Katherine Hepburn won an 'Oscar' for her portrayal of Henry II's wife, Eleanor, in which 1968 film?
"eyes, for example, are unknown. The effigy on her tomb shows a tall and large-boned woman with brown skin, though this may not be an accurate representation. Her seal of 1152 shows a woman with a slender figure, but this is likely an impersonal image. Judy Chicago's artistic installation ""The Dinner Party"" features a place setting for Eleanor. Henry and Eleanor are the main characters in James Goldman's play ""The Lion in Winter"", which was made into a film in 1968 starring Peter O'Toole as Henry and Katharine Hepburn in the role of Eleanor, for which she won the Academy"
"features Hepburn in 1938, after being labeled ""box office poison"", and the second act in 1983, where she reflects on her life and career. It premiered in 2002 at the Hartford Stage. Hepburn has been portrayed in ""Tea at Five"" by Kate Mulgrew, Tovah Feldshuh, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Charles Busch. Feldshuh also appeared as Hepburn in ""The Amazing Howard Hughes"", a 1977 television movie, while Mearle Ann Taylor later portrayed her in ""The Scarlett O'Hara War"" (1980). In Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, ""The Aviator"", Hepburn was portrayed by Cate Blanchett, who won the Academy Award for Best"
"Katharine Hepburn's socialite mother in the movie version of ""The Philadelphia Story"" (1940). She played a supporting role in the 1936 Academy Award-winning film ""Come and Get It"" and had a featured role in the 1944 film, ""In the Meantime, Darling"". In 1918, she wed French actor, writer and director Jose Ruben (1888–1969); they divorced after a brief marriage. Mary Nash Mary Nash (born Mary Honora Ryan, August 15, 1884 – December 3, 1976) was an American actress. Mary and her younger sister, writer/actress Florence, were born to James H. Ryan, a lawyer, and his wife, Ellen Frances (née McNamara)."
"stacked against her from the very start, because pageantry naturally interferes with characterization."" The film is highly regarded by a few critics today, but in its time was a box office flop, making a loss of $165,000. This was Katharine Hepburn's second flop in a row causing her to being labeled ""box office poison"" in the late 1930s, leading to (after a two-year screen absence) her move to MGM for her comeback in ""The Philadelphia Story"". Mary of Scotland (film) Mary of Scotland is a 1936 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn as the 16th century ruler, Mary, Queen of Scots."
"in Sidney Lumet's film version of Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"" (1962). It was a low-budget production, and she appeared in the film for a tenth of her established salary. She called it ""the greatest [play] this country has ever produced"" and the role of morphine-addicted Mary Tyrone ""the most challenging female role in American drama"", and felt her performance was the best screen work of her career. ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"" earned Hepburn an Oscar nomination and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. It remains one of her most praised performances. Following the"
"Stockwell as Edmund, and Jeanne Barr as Cathleen. The movie was directed by Sidney Lumet. At that year's Cannes Film Festival Richardson, Robards and Stockwell all received Best Actor awards, and Hepburn was named Best Actress. Hepburn's performance later drew a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1973, the ITV Sunday Night Theatre program on British television presented a videotaped television version of the 1971 production at the National Theatre, starring Laurence Olivier, Constance Cummings, Denis Quilley, and Ronald Pickup, directed by Peter Wood. Olivier won a Best Actor Emmy Award for this performance. The 1982 made"
"execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Merle Oberon), King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) marries Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), who dies in childbirth eighteen months later. He then weds a German princess, Anne of Cleves (played by Laughton's real-life wife Elsa Lanchester). This marriage ends in divorce when Anne deliberately makes herself unattractive so she can be free to marry her sweetheart. (In an imaginative and high-spirited scene, Anne ""wins her freedom"" from Henry in a game of cards on their wedding night.) After this divorce, Henry marries the beautiful and ambitious Lady Katherine Howard (Binnie Barnes). She has rejected"
"Katharine Hepburn performances Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was a major American actress of the 20th century who appeared in 44 feature films, eight television movies, and 33 plays for over 66 years. Hepburn began her career in theatre in the late 1920s, and later appeared on the stage in every decade up until the 1980s. Productions Hepburn played in ranged from Shakespeare, to Philip Barry comedies, work by George Bernard Shaw, and a musical. Hepburn made her film debut in ""A Bill of Divorcement"" in 1932. Over the next six decades, she appeared in a"
"in the south of France, an experience she loved despite being—according to director Anthony Harvey—""enormously vulnerable"" throughout. John Russell Taylor of ""The Times"" suggested that Eleanor was ""the performance of her ... career"", and proved that she was ""a growing, developing, still surprising actress"". The movie was nominated in all the major categories at the Academy Awards, and for the second year running Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress (shared with Barbra Streisand for ""Funny Girl""). The role, combined with her performance in ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"", also received a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress."
