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“She left Hollywood, Katie did, on a rip tide of bile, vowing never to come back until Hollywood had mended its ways or Hepburn had suffered a mental relapse. You can imagine how surprised this reporter was the other day to run into her on M-G-M’s Philadelphia Story set serving tea (duri read more

HD click this mutha.SUMMERTIME press photo. ‘55.

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bon-aventures: Katharine Houghton Hepburn (Sr.) :: President of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. KIT HEPBURN IN THE HOWSE!(via bonaventures)

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greenkneehighs asked: Wait, what was wrong with Kate's skin in that pic? Was Spence rubbing sandpaper on her cheeks as she licked his forehead?Kate’s IN it, that’s what’s wrong with it.(In case you missed it.)

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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, read more

indiieeey0uthh 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 much OK, you sent me three o read more

Article swiped from NYU. “What a remarkable woman – what imagination, what pertinacity of purpose – And how lovely – There are so few really distinguished women – I should say people – in the world & she certainly was one of them.” We were reminded of these words with the pa read more

stellagibsons asked: Thank you. I literally almost spit soup all over my computer while reading your captions and tags and other nonsense. (I mean that in the best possible sense it can be taken) THIS BLOG IS GOLD. YOU ARE MOST WELCOME.

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filmefatale replied to your post: i love your tags most of all, scarecrow.Why are you the way you are, Tumblr. Why. SO, LIKE, TAGS DON’T WORK ON ASKS ANYMORE? OR IS THIS JUST MY WHACK-ASS LAYOUT? FUUUU, I LIKED THIS LAYOUT! IT WAS ALL RED AND WHITE AND SIMPLE AND KATE-LIKE AND NOW EVERYTHING I read more

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in HOLIDAY. Photograph by A. L. Schafer (Columbia, 1938). Anyone worth their salt should be familiar with Cary Grant’s “slip of a woman” quote RE: Katharine Hepburn, which you can see going around the blog-o-sphere, fr read more

corleone-family:Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in Keeper of the Flame (1942)Hahaha, he had to be dragged – literally, Kate fucking dragged him – kicking and screaming to this photo shoot. He looks so disgruntled in all of these portraits, it’s hysterical. Chin up, dude! Take a read more

At her press conference in Melbourne last night Miss Hepburn looked exactly as one had been led to expect. With a beige slack suit — of mannish cut — she wore a white cotton high-necked jumper; no make-up, except a clear red lipstick; her hair piled, somewhat haphazardly, on the read more

bonaventures asked: This is a hypothetical question: If Kate were to have had children, say one boy and one girl, what do you think she would've named them and why? <3Hi, you. You’re on a baby kick, aren’t you? ;-* IF — and that’s a BIG “IF” ̵ read more

We have gotten into a terrible situation in the world today where the law is representing entirely the moron, the worthy person who’s sort of hewed the line and dug the potato patch and planted the potatoes and kept the thing going is absolutely disregarded because they say, ‘T read more

Anonymous asked: Do you know the reasons behind any of the nicknames Spence had for Kate?I should think that most of them are/were pretty self-explanatory?From Kanin’s book:“Spencer Tracy usually called her Kathy; occasionally Kath, and sometimes Flora Finch; Olive Oyle; Laura La Plante; read more

Anonymous asked: Kate didn't want a memorial sevice. Why not?Quite simply, because Hepburns don’t moan about death. Life goes on. Ya’ plow on ahead, and before too long, someone’s plowin’ you. …or something like that. Read her book. Here’s a glimpse read more

vistavision: Q: What do you find attractive in a woman? A: I’ll give you thirty seconds to think of a better question. Her booty. Exhibits A thru C: Not to mention: I’ve just chloroformed. #he also checks out mryna’s ass in whipsaw and there’s also that story about read more

filmefatale asked: i love your tags most of all, scarecrow. Oh, but it is I that love you most of al—blech. This isn’t a love-in. But thaaaaaank yoooooou, my man!

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Anonymous asked: The word is "independence" I'm told by an expert.Oh? Thanks, “expert”!

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In HOLIDAY (1938), photographed by A.L. “Whitey” Schafer.(via )

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