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the-mistresses-of-oldhollywood:Katharine Hepburn in Hollywood Canteen, 1942.ps:didn’t know she had participated!You can’t quite make it out here, but she’s wearing Howard’s [of the Hughes variety] brooch. Because that’s not at all awkward.Soldier with the full coffee cu read more

bonaventurer:Portrait of Katharine Hepburn, 1935CECIL BEATONWatercolor and graphite on paper laid on board24 x 19.5 in.Just a quick tidbit: WOMAN OF THE YEAR wasn’t the first film to feature a portrait of Miss Hepburn. That title belongs to BRINGING UP BABY, as this watercolor is part of the s read more

35mm slides taken on location for SUMMERTIME (1955). read more

theartinyourself:Morley Safer interviews Katharine Hepburn for 60 Minutes, January 14, 1979.I love her expression when he asks her what she would have done had she not been an actress: ”I never thought…. I would have tormented some man, I suppose, and had about eight children and t read more

The Miami News - Feb. 26th, 1957Fine Fettle (adj.) - Being in good shape or humour; to be prepared for anything. Origin: This phrase goes back to the old English fetel or girdle and links in with the biblical concept of preparation [OH FUCK PREPARATION FOR WHAT, WAIT DON’T TELL ME] by girding read more

“Well, my first job. The Knopf Stock Company had suddenly decided to try a New York production, with Kenneth MacKenna, of The Big Pond, a play which they had tried out with some success in Baltimore. They had sent for me to be the understudy to the leading lady. Naturally, I was thrilled. I le read more

“I can remember my first meeting with David,” says Hepburn. “I went over to London, I met him, and I thought, ‘Oh, you’re a charming man.’ Then I met his wife, who was Ann Todd, and I could see that Ann Todd quickly asked me to tea, to see whether I would fall read more

Katharine Hepburn tickles the ivories on the set of STATE OF THE UNION (1948).  read more

The Truth About How Kate Hepburn Permanently Janked Her Eyes.Shooting Summertime’s most famous scene, in which she takes a Chaplinesque fall into a canal, Hepburn developed medical symptoms of her own, although Lean refuses to take the full share of the blame that she continues to ascribe read more

–Katharine Hepburn, in an interview with John Kobal, People Will Talk, 1985 read more

Article describing one of the custom gown designs for Katharine Hepburn in The Millionariess. “She Walks In Beauty,” by Iris Ashley, The Western Mail, August 14, 1952.

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Hepburn wore this sabre pin in nearly all* of her films, from 1941 - 1949. Why. (Admittedly, it’s a pretty rad pin.)*Discounting DRAGON SEED; when has that film ever counted?

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’…Such a strange flower…’: Cecil Beaton on Katharine Hepburn in ‘Coco’This excerpt is from Beaton’s personal diaries, which I highly recommend any lover of Old Hollywood read. As you can see here, Beaton did not like Kate AT ALL, but he also shot read more

kitteke-deactivated20130429:Katharine Hepburn and Lew Ayres in Holiday, 1938.Happy New Year, no one!

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O.K., so let’s break this down. That woman is Mrs. Loyal Davis (stage name: Edith Luckett), wife of Dr. Loyal Davis, Chief of Surgery at Northwestern University. Fine. An actress in her own right, she appeared on Broadway and hogged ties with a bunch of fine fellow read more

Receipt for “omggetdownfromtheraftersyoumiddleschoolerwithADD.jpeg.” At least I remember this was UNDERCURRENT (1946), so my past self wasn’t completely useless.

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"Hey, give me some grainy, uncropped ebay images from 3 computers ago!" —Anonymous I live to serve. No idea when this was snapped. ‘53? Tracy’s in costume for what I believe to be THE ACTRESS. Kate’s just… there. Howya’doin’. read more

Sitting for a caricature in her dressing room, on DRAGON SEED (1944). The artist, albeit with back to the camera, is clearly Ginger Rogers. (Somebody help me out, here. Recognize the style?)

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So tiny. So grainy. So posed. THE SEA OF GRASS (1947). You know Tracy and Hepburn, and that’s their director, Elia Kazan, on the far-right. I should know those two men sandwiching Kate, but I’ve either forgotten or never knew, in the first place. Fascinating. read more

Katharine Hepburn was a sand crab. With designer — and designing WITH — Edith Head, for THE RAINMAKER (1957). Yes, this film had a designer.

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