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Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:49:04 -0800

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.

Lindsay William-Ross

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:45:21 -0800

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...

lisa

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:58:28 -0800

what, no philadelphia story? boo hiss, man. that film is my favs. : )

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