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

Katharine Hepburn in 1971, at the Stoneleigh Hotel, by Andy Hanson.   read more

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

“imadethistumblrwheniwasdrunk.jpg.” [CRAP] ACTING JUST COMES NATURALLY TO THIS FAMILY.   read more

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

I’ve never seen this before~   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 26, 2012

Katharine Hepburn, promotional portrait for STATE OF THE UNION (1948).   read more

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

Katharine Hepburn, lookin’ somewhere between third-day leftovers and death, sketches her self-portrait during her stay at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, ca. 1952. She labels her bedside medications, as well as the hours at which her hair is to be set in curlers;   read more

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

Portrait for WITHOUT LOVE (1945), Movie Story magazine.   read more

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

“In 1943, Tracy made a movie called A Guy Named Joe; a frequent visitor on the set was a woman named Kate.” …HOW ABOUT YOU ARE SO WRONG, BITCHES. </OUTRAGE!!!1> Here are three reasons why that is obviously the State of the Union set: Kate&#8217   read more

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

BABY STAR Two year old Patricia Ann Henry seems to be enjoying her new life as a film star — who wouldn’t in the arms of Katharine Hepburn? Patricia is the daughter of Captain Samuel Henry, a US Airforce Officer, who is in a hospital in China, suffering from   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 16, 2012

Walter Winchell item from Daytona Sun Journal, Nov. 7, 1951.  In other news, Elizabeth Taylor has noives and the Ku Klux Klan gets a shout-out. ….What.   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 16, 2012

AP news item, sometime around early 1949. …….I think it would be fairly easy to guess what my favorite part about this is. Note: ‘Love is Legal’ later became ‘Man and Wife’ [working title], which later became what we know as ‘Ada   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 10, 2012

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] ALBUM: Contemporary Broadway Revisited TRACK: The Merry Minuet “The Merry Minuet” - Katharine Hepburn: Songbird; Original lyrics by the Kingston Trio.   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 9, 2012

Katharine Hepburn by Everett Raymond Kinstler (via romyschneiders)   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 7, 2012

Katharine Hepburn, on a day off from shooting SUMMERTIME, tours the city of Venice. Photograph by Jack Hildyard, 1955.   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on November 3, 2012

adefaultsmile: Katharine Hepburn’s only Academy Awards appearance - 1974 [x] Aha! But the caption is only TECHNICALLY true. In fact, this wasn’t even her first “appearance” at the famous award ceremony. It was the 1967 Oscar program, the 40th Anniversary of the seri   read more

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

kylarose: Katharine Hepburn, 1930s No information was given for this picture; does anyone know what it is from? This is a pub. still for the 1933 film, MORNING GLORY, depicting Kate dressed as Shakespeare’s Juliet. Hepburn never played Juliet in any production th   read more

Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog Posted by Amber S. on October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween, ya’ll. SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959) is the closest Katharine Hepburn ever came to a horror film, for Bette Davis she is not. (No, no, that wasn’t a thinly veiled insult — to either actress — but I’m personally grateful Heppy   read more

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

“Oh—one terrible thing happened there. I had been in all afternoon. It was cold. I’d been burning a fire. Luddy usually got home at about five-thirty. I went in to take a tub—-I heard Luddy come in. “Hi!—-hi!”All of a sudden I he   read more

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

~KHH~ Presents: The First Annual Fanvid Corner. (Or, Every Week I Post A Youtube Fanvid That Particularly Tickles My Fancy For One Reason Or Another.) First up is this creation by some person who forgot Tracy Lord and Macaulay Conner’s first names, but remembered by the time   read more

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

sequinissues: Perfect human being. Forreals. Phyllis Wilbourn is the most perfect of the beings.(Source: monicavittis)   read more

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

bon-aventures: Ludlow ‘Luddy’ Ogden Smith [Katharine Hepburn’s only husband.] I guess it’s “People Without Whom Kate Might As Well Have Been A Bag Lady, Oh Wai-” Day on this here blog. Also, remember that time Luddy caught on fire? Above: snippet from the New York   read more