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The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story (1940) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard

We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar keester. A couple of years after the breakup, Tracy is ...

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The Lion in Winter

The Lion in Winter (1968) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Harvey
featuring Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry

The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), long exiled to a faraway castle, is "invited" to join Henry and their three sons for a family reunion. In this way, ...

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The African Queen

The African Queen (1951) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel

After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the screenplay for a Huston picture. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called the ...

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On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond (1981) more movies like this

directed by Mark Rydell
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman

There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Thayer, a cranky 80-year-old retired professor, ...

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Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby (1938) more movies like this

directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and unwittingly makes a fiasco of both their lives. David Huxley (Grant) is the stuffy paleontologist who needs to finish an exhibit on dinosaurs and thus land a $1 million grant for his museum. At a ...

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Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge

In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a seemingly insane, young New Orleans debutante and the wealthy aunt who wants to lobotomize her. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) is a gifted Chicago brain surgeon stymied by the primitive operating conditions at the New Orleans ...

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Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn (1975) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Millar
featuring John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire

John Wayne returned to the role that won him an Oscar in this sequel to the western classic True Grit. Rooster Cogburn (Wayne) has once again been stripped of his badge after some questionable behavior with his gun, but he's given the chance to earn it back after an especially appalling crime demands an experienced lawman. A gang of violent and ...

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Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib (1949) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne

Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully attempted to shoot her husband (Tom Ewell) and his ...

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Desk Set

Desk Set (1957) more movies like this

directed by Walter Lang
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill

Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation. When Tracy has a huge computer installed, Hepburn and her co ...

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Holiday

Holiday (1938) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton

Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of supercharged star power. Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family. Linda feels a bit lost in the shuffle as sister Julia prepares to marry self-made financier ...

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Beah Richards, Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Isabel Sanford, Cecil Kellaway

Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fiancé: African-American doctor John Prentice (Sidney ...

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Stage Door (1937) more movies like this

directed by Gregory La Cava
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier

Adapted from the Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman play, Stage Door is a comedic portrait of the theatrical community in New York. Katharine Hepburn stars as Terry Randall a young woman who comes from a wealthy, socially connected family. Aspiring for a career on the stage, Terry opts to see if she can make it on her own gumption and moves into a ...

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Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr

Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in 1912 New England, the story takes place in the summer ...

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Summertime (1955) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon

Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to Venice, half hoping to find the romance that has always eluded her. Luck of luck, she meets handsome Renato Di Rossi (Rossano Brazzi), who sweeps her off her feet. Jane's flight on Cloud Nine comes to a ...

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Little Women (1933) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Edna May Oliver

George Cukor directed this classic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's sentimental novel with a shimmering lavishness that is a prime example of the classic Hollywood style at its best. The story concerns the lives of four New England sisters -- Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Amy (Joan Bennett), Meg (Frances Dee), and Beth (Jean Parker) -- during the time ...

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The Rainmaker (1956) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Anthony
featuring Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman

N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no exception. Burt Lancaster all but bursts from the screen with his arm-waving portrayal of a confidence artist who works the drought-ridden Southwest, promising to bring rain for a flat fee of a hundred bucks. During his ...

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Love Affair (1994) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
featuring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling, Chloe Webb

The 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer romance Love Affair, remade with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, became a vehicle for real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in this 1994 rendition. The well-worn story remains the same, as a man and a woman, both engaged to other people, fall madly in love while traveling ...

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Woman of the Year (1942) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix

Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn costarred for the first time in the delectable romantic comedy Woman of the Year. Tracy plays New York sportswriter Sam Craig, who becomes incensed at comments about the uselessness of sports made by foreign correspondent Tess Harding (Hepburn). Sam and Tess subsequently use their respective columns to carry on ...

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The Sea of Grass (1947) more movies like this

directed by Elia Kazan
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis Thaxter

Usually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes intensely dramatic in the expensive western Sea of Grass. Tracy plays cattle baron Colonel James Brewton, who staunchly opposes opening the western frontier to homesteaders. Standing steadfastly beside Brewton-at least at the ...

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A Bill of Divorcement (1932) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Katharine Hepburn, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher

Katharine Hepburn made her auspicious film debut in the otherwise undistinguished A Bill of Divorcement. Based on a play by Clemence Dane, the film is set on the day that Hepburn's mother, Billie Burke, is to divorce her insane and long-institutionalized husband John Barrymore. But Barrymore escapes from the asylum and returns home, only vaguely ...

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Without Love (1945) more movies like this

directed by Harold S. Bucquet
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Keenan Wynn, Gloria Grahame, Carl Esmond, Patricia Morison, Lucille Ball

In their third film together, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn created one of the box-office sensations of 1945, a sparklingly witty wartime comedy about a marriage entered on the theory that love only gums up a relationship. Invited by a drunken Quintin Ladd (Keenan Wynn), devoted scientist Patrick Jamieson (Tracy) moves into the Washington ...

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State of the Union (1948) more movies like this

directed by Frank Capra
featuring Florence Auer, Spencer Tracy, Irving Bacon, Katharine Hepburn, Art Baker, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou, Tom Fadden

Frank Capra's only MGM film, State of the Union was adapted by Anthony Veiller and Myles Connolly from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Spencer Tracy plays an aircraft tycoon who is coerced into seeking the Republican Presidential nomination by predatory newspaper mogul Angela Lansbury. Campaign manager Van ...

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Alice Adams (1935) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable, Frank Albertson

Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the "better people." Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a social gathering; he is charmed by her pathetic attempts at putting on airs and accepts her ...

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Pat and Mike (1952) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, Jim Backus, William Ching, Sammy White

Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike (Spencer Tracy), a likeable but unscrupulous sports promoter, first attempts to bribe Pat to lose, but later becomes her manager. Pat performs brilliantly until her insufferable fiance Collier West (William Ching) shows up; ...

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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) more movies like this

directed by George Stevens, Jr.
featuring George Stevens, Jr., George Stevens, Montgomery Clift, Brandon de Wilde, Fred Astaire, James Dean, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, Sam Jaffe, Jean Arthur

The man who assembled the remarkable documentary George Stevens: A Filmaker's Journey had the benefit of knowing the subject intimately: the film was written, produced and directed by George Stevens Jr. Utilizing pristine-quality filmclips and interviews, Stevens Jr. details Stevens Sr.'s rise from silent-film cameraman to one of the top producer ...

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