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K. Hepburn in a publicity still for THE LITTLE MINISTER (1934).

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Post a studio portrait; immediately follow with an ~unglamorous~ candid from the same year. …..1934.

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A confrontation between Elia Kazan and Louis B. Mayer during Kazan’s shooting of THE SEA OF GRASS, concerning Katharine Hepburn’s crying scene:MAYER: She cries too much.KAZAN: But that is the scene, Mr. Mayer.MAYER: But the channel of her tears is wrong.KAZ read more

Postcard dated Feb. 21st, 1942. “Saw Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in “Woman of the Year”. Great show! Don’t miss it at Loew’s this week. B.H.” I think my favorite part about this is not the common misspelling of Kate’s fir read more

bonaventures: Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Lumet I’m really sad those aren’t harem pants. If they were, she’d probably have paired ‘em with, like, paddock boots, or something.

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Hey, you guys, I’m not sure if you know this or not, but Kate lived to be an old, old lady. 96 years old, to be exact. She was alive when some of us were teenagers, for chrissakes. Now, you may credit that longevity to good health and exercise, a lifetime of chocol read more

bonaventures: Katharine Hepburn in Art Form

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Walter Plunkett costume test for THE SEA OF GRASS (‘47). One of many that were eventually scrapped. That’s a weeeeeee, itty-bitty waist!

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The question here is not how, but why. http://www.paulcarbo.com/movie_stars_cabinets.html

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dujardingbat: Katharine Hepburn Signed Handwritten Letter on Spencer Tracy’s Passing, 1967. A personal letter from Katharine Hepburn to her friend and author Roy Newquist, dated June 29, 1967. Spencer Tracy died just 19 days prior. Intensely private, Hepburn opened up to her friend ab read more

Just in case you thought I was kidding about the minor houndstooth obsession. Exhibit A.

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You can quit being so shocked and appalled by the notion of my up-keeping a blog in your namesake anytime now. And put your leg down, this is Tumblr, not Craigslist. PS, many thanks to those of you weighed in on my decision. We’ll see what happens!

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hepburnobsessed: theathenaeum: Graphic illustration of this telegram. This is all to relevant to my life. It’s 3 in the morning here and I am on my last ebb, but omgwtfbbq I am dying. WHY DOES THIS LOOK EXACTLY LIKE HIM. (…the fedora.)(Source: , via stell read more

THIS WAS SHOT ON THE KANIN’S FARM IN NEWTON, CT. I hope they went cow-tipping on their off-hours. The four of them were also “in the talks” of adapting AR to the Broadway stage, but then Kate decided she’d be a pill and play with Shakes’ Ros read more

Katharine Hepburn (via tutusflowersandhighheels) Snort. Kate jacked this from Henry Ford II, who had more wives than Henry VIII and ran Ford Motor Company. Successfully.(Source: through-laughter)

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BRINGING UP BABY (1938), publicity.

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Awkward elegance. 1928, understudy to Hope Williams in Holiday, on Broadway. Of course, these both belong to the Vandamm theatrical collection at the NYPL. You can browse through more of its images: here.(Source: youregonnalovetomorrow)

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“Bob Hop.”

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lauracatherine22: i like her bathrobe. Favorite item of clothing in the history of cinema.(Source: )

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“Hepburn Takes Tea.” On location for LOVE AMONG THE RUINS. From TIME, July 1, 1974. read more