Talent, technique, ego all mixed together to make something wonderful - not a computer production - craft and art coming together for our pleasure - Today the theatre is radio and second rate movies transferred to the stage - yesterday's mashed potatoes. No balls. No risk
I saw this twice..and it was a brilliantly flawed show. Hepburn's inability to sing is besides the point, as it was with Rex Harrison. She WAS Chanel (and as always, she WAS Hepburn!). When the curtain came down, and the set started rotating for the curtain call, finally stopping for Hepburn after all the others had taken their bows, it was the thunder of a rock show. I felt the floors shaking in that theater. Brilliant stuff...
I love Kate, she had a fine romance with the theater to fine notices but found her true love in movies. i have little doubt had her interests been reversed, she would have had as many Tonys as she ended up with oscars. That being said, this was the most grating cruel voice I have ever heard on a stage. Harrison,Channing,Stritch,even Glynnis Johns could carry it off. I'll bet she'd be fine otherwise. It just isn't her thing.
Glad you can appreciate this snippet, aasjb4ever, because it WAS amazing in person. Saw this as a young teenager with my mom, drug to the theatre by her, prejudices were quickly overcome when Kate came onstage. Maybe it was her legendary screen history, or her stage presence, but when she came on, you looked at nothing else. She was captivating. And, this finale was awesome. You had to listen to the first act to get why it went red. Wasn't prepared to be overcome by the power of live theatre.
So that is the famouns 'red dress' number I have heard so much about over the years. It's like a drag queen's supreme fantasy. And all that red is really quite atrocious...I mean what is the symbolism...menstraution gone wild? And when Hepburn returns to her solo...it is the MOST DIFFICULT thing to watch.
I thought Carol Channing was the worst creature in the theatre...but I was wrong. Katherine Hepburn takes the cake as the MOST DIFFICULT performer to listen to. SHe is positively odious!! Phhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
This looks like it must have been a spectacular production, but it must have been awful hard to maneuver on that rotating set! This is also gloriously long! Today at the Tony's, shows only get 3 minutes or something. The "Ragtime" performance was practically over before it had begun.
This is the first I've heard Katharine Hepburn sing since that minor thing in Bringing Up Baby with Cary Grant. (She sang "I can't give you anything but love" but not as an act, as a call to the Leopard)
Me parece estupenda. Nunca la había visto a Katharine como Coco. Es increíble, parece la mismísima Chanel. Y pese a que no cante tan bien, es una actriz estupenda. El primer detalle pasa desapercibido gracias a su increíble talento para la interpretación.
Yes, you're right , late 60's . When I was a student at Parsons we had a fabulous girl called Cathy (Kathy?) who modelled for our fashion drawing classes and she had been a dancer and had been one of the Follies girls in Sondheim's 'Follies' and had also been in 'Coco', so she must have known your friend.
I think she was dating Jonathan Tunick at the time. Anyway, wish I had seen the original productions of both.
Kate being Kate, love her or hate her she certainly was a force to be reckoned with and looked like NOBODY else! Bennett's staging is brilliant: but the waspish (albeit hugely talented) Mr. Beaton's costumes are so 1970's and have not the faintest whiff of any day, month or year between 1920 and 1960.
Actually they're very 1960's. One of the girls in red is a good friend of mine, and she became very close with Hepburn, and said Kate was wonderful to the cast. She also has a whole bunch of original slides of the show and of Hepburn which were taken by Beaton and given to her. She modeled a lot of clothes for Beaton. I always wonder how much those slides are worth!
Enough sqabbling over the comments of Beaton. This show was yet another display of Kate's great talent to let you forget the actress herself and believe the charater she was portraying. Totally immersed in the role. Breathtaking!!
Also, I doubt you respect Hepburn, since you reproduce all the negative, mean and nasty comment Beaton tells about her. Nothing constructive here. I Prefer to have your own opinion about her. It would be more interesting an appropriate here.
