Who said of Katherine Hepburn She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B?
"Dorothy Parker quipped, ""She runs the gamut of emotions all the way from A to B."" Already tied to a ten-week contract, she had to endure the embarrassment of rapidly declining box office sales. Harris decided to take the show to Chicago, saying to Hepburn, ""My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you."" Hepburn did not want to continue in a failing show, so she paid Harris $14,000, her life savings, to close the production instead. She later referred to Harris as ""hands-down the most diabolical person I have ever"
"Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four Academy Awards for Best Actress. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years"
"controlling and difficult; her friend Garson Kanin likened her to a schoolmistress, and she was famously blunt and outspoken. Katharine Houghton commented that her aunt could be ""maddeningly self-righteous and bossy"". Hepburn confessed to being, especially early in life, ""a ""me me me"" person"". She saw herself as having a happy nature, reasoning ""I like life and I've been so lucky, why shouldn't I be happy?"" A. Scott Berg knew Hepburn well in her later years, and said that while she was demanding, she retained a sense of humility and humanity. The actress led an active life, reportedly swimming and"
"of genres, including screwball comedies, period dramas, and adaptations of works by top American playwrights. She appeared on the stage in every decade from the 1920s to the 1980s, performing plays by Shakespeare and Shaw, and a Broadway musical. Select filmography: Select theatre roles: Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four"
"She can work till everyone drops."" Hepburn involved herself in the production of each of her films, making suggestions for the script and stating her opinion on everything from costumes to lighting to camerawork. The characters Hepburn played were, with very few exceptions, wealthy and intelligent, and often strong and independent. These tough characters tended to be humbled in some form and revealed to have a hidden vulnerability. Garson Kanin described what he called ""the formula for a Hepburn success: A high-class, or stuck-up ... girl is brought down to earth by an earthy type, or a lowbrow ... or"
"her in person. Bertrand Tavernier, on the contrary, professed that O'Hara was one of the actresses he most detested. Though she was quite proud of her own versatility as an actress, saying ""I played every kind of role. I was never petite or cute so there was never anything about me which would go out of style"", critics found fault with her range. Malone wrote that she ""seemed to struggle in comedic roles but proved her mettle in films that called on her to take charge of situations or find courage in the face of adversity"". One critic remarked that"
"was often very dark; her characters were perpetually saying ""goodbye"" to their friends or welcoming death. At the same time her work has an eerie levity and can be very funny though it is neither light nor whimsical. ""Stevie Smith often uses the word 'peculiar' and it is the best word to describe her effects"" (Hermione Lee). She was never sentimental, undercutting any pathetic effects with the ruthless honesty of her humour. ""A good time was had by all"" itself became a catch phrase, still occasionally used to this day. Smith said she got the phrase from parish magazines, where"
"playing tennis every morning. In her eighties she was still playing tennis regularly, as indicated in her 1993 documentary ""All About Me"". She also enjoyed painting, which became a passion later in life. When questioned about politics, Hepburn told an interviewer, ""I always just say be on the affirmative and liberal side. Don't be a 'no' person."" The anti-Communist attitude in 1940s Hollywood prompted her to political activity, as she joined the Committee for the First Amendment. Her name was mentioned at the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee, but Hepburn denied being a Communist sympathizer. Later in life,"
"on as if this were a genuine, 'deep' historical play on the order of 'A Man for All Seasons' ... They're playing a camp historical play as if it were the real thing—delivering commercial near-poetry as if it were Shakespeare."" In a mixed review for ""The Monthly Film Bulletin"", David Wilson called Katharine Hepburn's prerformance ""perhaps the crowning achievement of an extraordinary career"" but described the film as a whole as being ""essentially a piece of highly polished theatricality, and not much else if one looks beyond its insistently sophisticated surface gloss."" Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively collected 36"
"an actress she really is."" The ""New York American"" wrote, ""It is possible that with the passage of months the memory of Katharine Hepburn's portrayal of the sensitive, fiery Jo will be dimmed a bit, or somewhat superseded by later displays of histrionic genius. But at the moment, and for days, weeks, months to come, Miss Hepburn's characterization will stand alone on a pedestal of flaming brilliance."" ""TV Guide"" rated the film four stars, calling it ""unabashedly sentimental"" and ""an example of Hollywood's best filmmaking."" It added, ""The sets, costumes, lighting, and direction by George Cukor all contribute greatly to"
"been criticized for a lack of versatility. Her on-screen persona closely matched her own real personality, something Hepburn admitted herself. In 1991 she told a journalist, ""I think I'm always the same. I had a very definite personality, and I liked material that showed that personality."" Playwright and author David Macaray has said, ""Picture Katharine Hepburn in every movie she ever starred in, and ask yourself if she's not playing, essentially, the same part over and over ... Icon or no icon, let's not confuse a truly fascinating and unique woman with a superior actress."" Another repeated criticism is that"
"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"
