Movies by Katharine Hepburn
As part of the cast:
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Broadway's Lost Treasures II (2004)
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Bebe Neuwirth, Angela Lansbury …
This collection, the follow-up to "Broadway's Lost Treasures," gathers and preserves some of the best moments on the Great White Way, including Nathan Lane's genius turn in "Guys…
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Hidden Hollywood (1997)
Cast: Joan Collins, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson …
Directed by: Shelley Lyons
American Movie Classics and 20th Century Fox take a look at some of the cut sequences that have languished for decades in Fox's vaults -- a real treasure trove for movie buffs. Among the…
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Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms (1996)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn
Four-time Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn called herself a "personality" as well as an actress, and rightfully so. This biography chronicles her life as an independent woman and legendary…
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One Christmas (1994)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Winkler, Swoosie Kurtz …
Directed by: Tony Bill
It's Christmas 1930, and young Buddy is spending the holidays with his estranged father, a con man who cares more about the latest scam than spending time with his son. This timeless…
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Love Affair (1994)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn …
Directed by: Glenn Gordon Caron
Warren Beatty and Annette Bening star as frustrated lovers who are engaged to other people in this 1990s remake of the 1939 classic of the same name, which was also retold in the 1957 romance…
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Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Karen Austin, Brenda Forbes …
Directed by: George Schaefer
Famous and wealthy novelist Laura Lansing (Katharine Hepburn) accepts a bet that she can survive living among ordinary folks for one week in this made-for-TV movie. Laura leaves her tawny…
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The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)
Cast: Joan Bennett, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor …
Directed by: David Heeley
Spencer Tracy was a true Hollywood legend who starred in dozens of films, including such classics as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. In this tribute…
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Bibi Besch, Denholm Elliott …
Directed by: George Schaefer
Widow Margaret Delafield (Katharine Hepburn) shocks her uptight family when she reveals her new boyfriend in this comedic made-for-TV movie. After the death of her husband, Margaret boldly…
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On Golden Pond (1981)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda …
Directed by: Mark Rydell
Henry Fonda -- in his final role -- plays peevish retired professor Norman Thayer, who's making his yearly excursion with his wife to their idyllic summerhouse. But a hostile teen left…
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Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Kevin McKenzie, Dennis Dimster-Denk …
Directed by: Richard A. Colla
Katharine Hepburn plays an eccentric lady who helps two neighborhood boys go on a high-flying adventure in this charming family tale. To celebrate the birthday of his late grandfather, who…
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The Corn Is Green (1978)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor, Bill Fraser …
Directed by: George Cukor
Set in a Welsh mining town, this made-for-TV remake of the 1945 Bette Davis vehicle stars Katharine Hepburn as spinster schoolteacher Lilly Moffat, who devotes herself to helping gifted…
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That's Entertainment 2 (1976)
Cast: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Katharine Hepburn …
Directed by: Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire host this nostalgic look at classic scenes from some of MGM's most-beloved comedies and musicals. The collection of clips features silver screen stars…
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Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Cast: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe …
Directed by: Stuart Millar
John Wayne returns, eye patch and all, as the irascible Rooster Cogburn in this entertaining sequel to the Oscar-winning True Grit. This time, Wayne gets saddled with prim and proper Eula…
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The Glass Menagerie (1973)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles …
Directed by: Anthony Harvey
Katharine Hepburn makes her television dramatic debut as overbearing matriarch Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's poignant play. Amanda's unrealistic dreams for her…
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A Delicate Balance (1973)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Part of the American Film Theatre series, Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play gets the star treatment with Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield playing a long-married couple…
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The Trojan Women (1971)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Geneviève Bujold …
Directed by: Michael Cacoyannis, Mihalis Kakogiannis
An all-star cast backs this film based on the Greek tragedy by Euripides, a gloomy tale of war-ravaged Troy and the women who lived through those times. Hecuba (Katharine Hepburn), Queen of…
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Directed by John Ford (1971)
Cast: Orson Welles, James Stewart, Henry Fonda …
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
The life of distinguished American filmmaker John Ford is brought to the screen through a series of interviews with the legendary director himself, clips from some of his most well-known…
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The Lion in Winter (1968)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins …
Directed by: Anthony Harvey
In this stylish costume drama, England's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and his dysfunctional family gather on Christmas Eve to decide who will inherit the throne. What ensues is a…
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier …
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star as wealthy Californians who consider themselves progressive until their only daughter (Katharine Houghton) brings home her African American…
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Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
This 1962 production of Eugene O'Neill's play stars the magnificent Katharine Hepburn (whose work earned her an Academy Award nomination) as Mary Tyrone, the drug-addicted matriarch…
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
In Tennessee Williams's tale of sexual repression set in 1937 New Orleans, rich widow Mrs. Venable (Katharine Hepburn) is distraught over the death of her son Sebastian during his…
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Desk Set (1957)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young …
Directed by: Walter Lang
Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) is a reference librarian whose tepid long-term relationship with television executive Mike Cutler (Gig Young) is fizzling. Enter Richard Sumner (Spencer…
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The Rainmaker (1956)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey …
Directed by: Joseph Anthony