As for beaton, he was an hypocrit rat. He wanted to be famous and hang around to take pictures of stars like Garbo. He even try to convince her to marry him. Not very credible as a gay man. So I dont think there is anything historical about his memoirs. Its only comment from a guy who wanted fame and was an opportunist. Notice that I did not use vulgar words to talk to you. You can reproduce the entire biography of him here, and still its a fantasy from an inflated ego. Go do your homeword boy.
Since you seems to hate Hepburn, you try to convince us that she is was demon with the comment of hypocrits who were coward. I still think she is a great star, and a good human being. She did not had a mask she was true to herself and people. Davis was more tortured and mean in real life. She was not a nice person. But still I can see that she had a good talent as an actress. Beside you only see what you want to see in a person. Depend if you hate her or like her.
What the hell is wrong with you? My god, the rod up your ass has a rod up it's ass. For the record, I put this account here for historical reference. It's fascinating and well written, even if it is just one man's opinion. I myself respect Hepburn, for being herself if anything else.
I read books and look at interviews from Hepburn, Davis and many others stars since 35 years. Hepburn is the only star who honestly admit her selfisness and other bad things. For that she got all my respect. She dont pretend to be somebody else. I doubt you know much about her, since you only take the nasty things some people said. I dont care about that. Davis daugther wrote some very interesting things about her dark side... Do you all believe it?
"Up till then she has, to my way of thinking, been as unlike Chanel as anyone could be. With the manners of an old sea salt, spreading her ugly piano-calved legs in the most indecent positions, even kicking her protégée with her foot in the "London" scene, standing with her huge legs wide apart and being in every gesture as unfeminine and unlike the fascinating Chanel as anyone could be. Her performance is just one long series of personal mannerisms...
Cecil Beaton's hilariously scathing memoirs of Hepburn during this time:
"It may suit Hepburn to stay on to receive the applause of the multitudes. She is the egomaniac of all time and her whole life is devised to receive the standing ovation that she has had at the end of her great personality performance. As the play nears its end and she is sure of her success, she becomes raged, the years roll off her, and she becomes a young schoolmistress...
"Up till then she has, to my way of thinking, been as unlike Chanel as anyone could be. With the manners of an old sea salt, spreading her ugly piano-calved legs in the most indecent positions, even kicking her protégée with her foot in the "London" scene, standing with her huge legs wide apart and being in every gesture as unfeminine and unlike the fascinating Chanel as anyone could be. Her performance is just one long series of personal mannerisms...
... I would not have thought audiences could react so admiringly, yet the first time I saw a run-through rehearsal, I was impressed and even touched. But ever since I've found her performance mechanical, inept (her timing is erratic), she stops and laughs, she falters over words, she is maladroit, and she is ugly. That beautiful bone structure of cheekbone, nose and chin goes for nothing in the surrounding flesh of the New England shopkeeper...
...Her skin is revolting and since she does not apply enough make-up even from the front she appears pockmarked. In life her appearance is appalling, a raddled, rash-ridden, freckled, burnt, mottled, bleached and wizened piece of decaying matter. It is unbelievable, incredible that she can still be exhibited in public..."
... Fred Brisson tells me that one day he will repeat the vile things she has said about me. As it is I have heard that she has complained about my being difficult, stubborn. She obviously does not trust me or have confidence in my talent. She pretends to be fairly friendly and direct, but she has never given me any friendship, never spoken to me of anything that has not direct bearing on the part that she is playing...."
..I have determined not to have a row with her, have put up with a great deal of double-crossing, chicanery and even deceit. She has behaved unethically in altering her clothes without telling me, asserting her "own" taste instead of mine. (On the first night she appeared in her own hat instead of the one that went with the blue on her costume. Instead of the Chanel jewellery she wears a little paste brooch chosen by her friend . . . in quiet good taste.) She is suspicious and untrustworthy..."
