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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jun 28, 2006 14:36:26 GMT -5
The new Garbo book is DIVINE. A really fascinating read, indeed....and informative. Although, I think the main reason why it's gotten so popular is because of all those glorious head shots. The portraits are beyond stunning!!!!! ;D
I want Greta's face!
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Post by wishingonastar on Jul 26, 2006 7:43:22 GMT -5
Wassup Guys,
Something that is mentioned in several Bette Davis biographies is that Bette wanted to Kate to paly opposite her in the film "Old Aqquaintance".
Eventually the part Kate would have played went to Miriam Hopkins. It would have been great to see Davis and Hepburn on the screen toghether. At any any rate the movie "Old Aqquaintance" is very good.
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Post by Shaun on Jul 26, 2006 13:01:24 GMT -5
Is that the one where Bette walks over to Miriam very calmly, chokes the living daylights out of her and then says simply, "sorry"? I love that scene!
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Post by wishingonastar on Jul 26, 2006 15:39:33 GMT -5
LOL..yeah Shaun..thats the one. It makes the scenes in the film a little more interesting knowing that Miriam Hopkins and Bette Davis couldn't satnd one another..lol.
Peace
George
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Post by dreamer on Oct 27, 2006 11:34:17 GMT -5
Read somewhere about Kate should have played Rose Kennedy for TV - but because of the foot accident - it didn't happened  Anybody know something about that - or am I imagine things? |
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Post by Shaun on Oct 27, 2006 11:59:58 GMT -5
I haven't heard that, but it would have been neat to see her in it.
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Post by dreamer on Oct 27, 2006 13:04:49 GMT -5
Couldn't rest - found it.
Yes she should have played Rose Kennedy in a two-hour special movie made with the matriarch's approval, however the car accident in December '82 stopped the project. Found in Katharine Hepburn: A Celebration by Sheridan Morley
Would have liked her in that
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Post by dreamer on Oct 29, 2006 14:42:27 GMT -5
Me and Phyllis - this one, she would have loved to make - but no one would - could have been quit interesting. She was offered the role that Colleen Dewhurst finaly had in Ann of Green Gables and the role in Driving Miss Daisy. And then there is Martha - not as an actress but as a director - it was a project that she had with Irene Selznick and Prideaux was involved as well - why it didn't happend  ? It might have been the script - think Rose (Guess who is coming to dinner) was involved too. Believe THAT would have been quit exiting even though we would not see her on the screen 
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Post by Hepburner on Nov 4, 2006 17:03:13 GMT -5
People hate me for saying this...but I dont like Garbo.
I dont know what it is. I just find her a nightmare to watch.
I've only seen Grand Hotel, Ninotchka, Camille and Mata Hari - a long time ago. They played them on tv here. Granted, it was before I really got into older movies, and maybe thats why I didnt like her (or the films)...but I just found her painful.
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Post by Shaun on Nov 5, 2006 15:20:40 GMT -5
Some people say Garbo had something that no other actor had and that she was the best actress Hollywood ever saw. I don't believe that--the part about her being the best actress not the part about her having a special something...boy did she have IT! I think Bette Davis and Kate were better actors. Garbo had a mystique and a sense of loneliness in all of her films that, for me, makes her utterly fascinating. Granted Greta Garbo isn't for everyone. She doesn't save a bad movie for me like Kate does and, to a lesser extent, Davis.
If you're willing to give GG another shot, I say start with Queen Christina, or some of those documentaries that play on TCM to get an overall feel for her.
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Post by Hepburner on Nov 6, 2006 0:00:42 GMT -5
Thanks for the advice Shaun.
Like I said, I saw those films years ago, and wasnt really into the whole "black and white" thing then. (GAH! I hate the term black and white!) ...so maybe that colored my opinion. But I dont *remember* feeling anything special. I thought she lacked it really. No spark there.
Hahaha Kate said that. In All About Me, about one of her early screen tests. FUNNY!
But yeah, I shall take your advice, and try and hunt Queen Christina down.
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Post by dreamer on Nov 10, 2006 18:51:22 GMT -5
Listen to this - on Tracy and Hepburn website - there is mentioned that Spencer had preferred Kate to play the Deborah Kerr part in Edward, My Son and the Irene Dunne part in A Guy Name Joe - sounds very interesting - just recorded Edward, My Son - so will have to look that one and imagine Kate playing the part - long live the fantasy  |
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Post by dreamer on Nov 27, 2006 18:40:10 GMT -5
Read on the Liveauction site (link posted at Sothesby thread) that at one time, Kate and Cukor considered doing a movie adaption - about growing old gracefully - based on the book "The Loved and The Envied" by Ednid Bagnold.
To me that really sounds interesting - because I'm pretty sure we would have seen it from a quit different angle - remembering Grace Quigley (there was a sequence with them in a home, it was as if she wanted to express something with that scene - as how it should not be)
Have seen such homes with my own eyes. Years ago we had a fight to keep my dying grandmom at home - didn't want her to have her final days there - dignity is the key.
Which I believe was, what Kate wanted to express with the film (even if some saw it as black humor) as I saw the film a couple of years later.
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Post by annie on Aug 8, 2007 12:25:00 GMT -5
Me and Phyllis - this one, she would have loved to make - but no one would - could have been quit interesting. She was offered the role that Colleen Dewhurst finaly had in Ann of Green Gables and the role in Driving Miss Daisy. ( Heheh ... I'd have loved seeing Kate be Marilla in Ann of Green Gables .... not so sure about Miss Daisy.... but then its absolutely hard for me to imagine ANYONE other in the role than Jessica Tandy.  ME AND PHYLLIS .. yeah .. I'd love to have seen that .... or at least read the screenplay ... I bet there are marvelous stories in it. I read in the Prideaux book that Kate considered Maggie Smith for the part of Phyllis which is quite strange since Maggie was MUCH MUCH younger than Phyllis and Kate. Can't see her in the role at all. I've always wondered what Kate would have done to the role of Scarlett in GONE WITH THE WIND. Also hard to imagine anyone else than Vivien Leigh *but* interesting thought nevertheless |
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Post by Hepburner on Dec 9, 2007 10:24:13 GMT -5
Found this picture in a book I purchased recently (and have uploaded scans from to various threads). This is a poster for a supposed re-teaming of Kate and John Barrymore, that never came to be produced. Maybe I'm crazy... but until seeing this in this book I had never heard of this project ...at all. Someone is probably going to inform me that it was mentioned in Kate's book, or the Berg bio. And I will be mortified having read both many times and obviously missed it.  Would have been interesting, though, thought I. |
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? It might have been the script - think Rose (Guess who is coming to dinner) was involved too. Believe THAT would have been quit exiting even though we would not see her on the screen 
