I totally agree!

I love this about her videos. Perfectly said.

Exactly. Well said.

Ekie Hamiar what a great analysis you've given of this KZfaqr's strengths. I couldn't have put it better myself and I am glad to see her getting the appreciation she deserves.

TOTALLY!

That is amazing

Awesome!

I would too, despite being “just a ‘thank you’” 😂😂😂😂

😊classy❤

It's ever reaching, because it's great

@@kostajovanovic3711 changed, thanks!!!

I mean pretty much anyone under 40 KNOWS what that means so it’s ubiquitous.

I spat my tea

Me too! It was great!!!

And, Meryl picked up the mantle. Interesting.

Till the 80s. She even won an Oscar for Best Actress for On Golden Pond(1981), which won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.

its like meryl was successful when age 20 to 30 they were successful but a downfall came in the age of 40, and at late ages and bare in mind hollywood doesnt cast middle aged women they were again the most successful actors that year

@@callmej5337 my mistake Wow even more impressive

@@ahyan6681 ? Meryl had quite few great roles after turning fourty! Devil wears Pravda is say is in her top four performances And Julie and Julia is wonderfully hilarious

Oh, she cared about the awards. She gloated to Jane Fonda after On Golden Pond that Fonda would never equal her Oscar wins. She was jealous of the praise heaped on Meryl Streep and called her overrated. When she and Lauren Bacall were both nominated for the 1970 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, she asked Bacall to accept the Tony on her behalf, assuming she, herself, would win. She apologized to Bacall the next day after Bacall won the award. Late in life she was asked why she never attended the awards when she was nominated. She said she didn’t go because she was afraid she’d lose. When she finally did go to the Oscar ceremony to present the Thalberg award to Lawrence Weingarten, she told the audience that she was “living proof that a person could wait 41 years to be unselfish.”

@@partycentralsales I mean she didn't care enough to actually show up. So as much as that may all be true, she wasn't playing the game. She wasn't doing backdoor deals or openly campaigning. She didn't show up in a designer dress. She didn't do interviews, she didn't plead, I think it's fair to say she didn't do anything she didn't totally want to do.

@@Aldrius Nope 100% WRONG…Katie Hepburn explained why she never showed up to any of the Nominated Films of Oscar to Dick Cavette Interviews…”Too Nervous” Katharine truly did care about awards and Oscar. She did Gloat to Betty Bacall (Tony Award That Katharine thought she would win, and called Betty to pick up the Tony for her, But Kathie Lost to Betty! Katharine’s knock to Meryl Streep was about all those Accents and slew of Oscar Nominations to All those Accent driven Roles. Katharine Hepburned Admired Glenn Close! Katie also liked Peter O’Toole (Recommended O’Toole to Great Friend Director David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia) Harrison Ford and Flipped for John Travolta…also liked Julie Roberts. Great Friendship with Betty Bacall for decades. Deep down she admired Jane Fonda, but gave her Hell during the filming of On Golden Pond. Prickly Said Fonda of Hepburn. Katharine Hepburn was Best Playing Katharine Hepburn, Lion in Winter, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, On Golden Pond, Adam’s Rib, even …Bringing Up Baby..Goofy Fun. I have always Admired Katharine Hepburn because Katie did what Katie wanted to do. Katharine Hepburn only showed up Once at a Academy Award (In Pants!) and Only The Producer, David Niven, and Lawrence Weingarten the recipient of the Irving Thalberg Award. It was her close personal friend Irene Mayer Selznick who convinced Katharine to sit down and talk to Dick Cavette, who has repeatedly said it was his Best Show! Back when Only Men We’re Allowed on Golf Courses in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, Yes Katharine Hepburn wearing Pants, was allowed to play Golf, and Tennis ..knowing the people who ran those shows! Katharine never purchased a house in Los Angeles, she would rent A bungalow from her favorite Gay Friend Director George Cukor on his Massive Property for many Years. Where Spencer and Hepburn lived and where Spencer Died, 17 Days after shooting that Week Long Monologue in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. There are Stories after Stories that I am truly fascinated about Katharine Hepburn! To me..was the Best at Playing Katharine Hepburn!

@@sickheadache9903 Regardless of what motivated her, I think my point was that she didn't show up to every award's show wearing the latest designer gown. She didn't play their game, and I think that's half the reason they kept giving her awards.

@@Aldrius Or Great Performances…

They had the guts to break the mold (and in Katherine Hepburn's case, the privilege to push back.)

De Havilland belongs in that conversation

@@maxipazz8214 I dont think she is as big of a star as the other three. She is great but not a legend.

What can you say about Liz Taylor?

disapproval. Was into witchcraft. She use to cast spells on people. Her daughter said this.

I love your channel. Congratulations on 100k subs.

Omg 2 in one vid???

Love your vids!

I love your channel too!!

Love your channel

Some movies to start with, if you like - - Casablanca All About Eve The Philadelphia Story Strangers On A Train The Seven - Year Itch

you forgot Frances McDormand

And Olivia Colman, and Judi Dench, and Maggie Smith and Julie Walters

@@lemorab1 Totally agree. I hope Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett keep getting great roles when they enter their 60's

Not to mention huge box Office success both had huge hits over 60

@@lemorab1 Olivia Colman is only 47!!