... Never has anyone been so one-tracked in their determination to succeed. She knows fundamentally that she has no great talent as an actress. This gives her great insecurity so she must expend enormous effort in overcoming this by asserting herself in as strident a manner as only she knows how. She must always be proved right, only she knows, no matter what the subject. It is extraordinary that she has not been paid out for her lack of taking advice..."
... But even if this is her last job, and it won't be, she will have had an incredible run for incredible money. She owns $20 million. She is getting $13,000 a week. But in spite of her success, her aura of freshness and natural directness, she is a rotten, ingrained viper. She has no generosity, no heart, no grace. She is a dried-up boot."
... Completely lacking in feminine grace, in manners, she cannot smile except to bare her teeth to give an effect of utter youthfulness and charm. (This, one of her most valuable stage assets, is completely without feeling.) She is ungenerous, never gives a present, and miserly. She lives like a miser, bullies Phyllis [Willbourn] and thinks only of herself day and night. Garbo has magic. Garbo is a miracle with many of the same faults..."
Well, as I saw on your channel, your another Davis fan, who is like she was toward Hepburn, jealous and frustrated. lol You must have no life to take time to write all those inept comments. As I see many times, lots of Davis fans are angry, mean and despicable, when someone is superior to their idol. But I finish with this quote From the great Hepburn: ENNEMY ARE SO STIMULATING! Good day poor thing.
What's set appart Hepburn from others stars of her generation, is that she was great in theater too. No matter her voice, she had the nerve to do a musical, and theatre is more demanding than making movies. For that she is The Ultimate star, the Queen of Hollywood. A total artist with multiple talent. Even Davis was not that complete actress.
Bullshit. Bette Davis sang in several of her movies and was BETTER at it than this. BETTE also starred in far more classic films and is famous for at least 10 classic movie lines ("bumpy night" "What a dump" "Love to kiss ya but.."). Bette Davis is the greatest movie actress in American history.
I agree with you about Bette Davis. I do think she was the best also. Absolutely. I just saw "Dark Victory" on Netflix....and all one can say is "Wow!'. Talk about immersion into a role! But here's a surprise, perhaps ...I really do think that Ginger Rogers is right there with the best. I do think her later reputation suffered for several reasons....but acting talent was not one of them. What's your opinion on Ginger? She was friends with Bette, and both benefited from strong mothers.
Oh my god---someone else finally acknowledges the BRILLIANT GINGER ROGERS! Did you see her in "Stage Door" with Kate Hepburn??? IMO, Ginger was the best thing in that movie!!! She was at a small studio, RKO and she did DANCING Flicks with Astaire--not to mention her acting was more MODERN, very realistic and natural. I think Ginger Rogers is ASTONISHING as an actress and never got her dues. *Also think Joan Crawford was better than they gave her credit.
We are in agreement on Ginger Rogers too! She was really wonderful in "Stage Door"....and incredible in "The Major and the Minor", the role of a life-time, some say. She played women of three ages in the SAME film....in a very natural, tongue-in-cheek way. Evidently she also had something to do with Billy Wilder's opportunity to do this, his first film. It's yet another of her great, American classic, (I think) 4-star films, that's not yet properly recognized.
I agree with Kate's own characterization of her singing here...She DOES sound like Donald Duck...and it hurts her presentation....at least for me. She's always playing Kate however, and Coco is a good vehicle for her. Legends are self created by the decisions an actor makes, and this is a case in point. For my money, some actresses are underrated, and others over....the overly decorated Kate is one in that latter category.
I love Kate too....but think that this was not her best "vehicle". I think she was one of the greatest...though, by her own admission, received one Oscar too many...and Bette Davis, one Oscar too few. I think the most underrated, and extraordinarily versatile (as well as glamorous), of all the old Hollywood actresses is Ginger Rogers....and for these, at least, it's easy to conceive that all three are for the ages. But for Kate, the musical was not her real forte.
