Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (TV 1993)

Katharine Hepburn talks about her life from the start, through all her film years, her relationship with Spencer Tracy, and what she does with her time currently.

Director:

David Heeley

Writers:

David Heeley, Katharine Hepburn,

Stars:

Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Arzner, Lauren Bacall

Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Katharine Hepburn	...	Herself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dorothy Arzner	...	Herself (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall	...	Herself (archive footage)
John Beal	...	Himself (archive footage)
Pandro S. Berman	...	Himself (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart	...	Himself (archive footage)
George Cukor	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Ford	...	Himself (archive footage)
Cary Grant	...	Himself (archive footage)
Leland Hayward	...	Himself (archive footage)
Howard Hughes	...	Himself (archive footage)
John Huston	...	Himself (archive footage)
Natalie Paley	...	Herself (archive footage)
Barry Pinto	...	Birthday Party Guest
Steven Pinto	...	Birthday Party Guest

Storyline

Katharine Hepburn talks about her life from the start, through all her film years, her relationship with Spencer Tracy, and what she does with her time currently.

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Plot Keywords:

filmmaking | bryn mawr pennsylvania | award | bryn mawr college | hollywood california | 

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 January 1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

Katharine Hepburn: Mindent magamról

Company Credits

Production Co:

Top Hat Productions, Turner Pictures (I)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

70 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Featured on the 2-disc Special Edition DVD of The Philadelphia Story.

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Quotes

Katharine Hepburn: My mother campaigned for women's suffrage and birth control.
[laughs]
Katharine Hepburn: Very unpopular topics in the early 1900s.

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Connections

Features A Bill of Divorcement (1932)

User Reviews

Woman, Thou Art Fascinating

Turner Classic Movies, as a part of their "Summer Under the Stars" festival for the current month of August, included 12 of Katherine Hepburn's movies to be shown back to back, all day, this past August 5th.

Within the collection of features, which included classics like THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE LION IN WINTER, HOLIDAY, LITTLE WOMEN, and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO THE NIGHT, was this documentary shot in 1993 which presented an inside look into Katharine Hepburn the actress, personality, and overall opinionated woman who managed to become over the years America's Greatest Actress of the Twentieth Century.

Katharine Hepburn herself hosts this documentary which runs a little over an hour long and in it she accounts her early years, her beginnings as an actress (with footage from an early stage production of a college play (A Midsummer's Night Dream), her start in Hollywood and acting with such legends as John Barrymore, and her progression as a film actress, toiling throughout her box-office poison years and into her later career. A great documentary, holding trivia and tidbits about her life on and off screen, her friendships with Laura Lansing and Spencer Tracy, and her overall view of what it was to be herself in an industry that values artificiality. It's great to see her reminisce without qualms about her choices in films she did in the 1930s right after her early success with MORNING GLORY, some which she herself states were quite questionable but kept her evolving as an actress.

For anyone into her life in and out of film, this documentary should be seen in companion to either her own autobiography, "Me," or A. Scott Berg's "Kate Remembered."