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...much of Lindsay & Grouse's dialogue disappeared, and the cutting edge was flaked off; 2) the gadfly-buzz of the play's action slowed to a snore. To sustain the illusion of interest, Wonder-Worker Capra relied on a blaze of star-power: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Adolphe Menjou, Angela Lansbury. But Tracy, as in all his recent pictures, lacks fire; Hepburn's affectation of talking like a woman trying simultaneously to steady a loose dental brace sharply limits her range of expression; Johnson, playing a Drew Pearsonish columnist, is no more effective than Pearson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

Cornell Varsity: stroke, Collyer; 7, von Wrangell; 6, Morehouse; 5, Story; 4, Allsopp; 3, Hepburn; 2, Ayers; bow, Webster; cox, Conable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Opens Against Cornell | 5/1/1948 | See Source »

...late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Communist money, Sam Wood had his own idea of how they collected it. He referred to a Henry Wallace meeting in Hollywood, said that "Katharine Hepburn appeared and they collected $87,000. You don't think that money is going to the Boy Scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: From Wonderland | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...biography it's bigoted, irrelevant, and untrue. Nobody acts. And it was cast by an anonymous prankster with a macabre sense of humor, who must have sniggered as he conjured up Henreid, Hepburn, Daniell, and Bob Walker as grotesque caricatures of Robert and Clara Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms. By all the orthodox criteria of movie criticism, "Song of Love" is eminently eligible for that glib type of verbal massage so familiar to readers of Wolcott Gibbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/22/1947 | See Source »

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