This may be the gayest thing ever. And I don't mean that in a bad way. Jesus H. Christ, Michael Bennett was a god among insects. That staircase/turntable walk is breathtaking.
It's a shame this is the only visual recording of the show Coco. I wished that all the classic Broadway shows were videotaped or filmed so they would be preserved for future viewers.
Talent, technique, ego all mixed together to make something wonderful - not a computer production - craft and art coming together for our pleasure - Today the theatre is radio and second rate movies transferred to the stage - yesterday's mashed potatoes. No balls. No risk
MegaRedcliffe 4 months ago
I saw this twice..and it was a brilliantly flawed show. Hepburn's inability to sing is besides the point, as it was with Rex Harrison. She WAS Chanel (and as always, she WAS Hepburn!). When the curtain came down, and the set started rotating for the curtain call, finally stopping for Hepburn after all the others had taken their bows, it was the thunder of a rock show. I felt the floors shaking in that theater. Brilliant stuff...
musclemike1969 4 months ago
Quite a brilliant solution, really, to how do you end a musical when your star can't sing or dance.
douglasstumpf 4 months ago
I love Kate, she had a fine romance with the theater to fine notices but found her true love in movies. i have little doubt had her interests been reversed, she would have had as many Tonys as she ended up with oscars. That being said, this was the most grating cruel voice I have ever heard on a stage. Harrison,Channing,Stritch,even Glynnis Johns could carry it off. I'll bet she'd be fine otherwise. It just isn't her thing.
BTURNER1961 5 months ago
Glad you can appreciate this snippet, aasjb4ever, because it WAS amazing in person. Saw this as a young teenager with my mom, drug to the theatre by her, prejudices were quickly overcome when Kate came onstage. Maybe it was her legendary screen history, or her stage presence, but when she came on, you looked at nothing else. She was captivating. And, this finale was awesome. You had to listen to the first act to get why it went red. Wasn't prepared to be overcome by the power of live theatre.
gforcestp 7 months ago
So that is the famouns 'red dress' number I have heard so much about over the years. It's like a drag queen's supreme fantasy. And all that red is really quite atrocious...I mean what is the symbolism...menstraution gone wild? And when Hepburn returns to her solo...it is the MOST DIFFICULT thing to watch.
mylesag2 11 months ago
I thought Carol Channing was the worst creature in the theatre...but I was wrong. Katherine Hepburn takes the cake as the MOST DIFFICULT performer to listen to. SHe is positively odious!! Phhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
mylesag2 11 months ago
This looks like it must have been a spectacular production, but it must have been awful hard to maneuver on that rotating set! This is also gloriously long! Today at the Tony's, shows only get 3 minutes or something. The "Ragtime" performance was practically over before it had begun.
MonessenBandMan 1 year ago
I wish I could have seen this, it looks amazing, just from a production standpoint
aasjb4ever 1 year ago
This is the first I've heard Katharine Hepburn sing since that minor thing in Bringing Up Baby with Cary Grant. (She sang "I can't give you anything but love" but not as an act, as a call to the Leopard)
showersinger547 2 years ago 2
Me parece estupenda. Nunca la había visto a Katharine como Coco. Es increíble, parece la mismísima Chanel. Y pese a que no cante tan bien, es una actriz estupenda. El primer detalle pasa desapercibido gracias a su increíble talento para la interpretación.
Briserin 2 years ago
Yes, you're right , late 60's . When I was a student at Parsons we had a fabulous girl called Cathy (Kathy?) who modelled for our fashion drawing classes and she had been a dancer and had been one of the Follies girls in Sondheim's 'Follies' and had also been in 'Coco', so she must have known your friend.
