Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979]) Digital Life DVD

Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])
starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Walter Huston
directed by: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391137047
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Sales Rank: 17585
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 1933

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Includes: Morning Glory (1933), Undercurrent (1946), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Without Love (1945), Dragon Seed (1944), The Corn Is Green (1979).

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Katharine Hepburn fans--and let's face it, who isn't one?--will be delighted by The Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection. It showcases juicy, sometimes overlooked roles played by the winsome Hepburn both early and later in her career. The set includes 1933's Morning Glory, for which Hepburn won her first Best Actress Oscar, playing a determined young actress who just knows she's going to make a splash on the stage, and not fade like, well, a morning glory. The early screwball-era tempo is infectious, and young Kate, though insecure and--Lord help us all--skinny, beats the odds as she forges ahead in her career. Her rapid-fire delivery rivals that in another underrated Hepburn classic, Desk Set. Up next is Undercurrent, a gripping film noir that's slow in starting, but gets under the viewer's skin. Hepburn plays against type as an Ashley Judd-style gal-in-peril (or is she?), with a menacing husband (Robert Taylor) and a brother-in-law (Robert Mitchum) whom she may not be able to trust.

Sylvia Scarlett is a George Cukor-directed gem costarring Cary Grant, though Hepburn and Grant are most decidedly not in wacky Bringing Up Baby mode. The film wasn't well received when it was released in 1935, but it's a revelation now, for its daring homosexual subtexts--quite apparent to the modern viewer--and for Grant's against-type dark persona. Without Love, from 1945, is one of the first films to team Hepburn with Spencer Tracy, and yes, their onscreen chemistry is palpable. The conceit is one they would go on to use successfully time and again--plucky single woman resigned to living solo; rumpled, affable, slightly clueless bachelor who only needs to be shown just how much in love with our heroine he is. The supporting cast includes a terrifically cast Lucille Ball and Gloria Grahame.

Dragon Seed (1944) is an honorable misfire, an earnest period drama about the Japanese invasion of China. Through 21st-century eyes, Hepburn's impersonation of an Asian woman isn't great casting, and yet, Hepburn's honest, clear-eyed portrayal saves it from caricature. The Corn Is Green, a TV film from 1979, is an excellent counterbalance to all the brash, dewy-eyed roles in the rest of the set. Hepburn reteams with director Cukor for what is both a showcase for the diva's mighty talent, and yet also a completely even-handed ensemble piece, about a teacher's dedication in a small Welsh village.

Extras are plentiful on this already-packed disc, and include public-service and other shorts compiled by Warner Bros. that provide a window into mid-20th-century life. The short 'Traffic with the Devil' (from the MGM Theatre of Life series) showcases the musings of a traffic cop, the real life Sgt. Chuck Reineke, who helps clueless, hapless drivers over what appear to be the wide-open spaces of L.A. highways. As a window to the truly more innocent times in Hollywood, the shorts are priceless. --A.T. Hurley

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- AFI's #1 Female Screen Legend...and rightly so!
This is a great collection of some of Katharine Hepburn's lesser-known movies - from her Academy Award-winning performance in 1933's "Morning Glory" to 1976's "The Corn Is Green."
I wonder that they haven't already done a Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn movie collection and also a collection of Kate's better-know movies (The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen, Holiday, Stage Door, etc.)

Morning Glory (1933) - One of the films Katharine Hepburn made early in her career. She won an Academy Award for her performance as Eva Lovelace ("Love is my family name but I'm sure to have some scandals...Doesn't Lovelace have a certain charm that just fits me?"), an aspiring young actress, who makes a huge hit in her first Broadway role. In some ways it has some similarities to 1937's "Stage Door."

Sylvia Scarlett (1936) - The first pairing of superstars Cary Grant and Katharine ... Read More

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- Brilliant Collection
Katharine Hepburn was, and still is, the greatest Hollywood actress to grace the screen.

This collection is a must as it features 6 fine films -stella performances by Hepburn in each- that had never before been released on Region 1 DVD.

If you are a fan of Hepburn, or a fan of classic Hollywood films - buy this collection.
The special features on each disk leave a bit to be desired (some new documentaries and any behind the scenes or outtakes might have been nice), but the real importance is the films.

And each of them are enjoyable classics.

It holds a firm place in my ever increasing Katharine Hepburn collection, and it should in yours.

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- The Corn is Still Green
Despite the ugliness of the packaging - all that cheap plastic is definitely Un-Kate - there is one gem in the collection that deserves its own separate release: The Corn is Green. It's a made-for-tv movie directed by George Cukor, shot on location in glorious Wales. Hepburn is divine, but supported for a change by a galaxy of marvelous players. Rent the Bette Davis version so you can see how good this is by comparison. Warner's early version of Emlyn Williams' play is dreadful, and Davis was much too young for the role. There was no location shooting in those days, and black-and-white wouldn't have helped it either. All that's left is the value of a good teacher at the right time, and they blew that. Remakes are sometimes a gift to us (think Lord of the Rings) and this is a lovely gift indeed.

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- Nice collection
This is a nice collection of over-looked movies but available much cheaper from BJs, Sams, places like that.

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