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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Katharine Hepburn</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/katharine-hepburn/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>SAG Life Achievement Award Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/screen-actors-guild-lifetime-achievement-award/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/screen-actors-guild-lifetime-achievement-award/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:47:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35117</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world &#8212; including film, stage, music, and dance &#8212; even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kennedy-center-honors-recipients-marian-anderson-meryl-streep/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Henry Fonda ON GOLDEN POND: Father&#039;s Day Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/henry-fonda-on-golden-pond/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/henry-fonda-on-golden-pond/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:01:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27280</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEVES: Father's Day Movies On Golden Pond is hardly one of my favorite family movies; I find the storyline much too sentimental and more than a little phony. Having said that, On Golden Pond &#8212; directed by Mark Rydell and adapted by Ernest Thompson from his own play &#8212; is a remarkable effort for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/henry-fonda-on-golden-pond/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Cukor&#039;s Oscar-Nominated Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:11:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16760</guid> <description><![CDATA[George Cukor 21 Acting Nominations (s) supporting category (*) Academy Award winner George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors &#160; James Stewart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story 1930-31 Fredric March, The Royal Family of Broadway (co-directed with Cyril Gardner) &#160; 1936 Norma Shearer, Romeo and Juliet Basil Rathbone (s), Romeo and Juliet &#160; 1937 Greta Garbo, Camille &#160; 1940 * James Stewart, The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-cukor-oscar-nominated-actors/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors &#8211; 21 Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/george-cukor-top-oscar-directors-for-actors-iii/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/george-cukor-top-oscar-directors-for-actors-iii/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:49:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/01/28/top-oscar-directors-for-actors-iii-george-cukor/</guid> <description><![CDATA[William Holden, Oscar winner Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday Known as a refined "woman's director," George Cukor has had his considerable output either relegated to the sidelines or simply dismissed by those who like their directors macho and their films male-centered. Not helping matters is the general perception that Cukor was merely a hired hand for the likes of David O. Selznick at RKO and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/george-cukor-top-oscar-directors-for-actors-iii/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE AVIATOR Review &#8211; Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett d: Martin Scorsese</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/aviator-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/aviator-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:10:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/aviator-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio/</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE AVIATOR (2004) Direction: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Ian Holm, Adam Scott, Frances Conroy, Willem Dafoe, Jacob Davich, Jude Law, John C. Reilly, Edward Herrmann, Stanley DeSantis, Danny Huston, Matt Ross Screenplay: John Logan Oscar Movies Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, The Aviator WHAT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE SPRUCE GOOSE. . . [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/aviator-martin-scorsese-leonardo-dicaprio/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Winners Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis, Timothy Hutton: Christmas on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winners-katharine-hepburn-elizabeth-taylor-sandy-dennis/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winners-katharine-hepburn-elizabeth-taylor-sandy-dennis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:41:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25825</guid> <description><![CDATA[Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, The Lion in Winter Turner Classic Movies' Christmas daytime programming includes George Cukor's 1933 classic Little Women, the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol, and the tedious 1959 version of Ben-Hur. William Wyler was a great director, but this multi-Oscared epic pales in comparison to Fred Niblo's more concise, less pretentious, and (mercifully) dialogue-less 1925 version starring Ramon Novarro (who was [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/oscar-winners-katharine-hepburn-elizabeth-taylor-sandy-dennis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Yul Brynner on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-bette-davis-yul-brynner-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-bette-davis-yul-brynner-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:05:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25731</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Moguls &#38; Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood: Fade Out, Fade In is the next chapter in Turner Classic Movies' weekly documentary miniseries Moguls &#38; Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood. We're now in the 1960s, a time of radical change in the American film industry. Most of the old moguls are [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/spencer-tracy-katharine-hepburn-joan-crawford-bette-davis-yul-brynner-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Katharine Hepburn&#039;s New York City Home Available: $27,500 Per Month</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-home-available/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-home-available/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:21:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25092</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; Katharine Hepburn's four-story brownstone home at 244 East 49th Street in New York City's Turtle Bay Gardens, is available for rent. If you can shell out $27,500 per month, that is. Hepburn, winner of four Best Actress Academy Awards, lived at Turtle Bay for about 60 years, from 1931 &#8212; the year before her first movie (A Bill of Divorcement) came out &#8212; to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-home-available/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Packard Campus Sept. 2010 Schedule: Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Nixon Home Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-richard-nixon-home-movies-packard-campus/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-richard-nixon-home-movies-packard-campus/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:28:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25085</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Errol