Katharine Hepburn - Philadelphia Story

[2legit64]

The whole cast and the snappy dialog were absolutely brilliant in this film. I really need to get my own copy of it soon.

[TurthanNatner]

It's Devlin from Notorious!! Gotta love college film class...

[TurthanNatner]

And then its the guy in the wheelchair from Rear Window!!

[rosabaca21]

A true classic!

What a awesome movie!Katharine was the best female actress ever!

[mctalks]

Between the story, the screen writing, the directing and the quality of the actors I don't believe there was a better movie ever made.

[JameelaTiffanieMejia]

ah, the transatlantic accent. gotta love it

[LoquaciousApe]

@JameelaTiffanieMejia *Mid-Atlantic

[TheAmbrose1987]

@LoquaciousApe - Jameela was right, Cary Grant has a transatlantic accent.

[LoquaciousApe]

@TheAmbrose1987 "Transatlantic accent" is most likely a misunderstanding that went viral. "Transatlantic" refers to anything occurring across or crossing the Atlantic Ocean, e.g., "Transatlantic Slave Trade." Mid-Atlantic, on the other hand, refers to a region in the United States, specifically in the north east, where this accent was popularized.

[deppthinking]

@tuesday1newday I try! :)

[mashkaNIKOLAEVNA999]

I soooooooo much love Katharine Hepburn!!! She's a unique beauty! I wish I look like her! Such fine features! Thank you so much for uploading this video! I love her great acting too! She looks very elegant! ^^

[deppthinking]

I love when he says, "No Red- not of you; never of you."

[catslikeyarn4545]

howard hughes got up in that

[lowkeygoddess]

my sister acts like Kat Hepburn in this movie

[NERTAJET]

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filmlerini çooooooooooooooook beğenerek izlerdik

[katysweet13]

Why did people from back then talk so much.. better? I mean the sound of their voices aswell, it's beautiful to listen to

[1simaddict1]

Happy Birthday Ms. Hepburn

[tklogan111809]

Phony poseur, never got K Hepburn. She never created real characters in the same league if Bette Davis, de Haviland or V Leigh I don't care how many Oscars she got. Stallone won a Oscar too.

[maalaea]

yes, you am are you

[maalaea]

superb writing.

[jbilotta]

@maalaea

I concur.

When they could write a good screenplay.

[maalaea]

1:03. umm. lol.

[maalaea]

... until you've had some small regard for human frai... doe! lol.

[maalaea]

today's love story, is who can i cheat on. who can i cheat with? that's the jist of it.

[maalaea]

i came here after watching aviator. now i know why she's the only one with 4 academy awards.

[morgaffi]

"Yes you am, are you." Awesome. She was a beautiful actress with beautiful timing.

[0casteloencantado0]

damn it! this is precisely the one clip i needed to embed, and it's not possible!!!!

[crushxcrushxbaby]

@zzzzzzozz it's easier to view these old films as stage-style acting, then you can see the beauty of someone like katherine's acting =)

[folieadeux16]

@zzzzzzozz I agree it is less realistic but I think that's what's so charming about old films

[ortalliberty]

Ok maybe I'm strange but - it was sexy - from 1:17 until the end of the video. Both sexy. Ahahahahahahahahahahah

[jceowoodard]

Wow o wow, stars today are out of their league up against Kate Hepburn

She has the most oscars for a female and no female today can still match her quality performance

[audreygivenchy]

The only actress who can compete with hollywood golden age era is MERYL STREEP without a doubt

[morgaffi]

Here's the thing about Katharine Hepburn, something that makes her great in a way that's usually overlooked. Three of the greatest male stars of all time -- Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, and Henry Fonda -- all won just one Academy Award. And each of them were playing with Hepburn as their female lead.

She brought their considerable talents the same way she brought out our appreciation for her. What a phenomenal woman she was.

[katherinedd88]

Damn. Cary Grant is MUCH better actor than people give him credit for. People think of him more as a movie star (which he was), but he could ACT with the best of them. Just listen to the way he delivers the line about having "regard for human frailty". He's remarkable. His performance in this movie, Notorious, and comedies such as His Girl Friday show how good he really was.

[skipplet]

She's hot.

