Holiday: Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in a Comedy of Manners

Holiday was one of two 1938 comedies that were released in theaters and starred both Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The other comedy starring the duo was Bringing Up Baby. It’s hard to compare this film to the Howard Hawks comedy or even The Philadelphia Story, another George Cukor-directed comedy a few years later in which they were paired up again. While it’s not a bad film, this film just doesn’t come off as funny as…

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The African Queen: One Of The Best Films Of All Time

The African Queen may have earned Humphrey Bogart his only Oscar for Best Actor but this adventure film is one of the best films ever made. Bogart teams up with Katharine Hepburn in the adaptation of C.S. Forester’s 1935 novel. After celebrating Summer Under The Stars in August, TCM is devoting Thursday nights September to Bogie. In another universe, it’s possible that George Raft would have done High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon for John…

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Summertime: David Lean Film Gets Criterion Blu-ray

Summertime, the Oscar-nominated 1955 film directed by David Lean, makes its arrival on Blu-ray via The Criterion Collection. David Lean and company travel to Venice to film entirely on location in this adaptation of The Time of the Cuckoo by Arthur Laurents. The film marks a departure for Lean, who spent much of his career at this point filming on soundstages. From here on out, he would make films on the location rather than soundstages.…

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The Best Rom-Coms Ever: Watch Movies Before 1970

One cannot write a list of the best rom-coms of all time if the list of movies does not include any films released prior to 1970. The amount of times I hear that someone refuses to watch movies from before a certain year is just mindboggling. Like why? How can anyone write about film without at least making an effort?!? If you’re especially writing about film history, you MUST make an effort to study film…

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: A Masterclass

Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner features a masterclass in acting from Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn. When the film first came out in late 1967, it couldn’t have been more controversial for the era. After all, so few films depicted an interracial marriage in a positive manner. A Black person and a white person couldn’t be married to each other in 17 states during the time of filming. It wasn’t until…

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Bringing Up Baby Is Still Funny Over 80 Years Later

Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant bring the hysterics when they team up together in the classic 1938 screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby. Initially a flop, Bringing Up Baby‘s reputation wouldn’t change until it made its way to television. If not for the film’s initial failure, Hepburn wouldn’t take to the stage in The Philadelphia Story. As we all know, the play would become a film starring Hepburn, Grant, and James Stewart and the rest is…

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Without Love: Tracy-Hepburn Classic Hits Blu-ray

Without Love isn’t as famous as other pairings but it is the third team-up between screen legends Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. George Stevens’s romantic comedy, Woman of the Year, marked their first team up in 1942.  However, this wasn’t meant to be their first team-up.  No, the honor was going to belong to The Philadelphia Story but things didn’t work out in the end.  One thing is for sure though: Without Love does not…

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The Philadelphia Story: An All-Time Screwball Classic

George Cukor teams up with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in the classic romantic comedy, The Philadelphia Story. Grant, Hepburn, and Stewart are three of the biggest screen legends of all time.  In fact, Stewart won an Oscar for Best Actor.  This is in part because of Stewart losing for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington one year earlier.  Donald Ogden Stewart picked up an Oscar for his screenplay.  In addition to the two…

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