Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib ( 1949 ) and Pat and Mike ( 1952 ).

On 31 August 1940, Olivier and Leigh were married in Santa Barbara, California, in a ceremony attended only by their witnesses, Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin.

In 1951, Tracy portrayed a lawyer in The People Against O ' Hara and re-teamed with Hepburn for the sports comedy Pat and Mike ( 1952 ), the second feature written expressly for the pair by Kanin and Gordon.

" Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Ford, Garson Kanin and Katharine Hepburn called Tracy the greatest actor of his generation.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

The outline for the film was developed by Garson Kanin, a close friend of Hepburn.

Kanin was fighting in the war at the time, so the script was written by his brother, Michael Kanin, and mutual friend Ring Lardner, Jr. Hepburn contributed significantly to the script-reading it, suggesting cuts and word changes, and generally providing helpful enthusiasm for the project.

In his book Tracy and Hepburn ( 1971 ), Kanin mentions that, when Columbia bought the rights to film Born Yesterday, studio boss Harry Cohn wouldn't consider casting the Hollywood-unknown Holliday.

Kanin, together with George Cukor, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn, conspired to promote Holliday by offering her a key part in the 1949 film Adam's Rib.

Celebrity residents since have included actors Katharine Hepburn, June Havoc, Ricardo Montalban and Tyrone Power, writer-director Garson Kanin, composer Stephen Sondheim, jurist Learned Hand, conductor Leopold Stokowski, editor Maxwell Perkins, publisher Henry Luce, journalists Dorothy Thompson and E. B.

" Kanin and Katharine Hepburn were the only witnesses to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's wedding in California on August 31, 1940.

In 1941, he and Katharine Hepburn worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what would become Woman of the Year right before Garson enlisted in the army.

Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon were close friends of Hepburn and Tracy, and had the idea of writing a film to showcase Hepburn's athletic abilities.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

Tracy and Hepburn as Adam and Amanda. Doris Attinger ( Judy Holliday ) follows her husband ( Tom Ewell ) with a gun one day and sees that he is having an affair with another woman ( Jean Hagen ).

According to Stephen Bogart, the original members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were: Frank Sinatra ( pack master ), Judy Garland ( first vice-president ), Bacall ( den mother ), Sid Luft ( cage master ), Bogart ( rat in charge of public relations ), Swifty Lazar ( recording secretary and treasurer ), Nathaniel Benchley ( historian ), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen.

Other celebrity guests in the hotel's early decades included the future King Edward VII, Sarah Bernhardt, Enrico Caruso, Lillie Langtry, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Nellie Melba, Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Truman, Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Josephine Baker, Cary Grant, Babe Ruth, Ivor Novello and Noël Coward.

Among those receiving such special treatment ( some more than once ) were Groucho Marx, Laurence Olivier, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn ( without an audience ), Bette Davis, Orson Welles, Noël Coward ( who appeared on the same show along with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Tammy Grimes, and Brian Bedford ), John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Woody Allen, Gloria Swanson, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, Zero Mostel (" on some shows I've had just one guest, but tonight I have Zero ") and David Bowie.

Tuttle created makeup for many of Hollywood ’ s biggest stars, among them Judy Garland (“ Summer Stock ”, 1950 ); Gene Kelly (“ Singin ’ in the Rain ”, 1952 ); Katharine Hepburn (“ Pat and Mike ”, 1952 ) and Esther Williams (“ Million Dollar Mermaid ”, 1952 ).

Luminaries such as Lenny Bruce, Mary Martin, Katharine Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Richard Taylor, Ian McKellen, Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, Mae West, Dorothy Loudon, Richard Kiley, Sally Ann Howe, Keene Curtis, Victor Garber, Laurence Luckinbill, Lucie Arnaz, Patti LaBelle, Rob Marshall, Georgia Brown, Ben Harney, The Smothers Brothers, Jane Connell, Ricardo Montalban, Werner Klemperer, Ethel Waters, Jean Fenn, Agnes Moorehead, Herb Edelman, Matthew Broderick, Joyce Van Patten, Elizabeth Franz, Jonathan Silverman, Zeljko Ivanek, Marcel Marceau, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Joel Grey, Florence Lacey, Ron Holgate, Lee Roy Reams, Paxton Whitehead, Ann Jillian, Leslie Uggams, Andrea McArdle, Mary Alice, Jack Lemmon, Estelle Parsons, Stacey Keach, Maxwell Caulfield, James Earl Jones, Karen Valentine, Brian Dennehy, Al Pacino, Amanda Plummer, Elizabeth Ashley, Mercedes McCambridge, Stockard Channing, Judith Light and many other stars have played at the Curran.