"sympathize with her"", which Hepburn felt was crucial in ""recreating"" her public image. ""The Philadelphia Story"" was one of the biggest hits of 1940, breaking records at Radio City Music Hall. The review in ""Time"" declared, ""Come on back, Katie, all is forgiven."" Herb Golden of ""Variety"" stated, ""It's Katharine Hepburn's picture ... The perfect conception of all flighty, but characterful, Main Line socialite gals rolled into one, the story without her is almost inconceivable."" Hepburn was nominated for her third Academy Award for Best Actress, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. Hepburn was"
"woman"" and playing a part in changing gender attitudes. Horton and Simmons write, ""Confident, intelligent and witty, four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn defied convention throughout her professional and personal life ... Hepburn provided an image of an assertive woman whom [females] could watch and learn from."" After Hepburn's death, film historian Jeanine Basinger stated, ""What she brought us was a new kind of heroine—modern and independent. She was beautiful, but she did not rely on that."" Mary McNamara, an entertainment journalist and reviewer for the ""Los Angeles Times"" wrote, ""More than a movie star, Katharine Hepburn was the patron saint"
"Street is a triumph for Miss Cornell and the splendid company with which she has surrounded herself."" All other critics were uniform in praise of her acting: using adjectives such as superb, eloquent, exalted, dark, rhythmic, luminous, haunting, lyric, ravishing. Dorothy Parker, known for her caustic wit and unsentimental reviews, wrote that although she did not think it a good play, she ""paid it the tribute of tears."" Further, ""Miss Katharine Cornell is a completely lovely Elizabeth Barrett... It is little wonder that Miss Cornell is so worshipped; she has romance, or, if you like better the word of the"
"had earned all her fortune, and on singing she would pass away, with the sweet thought that she had employed it to encourage and to console. Alboni's voice, an exceptionally fine contralto with a seamless compass of two and one-half octaves, extending as high as the soprano range was said to possess at once power, sweetness, fullness, and extraordinary flexibility. She had no peers in passages requiring a sensitive delivery and semi-religious calmness, owing to the moving quality of her velvety tone. She possessed vivacity, grace, and charm as an actress of the ""comédienne"" type; but she was not a"
"is fearless. Directors often depend on her gift for conveying depression, compulsion, egotism and despair. She can be funny and charming, but then so can a lot of actors. She is in complete command of a face that regards the void with blankness."" In 2010, S.T. VanAirsdale described her as ""arguably the world's greatest screen actress"". Huppert's work in ""Elle"" and ""Things to Come"" topped ""The Playlist""'s ranking of ""The 25 Best Performances Of 2016"", stating: ""She runs the emotional gamut from one film to the next, carnal, savage, shattered, listless, invulnerable but exposed, a woman on the verge of"
"called it ""a superbly human document, sombre in tone, stately and slow in movement, but always eloquent in its interpretations."" John Mosher of ""The New Yorker"" declared it ""an amazing triumph"", and ""a picture more intense, wrought with more feeling, than any other we are likely to see for a long time to come."" The ""New York World-Telegram"" credited the film ""a stunningly clever job of recapturing on the screen all the simplicity and charm of its author"", and wrote that Hepburn gave ""an unforgettably brilliant performance and that once and for all she definitely proves how unlimited and effortless"
"The event garnered $5.8 million, which Hepburn willed to her family. According to reports, Hepburn was not an instinctive actor. She liked to study the text and character carefully beforehand, making sure she knew them thoroughly, and then to rehearse as much as possible and film multiple takes of a scene. With a genuine passion for acting she committed heavily to each role and insisted on learning any necessary skills and performing stunts herself. She was known to learn not only her own lines, but also those of her co-stars. Commenting on her motivation, Stanley Kramer said, ""Work, work, work."
"""multicolored"", ""robust and enveloping"", with ""a cutting edge that can slice through the largest orchestra and chorus,"" soaring easily above high C. Her technique and musicianship have been much praised. Conductor Thomas Schippers said in a 1971 interview with ""Time"" that she had ""the fastest voice alive."" ""The New York Times"" writes that ""she could dispatch coloratura roulades and embellishments, capped with radiant high Ds and E-flats, with seemingly effortless agility. She sang with scrupulous musicianship, rhythmic incisiveness and a vivid sense of text."" Soprano Leontyne Price was ""flabbergasted at how many millions of things she can do with a"
"very unpleasant revelations about those with whom she spoke. He's writing: ""Prodigious force was the first impression, and perhaps courage, outspokenness, and straightforwardness were the second."" Leadbeater writes that Blavatsky was the best interlocutor he had ever met: ""She had the most wonderful gift for repartee; she had it almost to excess, perhaps."" She also had knowledge of all sorts of things that relate to very different directions. She always had something to say, and it was never empty talk. She traveled a lot, and mostly on little-known places, and did not forget anything. She has been remembering even the"
"most popular actresses and as one of the finest actors of her generation on her death. She admired in particular Samuel Beckett, Federico García Lorca and Ingmar Bergman. While she took a no-nonsense approach to her craft, famously giving the advice that when in doubt, one should relate to the fireplace, she was educated at the Abbey School of Acting and had a deep appreciation and knowledge of theoretical approaches to acting and was an admirer of the European and American avant-garde. As actor Alan Stanford said after her death, ""She had the most amazing energy. She was in the"
