of Aquitaine
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) .... Christina Drayton
MGM's Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
... aka Big Parade of Comedy, The (1964)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) .... Mary Tyrone
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) .... Mrs. Violet Venable
Desk Set (1957) .... Bunny Watson
... aka His Other Woman (1957) (UK)
Rainmaker, The (1956) .... Lizzie Curry
Iron Petticoat, The (1956) .... Vinka Kovelenko
... aka Not for Money (1956)
Summertime (1955) .... Jane Hudson
... aka Summer Madness (1955) (UK)
Road to Bali (1952) (uncredited) (archive footage) .... Rose Sayer
Pat and Mike (1952) .... Pat Pemberton
African Queen, The (1951) .... Rose Sayer
Adam's Rib (1949) .... Amanda Bonner
State of the Union (1948) .... Mary Matthews
... aka World and His Wife, The (1948) (UK)
Song of Love (1947) .... Clara Wieck Schumann
Sea of Grass, The (1947) .... Lutie Cameron
Undercurrent (1946) .... Ann Hamilton
Without Love (1945) .... Jamie Rowan
Dragon Seed (1944) .... Jade
Stage Door Canteen (1943) .... Herself
Keeper of the Flame (1942) .... Christine Forrest
Woman of the Year (1942) .... Tess Harding
Women in Defense (1941) (voice) .... Narrator
Philadelphia Story, The (1940) .... Tracy Samantha Lord
Holiday (1938) .... Linda Seton
... aka Free to Live (1938) (UK)
... aka Unconventional Linda (1938) (UK: reissue title)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) .... Susan Vance
Quality Street (1937) .... Phoebe Throssel
Stage Door (1937) .... Terry Randall/Sims
Woman Rebels, A (1936) .... Pamela Thistlewaite
Mary of Scotland (1936) .... Mary Stuart (Mary, Queen of Scots)
Sylvia Scarlett (1936) .... Sylvia Scarlett, aka Sylvester Scarlett
Alice Adams (1935) .... Alice Adams
Break of Hearts (1935) .... Constance Dane Roberti
Little Minister, The (1934) .... Babbie
Spitfire (1934) .... Trigger Hicks
Christopher Strong (1933) .... Lady Cynthia Darrington
Little Women (1933) .... Josephine "Jo" March
Morning Glory (1933) .... Eva Lovelace/Ada Love
Bill of Divorcement, A (1932) .... Sydney Fairfield
MY FAVS
1. Holiday (I can actually feel Kate being surpressed by her family. funny and cute.)
2. Philadelphia Story
3. The Rainmaker
4. Bringing Up Baby
5. Pat and Mike
6. Desk Set
7. Woman Of the Year
8. On Golden Pond
9. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
10. Little Women
STARS WHO MADE THE MOVIES BETTER, Katharine Hepburn
by Molly Haskell (People Magazine)
The cocked head, the hint of the suffragette, the broad Bryn Mawr a-brainy, brave, and beautiful, Katharine Hepburn most certainly was not going to be tamed and trussed by the studio system. She played rebels and upstarts and, ahead of her time, a feminist lawyer in Adam's Rib, a whimsical androgyne in Sylvia Scarlett, and a lady athlete (as it was then called) in Pat and Mike. With the unembarrassed confidence of breeding, she thumbed her nose at parts she didn't want. Since she's one of the few beauties to allow herself to grow old before our eyes, we know her now as the sensible-walking-shoe matriarch of On Golden Pond, but back in Morning Glory, she's so young and lovely she hurts your eyes.
There was nothing cute or malleable about her. She never pleaded for love and, perhaps as a consequence, never became a mass taste. If we love her now, it's because some people, particularly certain women, are easier to love from a distance, when time has muted their sensuality, dulled the eyes that flashed too challengingly, made them less threatening. Happily, she lived long enough for time, and a later generation of women, to catch up to her defiant spirit. -Molly Haskell
MUST-SEES
*Bringing Up Baby (1938) In the best screw-ball comedy, she woos Cary Grant by driving him nuts.
*The Philadelphia Story (1940) The lady's finest hour, with a tailor-made script and perfect-match support from Grant and Jimmy Stewart.