Flynn, Thelma Todd: Packard Campus Sept. '10 Schedule and film synopses from the Packard Campus press release. Thursday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. “Some Like it Hot” (United Artists, 1959) When two Roaring 20s musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. This classic comedy was selected for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/alfred-hitchcock-richard-nixon-home-movies-packard-campus/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Errol Flynn, Thelma Todd: Packard Campus Sept. &#039;10</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-marilyn-monroe-errol-flynn-thelma-todd/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-marilyn-monroe-errol-flynn-thelma-todd/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:27:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25084</guid> <description><![CDATA[Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor's Adam's Rib (top) Home movies of scary folk such as Alfred Hitchcock and Richard Nixon (and of some non-scary celebrities and non-celebrities as well), in addition to film classics and/or rarities starring Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Todd, Ken Maynard, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Dustin Farnum, Diane Lane, Judy Holliday, Michael Paré, Olivia de Havilland, and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-marilyn-monroe-errol-flynn-thelma-todd/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Norma Shearer&#039;s RIPTIDE, Katharine Hepburn&#039;s SONG OF LOVE, John Ford, Cary Grant: Warner Archives</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-riptide-katharine-hepburn-song-of-love-john-ford-cary-grant/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-riptide-katharine-hepburn-song-of-love-john-ford-cary-grant/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25039</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#160; The Norma Shearer-Robert Montgomery-Herbert Marshall melodrama Riptide (1934); a remastered version of None But the Lonely Heart (1944), which earned Cary Grant his second and last Best Actor Academy Award nomination and veteran stage player Ethel Barrymore her only Oscar; and the biopic Song of Love (1947), starring Katharine Hepburn (as Clara Wieck), Paul Henreid (as Robert Schumann), and Robert Walker (as Johannes Brahms) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/norma-shearer-riptide-katharine-hepburn-song-of-love-john-ford-cary-grant/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Katharine Hepburn TCM Schedule: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, WOMAN OF THE YEAR</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-the-philadelphia-story-woman-of-the-year/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-the-philadelphia-story-woman-of-the-year/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:48:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25010</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn on TCM: KEEPER OF THE FLAME, SUMMERTIME Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Spitfire (1934) A backwoods faith healer falls for a married man from the big city. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy. Dir: John Cromwell. BW-87 mins. 4:30 AM Christopher Strong (1933) An aviatrix's affair with a married man could cost her her career. Cast: Katharine [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-the-philadelphia-story-woman-of-the-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Katharine Hepburn on TCM: KEEPER OF THE FLAME, SUMMERTIME</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-tcm-keeper-of-the-flame-summertime/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-tcm-keeper-of-the-flame-summertime/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:47:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=25009</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi in David Lean's Summertime (top); Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant in Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (bottom) Katharine Hepburn having her own private day as part of Turner Classic Movies' &#34;Summer Under the Stars&#34; series doesn't make my pulse race or my heart palpitate. I mean, Hepburn could be an outstanding actress, but her movies are always playing on TCM, and many [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/katharine-hepburn-tcm-keeper-of-the-flame-summertime/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Stevens on TCM: THE TALK OF THE TOWN, WOMAN OF THE YEAR, SWING TIME</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-stevens-the-talk-of-the-town-woman-of-the-year/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-stevens-the-talk-of-the-town-woman-of-the-year/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:01:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=24042</guid> <description><![CDATA[Cary Grant, Jean Arthur The Talk of the Town (top); Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn Woman of the Year (bottom) George Stevens' monthlong homage ends this evening on Turner Classic Movies. The screening films are the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical Swing Time (1936); three early 1940s comedies, Woman of the Year (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942), and The More the Merrier (1943); and the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-stevens-the-talk-of-the-town-woman-of-the-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Stevens on TCM: Katharine Hepburn&#039;s ALICE ADAMS, Irene Dunne&#039;s I REMEMBER MAMA</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-stevens-alice-adams-i-remember-mama/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-stevens-alice-adams-i-remember-mama/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 02:57:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23930</guid> <description><![CDATA[Philip Dorn, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Brown, Irene Dunne, I Remember Mama George Stevens' film series on Turner Classic Movies continues tonight with a potpourri of films: the romantic drama Alice Adams (1935), the period comedy Quality Street (1937), the family drama I Remember Mama (1948), the tearjerker Penny Serenade (1941), and the light comedy Bachelor Bait (1934). By now, Alice Adams is already over. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/george-stevens-alice-adams-i-remember-mama/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Raquel Welch on TCM Tonight</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/raquel-welch-tcm/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/raquel-welch-tcm/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:30:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23855</guid> <description><![CDATA[Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in George Cukor's Adam's Rib Raquel Welch is the guest programmer tonight on Turner Classic Movies. Welch and Robert Osborne will be introducing and discussing four Hollywood classics: Adam's Rib (1949), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and To Have and Have Not (1945). One thing those movies have in common is strong roles for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/raquel-welch-tcm/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ginger Rogers TCM Schedule</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/ginger-rogers-tcm-vivacious-lady/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/ginger-rogers-tcm-vivacious-lady/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:03:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23609</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Eve Arden in Stage Door Ginger Rogers: BACHELOR MOTHER, STAGE DOOR, VIVACIOUS LADY on TCM Schedule and synopses from the TCM website. Pacific Time. 5:00pm [Comedy] Vivacious Lady (1937) After a whirlwind courtship, a nightclub singer has to adjust to her professor husband's conservative family. Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi Dir: George Stevens BW-90 mins 6:45pm [Comedy] [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/ginger-rogers-tcm-vivacious-lady/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ginger Rogers: BACHELOR MOTHER, STAGE DOOR, VIVACIOUS LADY on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/ginger-rogers-bachelor-mother-stage-door/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/ginger-rogers-bachelor-mother-stage-door/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23605</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers in Stage Door Ginger Rogers is back on Turner Classic Movies on Thursday, March 24, with 11 films. Of those, I particularly recommend two: George Stevens' Vivacious Lady (1938), with James Stewart, and Gregory La Cava's Stage Door (1937), with Katharine Hepburn. [Ginger Rogers TCM Schedule] In Vivacious Lady, Rogers plays a nightclub singer who tries to tone it down for [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/ginger-rogers-bachelor-mother-stage-door/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Meryl Streep Breaks Oscar Record</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-meryl-streep-record-981/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-meryl-streep-record-981/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:23:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21563</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep breaks acting record Meryl Streep has broken her own record for most Oscar nominations for acting: 16 in all. They are: The Deer Hunter (supporting, 1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (supporting, 1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-meryl-streep-record-981/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Katharine Hepburn, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry on 2010 US Postage Stamps</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/katharine-hepburn-william-s-hart-tom-mix-888/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/katharine-hepburn-william-s-hart-tom-mix-888/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:54:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20176</guid> <description><![CDATA[Multiple Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn (right), pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, and cowboys Gene Autry, William S. Hart, Tom Mix and Roy Rogers will be featured on US postage stamps in 2010. Until early 2000, Katharine Hepburn held the actors' record for most Academy Award nominations: 12. That year, Meryl Streep tied with Hepburn, and in early 2003 surpassed her. Hepburn, however, still holds the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/katharine-hepburn-william-s-hart-tom-mix-888/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christmas Movies on TCM</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/christmas-movies-on-tcm-485/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/christmas-movies-on-tcm-485/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:42:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19262</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joan Bennett, Spring Buyington, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn in Little Women (top); Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night (bottom) The digitally remastered Remember the Night (1940), written by Preston Sturges, directed by Mitchell Leisen, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, is the highlight of Turner Classic Movies' Christmas movie series this month. But there are other goodies &#8212; or potential [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/christmas-movies-on-tcm-485/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11103</guid> <description><![CDATA[Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/joseph-l-mankiewicz-centennial/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Joseph L. Mankiewicz Tribute: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/joseph-l-mankiewicz-suddenly-last-summer/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/joseph-l-mankiewicz-suddenly-last-summer/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 07:31:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11109</guid> <description><![CDATA[Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial &#8211; Part I And if Guys and Dolls (1955) was a bore &#8212; just about everyone in this film musical is miscast, from Brando to Mankiewicz himself &#8212; the director recovered his touch with the adult (and bizarre) Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), a psychotic psychological drama adapted by Gore Vidal and (officially) Tennessee Williams from Williams's own play. (Williams later said [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/joseph-l-mankiewicz-suddenly-last-summer/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1938</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:16:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11619</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You FILM The Adventures of Robin Hood d: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; scr: Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine Bringing Up Baby d: Howard Hawks; scr: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde Dramatic School d: Robert B. Sinclair; scr: Ernest Vajda, Mary McCall Jr. L'Etrange Monsieur Victor d: Jean Grémillon; scr: Albert Valentin, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1938/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1937</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:07:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11618</guid> <description><![CDATA[Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille FILM The Awful Truth d, scr: Leo McCarey Camille d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins The Hurricane d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe Lost Horizon d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin Night Must Fall d: Richard [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1937/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1935</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4334</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Clark Gable in China Seas FILM Alice Adams d: George Stevens; scr: Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner China Seas d: Tay Garnett; scr: Jules Furthman, James K. McGuinness The Gay Deception d: William Wyler; scr: Stephen Avery, Don Hartman A Tale of Two Cities d: Jack Conway; scr: W. P. Lipscomb, S. N. Behrman The Whole Town's Talking d: John Ford; scr: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1935/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Katharine Hepburn on TCM: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, STAGE