What? Why? The subtitles are a great feature for people with hearing disabilities and for those who are learning the language. That is definitely a step backwards !

@@marsukarhu9477 you misunderstood the comment

Oh this is why I've not seen any auto subtitles the last week on any new videos. I need subtitles in English since English is my 3rd language. Stupid Google.

@@illyblair How?

Absolutely agree - this is awful. The automated subtitles were some times unreliable, but they were infinitely preferable to none at all! 😣

Dick cavett was the very best interviewer. Just wonderful the way he let them speak and not interrupting his guests.

She was insufferable in that interview. She was entitled as they come.

@@bcarlosd Well Kate was very nervous and fidgety. She was providing Cavitt with something nobody was ever able to get from her. Not Steve Allen, Jack Paar, or Merv Griffin, or Virginia Graham, Mike Douglas, or Johnny Carson, or Dinah Shore, or David Frost, or Tom Synder, or Hugh Downs. It made this an event of incredible importance for Cavitt. This was history in the making. Cavitt was willing to do ANYTHING to make her comfortable. The idea of filming it before an audience arrived, was probably a very good one. Subsequently, Kate would do one of these about once per decade, with Barbara Walters in the 80's, and Donahue in 1990, and never was there other guests or an audience.

It's a great word that sadly nobody uses anymore. I thought it meant pants of a sturdy fabric. My son had heard the word and thought it meant bib overalls, which are pants with a chest part and straps over the shoulder. We looked it up and we were both kind of right. And by pants I mean trousers, because in the UK this comment might read differently.

@@annbsirius1703 Even Indians don't use this word anymore and its from India - Dongree.

@@annbsirius1703 ‘Dungarees’ still used in Ireland for ‘bib overalls’ I think. My kids wear dungarees as it’s much easier to change nappies in them than trousers. My MIL from Oz calls them ‘knickerbockers.’

@@annbsirius1703 We use the frenchism "salopette" in Italy which also means "slutty", so poor Kate...

@@kildareire it’s falling out of use in Australia too. It also used to mean overalls, and now that term is far more popular than dungarees. Pity, it’s a great word.

Another favorite of mine, and what a cast!

You couldn't ask for a better introduction - she is phenomenal in that movie. She just makes a meal of it, in the best way. It makes a great Christmas movie if you're not in the mood for a sentimental one!

@@slowpainful yes. "There's to be a Christmas court."

Epic movie with a phenomenal cast! One of her best too!

@Carolina Fantaccinishe says, "even in the year 10xx we are barbarians and breeders of war..." or something like that. Terrific screenplay.

I love that too. His speech about what love means is Spencer speaking to Kate. Gets me every time.

Sidney Poitier just passed away 😢

I didn't know that...thank you.

Same here I love her analysis into actresses careers and legacies

Kinda cool to witness someone discovering Kate for the first time. Be sure and watch "Holiday" and "Lion in Winter" if you haven't already 😉

@@rhyfeddu Holiday is one of my absolute favorites! And definitely THE favorite out of the hepburn/grant pictures, and yes I've seen the lion in winter as well and enjoyed it

@@MariaLuisa-vv4ug You're on top of things then! lol I'm sure you've done Stage Door, another fav of mine... Christopher Strong? The storyline is uneven, but KH is fascinating to watch as the aviator and the tone is interesting from the woman director, Arzner. Plus early 30s fashion, yum. Have fun!

@@MariaLuisa-vv4ug PS... I think it's out of print, but you can find used, "The films of Katharine Hepburn" by Homer Dickens. It lists them all w photos, comments, and contemporary reviews. It's fun to check them off and add your own impressions/ratings as you go. 👍

Omg same! I became obsessed with her towards the end of April and am slowly watching all of her movies and interviews, and this video came out at the peak of my obsession. How did she know 👀

Another amazing actress, one of my top five along with Hepburn, is Vanessa Redgrave

YAASSS

Even she thought that her doing that film was idiotic.

@@bookadmirer.3699 We like a Self-Aware Queen.

Ooooh hello there my dildar begam

My favorite critical Kate comment of all time, referring to her performance as Trigger, is "Miss Hepburn's artistry does not lend itself to the primitive or the uncouth." I forget who said it, probably Bosley Crowther.

@@PokhrajRoy. Stop using the word “queen”. It sounds so pathetic.

Where can I find this?!

@@mikaylaeager7942 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h5eJdbuHlcquj30.html

Women had always been badasses. I wish the women of today stop acting like they are the first,

Thank you for pointing that out!! Not all POC women got the same privilege..

Thank you for pointing this out. I was thinking the same thing when I heard it. BKR does an excellent job in discussing the lack of DEI in specific videos about that topic but sometimes the scripts are less precise when talking about overall societal and political trends affecting “women.” It unintentionally undercuts the great work in the DEI videos.

