On Golden Pond

[dreamer]

The grand Lady of Cinema as I believe many young fans will have her in their memory

From the first time they got to see Kate on screen.

Love Elmar

[dreamer]

Have tried to get so many photos as possible together (have tons from OGP but they are very small as some of the posted once) so instead you guy's get screen caps

[dreamer]

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Found some a bit larger in size

[annie]

BOAAHH dreamer .. you're killing me - my faaaaaaaaaaavorite ... really ... LOOOOOOOOOVEE the pics ... thank you SO much for posting all of them *dying*

[dreamer]

Theheee.. ;D... LOL

[annie]

Have you all seen this Never knew she rehearsed with Ernest Thompson ;D

[Judy]

Annie: That's not Ernest Thompson; it's Mark Rydell. Judy

[dreamer]

This is Rydell with Kate

[annie]

sam said:

Annie: That's not Ernest Thompson; it's Mark Rydell. Judy

you are of course right - I always mix those two up *sorry*

[dreamer]

Interesting read

'Golden' Years
Katharine Hepburn: On the set of ''Golden Pond.'' As one of the last people to work with the Oscar-winning actress, director Mark Rydell reveals how she made his film special -- on screen and off
By Josh Young

Katharine Hepburn won the last of her record four Academy Awards for ''On Golden Pond,'' the 1981 tear-jerker in which she played a saucy matriarch refereeing the war between her husband and their daughter (played by real-life father-daughter duo Henry and Jane Fonda). But beyond that remarkable performance, ''Pond'' director Mark Rydell remembers Hepburn the woman: her eagerness to learn, her tenacity, and the surprisingly soothing nature that eased tensions between the Fondas on set. Rydell (''The Rose,'' ''Intersection'') chatted with Entertainment Weekly about his experiences working with Hepburn on the film -- and what you might not know about Katharine the Great.

It must have been difficult getting the money to make ''On Golden Pond'' -- its two stars were well into their 70s at the time.
It was hard to get the picture made, despite having Jane, who was a very big star. I had to beg for the money to make the picture -- literally beg -- because the financiers said, ''Henry Fonda hasn't had a hit in year, and Kate Hepburn is just a legend and she doesn't mean anything anymore. Jane would mean something but she's not in the lead. Who wants to see a picture about death?''


Once you got the financing, what were those first few days working with Katharine like?
She was so startlingly remarkable, so heroic in many ways. For example, aside from being an extraordinary personality and a brilliant actress, she was also an athlete. About five weeks before the picture was to begin, she dislocated her shoulder while playing tennis and was taken to the hospital and operated on. Pins were put in her shoulder. I thought, Oh sh--, here goes the picture. I flew to New York and went to the hospital, and there she was in this hospital bed with her arm in a stand-up cast -- her shoulder was at a right angle and her arm was extended in front of it, and there was a rod down to her waist that kept it at that height. She said, ''Don't you worry about a thing.'' I said, ''We're supposed to start in five weeks.'' She said, ''I'll be there.'' Sure enough, this woman showed up. All the doctors told her that she was insane and there was no way. Of course, it was her tenacity and determination to play this part, which meant a great deal to her.

Was it daunting working with such a legend?
I was somewhat intimidated. How do you direct Katharine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, two of the icons of American theater? She had a career that was unparalleled. I put them together and I thought, Gee, this is liable to be touchy. Forget it. They fell into each other's arms. They were remarkably supportive of one another.

What was her acting process at the time? Was she open to your direction?
She had such an enormous personality. There was nothing wishy-washy about her. She had strong feelings but she was wide open to rehearsing, which was astonishing to me. We spent a week or two sitting with Fonda, Jane, and Katharine. We were rehearsing around a table and really working hard on the material, and she was like a 20-year-old acting student. She was so determined to do that right thing and to develop this relationship with Henry, which I encouraged during rehearsals. She was just available.

''On Golden Pond'' at times blurred the line between real life and art, in terms of the strained relationship between the Fondas. What was Hepburn's role in the on- and off-screen drama?
She knew the picture was a form of reparation of Henry and Jane's relationship. She used to hide in the bushes -- she'd be over Henry's shoulder, behind him -- when Henry would work with Jane and encourage Jane so that when Jane looked at Henry, she would see her in the background. She wasn't in the shot. She would just be hiding in the bushes, in a sense, being a cheerleader to Jane and helping Jane to get through the more emotional scenes because Jane was very, very emotionally volatile. Jane was sick to have to work with him. She was so full of anxiety.

What might surprise people about Katharine Hepburn?
Everybody thinks of her as a fiercely independent woman. She was a pipe-and-slippers woman. She would come and sit at my and Henry's feet. She felt that it was a woman's responsibility to take care of a man. It really blew me away. When my wife and I went to her house on Turtle Bay -- we had gone to see her in the theater -- we were upstairs, and she took my wife's hand and said, ''Let's go down and make some food. Let's see what I have.'' My wife told me later that she asked, ''What does Mark like to eat?'' and my wife said, ''I don't know. Anything.'' She was very angry at my wife for not knowing what I would want to eat. That's the opposite of what people would think of her.

www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,462302,00.html

[lionessinwinter]

In my opinion no woman has looked more beautiful and in her own way regal than Kate did in this film. She was simple but tough and this is one of my favorites of hers that I like to watch when I get down in the mouth thinking about getting old I remember it isnt how long you live but how much you live while you are here that counts. She certainly put a lot into her 96 years on this earth and this movie is a treat from beginning to end

[nino89]

I realy love this movie.. I'm a fan only for a couple of weeks but I already saw this picture twice She was realy great in it