tracylord:

Happy Birthday Katharine!

↳ (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003)

 ”As an actress she’s a joy to work with she’s in there every minute. There isn’t anything passive about her she ‘gives’ and as a person she’s real.”

Cary Grant

“Time with her was more than time well spent a little bit either was worth days and weeks and months with somebody else.”

Lauren Bacall

oldhollywood:

Katharine Hepburn & Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940, dir. George Cukor) (via drmacro)

“I loved working with Katharine. She was fun…but she was very serious about the film. She was almost the producer, and when I had to do a scene in a bathing suit…well, I just told Katharine that I looked ridiculous in a bathing suit because my legs were just so thin. She said, ‘Show me your legs,’ and she said it with such authority that I hoisted my pants up until she could see my knees. And she took one look and said, ‘You’re right. Those are just the worst legs I’ve ever seen!’ And so she talked [The Philadelphia Story director George] Cukor into letting me do the scene in a bathrobe”.

-Stewart on Hepburn, his gams, and filming The Philadelphia Story (quoted in Michael Munn’s Jimmy Stewart)

List of flawless films → Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Susan Vance: You’ve just had a bad day, that’s all.
David Huxley: That’s a masterpiece of understatement.

inlovewithaudreyhepburn:

katharinespants:

In 1974, Katharine Hepburn appeared for the first and only time in her life at the Academy Awards. By then, she was already considered one of the greatest actors of all time. The standing ovation she received was one of the longest in Oscar history. 

WHAT A BOSS. 

theladyeve:

Woman of the Year (1942)

bonaventures:

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give— which is everything. -KH

The only thing that matters is what they feel, and how much they feel, for each other. And if it’s half of what we felt— that’s everything. -ST

bonaventurer:

I was privy to the sight of Kate, the woman. Not strident, still opinionated, but always willing to listen… Watching her sitting on the floor pouring coffee for Spencer, listening— no, hanging on— to his every word, looking up at him with total adoration. She was a woman in love, blindingly, unquestionably in love. Spence, on his part, was always sweet with her, affectionate, though not overly demonstrative. But there was no doubt in my mind, or anyone else’s who saw them together, that they were totally committed to one another and that they were totally balanced and belonged together… Katie and Spence were that rarity— two actors who genuinely felt so close to one another— respect and love— plus non-stop laughter.

Lauren Bacall | By Myself and Then Some

We wanted it to be as good as it could possibly be.  Nothing was ever too much trouble.  And we were both very early on the set.  Howard Hawks was always late, so Cary and I worked out an awful lot of stuff together.  We’d make up things to do on the screen — how to work out those laughs in Bringing Up Baby.  That was all Cary and me. —Katharine Hepburn

force-ofnature:

How to be a BAMF by Kathy Hepburn