Flimflamming his way through the drought-plagued Southwest, Bill Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) promises -- for $100 -- to bring rain to farmer H.C. Curry (Cameron Prud'Homme). But…
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Summertime (1955)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda …
Directed by: David Lean
Dreams of romance for American spinster Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn) become a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome but married antiques dealer (Rossano Brazzi) while vacationing…
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Pat and Mike (1952)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray …
Directed by: George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy's seventh pairing solidifies the on-screen charisma of the two legendary actors. Pat Pemberton (Hepburn), an athletic prodigy who's a natural in…
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The African Queen (1951)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley …
Directed by: John Huston
Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), the booze-guzzling, rough-hewn captain of a broken-down East African riverboat, teams with a straitlaced, iron-willed missionary (Katharine Hepburn) to take…
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Adam's Rib (1949)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday …
Directed by: George Cukor
Successful attorney Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn) decides to defend Doris (Judy Holliday), who stands accused of the attempted murder of her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean…
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State of the Union (1948)
Cast: Angela Lansbury, Howard Smith, Lewis Stone …
Directed by: Frank Capra
At the urging of power-hungry newspaper executive Kay Thorndyke (Angela Lansbury), industrialist Grant Matthews (Spencer Tracy) is persuaded to campaign for the Republican presidential…
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The Sea of Grass (1947)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Walker …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn mark their fourth onscreen pairing as tyrannical New Mexico cattleman Col. James Brewton his reluctant wife, Lutie, in this sweeping Elia Kazan Western…
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Undercurrent (1946)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Newly married Ann (Katharine Hepburn) is desperate to know why her husband, Alan (Robert Taylor), won't talk about his brother (Robert Mitchum) in this noirish thriller directed by…
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Without Love (1945)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball …
Directed by: Harold S. Bucquet
Convinced that two people can have a meaningful partnership without the trappings of romance, pragmatic widow Jamie Rowan (Katharine Hepburn) asks scientist Pat Jamieson (Spencer Tracy) to…
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Dragon Seed (1944)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon …
Directed by: Jack Conway, Harold S. Bucquet
When a peaceful Chinese village is invaded by Japanese occupiers in the years before World War II, a band of locals -- led by the outspoken Jade Tan (played by Katharine Hepburn, an iconic…
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Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ray Bolger, Ralph Bellamy …
Directed by: Frank Borzage
During World War II, New York's Stage Door Canteen served as a friendly stop for off-duty soldiers. This star-studded romance tells the tale of Eileen (Cheryl Walker), a Canteen hostess…
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Woman of the Year (1942)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter …
Directed by: George Stevens
In this Oscar-winning romance, newspaper colleagues Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) and Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) -- he a brash sportswriter, she a headstrong political columnist -- trade…
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Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf …
Directed by: George Cukor
While investigating the accidental death of revered war hero Robert Forrest, intrepid reporter Stevie O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) meets the man's wife (Katharine Hepburn) and learns a…
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World War II: Homefront: Vol. 1 (1941)
Cast: James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Ladd …
Hollywood's biggest stars show their patriotism in this collection of World War II-era shorts designed to rally America's workers. Titles include "Women in Defense," in which…
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart …
Directed by: George Cukor
Socialite Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) prepares to remarry, but her ex (Cary Grant) and a tabloid reporter (Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner James Stewart) have other ideas as they…
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Holiday (1938)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan …
Directed by: George Cukor
Engaged to wealthy Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), freethinker Johnny Case (Cary Grant) discovers that her family wants to remake him into their idea of the perfect son-in-law -- and he's…
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles …
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Love runs wild for a hapless scientist and an unstoppable heiress in Howard Hawks's classic screwball comedy that ranks high on the American Film Institute's list of the funniest…
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Stage Door (1937)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou …
Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Gregory La Cava captures the drama in Edna Ferber's famous play about the heartaches reaped under the lights of Broadway. Socialite Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) is determined to…
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Mary of Scotland (1936)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge …
Directed by: John Ford
Based on Maxwell Anderson's play, this historical drama from legendary director John Ford stars Katharine Hepburn as Mary, Queen of Scots, whom England's Queen Elizabeth I (Florence…
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Alice Adams (1935)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone …
Directed by: George Stevens
Director George Stevens's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel stars Katharine Hepburn as Alice, a young, middle-class woman with society aspirations…
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Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne …
Directed by: George Cukor
Disguising herself as a man, Sylvia Scarlett (Katharine Hepburn) boards a ferry with her improvident father (Edmund Gwenn) to smuggle some expensive stolen lace and sell it for a handsome…
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Morning Glory (1933)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou …
Directed by: Lowell Sherman
Stagestruck but unseasoned actress Eva Lovelace (Katharine Hepburn) heads for Broadway's bright lights, where she eventually gets her break with help from a paternal thespian (C. Aubrey…
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Little Women (1933)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas …
Directed by: George Cukor
George Cukor directed this sterling screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's immortal novel. As the Civil War rages, the March sisters -- headstrong Jo (Katharine Hepburn), preening Amy…