[limpidd]

such gorgeous women in this era.

[Starfighterking]

Katharine Hepburn is one of the best American Actor of all Time,

[gizmokeeper]

yes you am are you... haha!

[dodginraindrops]

LOL very nice.

[caribeandude1]

Katherine Hepburn is brilliant and riveting in everything she did.  They just don't come like her anymore.

[Duggysgurl]

now this was a real actress

[VivaMaiten]

She's so hot.

[LoveRabby]

This movie is SO sexy to me. I actually dreamed about 1:17 after rewatching the movie recently, but it was boyfriend and myself. <3 <3 XD Sweet dreams! I love when Kate pushes Jimmy around in the wheelchair at another part!

[Dreamydre15]

I loved the Roaring Twenties, I'm a 90s baby, but I swear everyone up and down that I was born into the wrong decade. I'd love to live through the 20s. My Great-Grandmother was born in 1926, my Great-Great Grandmother Eunice was born in 1900, I think she's lucky to have been around during this time period.

[sohc77]

J would like to fuck with her all week!!

[procommenter]

Trouser-wearing miscreant Katharine Hepburn's death has ended the fornication that deflowered starlets for decades. Kate'll know not forevermore the pitiably "humptastic" joys associated with the defining perversity of her long life of debauched mummery.

[Joylibelle]

@procommenter What?

[xwinkwinko]

I'm going to start speaking with that accent

[hanks864]

Where is her accent from? It's finest!

[hillsidebeesknees14]

@hanks864 she'sfrom conneticut.

[hanks864]

@hillsidebeesknees14 Thanks!

[vulgarpurity]

@hanks864 Her accent is colloquially called the Locust Valley Lockjaw. It used to be the upper-class American accent associated with elite residents of NY metropolitan area. President Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis also spoke with this accent.

[hanks864]

@vulgarpurity ooh! thast's better answer! thanks a lot... I love her face and accent, she looks like royalty..

[0casteloencantado0]

the first one is my absolute favourite scene from this movie, which, coincidentally, is one of my favourite movies.

[ripentheconclave]

big ups to the actual writers of Phil. Story.

[781nellie]

Great actors, great movie, so much fun, such great lines, the dialog is just perfect...

[BehindTheSea29]

mmmm, Katherine Hepburn...now that's a woman!

[gilmoregirlsmylove]

CARY AND JAMES ARE SUCH BABES

[Sconz32]

"Yes you are am you" - I wonder if that was in the script or a slip of the tongue. It's delicious.

[pl497713]

favorite movie of all time. we'll never find actors and actresses like these again.

[Shubael1809]

@pl497713 It's called an old school Brahmin accent.  It's roots are in British, not American English. Those who speak most like it today are those who live on Beacon Hill in Boston.

[panzano1]

@Shubael1809 Or people who attended Bryn Mawr College. I knew a woman who went there in the 1930s and sounded exactly like Hepburn.

[Shubael1809]

@panzano1 My paternal grandfather spoke with precisely Hepburn's cadence. This accent was considered "high end" in New England. Many on Beacon Hill in Boston still use it (though it's dying out). Certainly Franklin Roosevelt had it as did his wife Eleanor. There was a times when the genuine New England accent was baredly discernable from the English spoken in quality circles in England. All the "sister schools" produced women who spoke thusly.

[panzano1]

@Shubael1809 -- Wow, hope springs eternal. Every time I've ever posted a remark on YouTube I've lived to regret it because the people writing back have invariably been hostile, uncouth, illiterate ranting nutjobs. The last time I said anything on YouTube I got some crazy neo-Nazi spewing his poison. But then along came your response and I suddenly thought, there ARE civilized people commenting on YouTube. Thanks, you brightened my day.

[Shubael1809]

@panzano1 I've experienced YouTube much as you have. But never have I had someone thank me in an open post for being civil. It's appreciated more than I can tell you (albeit it makes a rather sad statement about the present state of this society). And I agree; "hope DOES spring eternal". Perhaps we'll start a trend. ;-)

[Shubael1809]

@pl497713 I've never understood why Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were given a free pass when everyone knew about their affair during his marriage where Ingrid Bergman was drummed out of Hollywood for her relationship with Roberto Rosselini. Seems like a terrible double standard.

