Word: hepburn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hepburn shines in revival, NBC creates Washington waxworks...
...Corn Is Green (Jan. 29, CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is the latest collaboration of Katharine Hepburn and Director George Cukor, who have worked together off and on since A Bill of Divorcement in 1932. Theirs was one of the movies' great creative partnerships: in such films as Holiday, The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib, they set the standard for sophisticated light comedy in American pop culture. Unfortunately, The Corn Is Green does not play to Hepburn and Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental...
Lily Tomlin and Katharine Hepburn were among the 19 candidates the committee favored, Alter said. He added that if Trudeau is unable to come, the committee will then invite someone else...
...when times were tough, movie audiences lined up for screwball comedies, wonderful bits of fluff like Bringing Up Baby with Katie Hepburn and The Awful Truth with Irene Dunne. In 1978, a year of falling dollars and rising prices, audiences often made similar choices. Thought was out. Thrills and chills and, most of all, sheer fun were in. Films that did well were ones that packed an old-fashioned entertainment wallop. "There was a big desire for mindless excitement this year," says Gene Stavis, director of Manhattan's American Cinemathèque. "Whether it's laughter or screams...
...screen Bogart and Bacall caused a chemical reaction rivaled only by that of Tracy and Hepburn. The start was not promising: "He [Howard Hawks] said he thought he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, 'Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart -yucch...