Katharine Hepburn

On stage 11 productions, 53 years

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In the literature8 passages

• 12 . Ruggles can be seen earlier as an aristocrat in Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight (1932) and later as a hunter in the Katharine Hepburn–Cary Grant classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• In the middle of the week Michael flew to Cleveland for the opening of the tour of Coco, a musical that he had choreographed starring Katharine Hepburn as the couturiere Coco Chanel. Rather than have everyone just go over what had already been staged, he left the choreography in Bob’s hands for more work on “The World’s Full of Boys.” Whe…ebooks/Chapin, Ted/Everything Was Possible_ The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) - Ted Chapin.txt
• When Katharine Hepburn opened the second act of Coco with the single word ‘Shit!’ she embarrassed not only the audience, but herself; likewise when Frank Gorshin impersonating Jimmy (Walker) made a swift entrance and exit entirely nude, most of the audience squirmed uncomfortably. Both of the above seemed to be inserted merely to shock an…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
• Had The Pink Jungle opened in New York, it would have been the first Broadway musical of the 1960s and it and Katharine Hepburn’s vehicle Coco (the decade’s final musical) would have shared an interesting symmetry since both dealt with women’s frills and fripperies, The Pink Jungle with cosmetics and Coco with clothes. Rogers and Hepburn…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• It is hard to imagine. But she was stiff and proper, polite. She didn’t seem to have much of a funny bone. I saw a little Katharine Hepburn in her, but not much Lucille Ball.ebooks/Dyke, Dick Van/My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business_ A Memoir - Dick Van Dyke.txt
• Ginger’s non-Astaire film from 1937 was Stage Door , a film that paired her with Katharine Hepburn, her great rival at RKO throughout the 1930s. Off the movie set, the two were major rivals, with the Republican, Christian Scientist Rogers contrasting with the ultra-liberal Hepburn. Throughout most of the decade, Rogers had dominated their…ebooks/Editors, Charles River/Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers_ The Story of Hollywood's Most Famous Dancers - Charles River Editors.txt

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