Katharine Hepburn, though terribly talented, had an ego the size of Greenwich, Connecticut in my opinion.

[pl497713]

@Shubael1809 haha. must be a pretty darn big city then. still a good actress though

[mikelinbasher]

I've always wondered why the characters in the old movies spoke like that - now I know =)

Also, Shirley Temple spoke like this too. It's cute.

[culturevulture123]

I LOVE HER VOICE

[Pyromaniac721]

I love that Mid-Atlantic accent. More posh sounding than American, but not quite British.

[pl497713]

@Pyromaniac721 certainly an odd one

[nickelsT]

Thank God she was Irish. How wonderful. An Italian Kate Hepburn would have been an emotional nightmare!!!! Italians have so many UNHEALTHY INSECURITIES.

[Ecdysiast96]

you know there is another twelve o clock in a few hours. If you want to see me tonight you can call before then. My doorbell doesn't work. You don't have to fix it. My landlord loves fixing things, I just haven't told him to fix it yet. I think I have more or less told you how I feel. More? or less?

[KtotheY77]

what a great actor and actress and great movie!

[d1sintegration]

i wish i could speak with a transatlantic accent :'(

unfortunately i can't start from either end because i'm aussie

[GosfordAbercrombie]

someone really should've taken a flat iron to this woman's hair!!!! she had the old lady strays when she was young!!!! still fabulous tho!!!

[LexiixoxRoxx]

A flat iron? Oh God no! That was nowhere near attracttive in those days. None of the stars wore their hair that way. Curls and full hair were the thing. Flat irons are in now. Besides, her hair is very pretty. And it doesn't look old-lady-like at all. Besides, it's the acting that counts.

[RETROGEMS]

@GosfordAbercrombie

Actresses' hair looked one billion times better in the 1940's and 50's, than today's actresses, whose hair is practically plastered to their foreheads. Wavy hair is considered gorgeous by nearly everyone.

[d12cho28]

we all know the end of the movie but her and jimmy stewart were made for each other. their chemistry is crazy

[bubbafatismycat]

Her accent is called the Locust Valley Lockjaw accent

[collegedrpout200]

i love katharine hepburn >3

[RyanMinaker]

what kind of accents are these

[macavelli07]

THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL TRANS ATLANTIC ACCENT...... half british half american its fooooked up

[RyanMinaker]

how does one end up with that

[alpe1987]

i think its known a bryn mawr accent. its name after the college she attended.

[moviechick007]

ok...it could be because I'm recently divorced and on the dating scene again....but where we debonair men? did they exist only in movies? I know its an odd question, but debonair is so nice...sexy, intelligent, chivalrous...butch...lol....

[SuperBitchCircus]

Eh, I think debonair and butch don't really go together

[MrsLonChaney]

Don't get me wrong, I'm in LOVE with KH, but this is not my favorite of her's. I prefer her in comedy. She's a fabulous actress in anything she does, but I just get more pleasure from her excellent comic timing.

[GEVMM]

Yeah, I love her comedy too. Bringing up Baby is one of my favourite films of ALL-TIME! And so is this one actually lol.

She's my idol.

[yahtzeeparty]

"Yes you am are you!"

lol

Her accent is so strange.

:DD

It sounds even more off in Red Hot RIding Hood. lol

[VeggieChick77]

lol @ her facial expression at the very end. love her.

[VeggieChick77]

She was such an amazing actress, that someone won an Oscar for playing her. :P

[CocaineHabbit]

shes easily playable though, because of her famous quirks. it'd be ten times harder to cast someone as bette davis though, and a hundred as joan crawford.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Hard to cast someone as Bette Davis? Oh, yeah! No one does Bette better than Bette. lol that sounded like a tongue twister. What do you mean a hundred Joan Crawford? You mean she's easy to cast? I wouldn't think so.

[CocaineHabbit]

a hundred times more difficult to cast somebody as joan crawford. faye dunaway was an incredibly talented actresss coming off an oscar win when she tried, and she completely missed the mark.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Oh, I agree. And I think Faye Dunaway's performance was totally off too. I don't think any actress could really pull off Bette and Joan.