"on to star in a number of successful films, such as ""Sabrina"" (1954), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""My Fair Lady"" (1964), and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967), for which she received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only 15 people who have"
"Best British Actress in a Leading Role, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1953. In his review in ""The New York Times"", A. H. Weiler wrote: ""Although she is not precisely a newcomer to films Audrey Hepburn, the British actress who is being starred for the first time as Princess Anne, is a slender, elfin and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike in her profound appreciation of newly-found, simple pleasures and love. Although she bravely smiles her acknowledgement of the end of that affair, she remains a pitifully lonely figure facing a stuffy"
"the award: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, and the winner Ginger Rogers. With an Oscar nomination on her résumé, Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in major epics such as ""The Ten Commandments"", ""Ben-Hur"", ""The Desperate Hours"", and ""Airport 1975"". Charlton Heston was a frequent co-star with Scott on both stage and screen. As she told an interviewer in 1988, ""I played his mother twice and his wife twice. I was his mother in ""Ben Hur"" and ""The Ten Commandments"". I was his wife on the stage in New York in ""Design For a"
"out."" During this period she saw the Broadway production ""On Golden Pond"", and was impressed by its depiction of an elderly married couple coping with the difficulties of old age. Jane Fonda had purchased the screen rights for her father, actor Henry Fonda, and Hepburn sought to play opposite him in the role of quirky Ethel Thayer. ""On Golden Pond"" was a success, the second-highest grossing film of 1981. It demonstrated how energetic the 74-year-old Hepburn was, as she dived fully clothed into Squam Lake and gave a lively singing performance. The film won her a second BAFTA and a"
"Milland), ""Perils of Pauline"" with Betty Hutton, Alfred Hitchcock's ""Rope"" (1948) and Otto Preminger's ""Whirlpool"" (1949). During the making of the film version of ""Stage Door"", she became great friends with Katharine Hepburn, a friendship that lasted the rest of Collier's life. Constance Collier was presented with the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre Award for distinguished service in training and guiding actors in Shakespearean roles. Collier was a drama coach for many famous actors, including Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh and Marilyn Monroe. She also coached Katharine Hepburn during Hepburn's world tour performing Shakespeare in the '50s. Upon Collier's death in 1955,"
"in """" (1962). She went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" She also won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for ""Images"". Her other film appearances included ""Sands of the Kalahari"" (1965), ""The Killing of Sister George"" (1968), ""Battle of Britain"" (1969), ""Jane Eyre"" (1970), ""Zee and Co."" (1972), ""Gold"" (1974), ""The Maids"" (1975), ""Conduct Unbecoming"" (1975), ""Eliza Fraser"" (1976), ""The Shout"" (1978), ""The Silent Partner"" (1978), and ""Superman"" (1978). She was appointed"
"Best Actress (Hepburn) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Thompson). Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar with this film and at the age of 76 became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category, while Katharine Hepburn won her fourth Best Actress award, extending her own record for the most Oscars won by a thespian. ""On Golden Pond"" is also one of the few movies to earn the nominations for five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay). An aging couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, continue the long tradition of spending each summer at their cottage on a"
"Glory"", she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She had seen the script on the desk of producer Pandro S. Berman and, convinced that she was born to play the part, insisted that the role be hers. Hepburn chose not to attend the awards ceremony—as she would not for the duration of her career—but was thrilled with the win. Her success continued with the role of Jo in the film ""Little Women"" (1933). The picture was a hit, one of the film industry's biggest successes to date, and Hepburn won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival."