DOOR</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/katharine-hepburn-on-turner-classic-movies/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/katharine-hepburn-on-turner-classic-movies/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:51:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=3766</guid> <description><![CDATA[Saturday, August 30, highlights on Turner Classic Movies: Despite the fact that many of her movies were financial &#8212; and sometimes critical &#8212; flops, her being included in a 1937 list of box-office poisoners, the frequent intervals between films in her later years, and her lack of anything even resembling sex appeal (or sex anything, for that matter), Katharine Hepburn probably had the most distinguished [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/katharine-hepburn-on-turner-classic-movies/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE AVIATOR Screening</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-aviator-great-to-be-nominated/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-aviator-great-to-be-nominated/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:19:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2866</guid> <description><![CDATA[Martin Scorsese's 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' &#34;Great To Be Nominated&#34; series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-aviator-great-to-be-nominated/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>CELEBRITIES IN THE 1930 CENSUS: Q&amp;A with Author Allan R. Ellenberger</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:39:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/</guid> <description><![CDATA[As it says on the cover, Allan R. Ellenberger's Celebrities in the 1930 Census (McFarland, 2008, US$49.95) is a compilation of household data &#8212; as collected by 1930 census takers &#8212; of more than 2,000 &#34;U.S. actors, musicians, scientists, athletes, writers, politicians and other public figures.&#34; (The woman in the photo is aviatrix Amelia Earhart.) The book, of course, doesn't offer any saucy insights into [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/celebrities-in-the-1930-census-ellenberger/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Answers #3, 4, 5</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-answers-3-4-5/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-answers-3-4-5/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:48:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17345</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar Answer No. 3 John Huston (right), from Moulin Rouge (1952) to Prizzi's Honor (1985), a total of 33 years. In 1952, Huston lost the Oscar to John Ford for The Quiet Man, and in 1985 to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa. Huston, however, did win for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). Roman Polanski comes in second, from Tess (1980) to The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-answers-3-4-5/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meet the Oscars in Los Angeles</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meet-the-oscars-in-los-angeles/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meet-the-oscars-in-los-angeles/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:15:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/archives/2007/01/18/meet-the-oscars-in-los-angeles/</guid> <description><![CDATA[In February, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be displaying fifty new Oscars, four statuettes that belonged to record-breaker Katharine Hepburn, two Testimonial Awards, and one statuette for visitors to hold while being photographed for posterity. The exhibition, named &#34;Meet the Oscars, Los Angeles,&#34; will take place between Feb. 9-24 on the third level of the Hollywood &#38; Highland Center. As per [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meet-the-oscars-in-los-angeles/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jean Parker</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-parker/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-parker/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:16:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=211</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actress Jean Parker died on Nov. 30 following a stroke. She was 90. Parker is perhaps best remembered as one of the four sisters &#8212; Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, and Frances Dee were the other three (above, with Spring Byington's Marmee) &#8212; in the George Cukor-directed 1933 version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. Although never a major star, Parker's film career lasted more than [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-parker/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Howard Hughes Hollywood: THE AVIATOR, Katharine Hepburn, RKO</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/howard-hughes-hollywood-the-aviator/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/howard-hughes-hollywood-the-aviator/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:39:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/world-cinema/american-cinema-hollywood/aviator-notes-trivia-scorsese-dicaprio/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator Long before Leonardo DiCaprio, Tommy Lee Jones played billionaire Howard Hughes (right) in the 1977 television movie The Amazing Howard Hughes. Jason Robards played the old and haggard Hughes in Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama Melvin and Howard (1980), for which Robards received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor (he lost to Ordinary People's Timothy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/howard-hughes-hollywood-the-aviator/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1955</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1955/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1955/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:05:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=4354</guid> <description><![CDATA[The guilty pleasure of all guilty pleasures. An unabashedly sentimental story about East meets West, a bland performance by leading man William Holden (Sunset Boulevard, Network), an awful (and awfully long) title. That's 20th Century Fox's Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. Yet, the film does offer gorgeous locations (Hong Kong and surrounding areas), superb color cinematography (Leon Shamroy), a rousing, romantic score (Alfred Newman), several [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1955/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films &#8211; 1949</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1949/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1949/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:09:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=11624</guid> <description><![CDATA[Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn in Adam's Rib FILM Adam's Rib d: George Cukor; scr: Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin The Heiress d: William Wyler; scr: Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz I Was a Male War Bride d: Howard Hawks; scr: Charles Lederer, Hagar Wilde, Leonard Spiegelglass On the Town d: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly; scr: Betty Comden, Adolph Green The Passionate Friends d: David Lean; [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/best-films-of/best-films-of-1949/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