[SmallvilleTwilight]

i enjoyed jimmy stewart and katherine hepburn in this movie

[MurielLovesCake]

What is an "offended virgin" and how does one act? I'm not trying to start anything, I just haven't heard that expression before and it makes me curious.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Her voice is very strange indeed, and yet, I adore it. But I know what you mean. I used to find her intolerably overrated. But now, after seeing clips of her in "Bringing Up Baby" and this movie, I absolutely adore her. But it's your opinion. You have a right to it. What actresses do you like?

[claireem86]

I love this movie! Haven't watched it for a few year but am going to dig it out when I get home! It's amazing how we always go back to these gorgeous old films - I know I sound about 80 but they jusst don't make them like that anymore! She is just stunning and I LOVE her voice!

Thanks for reminding me about this film!

[ForeverSVW]

I love this old wonderful black/white-movies. The 40s were the best decade of film-history. The best actors ever: Cary Grant, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Movies: Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, Notorious, The Maltese Falcon, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Bringing up Baby, Woman of the Year, Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, All Through the Night, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties

[aruytpadyugf]

@ForeverSVW Don't forget Kim Stanley, Marlon Brando, Judy Gardland just a few more

[donaldVEVO]

@ForeverSVW Those are my favorites too! And i love the people you listed but also Princess Grace when she was still an MGM actress, Lucille Ball (on TV and in movies), Ann Miller, Eleanor Powell, and others :) And I'm 14!

[ModernitySlays]

This was my first time to see her act--this video. I hate to say it, but it wasnt that good! I mean, to me, she seems like she's trying too hard and just reciting lines irresponsive to the other person. She's saying the lines very forcefully, of course--she leaves an impression. But watching her doesn't "absorb" me into the movie--rather, it makes me very aware that I'm watching a person trying hard at acting. This will not be a popular comment, but that's my honest first reaction...

[midvalley9]

"Yes you am are you!"

I love this movie to death.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

No they don't. That was how they acted in the old days. Before the "method" was invented.

[grannyrocks2]

"Yes, you am you are... " Great - catch that eye into the camera. ( accidently on purpose. - The one and only, Kate

[yairc19]

I wish she was alive to comment on Cate Blanchett's portryal of hers.

[LonerRebelDottie]

Ha! Agreed!

[nisiriti]

she really is quite a girl!!!!!

[peppermints53]

when doing a drama presentation my teacher said i sounded like her lol

[MissTracyLord]

When I grow up, I want to be Katharine Hepburn.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

We all do! Oh, I like your screename btw :)

[mashkaNIKOLAEVNA999]

@MissTracyLord ME TOO! I simply adore her! ^_^

[Similie]

Philadelphia Story has remained my favourite movie for forty years. I was not born when it was made but I have loved this movie since I first saw it in the early seventies. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart are top notch. I could watch this movie forever and a day...

[Classic1940s]

What a remarkable woman. :)

If only Hollywood still contained at least an eighth of actors and actresses like these. ;)

[oogie11]

@Classic1940s So true...so true ;)

[kives1985]

@Classic1940s

Lots of great actors and actresses out there: Daniel Day Lewis, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, Kate Winslet, Rachel Weizs, Dame Helen Mirren, etc. People would just rather watch robots turning in to cars or romantic comedies with baby poop jokes. Don't have to deal with all that boring "dialogue," "characterization," and "plot" that bogs down these old black and white films.

[Classic1940s]

@kives1985 Yeah, I totally see what you mean. :) I think modern-day movies have really just lost a lot of the idea of mystery and.. beauty.. that these had. Of course, as time goes on, things will change. It's just sad that they have to so much. :)

[11hellamella]

what a brilliant woman! she really was an icon! she deserved every award she has taken! she is the best actress of all times and i don t think there will be another like her ever!

[shinznay]

she was gawguss! have you seen on goldon pond' lovly film!

[followthefleet]

Well, perhaps to herself, a goddess...but she was a darned good actress for her audiences. And, that's what counts most, because we believe her performances.

[LadyArgento]

This woman was a goddess.

[makeitrocklikeitrolz]

Today's actors...Crowe, Denzel, Cheadle, and Crooney make me want to poney up $10 bucks for a movie.