"British Academy Awards, three Critics' Choice Movie Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Independent Spirit Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, six Australian Academy Awards, and awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, and Venice Film Festival. Her performance as Katharine Hepburn in ""The Aviator"" made her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. Blanchett is only the third actress, after Jessica Lange and Meryl Streep, to win Best Actress after winning Best Supporting Actress. She is"
"Henry VIII and His Six Wives Henry VIII and His Six Wives is a 1972 British film adaptation, directed by Waris Hussein, of the BBC 1970 six-part miniseries ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"". Keith Michell, who plays Henry VIII in the TV series, also portrays the king in the film. His six wives are portrayed by different actresses, among them Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn, and Jane Asher as Jane Seymour. Donald Pleasence portrays Thomas Cromwell and Bernard Hepton portrays Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, a role he had also played in the miniseries and briefly in its follow-up ""Elizabeth R""."
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy. The screen partnership spanned 25 years and produced nine movies. Hepburn challenged herself in the latter half of her life, as she regularly appeared in Shakespearean stage productions and tackled a range of literary roles. She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in ""The African Queen"" (1951), a persona the public embraced. Three more Oscars came for her work in ""Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"" (1967), ""The Lion in Winter"" (1968), and ""On Golden Pond"" (1981). In the 1970s, she began appearing in television films, which became"
"and Deborah Kerr play the earl and countess of a large estate in England who are forced to permit guided tours of their mansion in order to help their financial problems. Robert Mitchum plays an American oil tycoon who falls in love with Kerr and Jean Simmons plays an eccentric American heiress who is Grant's former girlfriend. The film was a financial disappointment in the US, but successful in England where the original stage version had been a West End hit. In 1963 Donen made one of his most praised films: ""Charade"", starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James"
"alia, Hicks designed sets for Richard Lester's 1968 movie ""Petulia"", starring Julie Christie. Garnett's Chelsea Drugstore was immortalised in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film ""A Clockwork Orange"". Evans and his second wife, Gail, now write e-books showing how to ""cure without pills"" a number of pesky maladies that doctors find difficult, e.g. insomnia; this cure won an award as did their book on breaking cigarette addiction; other books supply remedies for obesity, depression, hay fever and snoring. Their most ambitious book addresses adding a significant number of extra years to life, and how to save more valuable years by sleeping less"
"mistress (Loren). The film was Donen's second consecutive hit. In 1967 Donen made ""Two for the Road"", starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney with supporting roles by Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, and Jacqueline Bisset. The film was conceived by Donen and written by novelist Frederic Raphael, who was nominated for an Academy Award. It has been called one of Donen's most personal films, ""with glints of passion never disclosed before"", and ""a veritable textbook on film editing."" The film's complicated and non-linear story is about the 12-year relationship between Hepburn and Finney over the course of four separate (but interwoven)"
"perfect choice."" As the decade carried on, Hepburn appeared in an assortment of genres including the heist comedy ""How to Steal a Million"" (1966) where she played the daughter of a famous art collector, whose collection consists entirely of forgeries. Fearing her father's exposure, she sets out to steal one of his priceless statues with the help of a man played by Peter O'Toole. It was followed by two films in 1967. The first was ""Two for the Road"", a non-linear and innovative British dramedy that traces the course of a couple's troubled marriage. Director Stanley Donen said that Hepburn"
"production, Hepburn and her co-star Mel Ferrer began a relationship, and were married on 25 September 1954 in Switzerland. Although she appeared in no new film releases in 1955, Hepburn received the Golden Globe for World Film Favorite that year. Having become one of Hollywood's most popular box-office attractions, she went on to star in a series of successful films during the remainder of the decade, including her BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated role as Natasha Rostova in ""War and Peace"" (1956), an adaptation of the Tolstoy novel set during the Napoleonic wars, starring Henry Fonda and her husband Mel Ferrer."