I think she was dating Jonathan Tunick at the time. Anyway, wish I had seen the original productions of both.
antod11 2 years ago
Kate being Kate, love her or hate her she certainly was a force to be reckoned with and looked like NOBODY else! Bennett's staging is brilliant: but the waspish (albeit hugely talented) Mr. Beaton's costumes are so 1970's and have not the faintest whiff of any day, month or year between 1920 and 1960.
antod11 2 years ago
Actually they're very 1960's. One of the girls in red is a good friend of mine, and she became very close with Hepburn, and said Kate was wonderful to the cast. She also has a whole bunch of original slides of the show and of Hepburn which were taken by Beaton and given to her. She modeled a lot of clothes for Beaton. I always wonder how much those slides are worth!
Shahrdad 2 years ago
Wow, great to see a bit of Coco since I was just reading about it in Garson Kanin's book "Tracy and Hepburn"!
Awesome to get a little taste of what Coco was like. Imagine this live. You'd have chills.
Thank you so much for sharing this significant part of Kate's body of work.
gottamatch 3 years ago
And then the ending fashion show as she almost dances amongst her lifes work (recreations of her fashion from 1918-1959)is absolutley mesmerizing.
tippypc 3 years ago
Enough sqabbling over the comments of Beaton. This show was yet another display of Kate's great talent to let you forget the actress herself and believe the charater she was portraying. Totally immersed in the role. Breathtaking!!
tippypc 3 years ago
Also, I doubt you respect Hepburn, since you reproduce all the negative, mean and nasty comment Beaton tells about her. Nothing constructive here. I Prefer to have your own opinion about her. It would be more interesting an appropriate here.
Dragon345 3 years ago
As for beaton, he was an hypocrit rat. He wanted to be famous and hang around to take pictures of stars like Garbo. He even try to convince her to marry him. Not very credible as a gay man. So I dont think there is anything historical about his memoirs. Its only comment from a guy who wanted fame and was an opportunist. Notice that I did not use vulgar words to talk to you. You can reproduce the entire biography of him here, and still its a fantasy from an inflated ego. Go do your homeword boy.
Dragon345 3 years ago
I think Beaton was a bit of a misogynist - he trashed Jackie Kennedy as well. He was a vicious queen in the worst kind of way.
1814Brandan 2 years ago 4
I agree totally with you Brandan.
Dragon345 2 years ago
When Garbo refused his proposal, didn't he trash her in his diary too? Did he ever have anything nice to say about anyone?
1814Brandan 2 years ago 4
In fact thats true. Beaton was obsess to become friend with celebrity. Only to have more publicity and to inflate his selfish ego.
Dragon345 2 years ago 2
Since you seems to hate Hepburn, you try to convince us that she is was demon with the comment of hypocrits who were coward. I still think she is a great star, and a good human being. She did not had a mask she was true to herself and people. Davis was more tortured and mean in real life. She was not a nice person. But still I can see that she had a good talent as an actress. Beside you only see what you want to see in a person. Depend if you hate her or like her.
Dragon345 3 years ago
What the hell is wrong with you? My god, the rod up your ass has a rod up it's ass. For the record, I put this account here for historical reference. It's fascinating and well written, even if it is just one man's opinion. I myself respect Hepburn, for being herself if anything else.
AdArmand 3 years ago 2
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Dragon345 3 years ago
Cecil Beaton wrote that - not me! I was merely passing on his memoirs!" haha!
AdArmand 3 years ago
I read books and look at interviews from Hepburn, Davis and many others stars since 35 years. Hepburn is the only star who honestly admit her selfisness and other bad things. For that she got all my respect. She dont pretend to be somebody else. I doubt you know much about her, since you only take the nasty things some people said. I dont care about that. Davis daugther wrote some very interesting things about her dark side... Do you all believe it?
Dragon345 3 years ago
"Up till then she has, to my way of thinking, been as unlike Chanel as anyone could be. With the manners of an old sea salt, spreading her ugly piano-calved legs in the most indecent positions, even kicking her protégée with her foot in the "London" scene, standing with her huge legs wide apart and being in every gesture as unfeminine and unlike the fascinating Chanel as anyone could be. Her performance is just one long series of personal mannerisms...