"and another with love, she didn't have to change her expression. You could see it in her eyes as she looked from one to the other. And nobody else has been able to do that on screen."" Director George Sidney adds ""You could call it underplaying but in underplaying she overplayed everyone else."" Many critics have said that few of Garbo's twenty-four Hollywood films are artistically exceptional, and that many are simply bad. It has been said, however, that her commanding and magnetic performances usually overcome the weaknesses of plot and dialogue. As one biographer put it, ""All moviegoers demanded"
"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"
"Hepburn,"" but then it ""tries to get serious"" which ""leads to an unsatisfying conclusion totally removed from the dominant tone of the movie, which is raucous at best, contrived silliness at worst."" Vincent Canby of ""The New York Times"" called it ""a very patchy movie—enormously funny in bits and pieces and sometimes downright dumb."" ""Variety"" wrote,""George Segal herein justifies superbly a reputation for comedy ability while Glenda Jackson's full-spectrum talent is again confirmed."" Penelope Gilliatt of ""The New Yorker"" wrote that the film had ""moments of reckless funniness"" but observed that the ""muddle of period convention is odd,"" as it"
"fascinating. William Jerdan, from his autobiography: In truth, she was the most unselfish of human creatures; and it was quite extraordinary to witness her ceaseless consideration for the feelings of others, even in minute trifles, whilst her own mind was probably troubled and oppressed; a sweet disposition, so perfectly amiable, from Nature's fount, and so unalterable in its manifestations throughout her entire life, that every one who enjoyed her society loved her, and servants, companions, intimates, friends, all united in esteem and affection for the gentle and self-sacrificing being who never exhibited a single trait of egotism, presumption, or unkindliness!"
"a cataclysmic situation. It seems to have worked time and time again."" Due to this repeated character arc, Britton sees Hepburn as embodying the ""contradictions"" of the ""nature and status of women"", as the strong females she depicts are eventually ""restored to a safe position within the status quo"". Film critic Molly Haskell has commented on the importance of this to Hepburn's career: With an intimidating presence, it was necessary that her characters ""do some kind of self-abasement, to stay on the good side of the audience"". Hepburn is one of the most celebrated American actresses, but she has also"
"father, she was interested in writing, and wrote her own plays and acted in them during her childhood and adolescence. Twain later described his favorite daughter as intelligent, thoughtful, sensitive and vivacious and said he had regarded her as a prodigy. ""She was a magazine of feelings and they were of all kinds and of all shades of force; she was so volatile, as a little child, that sometimes the whole battery came into play in the short compass of a day,"" he wrote after her death. ""She was full of life, full of activity, full of fire, her waking"
"film had ""depth, vigor and warm humanity"" but had scenes which ""lack the vitality they possessed in the play"", and considered Hepburn's characterization of the title role rather too soft in comparison with the historical Mary. ""Variety"" praised the ""extra-strong cast"" and Ford's ""sure-footed"" direction. Hepburn's performance was described as ""not really Mary Stuart but rather Katie Hepburn. And that is all in the film's favor because it humanizes it all and makes it that much more nearly acceptable."" However, the review also found the film too long and the ending too sad, while conceding it could not end any"
"grandstanding her emotions"" and added, ""her strong, subtle performance is gloriously winning on its own."" Michael Phillips of the ""Chicago Tribune"", thought Schoenaerts' sensitive-brute instincts recall Marlon Brando and Tom Hardy. Critic A. O. Scott of ""The New York Times"" called the film ""a strong, emotionally replete experience, and also a tour de force of directorial button pushing."" Roger Ebert, who did not review the film upon its original release, later added it to his ""Great Films"" series and gave four stars. Cate Blanchett wrote a review for ""Variety"" praising Marion Cotillard's performance in the film, describing it as ""simply"
"as having an ""infectious personality"" through her presence; she was someone ""that you knew [was] different and [she] had a magnetic quality that you wanted to be closer to"". The photographer Charles Brittin, who knew Cameron on Los Angeles' artistic circuit, called her ""a sweet person with a great personality, not the way some of her friends wanted to picture her to be"". Her friend Shirley Berman described her as having ""many different crowds of friends, and I think she was a different personality with each crowd ... She wasn't an even personality at all, but she was always a"
"range of genres, including screwball comedies, period dramas, and adaptations of works by notable playwrights Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and Edward Albee. Her final appearance in a theatrically released film was a supporting role in ""Love Affair"" in 1994. Hepburn first appeared in a television movie in 1973, and later continued to appear in the medium until she gave the final performance of her career in ""One Christmas"" in 1994. Hepburn also presented two documentaries for television, and narrated two short documentaries. Katharine Hepburn performances Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was a major American actress of"
"earned widespread praise for her performance. It currently has a rating of 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. CNN film critic Paul Tatara wrote, ""The audience when I saw this one was chuckling at all the wrong times, and that's a bad sign when they're supposed to be having a collective heart attack."" ""Entertainment Weekly"" critic Owen Gleiberman awarded the film an ""A-"" grade and praised Lane for delivering ""the most urgent performance of her career"", writing that she ""is a revelation. The play of lust, romance, degradation, and guilt on her face is the movie's real story."" Roger Ebert of the"