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.