AdArmand 3 years ago
Cecil Beaton's hilariously scathing memoirs of Hepburn during this time:
"It may suit Hepburn to stay on to receive the applause of the multitudes. She is the egomaniac of all time and her whole life is devised to receive the standing ovation that she has had at the end of her great personality performance. As the play nears its end and she is sure of her success, she becomes raged, the years roll off her, and she becomes a young schoolmistress...
AdArmand 3 years ago
"Up till then she has, to my way of thinking, been as unlike Chanel as anyone could be. With the manners of an old sea salt, spreading her ugly piano-calved legs in the most indecent positions, even kicking her protégée with her foot in the "London" scene, standing with her huge legs wide apart and being in every gesture as unfeminine and unlike the fascinating Chanel as anyone could be. Her performance is just one long series of personal mannerisms...
AdArmand 3 years ago
... I would not have thought audiences could react so admiringly, yet the first time I saw a run-through rehearsal, I was impressed and even touched. But ever since I've found her performance mechanical, inept (her timing is erratic), she stops and laughs, she falters over words, she is maladroit, and she is ugly. That beautiful bone structure of cheekbone, nose and chin goes for nothing in the surrounding flesh of the New England shopkeeper...
AdArmand 3 years ago
...Her skin is revolting and since she does not apply enough make-up even from the front she appears pockmarked. In life her appearance is appalling, a raddled, rash-ridden, freckled, burnt, mottled, bleached and wizened piece of decaying matter. It is unbelievable, incredible that she can still be exhibited in public..."
AdArmand 3 years ago
... Fred Brisson tells me that one day he will repeat the vile things she has said about me. As it is I have heard that she has complained about my being difficult, stubborn. She obviously does not trust me or have confidence in my talent. She pretends to be fairly friendly and direct, but she has never given me any friendship, never spoken to me of anything that has not direct bearing on the part that she is playing...."
AdArmand 3 years ago
..I have determined not to have a row with her, have put up with a great deal of double-crossing, chicanery and even deceit. She has behaved unethically in altering her clothes without telling me, asserting her "own" taste instead of mine. (On the first night she appeared in her own hat instead of the one that went with the blue on her costume. Instead of the Chanel jewellery she wears a little paste brooch chosen by her friend . . . in quiet good taste.) She is suspicious and untrustworthy..."
AdArmand 3 years ago
... Never has anyone been so one-tracked in their determination to succeed. She knows fundamentally that she has no great talent as an actress. This gives her great insecurity so she must expend enormous effort in overcoming this by asserting herself in as strident a manner as only she knows how. She must always be proved right, only she knows, no matter what the subject. It is extraordinary that she has not been paid out for her lack of taking advice..."
AdArmand 3 years ago
... But even if this is her last job, and it won't be, she will have had an incredible run for incredible money. She owns $20 million. She is getting $13,000 a week. But in spite of her success, her aura of freshness and natural directness, she is a rotten, ingrained viper. She has no generosity, no heart, no grace. She is a dried-up boot."
AdArmand 3 years ago
... Completely lacking in feminine grace, in manners, she cannot smile except to bare her teeth to give an effect of utter youthfulness and charm. (This, one of her most valuable stage assets, is completely without feeling.) She is ungenerous, never gives a present, and miserly. She lives like a miser, bullies Phyllis [Willbourn] and thinks only of herself day and night. Garbo has magic. Garbo is a miracle with many of the same faults..."
AdArmand 3 years ago
... but Hepburn is synthetic, lacking in the qualities that would make such an unbearable human being into a real artist.
I hope I never have to see her again."
AdArmand 3 years ago
Well, as I saw on your channel, your another Davis fan, who is like she was toward Hepburn, jealous and frustrated. lol You must have no life to take time to write all those inept comments. As I see many times, lots of Davis fans are angry, mean and despicable, when someone is superior to their idol. But I finish with this quote From the great Hepburn: ENNEMY ARE SO STIMULATING! Good day poor thing.