[makeitrocklikeitrolz]

I grew up wanting to be classy, sexy, and brilliant like the great Kate Hepburn. And the men of yester-year were HOT (i.e. they could engage the audience visually & verbally).

There was Jimmy Stewart, Harry "the dream" Belafonte, Billy Dee Williams, Sexy Sidney Poitier, Kirk "gorgeous cheekbones" Douglas, Cary "Broad Shoulders" Grant, and the majestic Paul Robeson. O-kay, let me stop...my face is stuck in a smile mode.

Those were the days of GREAT actors, scripts, and films.

[jemappellefotini]

Don't forget Gary Cooper! He was lovely as well...but the Cary Grant is the best;-)

[godfatherofwiseguys]

men, this is really what Cate Blanchet was doing in 'the Aviator'... i had to see this for myself, i never seen a katherine hepburn film nor heard of her before i watched 'The Aviator'... i thought the acting of Cate Blanchet was kinda funny especially her voice, but after watching this, i have to say a well deserved oscar for Ms. Blanchet...

[GEVMM]

Katharine Hepburn is my idol.

[ember514]

"Yes you am, are you?"

Haha. I love it.

[GreatBroly]

she is so beautifull

[justmejules711]

thank you Lord God for NEVER giving up on a one of us!!!

[justmejules711]

such profound words..the time to make up your mind about people is NEVER!!!

[nognilk]

even George Bush?

[GEVMM]

The Philadelphia Story is one of my favourite movies

[Xiolablu3]

Very interesting, after watching this I think Kate Balnchard did a pretty good likeness in 'The Aviator'

[ramedean]

I think you mean Cate Blanchett... and yes, I agree, she's phenomenal...

[amadrienia]

Katharine Hepburn is absolutely amazing. I sympathized with her so much in The Phiadelphia Story, even if her character was a bit of a snob. The great Kate can add strength and loveability to any role.

[leosalamence19]

She's so beautiful. I want her to reincarnate!!

[houtexflex]

WOW! The second scene was a single shot, a single take no cuts, simply amazing!!!

[janfan21]

Funny you should say that, Kate Mulgrew actually played Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five a play based on her life. It was crazy how much she looked like her. She nailed the voice too

[melymbrosia]

Ahaha, I was about to make the same comment, until I read yours! I'm listening to the audiobook version of "Tea at Five" right now. Kate Mulgrew does seem a great deal happier as a person, though.

[Epsilon0726]

She looks just like Kate Mulgrew. This is the only film I've seen her in. She was a bit before my time. Was that her real voice? Don't really like it, sorry. I like James Stewart, he's cool!

[XPoetLacy]

Yes, that's her voice. She was raised in new England, and attended Bryn Mawr college. Her father was a surgeon. On top of that, vioce coaches of the day in Hollywood favored that sort of vocal quality when they instructed. Her dialect is very New England finishing school, with a touch of Hollywood polish of the era. She was an absolutely amazing person and actress. She's one of my heroes.

[munchkindelite]

This may just be my favorite film of all time. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant have wonderful, offbeat chemistry. It's so intruiging to see how he can both get under her skin and reveal the truth about her. The stone goddess begins to melt, and the process is hard to look away from.

[melymbrosia]

This sounds like a wonderful assessment. I'm going to see this movie tonight, at our city's Classic Movie Festival. I can't wait!

[XPoetLacy]

Kate and Cary Grant are two of my all-time favorite performers of the Golden Age of Hollywood. On top of which, I like and admire who they were as people, too. "The Philadelphia Story" is one of my personal faves.

[DonovanManor]

These are my 2 favorite scenes, too! :-) Thx for posting. And when she "takes responsibility" -- she doesn't lose what's great about her. She discovers what's great about everyone else and is finally able to love and be loved. "You'll never be able to be a first-rate human being till you've learned to have some regard for human frailty" (esp. your own).

[johnblacklovesmar]

This movie is painful when she has to take responsibility for everything. She gets knocked down for everything great about her:  her independence, class and smarts

[KopfAua]

why has this comment so many thumbs down?

I totally agree with it.

[LexiixoxRoxx]

Kinda like Bette Davis' qote: "When a man gives his opinion he's a man, when a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."