Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Drama
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Director: Sidney Lumet
A Delicate Balance (1973)
Drama
A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, Betsy Blair
Director: Tony Richardson
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Biography | Drama | History
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Director: Anthony Harvey
On Golden Pond (1981)
Drama
Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Rydell, Doug McKeon
Director: Mark Rydell
Woman of the Year (1942)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sport
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix
Director: George Stevens
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Comedy | Romance
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
Director: George Cukor
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Drama | Mystery
American icon Robert Forrest is dead. As the nation mourns, reporters converge on his hometown. Among them is a journalist who discovers that Forrest's widow could have saved her husband. Or did she prevent a fate beyond the country's worst imaginings?
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Forrest Tucker, Frank Craven, Stephen McNally
Director: George Cukor
Desk Set (1957)
Comedy | Romance
Two extremely strong personalities clash over the computerization of a TV network's research department.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill, Sue Randall
Director: Walter Lang
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Drama | Romance
Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton, Cecil Kellaway, Beah Richards
Director: Stanley Kramer
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Western
John Wayne reprises his role as Rooster Cogburn, the eye-patched, whiskey-guzzling deputy marshall from True Grit. While on the trail of a gang of outlaws led by his old partner Hawk (a truly villainous Richard Jordan), Rooster teams up with bible-thumping missionary Eula Goodnight (Katherine Hepburn) to avenge the murder of her father by the gang. The chemistry between Wayne and Hepburn is palpable as barbs fly between the grumpy gunman and feisty missionary, and Strother Martin delivers a sparkling cameo.
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire, Paul Koslo
Director: Stuart Millar
Holiday (1938)
Comedy | Romance
Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels, wishing instead to spend the early years of his life on "holiday." With the help of his friends Nick and Susan Potter, he makes up his mind as to which is the better course, and the better mate.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell
Director: George Cukor
The Iron Petticoat (1956)
Comedy
Captain Vinka Kovelenko, of the Soviet Air Force, angered at being passed over for military awards, flies a MIG to an US base in Germany. Flier Chuck Lockwood is assigned to convert her to democracy but she tries, simultaneously, to show him the advantages of communism. They go to London where she succumbs to the fleshpots of capitalism and soon abandons her uniform for frilly feminine things, drinks champagne and vodka, and ends up falling in love. Alerted to the situation, the Soviet Embassy arranges to have her kidnapped and take her back to Moscow.
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, James Robertson Justice, Robert Helpmann, Noelle Middleton, David Kossoff
Director: Ralph Thomas
Summertime (1955)
Drama | Romance
A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Director: David Lean
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Comedy | Romance
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard "Baby."
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Catlett, Charles Ruggles, May Robson, Barry Fitzgerald
Director: Howard Hawks
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Comedy | Romance
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young
Director: George Cukor
The African Queen (1951)
Adventure | Romance
Charlie Allnut is the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called the African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Rose Sayer is the maiden-lady sister of a prim British missionary, Rev. Samuel Sayer. When Germans invade and Sayer dies, Allnut offers to take Rose back to civilization.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Director: John Huston
