Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on July 2, 2012

K-Hep Facts™, #377. Before he traded barbs with our beloved C.C. Babock and out-Tom Cruise’d Tom Cruise on network television, Daniel Davis was a fop to Katharine Hepburn’s Coco Chanel in 1973.   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on July 1, 2012

Hm. eBay says this is circa 1944, but Kate only acted as MC on Command Performance once: July 31st, 1943. Perhaps this particular copy was timestamped IN ‘44, which would explain the year difference. Another major hint is that they’re in the same duds —   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on July 1, 2012

Ah. So I hadn’t lost that shot from Ethel Barrymore’s 70th Birthday Soiree at Chateau Cukor, after all! I’d stick her at the end of the table, too. Put a lovely table arrangement smack-dab in front of her. Aside from Minnelli, who the hell are any of th   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 29, 2012

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grie   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 28, 2012

carolinealice: Katharine playing Tennis, home movies Fail. This is Chaplin’s home movie, btw. At the Racquet Club, obvy.   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 28, 2012

hepburner: Katharine Hepburn at Fenwick, having walked across snow to take a swim. Fenwick sounds like a character building place. This description of a scene at Fenwick appears in Gar Kanin’s Tracy & Hepburn:  The family is lunching merrily, when a small, hysteric   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 28, 2012

bonaventures: what’s with the ring on Kate’s left hand? It’s a poison ring. And, like, that isn’t a joke; it’s one of those rings medieval wives wore when then wanted to off their husbands, so’s they could BREAK FREE from the restraints of their   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 24, 2012

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] ALBUM:  TRACK: ♫ \ Un sogno romantico Venezia ed il sole splendido! Dovunque saro non li potro dimenticar! Di quest’estate sul mar Non potran morir in me i dolci baci ed i sospiri Un   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 23, 2012

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] ALBUM: Coco [Live] TRACK: Katharine Hepburn's Speech theatreaficionado: After her final performance in the musical ‘Coco,’ Katharine Hepburn stepped out and gave this speech. Leave it to Hepbu   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 23, 2012

Katharine Hepburn’s motion picture contract for MORNING GLORY (1933), signed by RKO President, B. B. Kahane. Her compensation is fixed at $2,500, per week. Not too shabby for her third movie, and the role which would eventually lead to her first Oscar. Also worth noting is her s   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 22, 2012

I love how this was watermarked (in actual marker, no less; A+ use of your kid’s Crayola set, seller!) as only “EBAYISH.” As if this photograph measures just short of full-on eBay status, but a few points were docked in the final round, for whatever rea   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 19, 2012

Actin’ naturally, in wide-legged Bryn Mawr jeans and a belted trench coat, on the set of MORNING GLORY (1933).   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 18, 2012

“No, rehlly! They’ve got flora as BIG as yoah head! Have YOU ever been to Africa? No? Well then, shut up.” (Aw, hiiiii.)(Source: bonaventures)   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 17, 2012

Miss Hepburn: Tired of jackasses. “The house belongs to Lawrence Langer. It used to belong to a woman who sold bait, and the first year I was here people kept coming to ask if I had any worms. I’d say: ‘Sorry, not today. Would you like some coffee?&#82   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 17, 2012

<3 Breakaways. <3(via )   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 17, 2012

BURGLAR ROUTED BY MISS HEPBURN May I present, a scene straight out of BRINGING UP BABY. A similar account occurred in the late 40s — and 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, but that is neither here nor there — and Kate was sort of carrying-on over the excessive loss   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 15, 2012

“Dear Katherine Hepburn My daughter is having a graduating party in the rented house next door to you (the one with the dog) It will be from 7:30 to 10 — if you could stop by, you’d be most welcome. — Bob Dylan” She chose to stay home that e   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 15, 2012

“Mistuh AHHLL-nutt! Ah cAHn’T get back into the bOAt!” I once shot a photo of Katie doing this very thing. Speciaaaal. This is also 3 seconds before she gives everyone an unsolicited flash of top-boob. Why is this a movie. Why am I still awake…..Z   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 14, 2012

“Nature vs. Art” - Katharine Hepburn, before and after re-touching. Esquire, April 1956 issue.   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on June 13, 2012

Taylor Jones cartoon, The Charleston Gazette, 1982. Smite the flesh-eating bacteria that has maligned this poor woman. SEND IT BACK TO THE COLONY BEFORE SHE GWYNETH PALTROWS THE ENTIRE PLANET. TAKE PITY, I BEG OF YOU.   read more