++++

That’s one of the reasons why I don’t believe in feminism. I follow womanism because it includes the needs and issues affecting woc

I'm so glad you pointed that out because people forget that the woman's right to vote was only given to white women in 1920. Black women couldn't vote until the mid-60s. When people say women and POC, they don't realize that there are woc, you know! I'm glad we're in an age where we can finally have feminist and womanist conversations that actually touch on the issues that happen to ALL WOC. Katharine had a fire-y nature in almost all of her films. Heck, she played friggin' Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion In Winter (who was one of the most powerful figures of the Middle Ages just like Kate was one of the most important figures of the 1930s and 40s)

She was married once when she was very young. It didn't work out but she and husband remained friends.

Subtle and great, wasn't it?

She was married to Ludlow Ogden Smith " Mother and Father adore Luddy".

William Mann, in his '06 biography "Kate," made the case not only was Hepburn bisexual, but leaning toward ladies more, she may actually have a more fluid gender identity as well, having adopted a male persona as a child. He also argues the Hepburn/Tracy romance was far more of a deep friendship, and that Tracy was also sexually fluid, but being deeply Catholic, it was a reason for his struggle with alcohol.

@@CPTDoom She also apparently found the human nude to be offensive (almost as a phobia), and so if this is true we might have a clue as to why she was usually covered to the neck in clothing. Strange for one so apparently "free". Everybody has their "thing", I guess.

Yes!

I'm so pissed she dropped out of the Lucille Ball movie. She would've been perfect in that one too

@ You had a mouthful there, brother! 😔

yes and I thinki that only Cate Blanchett or Frances Mcdorman can tier her 4 Oscars record.

It’s not like Meryl Streep exists...oh wait

@@EvaSofie oh, so Meryl played Katharine in a movie too? Let's ask the audience 😮

There are actresses that remind you of what being a woman in the world whilst being true to yourself looks like, and Kathleen Hepburn is one of them, a true treasure

infinitely jealous that you got to see that

Interesting perspective. Thx.

Also her aura. It's so iconic

Agree with Alice Adams and The Lion in Winter, but Joan Fontaine (Rebecca) and Anne Baxter (The Miracle Worker) should've been won in 1940's and 1962's respectively. Her third Oscar should have been for On Golden Pond

@@giovannyespinoza6013 Anne Bancroft* not Baxter

This comment sets a mood.

Ironic considering McDormand won her 3rd Lead Oscar (And one as producer) this season. But yep, I can see that resemblance.

I think her and Bacall look similar too

Looks yes, but also personality, quirkiness, and choice of roles.

I think it’s wishful thinking on the author’s part.

Truly I left Gloria Swanson should have won. I watched Sunset Boulevard once and I can't stop thinking about her character.

I remember watching it when I was in my teens, loving her character and the story until the end, and literally ending it being like, "What just happened." It's unfortunately a product of a lot of amazing female characters in Classic Hollywood that I loved- Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice- there's always a late third act turnaround so men don't feel threatened and the 'bad" woman gets her due. And it NEVER reads true to something someone would actually do, because there's absolutely nothing in terms of the plot that led up to it. - sigh-

Yes! I told myself that no matter who won I wouldn't be disappointed, the nominees being so strong this year, but when I heard the news that McDormand won... I don't know, something didn't sit right with me. It's probably because she had won her second Oscar so recently, so I just figured she wouldn't win this year. I was also hoping for Carey Mulligan or Viola Davis. I'm curious about how Oscar voters rationalized their decisions, I'm guessing most liked Nomadland and voted for her to reward the movie. As a side note, McDormand has a good chance of being the next Katharine Hepburn, who won four Oscars for Best Actress. She just needs one more win!

That may take a couple of years to provide hindsight vision.

Frances won because she a) was the established favorite b) she was not in the girl power movie that actually had some bite - especially where Hollywood is concerned and c) she’s a white woman who doesn’t really rock the boat too much with meaningful political discussion. I also think the Academy is setting up a Meryl v Frances battle to topple Kate’s crown. Viola Davis should have won.

I personally was hoping Davis, Kirby, or McDormand would win, but as previously stated by someone else in the thread, when McDormand won, it just didn’t sit right. In hindsight I really just wanted Davis to win.

It had better be a worthy performer. She is the template.

@@js7dragon I don't think anyone will ever top her four oscar record, but I think Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand are worthy candidates to tie with her.

@@barbaraladouceur6305 I unfortunately think even if someone ties with her, I fear that in this generation, Kate will be put on the back burner and be forgotten.

Kate Winslet, if any. She’s still in her fourties.

@@TheRomanticFanatic But there's a distinct possibility that noone will ever even tie with her record and she'll remain supreme.

And they were roommates.

@@sus817 _Oh my God, they were roommates_ 😁

I love me some Pauline Kael, but as great of a writer as she was, her opinions are sometimes, well, just that. In what way is Eleanor of Aquitaine "lovable"? She's harsh and manipulative, and the whole movie revolves around her and Henry using other people as pawns. I won't disagree with Kael's point that studios want women to be conventional, but I don't think Hepburn ever caved in.