Wednesday, November 01, 2017

TCM Tribute Video: Was Kate Hepburn the Greatest Actress of the Past 100 Years? If She wasn’t, Who was?

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Hosted by Anthony Hopkins, who worked with her late in her career, and early in his, on The Lion in Winter (1968).

This is just a tiny, delectable snack. If you expect more, you’ll be deeply disappointed.

And you can forget the "Hollywood rebel" nonsense. It's a cliché that nowadays is usually just the narrator or author's way of saying, "I liked so-and-so," and often covers for someone who was a total jerk, e.g., Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, et al. And if Kate Hepburn was such a "rebel," how come, according to L.B. Mayer biographer Scott Eyman, Mayer found her to be the most level-headed person on the MGM lot, and made her his top unofficial advisor?



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