August 3, 2007
The late, great Kate is back...

Katharine Hepburn is considered by many to be the finest actress ever to grace the screens of Hollywood. That she was also a firebrand of a personality only added to her considerable legend. To commemorate the 100th year of her birth, The Los Angeles Museum of Art is running a long series of her films starting tonight. Do yourself a favor--go to the LACMA after work to see the George Kahn Quintet at 6 p.m., have a few pops, then stay for what may be the best of the nine films that Hepburn starred in with Spencer Tracy, Adam's Rib.
August 3, 7:30 PM - Adam's Rib
August 3, 9:20 PM - State of the Union
August 4, 7:30 PM - The Lion in Winter
August 7, 1:00 PM - Undercurrent
August 10, 7:30 PM - Holiday
August 10, 9:15 PM - Bringing Up Baby
August 11, 7:30 PM - Summertime
August 11, 9:20 PM - Suddenly, Last Summer
August 14, 1:00 PM - Mary of Scotland
August 17, 7:30 PM - Alice Adams
August 17, 9:20 PM - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
August 18, 7:30 PM - Long Day's Journey into Night
August 21, 1:00 PM - Break of Hearts
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what, no philadelphia story?
boo hiss, man.
that film is my favs. : )
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The Philadelphia Story is my fave Kate film, too. It ran earlier this year at the ArcLight for one night during a special AFI series. There are no prints left that are in excellent shape, though, so there were some rocky moments during the showing, but well worth seeing on the big screen. I did my Master's Thesis on Katharine Hepburn (a novel based on her life) so for a few years I was up to my eyeballs in KH books, movies, trivia, etc. Weird that a year late I'm out of the loop enough to have not known about LACMA's screenings this month. One cool thing to note about the screenings this month: The last one, Break of Hearts, is a film that is not available at all on VHS or DVD, so going to this screening may be the only way to see it. It wasn't a big success when it was released in 1935, and was on the long road to KH being labeled "Box Office Poison" following the massive failure of Bringing Up Baby in 1938--hard to imagine that what we know now as slapstick classic was a total bomb when it came out.
Thanks for spreading the KH love. I may as yet be inspired to go back to that novel and expand it for publication like everyone is telling me to do...
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this series actually kicked-off back on July 20 with THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (on a double-bill with MORNING GLORY).
This is the second month of Hepburn films at LACMA, actually. They've already shown THE AFRICAN QUEEN, WOMAN OF THE YEAR and many others.