It's a shame that she never became a superstar yrs ago when I saw her in Purlie I just knew that she would be HUGE with that God given voice of hers

and NO political tangents :) Class!

Hey, asshole! Her name is BARBRA.

Julie Andrews needed to be awarded a Tony,a Long Time Ago!

I just knew when. I saw her in purlie that she would be a superstar like miss ross

Kate Hepburn is always playing Kate Hepburn she's wonderful but she's always playing characters like herself strong independent women aristocrats her family was filthy rich old money and she is even a descendent of the queen that she so brilliantly portrayed in the lion in winter it's just like Elizabeth Taylor was always great at playing women that were sexually promiscuous and I loved Liz a lot of these people were playing themselves they were really stars not actors

@@johnfulton4061 While true, I don't think it's a problem for actors to play themselves so long as they remain emotive, captivating, and entertaining, which Katharine Hepburn always was.

@TheLibrarianMarian she was all the things you said and more but I'm still more impressed with the actors that can play characters that are completely different from who they really are I never realized just how gifted Lucille Ball was until the first time I saw her on a talk show she was not LUCY

@@johnfulton4061 I wonder what Spencer Tracy's wife would have thought of your high praise for the regal Katharine Hepburn.

JUST IMAGINE Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart & Cary Grant together again on the same stage; they should have performed a scene from Philadelphia Story or at least shown Jimmy's & Cary's reaction to Kate's Coco

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Julie Andrews most assuredly ought to have been awarded a Tony,a LONG time ago!! Nancy Sanders 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃

Julie Andrews ALSO🙏🙏🙏💃💃💃💃

Such a shame she never became a superstar with that amazing voice there are people that are not as talented that went much further welcome to show biz

I don't know it could be difficult, for one thing the Coco Chanel Estate would have to be cool with it because she was still alive when the show originally ran

tommytimp I miss my drinking years.

​@@dadodydo Yes. I am Maggie Smith.

@@tomshea8382 You ought to have more respect for this most distinguished actress. Instead of making stupid remarks.

@@dadodydo I have nothing but respect for Maggie Smith. Are you seriously suggesting she's not altered here?

Jerks

They probably could not relate to it culturally

Thank for saying something, I thought it was just me.

It was a flop musical…

Thank goodness. Only saved for the Greatest

@@johnstruckhoff7602 Standing ovations in the 70s- for the people that TRULY deseved it Standing ovations today- done after every show or after someone wins an award

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Not just him, Pearl Shay from 227 was also in the show.

@@steveb1164 She didn't think she could sing.

Or as Patti LuPone muttered in the audience, "Where is a cell phone when you need one?"

I have a friend who saw it on Broadway, and he said the audience literally gasped when she began to sing. But she was Katherine Hepburn, and by sheer force of will, made the show a hit. The MP3 album of the show is available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Coco-Various-artists/dp/B000V8ECLE

@@RLucas3000 thank you, I can almost hear the gasp all these decades later

Broadway was much more in the public taste back in the 50s, 60s and early 70s then since. Broadway songs would be covered by pop stars and become hits (“Send in the Clowns”), or quickly become standards (“We Need A Little Christmas”). I think “One Night in Bangkok” in the early 80s was the last big pop hit that spun out from a Broadway show, though Whitney Houston and her mom Cissy did a duet of “I Know Him So Well” on her debut album in the early mid 80s.

Me too from Brighton. She certainly has that mid century- mid Atlantic patois. She doesn't Pahk the Cahr

She did. Actually she said that Katharine Hepburn is a great actress and she is a lot like her.

If she did, KH’s “singing” and horrible acting probably did her in.

@@MondoMiami I don't know from what I understand the show only ran 329 performances starting in December of 1969 and from what Margaret said Coco did see the show so probably before August of 1970 when Hepburn left the company

I have ALWAYS loathed her. That damn stupid smile.

she really is the worst

What’s so bad about her?

I saw the original cast of Applause it was enjoyable but forgettable at the same time it's not a show that I would think would ever be revived you never know I thought bonnie was pretty good considering the mediocre songs that she performed she actually gave them some life

I watched Bonnie Franklin's number with half-closed eyes, fearing that her low-hanging bell bottoms would surely expose her ass crack at some point.

yeah those songs were catchy

In my opinion also a much better actress.

*Gwyneth

nah that was basically the closing scene

She belted it every night on stage at her show and always got a standing ovation there. It’s a song that starts off slow and ends blowing the roof off the theater!

I'm so glad to find someone who shares my opinion. Katharine Hepburn played one role in her entire career: herself. You are so right about Bette Davis. Her range was extraordinary. The fact that the AFI named Hepburn the greatest actress, with Davis at number two, is ludicrous.

I completely agree with you I'll take Davis over Hepburn but if we really want to talk about range let's talk about Stanwyck westerns film noirs comedies she could play wealthy socialites poor women and for me she played it from the heart she also had a pretty successful TV career I adore Davis but she was great at playing women you hate she had no equal in that category the public loved hating her she was also great in the examples you gave as well butnmy queen is Miss Barbara Stanwyck

@TruthHoles it is ludicrous they're probably basing it on their Oscar track record which is ridiculous actors like Cary Grant Richard Burton Barbara Stanwyck Greta Garbo Peter O Toole to name just a few never won Edward G Robinson and Myrna Loy were never even nominated now that really blows my mind

yeah I don't think she had to shout the CARES and WEARS part

But you’ve surely heard an actor do it. I’m thinking of Rex Harrison,