"The Audrey Hepburn Story The Audrey Hepburn Story is a 2000 drama film biopic of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also produced the film. Emmy Rossum and Sarah Hyland appear during the early scenes of the film playing Hepburn in her early years. The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a"
"Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the People's Choice Awards, and others. Hepburn was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979 and received the Kennedy Center Honors, which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990. Hepburn was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances: During her 66-year career, Hepburn appeared in 44 feature films, 8 television movies, and 33 plays. Her movie career covered a range"
"has been cited as some of her finest work. Lean later said it was his personal favorite of the films he made, and Hepburn his favorite actress. The following year, Hepburn spent six months touring Australia with the Old Vic theatre company, playing Portia in ""The Merchant of Venice"", Kate in ""The Taming of the Shrew"", and Isabella in ""Measure for Measure"". The tour was successful and Hepburn earned significant plaudits for the effort. Hepburn received an Academy Award nomination for the second year running for her work opposite Burt Lancaster in ""The Rainmaker"" (1956). Again she played a lonely"
"mother, Anne Boleyn (Elaine Stewart), for infidelity, Elizabeth (Jean Simmons) is exiled to Hatfield House and declared illegitimate (thereby losing her place in line of succession the throne) by her father, King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton). She is accompanied by her loyal servants, Mr. Parry (Cecil Kellaway) and her governess Mrs. Ashley (Kay Walsh). Over the years, her position rises and falls on the whim of her father. The child is periodically summoned to return to London to become acquainted with Henry's latest spouse. When Henry marries his last wife, Catherine Parr (Deborah Kerr), the now-teenage Elizabeth finally rebels against"
"""Hepburn plays the poignant role, the quickness with which she changes and the skill with which she manifests terror attract sympathy and anxiety to her and give her genuine solidity in the final scenes."" After 1967, Hepburn chose to devote more time to her family and acted only occasionally in the following decades. She attempted a comeback in 1976, playing Maid Marian in the period piece ""Robin and Marian"" with Sean Connery co-starring as Robin Hood, which was moderately successful. Roger Ebert praised Hepburn's chemistry with Connery, writing, ""Connery and Hepburn seem to have arrived at a tacit understanding between"
"(or Sophronia) Louise Claiborne, was only two years old at the time of the battle. The romance with Lafitte is complete fiction. The Buccaneer (1958 film) The Buccaneer is a 1958 pirate film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film ""The President's Lady"". The film was shot in Technicolor and VistaVision, the story takes place during the War of 1812, telling a heavily fictionalized version of how the"
"Award, and the Special Tony Award. Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on the stage from 1948 to 1993. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful women of all time, she was ranked as the third greatest screen legend in American cinema by the American Film Institute. Hepburn is also remembered as both a film and style icon. Her debut was as a flight stewardess in the 1948 Dutch film ""Dutch in Seven Lessons"". Hepburn"
"that he is Sherlock Holmes. It was not a success, according to Harvey because Universal significantly altered the film's last half-hour. Harvey reunited with Hepburn for the acclaimed made-for-TV adaptation of Tennessee Williams' ""The Glass Menagerie"" (1973) which also featured Sam Waterston and Michael Moriarty. His next film was the lavish historical drama ""The Abdication"" (1974) starring Liv Ullmann, about the abdication of Queen Christina of Sweden, which co-starred Peter Finch and featured a score by Nino Rota. It was followed by a more modern period piece, ""The Disappearance of Aimee"", starring Faye Dunaway and Bette Davis, which explored the"