Other members included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda, Gene Kelly, John Garfield, Edward G. Robinson, Judy Garland, Vincente Minnelli, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Dorothy Dandridge, Jane Wyatt, Ira Gershwin, Billy Wilder, Sterling Hayden, June Havoc, Evelyn Keyes, Marsha Hunt, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball, Danny Kaye, Lena Horne, Robert Ryan, Jules Buck, and Frank Sinatra.

As the Twist craze hit in 1960-1961, celebrities swarmed into the Peppermint Lounge: Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Liberace, Noël Coward, Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, Annette Funicello, even the elusive Greta Garbo, to dance to the house band Joey Dee and the Starliters.

During his career, he photographed Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Simmons, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, and Judy Garland.

Golden Hollywood ( First row, left-right ) Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford ( Second row, left-right ) John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas ( Third row, left-right ) Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney ( Fourth row, left-right ) Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren ( Fifth row, left-right ) Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

MGM stars included at various times " King of Hollywood " Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Gloria Stuart, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, Audrey Hepburn and Buster Keaton.

Judy Garland spoofs a movie star who can only be cast in Oscar winning dramas, but wants to play " sexy " roles ( a la Greer Garson, or Katharine Hepburn ) giving an interview to dancing reporters about " her next picture ": a bio-pic of Madame Cremantante ( the " inventor of the safety pin ").

Colette had personally picked the yet unknown Audrey Hepburn on first sight to play the title role.

* In Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play ), a wealthy woman named Violet Venable ( Katharine Hepburn ) wants her niece Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ) lobotomized to silence her talk about Violet's son Sebastian's homosexuality.

He had been through a dark patch personally — culminating with a stay in hospital — and Hepburn felt that a play would help restore his focus.

Fonda won an Academy Award for his work with Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond ( 1981 film ) | On Golden PondOn Golden Pond in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda.

The play was adapted into a 1968 film, with Peter O ' Toole as Henry and Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor, and a 2003 television movie, with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close.

Concerning the matter, Hepburn stated: " There was a lovely part for Kathy, my niece [...] She would play Spencer's and my daughter.

" When I went to play a scene with Tracy and Hepburn, I couldn't remember a word.

After briefly considering his cousin Carole Lombard for the role of Susan Vance, Katharine Hepburn was chosen to play the wealthy New Englander because of her own background and similarities to the character.

Hepburn was so impressed by Catlett's talent and coaching ability that on her insistence he was hired to play Constable Slocum in the film.

Within three minutes, he chose Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Jean Arthur, though Arthur was not the first choice to play Marian ; Katharine Hepburn was originally considered for the role.

Warner was criticized for choosing a non-singing star, Audrey Hepburn, to play the leading role of Eliza Doolittle, and indeed that year's Academy Award for Best Actress went to Julie Andrews, who had played Eliza on Broadway and the London Stage, for Mary Poppins, while Audrey Hepburn was not even nominated.

The relationship between Hulme, Habets and Hepburn is explored in Zoe Fairbairns ' radio play The Belgian Nurse first broadcast on BBC Radio Four in January 2007.

The play was turned into a film starring Bette Davis, and again into a made-for-television film starring Katharine Hepburn, under the direction of Williams's close friend George Cukor.

The play was made into a 1962 film, starring Katharine Hepburn as Mary, Ralph Richardson as James, Jason Robards, Jr. as Jamie, Dean Stockwell as Edmund, and Jeanne Barr as Cathleen.

Otto Frank personally wrote to Audrey Hepburn, asking her if she would play the part of his daughter Anne.

Frank told Hepburn that his daughter would have been honored to have such a famous Hollywood actress play her on film, and he also noted the striking resemblance that existed between Anne and Hepburn when she was an adolescent.

The search for an actress to play Scarlett in the film version of the novel famously drew the biggest names in the history of cinema, such as Bette Davis ( whose casting as a Southern belle in Jezebel in 1938 took her out of contention ), and Katharine Hepburn, who went so far as demanding an appointment with producer David O. Selznick and saying, " I am Scarlett O ' Hara!

Katharine Hepburn was eager to play in the screen version, but the Hollywood censors weren't ready for a woman to be " sloshed " on screen for two acts and be rewarded with a happy ending.

" The following year she co-starred with Katharine Hepburn and Julia Barr in the play The West Side Waltz.

* The Lake, 1933 Broadway play with Katharine Hepburn

It was adapted from Laurents ' 1952 play The Time of the Cuckoo, which was the basis for the 1955 film Summertime starring Katharine Hepburn.