2024-08-18
Swedish immigrants' contributions to American society. Included: segments on Charles Lindbergh, Carl Sandburg, Ingmar Bergman and Richard Widmark.
A mobster and his sassy teenage daughter plot revenge on his ex-partner.
A tomboyish faith healer in a hostile mountain community. A version of Lula Vollmer's "Trigger.".
A middle-aged woman marries a charming scientist, but then begins to have suspicions about him.
Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War under the guidance of their mother, as their father is absent, ministering to the troops.
In this Best Picture nominee, Katharine Hepburn re-creates her Broadway role as a divorced society woman preparing for her wedding while fending off the advances of a magazine reporter and her ex-husband. Playwright Philip Barry's comedy of manners captures "the privileged class enjoying its privileges" and landed Donald Ogden Stewart a Best Screenplay Oscar and James Stewart a Best Actor award as
Screwball comedy about a dog with a taste for dinosaur bones, a housebroken leopard named Baby, a madcap heiress who sets her cap for an absent-minded paleontologist, and a wacky menagerie of secondary characters.
Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield head a fine cast in Edward Albee's play about an upper-class family's traumatic weekend. Julia: Lee Remick. Claire: Kate Reid.
This story of an elderly couple and their estranged daughter earned 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
Satire about a publisher who shoves her aircraft magnate boyfriend toward the White House. Based on the play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
A Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn battle of the sexes develops when her international-affairs columnist suggests to his flinty sportswriter that baseball be canceled for the duration of World War II. This was their first of nine screen pairings and Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress. Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.'s script won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn romp about a likable but unscrupulous sports promoter who helps a female golfer overcome her nervousness during competitions, and the two fall for each other while also dealing with some shady gamblers. Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script was Oscar-nominated.