Katharine Hepburn as Eva Lovelace
Directed by George Cukor
Written by Howard Estabrook, Harry Wagstaff Gribble; Play by Clemence Dane
Also Starring: John Barrymore, Billie Burke, David Manners, Paul Cavanaugh, Henry Stephenson, Elizabeth Patterson
Barrymore plays Hepburn's father, who has escaped from an asylum and returns home on the day his ex-wife (Burke) is going to marry another man.
Directed by Dorothy Arzner
Written by Zoe Akins, Novel by Gilbert Frankau
Also Starring: Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, Ralph Forbes, Irene Browne, Jack La Rue
Hepburn is a daredevil aviator who has an affair with a married man and then crashes her plane rather than tell her lover that she is pregnant.
Directed by Lowell Sherman
Written by Howard J. Green; Play by Zoe Akins
Also Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan, C. Aubrey Smith, Don Alvarado
Academy Award: Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn plays a young actress struggling to succeed in New York City. She was awarded her first of four Oscars for this role.
Katharine Hepburn as Eva Lovelace
Directed by George Cukor
Written by Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman; Novel Louisa May Alcott
Also Starring: Paul Lukas, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Spring Byington, Edna May Oliver, Douglass Montgomery, Henry Stephenson, Samuel S. Hinds, John Lodge, Nydia Westman
Academy Award: Script
Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture; George Cukor
Wonderful adaptation of Alcott's novel with Hepburn as Jo.
Directed by John Cromwell
Written by Jane Murfin; Play "Trigger" by Lula Vollmer
Also Starring: Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper, Louis Mason
A woman living in the Ozarks (Hepburn) believes that she is a faith healer.
Directed by George Stevens
Written by Dorothy Yost and Mortimer Offner; Novel by Booth Tarkington
Also Starring: Fred MacMurray, Evelyn Venable, Frank Albertson, Fred Stone, Ann Shoemaker, Charles Grapewin, Grady Sutton, Hedda Hopper
Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture; Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn plays Alice Adams, a social climbing small-town girl who pretends to be well-off to land Fred MacMurray.
With Fred MacMurray
Directed by Howard Hawks
Written by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde
Also Starring: Cary Grant, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld, Jonathan Hale, Barry Fitzgerald, George the Dog
The quintessential screwball comedy, featuring dinosaur bones, dogs and leopards. Silly and thoroughly enjoyable.
With Cary Grant
Directed by George Cukor
Written by Donald Ogden Stewart; Play by Philip Barry
Also Starring: Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, Virginia Weidler, John Howard, Henry Daniell
Academy Awards: James Stewart; Donald Ogden Stewart
Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture; George Cukor; Katharine Hepburn; Ruth Hussey
Hepburn plays an heiress on the verge of marriage when her ex-husband (Grant) and a reporter (Stewart) show up and create chaos.
With Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant
Directed by George Stevens
Written by Ring Lardner, Jr. and Michael Kanin
Also Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix, Dan Tobin, Minor Watson, Roscoe Karns
Academy Award Nomination: Katharine Hepburn
Tracy and Hepburn's first on-screen pairing. A sports writer (Tracy) and a political activist (Hepburn) marry, and then find that they have very little in common.
Tracy and Hepburn
Directed by John Huston
Written by James Agee; Novel by C.S. Forester
Also Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel
Academy Award: Humphrey Bogart
Academy Award Nominations: James Agee; John Huston; Katharine Hepburn
A drunken river trader (Bogart) and a missionary (Hepburn) travel down a dangerous river in Africa together, and on the way they fall in love.
Hepburn during filming
Directed by Joseph Anthony
Written by N. Richard Nash, from his play
Also Starring: Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Earl Holliman, Cameron Prud'homme, Wallace Ford
Academy Award Nominations: Alex North (music); Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn plays Lizzie, a small-town spinster who falls in love with a travelling rainmaker (Lancaster).
With Burt Lancaster
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Written by William Rose
Also Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Houghton, Sidney Poitier, Cecil Kellaway, Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Beah Richards, Isabell Sanford, Virginia Christine
Academy Awards: William Rose; Katharine Hepburn
Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture; Stanley Kramer; Frank de Vol (music); Spencer Tracy; Cecil Kellaway; Beah Richards
A young woman (Houghton) informs her parents (Tracy and Hepburn) that she is going to marry a black man (Poitier), and they must all deal with their racial prejudices. This was Spencer Tracy's last film - he died ten days after filming was finished.
Tracy and Hepburn during filming
Directed by Mark Rydell
Written by Ernest Thompson, from his play
Also Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McDeon, Dabney Coleman
Academy Awards: Ernest Thompson; Henry Fonda; Katharine Hepburn
Academy Award Nominations: Mark Rydell; Robert L. Wolfe (editing); Dave Grusin (music); Jane Fonda
A family spends a summer at their lakeside cottage. This was Henry Fonda's last film.
With Henry Fonda