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

Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])
by George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli

Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])
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Actor: Adolphe Menjou, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston
Director: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])

Movie Review: AFI's #1 Female Screen Legend...and rightly so!
Summary: 4 Stars

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 Hepburn. I think the two of them were a great screen couple!

Dragon Seed (1944) - I can tell why this movie isn't as well known as her other movies - the plot is pretty slow. They did do a pretty good job making Katharine look Asian - she looks alot different!

Without Love (1945) - One of Katharine Hepburn's nine films with Spencer Tracy. She plays Jamie Jamison, a widow, who rents her house to Spencer Tracy to do his experiments in while he is working on a science project during WWII.

Undercurrant (1946) - This movie, directed by Vincente Minnelli, actually surprised me. The beginning was interesting, but the further it got into the movie the odder it became. How did "The Great Kate" end up with a role like this? I mean it the role didn't fit her and it seemed so different than what she normally plays. (I'd be interested in comments.)

If you aren't a fan of Katharine Hepburn, you will be after watching this collection and if you are this is a must!


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

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