Dragon345 3 years ago
What's set appart Hepburn from others stars of her generation, is that she was great in theater too. No matter her voice, she had the nerve to do a musical, and theatre is more demanding than making movies. For that she is The Ultimate star, the Queen of Hollywood. A total artist with multiple talent. Even Davis was not that complete actress.
Dragon345 3 years ago
Bullshit. Bette Davis sang in several of her movies and was BETTER at it than this. BETTE also starred in far more classic films and is famous for at least 10 classic movie lines ("bumpy night" "What a dump" "Love to kiss ya but.."). Bette Davis is the greatest movie actress in American history.
queenambi 3 years ago
I agree with you about Bette Davis. I do think she was the best also. Absolutely. I just saw "Dark Victory" on Netflix....and all one can say is "Wow!'. Talk about immersion into a role! But here's a surprise, perhaps ...I really do think that Ginger Rogers is right there with the best. I do think her later reputation suffered for several reasons....but acting talent was not one of them. What's your opinion on Ginger? She was friends with Bette, and both benefited from strong mothers.
followthefleet 3 years ago
Oh my god---someone else finally acknowledges the BRILLIANT GINGER ROGERS! Did you see her in "Stage Door" with Kate Hepburn??? IMO, Ginger was the best thing in that movie!!! She was at a small studio, RKO and she did DANCING Flicks with Astaire--not to mention her acting was more MODERN, very realistic and natural. I think Ginger Rogers is ASTONISHING as an actress and never got her dues. *Also think Joan Crawford was better than they gave her credit.
queenambi 3 years ago
We are in agreement on Ginger Rogers too! She was really wonderful in "Stage Door"....and incredible in "The Major and the Minor", the role of a life-time, some say. She played women of three ages in the SAME film....in a very natural, tongue-in-cheek way. Evidently she also had something to do with Billy Wilder's opportunity to do this, his first film. It's yet another of her great, American classic, (I think) 4-star films, that's not yet properly recognized.
followthefleet 3 years ago
Note that Bette Davis did do theater also. One of her best was "Night of the Iguana", directed by Tennessee Williams himself!
followthefleet 3 years ago
I agree with Kate's own characterization of her singing here...She DOES sound like Donald Duck...and it hurts her presentation....at least for me. She's always playing Kate however, and Coco is a good vehicle for her. Legends are self created by the decisions an actor makes, and this is a case in point. For my money, some actresses are underrated, and others over....the overly decorated Kate is one in that latter category.
prudence999 3 years ago
I love Kate Hepburn but just imagine sitting through 2 and 1/2 hours of that vocal torture. No wonder this didn't go too far.
queenambi 3 years ago
I love Kate too....but think that this was not her best "vehicle". I think she was one of the greatest...though, by her own admission, received one Oscar too many...and Bette Davis, one Oscar too few. I think the most underrated, and extraordinarily versatile (as well as glamorous), of all the old Hollywood actresses is Ginger Rogers....and for these, at least, it's easy to conceive that all three are for the ages. But for Kate, the musical was not her real forte.
followthefleet 3 years ago
This may be the gayest thing ever. And I don't mean that in a bad way. Jesus H. Christ, Michael Bennett was a god among insects. That staircase/turntable walk is breathtaking.
tommytimp 3 years ago
It's a shame this is the only visual recording of the show Coco. I wished that all the classic Broadway shows were videotaped or filmed so they would be preserved for future viewers.
johnyzero2000 3 years ago
There will never be another Kate.
movieprod 3 years ago
Now that's true. She was ABSOLUTELY fabulous and astounding. A true original.
queenambi 3 years ago
perfection.
ObsessedActor22 3 years ago
glorious!
ipatrick2 4 years ago