Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 30, 2012

waterloo-bridge: Katharine Hepburn photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt. I’m bothered that no one yet has pointed out the giant blemish on her chin in ALL of these TPS pub. portraits. Do I have to do everything around here?(Source: madelineashton)   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 30, 2012

Ya’ll, Polish movie posters are the stuff of nightmares. ADAM’S RIB (1949), designer Swierzy Waldemar; THE LION IN WINTER (1968), designer Mieczyslaw Wasilewski.   read more

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

Letter response from Katharine Hepburn to Joan Crawford’s daughter, Cathy LaLonde. Uhm. Seems there isn’t much else to say, here; I guess the same can be said about Hepburn’s friendship with Joan. Sept. 12th, 1979.   read more

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

Tell me why I have a display for the freakin’ ‘African Queen’ in my basement. Why did I decree that necessary, at all? Perhaps it’s because people enjoy dumping memorabilia for that particular film on me over… anything else ever produced by   read more

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

Katharine Hepburn, on her mother at Bryn Mawr (who was absolutely awesome and worked with Margaret Sanger for women’s rights)(Source: winterwindz)   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 27, 2012

ontheset: Spencer Tracy (left) and Garson Kanin (right) at the Long Island Studios of the Army Signal Corps for the recording of Tracy’s narration of the “Ring of Steel” on February 19, 1942. Once upon a time, @metromoviestar made a brillz ~graphic (lol, no) of this he   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 25, 2012

Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life. (via illegitimateredhead) 1986, with her brother, Robert. Photo by John Bryson. [I… think? Don’t hold me to that.](via lucilleeffinball-deactivated201)   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 25, 2012

Without Love (1945) (Source: monstercrazy, via ellephanta)   read more

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

Lauren Bacall, Angela Lansbury and Glenn Close pay tribute to Katharine Hepburn at the 1990 Kennedy Center Honors.   read more

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

“Sondheim’s new house was directly to the east of Katharine Hepburn’s longtime home. Did he know he was buying next door to Hepburn? Well, if he didn’t, he sure found out. “One night before the sale closed, I took some friends over to look   read more

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

This probably belongs on here, too. TPS > HS.   read more

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

“KATHARINE HEPBURN’S REAL NAME IS…….Katharine HepburnSHE WAS BORN……………………… April 10 in Hartford, Conn.FIRST IMPORTANT PICTURE…………………”Bill of Divo   read more

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

Katharine Hepburn wore this Joseff dual brooch, meant to look like an arrow going through her heart-shaped dress, in 1947’s SONG OF LOVE. Fascinating first-hand account of Hollywood jeweler Eugenne Joseff’s archives.   read more

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

William Morris agent Larry Fitzgerald, from an interview in David Rensin’s The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (via lynnelemon)(via noyoudontoprah-deactivated20130)   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 21, 2012

Still from MARY OF SCOTLAND (1936).   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on May 20, 2012

“We are thrilled to announce a book celebrating Katharine Hepburn’s unique style published by Rizzoli. Katharine Hepburn: Rebel Chic, will be available this Fall and presents Katharine Hepburn as a style icon. With text by Kent State Museum Director Jean Druesedow,   read more

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

Renato takes Jane to see the lace-making in SUMMERTIME (1955), deleted scene.   read more

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

It’s 7:25 am, and I’m still awake. Have this.   read more

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

“Here’s our boyish Queen of the stage and movies, Katharine Hepburn, who — HONEST! — owns but one dress. All else in her wardrobe is slacks.” —[unkown] newspaper clipping, 1941. SOUND THE HOUNDS.   read more

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

I mean, I feel like 14-year-old me drew a more accurate rendering of La Hep than this. Fuck yeah, look at that lack of technique. And Spencer’s floating nose. Kate’s shnoz should be 1. springing out more from her forehead and 2. longer, but whatta’ya go   read more