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 #in honor of T+H breakfasts in bed Answer: ADAM’S RIB is real life. According to one hotelier from the South of France in 1955.(via )

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“On The Set With Katharine Hepburn,” two-page spread for SYLVIA SCARLETT, Picturegoer Weekly, Jan. 4th, 1936. read more

vistavisions-blog asked: i think her favorite was Potato...This image is frightening, thanks.

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Anonymous asked: Great blog! Have you seen all of Katharine's films? I've watched everything up through 1957 for now, but I was wondering if you had suggestions / your favorites of her later work? I've only seen a few (The Lion in Winter, Love Among the Ruins, & On Golden Pond) so far, and re read more

Behold: My livejournal userpic for 3 years. Like. I feel this is pretty cut and dry. I am calling Spencer Tracy a whale. I am saying that his girth measures that of an amusement park’s main attraction. Just… why. Leading by example, all day, erry’day!

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John Barry’s Qscar-winning score to THE LION IN WINTER (1968) is performed at the BBC Proms Film Music Special. The suite is made up from three separate cues, “Main Title,” “Chinon / Eleanore’s Arrival” and “We’re All Jungle Creatur read more

Thursday, October 18, 2012, 6 p.m. We continue our series, LIFE UPON THE WICKED STAGE: NEW BOOKS IN THE PERFORMING ARTS with a panel discussion of Katharine Hepburn. The book’s contributers, Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Nancy McDonnell, Judy Samelson, and Kohle Yohannan will discuss her read more

Anonymous asked: Would you describe Katharine Hepburn as a "self-actualized person" (per Abraham Maslow's definition)? Oh, an Anon with a [penchant for] Psychology degree!It’s been a few years since I took my last Psych class at university, so if I may briefly cite a few noteworthy elements fr read more

freedomt0livee asked: I am 14 and most teenagers my age don't even know who Katharine is. I am so overjoyed that I found this blog and I am so surprised at how much I didn't know. Please keep posting because I am in love with the witty comments and pictures. Thank you so muchOK, y read more

Anonymous asked: Hello, I know this page has not been updated in some time (I miss it, btw!), but I suddenly remembered your post (9981836498) about the Grant / Hepburn article and wanted to re-read it. But it looks like the images are gone! Any chance you might be able to re-upload, or d read more

bon-aventures: The subject of Kate comes up. “I admire her,” says Elaine. “What else can I say? I admire her more than any woman I’ve known or read about. And all I know about her is what I read and what I hear from others. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her off the stage or screen. Everyone read more

If there’s anything that gets us as excited about modern air travel, it’s retro air travel. You know we’re nerds for airplanes of any era really, so when we run across vintage in-flight magazines, as we did recently with United’s Mainliner, we just have to share. It read more

Anonymous asked: I wish there were more coloured portraits of Katharine :'(Aye, as do us all, anon. At one point in life, I had this divine portrait of her in a pea-green shirt dress that was cinched at the waist with a gold lamé belt, complete with matching pumps. I didn’t recog read more

Anonymous asked: Hello Amber, I've been browsing through your tumblr and I love you for posting all those pictures / info about Kate that I hadn't seen / heard before! Could you tell me from what book you got the pictures that you posted on 20 November last year? Thank you, Evelien (I'm also a membe read more

sincerelyrobink asked: WELL SHIT. Thanks for that KCH video. My life is now ruined. Gahhd.Oh, dry up!It’s just Kate, noddin’ in approval of herself a la Aslan. And Glenn Close attended the evening dressed as Lord Voldermort, I see; she does remain vertical in the presence of Bacall thr read more

“This is the story of Philip Barry’s play, The Philadelphia Story, and of Katharine Hepburn. Kate and Mary Martin, incidentally, are two of the finest women I have known in forty years of the theatre.Philip Barry, very Irish, tempermental and delightful, had been having a bad time as a p read more

NEW YORK, March 18th, 1950.Curled up in a big chair, dressed in slacks and comfortably eating a light supper after the theater, Katharine Hepburn told me how she happened to play Rosalind in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.”“When the Theater Guild first approached me,” sa read more

Anonymous asked: Speaking of making "'yer hair curl," what is with the curly ringlets/fly-aways in her films from the 50s and onward? The towels between takes hardly seemed to do their job in the 50s/60s - her hair is a perpetual frizzmess. And frizzmess is fine for gardening and doing laundry on th read more

Katharine Houghton Hepburn = HEIGH-HO! UPTANK ON HEARTBURN. Spencer Bonaventure Tracy = VERY NASCENT PROTUBERANCE. I… the jokes write themselves.(Source: marzipants, via asdasmnbiwe)

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