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1. Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
directed by George Schaefer
featuring Katharine HepburnEach of Katharine Hepburn's 1980s TV movies was heralded as the lady's last-ever appearance. We are fortunate indeed that she didn't choose the minor ... More
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2. Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
directed by George Schaefer
featuring Katharine HepburnMrs. Delafield Wants to Marry was especially written by playwright James Prideaux for Katharine Hepburn. It would have been impractical to attempt a ... More
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3. Love Among the Ruins (1975)
directed by George Cukor
featuring Katharine HepburnMade for television, Love Among the Ruins was a precious one-time-only collaboration between stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Oliver, and ... More
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4. The Glass Menagerie (1973)
directed by Anthony Harvey
featuring Joanna Miles, Katharine Hepburn, Sam WaterstonPreviously filmed in 1950, Tennessee Williams' 1944 Broadway hit The Glass Menagerie was remade for television in 1973. Katharine Hepburn is top ... More
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5. The African Queen (1951)
directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore BikelAfter 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. ... More
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6. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald, May RobsonKatharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this inspired comedy about a madcap heiress with a pet leopard who meets an absent-minded paleontologist and ... More
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7. On Golden Pond (1981)
directed by Mark Rydell
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney ColemanThere'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, ... More
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8. Desk Set (1957)
directed by Walter Lang
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina MerrillBased on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. ... More
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9. Rooster Cogburn (1975)
directed by Stuart Millar
featuring John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntireJohn 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 ... More
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10. Summertime (1955)
directed by David Lean
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari AldonKatharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to ... More
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11. Love Affair (1994)
directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
featuring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling, Chloe WebbList of all editionsThe 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 ... More
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12. The Rainmaker (1956)
directed by Joseph Anthony
featuring Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl HollimanList of all editionsN. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker has always attracted the most flamboyant of performers, and this 1956 film version is no exception. Burt ... More
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13. That's Entertainment Part II (1976)
directed by Gene Kelly, Jack Haley, Jr.
featuring Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Katharine HepburnList of all editionsThis represents MGM's 1976 sequel to its enormously successful compilation film That's Entertainment (1974). In lieu of the multi-narrator device of ... More
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14. Keeper of the Flame (1942)
directed by George Cukor
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest TuckerList of all editionsIf you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper of the Flame. War ... More
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15. The Sea of Grass (1947)
directed by Elia Kazan
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas, Phyllis ThaxterList of all editionsUsually associated with erudite, urbane comedies, the legendary screen team of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy goes intensely dramatic in the ... More
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16. Adam's Rib (1949)
directed by George Cukor
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David WayneList of all editionsWritten by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play ... More
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17. Stage Door (1937)
directed by Gregory La Cava
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance CollierList of all editionsAdapted from the Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman play, Stage Door is a comedic portrait of the theatrical community in New York. Katharine Hepburn ... More
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18. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
directed by George Cukor
featuring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John HowardList of all editionsWe 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 ... More
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19. The Trojan Women (1971)
directed by Michael Cacoyannis
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Geneviève Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas, Brian BlessedList of all editionsThe Trojan Women is a film of the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, which is a highly mannered, ritual-like stage play. It was not easy to ... More
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20. Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978)
directed by Richard A. Colla
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Kevin McKenzie, Dennis Dimster, Peter KilmanList of all editionsKatharine Hepburnplays a spunky old junk dealer who makes the acquaintance of two adventurous young boys. Through Katharine's intervention, the boys ... More
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21. Mary of Scotland (1936)
directed by John Ford
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton, John CarradineList of all editionsMaxwell Anderson's blank-verse play Mary of Scotland was adapted for the screen by Dudley Nichols and directed with a surprising paucity of verve by ... More
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22. Alice Adams (1935)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable, Frank AlbertsonList of all editionsKatharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams ... More
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23. Quality Street (1937)
directed by George Stevens
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore, Fay Bainter, Cora WitherspoonList of all editionsPreviously filmed with Marion Davies in 1927, the lightweight James M. Barrie play Quality Street proved an ideal vehicle for Katharine Hepburn ten ... More
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24. Break of Hearts (1935)
directed by Phillip Moeller
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt, Sam HardyList of all editionsKatharine Hepburn suffers nobly while her philandering conductor husband Charles Boyer dallies with the likes of Helene Millard in this overheated ... More
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25. The Little Minister (1934)
directed by Richard Wallace
featuring Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden HareList of all editionsBased on the novel and play by James M. Barrie, The Little Minister turned out to be Katharine Hepburn's best vehicle since Little Women. John Beal ... More







