Fonda next acted in Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace ( 1956 ), in which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn ; it took two years to shoot.

After a week of frantic effort hiring staff, borrowing a tin shed at the RAAF base at Laverton because Essendon Airport had been turned into mud by heavy rain, creating operations manuals, passenger manifests, tickets, and load sheets — even making passenger steps and baggage carts because there was no time to buy them in the ordinary way — Captains Hepburn and Nickels took off from Laverton at 5: 45 am bound for Sydney.

Tillman took the lead in railroad regulation, though his foe, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt outmaneuvered him in passage of the Hepburn Act of 1906.

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!

Barr took a 15-month break from the show beginning in 1981, during which time she toured with Katharine Hepburn and Dorothy Loudon in the national touring company of West Side Waltz.

After the Ontario Liberal Party under Mitchell Hepburn took power in the 1934 provincial election Ellis moved to the Opposition bench where he achieved prominence as finance critic.

Whenever it was pointed out to Spencer Tracy that he routinely took top billing in his films with Katharine Hepburn, he responded, " It's a movie, not a lifeboat.

The show took home several Emmy Awards, including Hepburn and Olivier for Outstanding Performance, and Cukor for Outstanding Directing.

As guardian of James, afterwards King James VI at Stirling Castle he prevented the young prince from falling into the hands of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, and when the Scottish nobles rose against Mary and Bothwell, Mar was one of their leaders ; he took part in the government of Scotland during Marys imprisonment at Lochleven Castle, and also after her subsequent abdication.

Nixon took further inspiration from the leading protagonist of the 1939 play The Philadelphia Story, Tracy Lord, portrayed on stage and film by actress Katharine Hepburn.

Some questions took a form such as " Name the three films for which Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Hepburn often overacted and tried too hard to be funny, so Hawks asked vaudeville veteran Walter Catlett to help coach Hepburn.

Hawks and Hepburn had a confrontation one day during the shooting.

While Hepburn was chatting with a crew member, Hawks was yelling " Quiet!

When Hepburn paused in speech and realized that everyone was looking at her, she asked what was the matter and Hawks asked her if she was finished imitating a parrot.

When Hawks, who was an even older friend of all of the crew and technicians, asked a lighting tech who he'd rather drop a light on, Hawks won the argument and Hepburn agreed to behave herself on set.

The dialogue is a homage to Howard Hawks ' His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), while Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance as fast-talking reporter Amy Archer is reminiscent of Rosalind Russell and Katharine Hepburn, in both the physical and vocal mannerisms.

This movie, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, was underappreciated on first release but later recognized as a unique classic.

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

Hawks intended this movie to be a homage to his own 1938 screwball classic Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and unsuccessfully tried to get the original stars to reprise their roles.

Her work includes co-writing the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby ( for which she had also written the original story, published in the mass-market magazine Collier's Weekly ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and was directed by Howard Hawks, and the screenplay for I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Cary Grant and again directed by Howard Hawks as well as co-wrote The Unseen.

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.

When Yeston went to ask permission to make the show a musical, Fellini told him he already received a letter from Hepburn and gave him permission.

As Hecht told Mike Wallace in a 1958 interview, " the movie was written for a lady, Miss Katharine Hepburn, and ended up instead as a role for the hero, Mr. Bob Hope, Miss Hepburn was removed from it by fifty percent.

Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy visited him at this time.

A thank-you letter from Katharine Hepburn to Alan Light thanking him for his condolences in regards of Cary Grant's death

The movie stars Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison repeating his stage performance as Professor Henry Higgins, and which will win him his only Academy Award for Best Actor.

Hepburn greatly admired Tracy, calling him " the best movie actor there was ".

Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed him to the kitchen: " Just as I was about to give door a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor — then clump — a loud clump.

Hepburn recalled, " He looked so happy to be done with living, which for all his accomplishments had been a frightful burden for him.

In addition to wins for Hepburn ( Best Actress ), and Thompson ( Screenplay ), On Golden Pond brought Fonda his only Oscar-for Best Actor ( he was the oldest recipient of the award ; it also earned him a Golden Globe Best Actor award ).

Their partnership elevated them both to stardom ; as Katharine Hepburn reportedly said, " He gives her class and she gives him sex appeal.

Spencer Tracy was dying and insurance companies refused to cover him ; Kramer and Hepburn put their salaries in escrow so that if he died, filming could be completed with another actor.

Due to Tracy and Hepburn's close history with Kramer, Poitier cited that Hepburn and Tracy came to bear on him " the kind of respect they had for Kramer, and they had to say to themselves ( and I'm sure they did ), This kid has to be pretty okay, because Stanley is nuts about working with him ".

Undercurrent, another of Mitchum's early noirs, featured him playing against type as a troubled, sensitive man entangled in the affairs of his brother ( Robert Taylor ) and his brother's suspicious wife ( Katharine Hepburn ).

His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

Hepburn, at the time professing a deep concern about radicals among auto workers and supported by the owners of the plant and General Motors, organized a volunteer police force to help him put down the strike when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to send the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

However, King was politically much stronger than Hepburn and federal Liberal supporters as well as those who thought an erratically driven rift between the provincial and federal parties was suicidal called for him to step down.

Unbeknownst to him, Katharine Hepburn was in the audience, and after seeing it and liked it, she wrote to Fellini saying she had seen a wonderful show based on his movie.

But John Hepburn, prior of St Andrews, having obtained the vote of the chapter, expelled him, and was himself in turn expelled by Andrew Forman, Bishop of Moray, who had been nominated by the pope.

While Nixon was unable to lead the party to power, he was credited with strengthening its position, making him one of the more successful Liberal leaders between Mitchell Hepburn and David Peterson.

Sinclair was re-elected in the 1934 election that brought the Liberals to power but Hepburn, the new Premier of Ontario, did not appoint him to Cabinet.

He then spent much of the next years in England, and after James V died following the Battle of Solway Moss, Hepburn signed a pact with Henry VIII promising to serve him and aid the commitment of the then infant Mary, Queen of Scots, into Henry's custody.