TCM Schedule for Sunday August 5 - Summer Under the Stars: Katharine Hepburn

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A full Sunday with the great Kate.

(all times Eastern)

6:00 AM MORNING GLORY ( 1933)
A stage struck girl travels to New York determined to make it on Broadway. Dir: Lowell Sherman Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Douglas Fairbanks , Adolphe Menjou . BW- 74 mins, CC,

7:30 AM SONG OF LOVE ( 1947)
True story of Clara Schumann's battle to save husband Robert's health and resist the romantic overtures of Johannes Brahms. Dir: Clarence Brown Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Paul Henreid , Robert Walker . BW- 118 mins, CC,

9:45 AM LITTLE WOMEN ( 1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War. Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Joan Bennett , Paul Lukas . BW- 115 mins, CC,

11:45 AM MARY OF SCOTLAND ( 1936)
Biography of the flighty Scottish queen who was brought down by love. Dir: John Ford Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Fredric March , Florence Eldridge . BW- 123 mins, CC,

2:00 PM PHILADELPHIA STORY, THE ( 1940)
Tabloid reporters crash a society marriage. Dir: George Cukor Cast: Cary Grant , Katharine Hepburn , James Stewart . BW- 112 mins, CC,

4:00 PM SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER ( 1960)
A dowager tries to buy a lobotomy to silence the woman who witnessed her son's murder. Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Cast: Elizabeth Taylor , Katharine Hepburn , Montgomery Clift . BW- 114 mins, CC,

6:00 PM PAT AND MIKE ( 1952)
Romance blooms between a female athlete and her manager. Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy , Katharine Hepburn , Aldo Ray . BW- 95 mins, CC,

8:00 PM BRINGING UP BABY ( 1938)
A madcap heiress upsets the staid existence of a straitlaced scientist. Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Cary Grant , Charlie Ruggles . BW- 102 mins, CC,

10:00 PM DESK SET ( 1957)
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network's research staff. Dir: Walter Lang Cast: Spencer Tracy , Katharine Hepburn , Gig Young . C- 104 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

12:00 AM STAGE DOOR ( 1937)
Women at a theatrical boarding house try to make their big break happen. Dir: Gregory LaCava Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Ginger Rogers , Adolphe Menjou . BW- 92 mins, CC,

1:45 AM WITHOUT LOVE ( 1945)
A World War II housing shortage inspires a widow to propose a marriage of convenience with an inventor. Dir: Harold S. Bucquet Cast: Spencer Tracy , Katharine Hepburn , Lucille Ball . BW- 110 mins, CC,

3:45 AM MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT, THE ( 1969)
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others. Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Katharine Hepburn , Charles Boyer , Claude Dauphin . C- 132 mins, CC,

[flotsam]

1. Man, she was a great drama actress

But I wish they would have chosen to show her comedy chops with a John Wayne film (McClintock or The Quiet Man)...

[rdmtimp]

2. Hepburn wasn't in either of those...

The only film she did with Wayne was ROOSTER COGBURN (1975)


I think you're thinking of Maureen O'Hara; she starred with Wayne in MCCLINTOCK and THE QUIET MAN.

[flotsam]

3. Yep-I suffered a senior moment

I was thinking O'Hara...

[CBHagman]

4. Now that's a good mix.

TCM has included screwball comedy, biopics, ensemble pieces.

And this is not a complaint, but Hepburn starred in one of my all-time favorite dramas, The Lion in Winter, as a savagely funny Eleanor of Aquitaine negotiating dynastic, political, and personal problems as matriarch of a singularly dysfunctional family. It's missing from the schedule today but will no doubt turn up again soon.