| 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])](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FaD6d8L%2BL._SL160_.jpg) | Directors: George Cukor, Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Walter Huston
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 113704
UPC: 085391137047
EAN: 0085391137047
ASIN: B000NJXG68
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 1933
Release Date: May 29, 2007
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| • | Six films from screen icon Katharine Hepburn are featured on this collection. The titles included are: THE CORN IS GREEN, DRAGON SEED, MORNING GLORY, SYLVIA SCARLETT, UNDERCURRENT, and WITHOUT LOVE. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R Age: 085391137047 UPC: 085391137047 Manufacturer No: 113704 |
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Product Description
Six films from screen icon Katharine Hepburn are featured on this collection. The titles included are: THE CORN IS GREEN DRAGON SEED MORNING GLORY SYLVIA SCARLETT UNDERCURRENT and WITHOUT LOVE.System Requirements:Running Time: 496 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 085391137047 Manufacturer No: 113704
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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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AFI's #1 Female Screen Legend...and rightly so! April 26, 2008
classicmoviefan (USA)
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!
 Brilliant Collection November 10, 2007
Shane (New Zealand)
Katharine Hepburn was, and still is, the greatest Hollywood actress to grace the screen.
This collection is a must as it features 6 fine films -stella performances by Hepburn in each- that had never before been released on Region 1 DVD.
If you are a fan of Hepburn, or a fan of classic Hollywood films - buy this collection.
The special features on each disk leave a bit to be desired (some new documentaries and any behind the scenes or outtakes might have been nice), but the real importance is the films.
And each of them are enjoyable classics.
It holds a firm place in my ever increasing Katharine Hepburn collection, and it should in yours.
The Corn is Still Green October 16, 2007
Sharon Lynn Farley (Colton's Point, Maryland United States)
Despite the ugliness of the packaging - all that cheap plastic is definitely Un-Kate - there is one gem in the collection that deserves its own separate release: The Corn is Green. It's a made-for-tv movie directed by George Cukor, shot on location in glorious Wales. Hepburn is divine, but supported for a change by a galaxy of marvelous players. Rent the Bette Davis version so you can see how good this is by comparison. Warner's early version of Emlyn Williams' play is dreadful, and Davis was much too young for the role. There was no location shooting in those days, and black-and-white wouldn't have helped it either. All that's left is the value of a good teacher at the right time, and they blew that. Remakes are sometimes a gift to us (think Lord of the Rings) and this is a lovely gift indeed.
Nice collection September 7, 2007
Donna Pinto (New Jersey)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a nice collection of over-looked movies but available much cheaper from BJs, Sams, places like that.
 What lousy film choices August 29, 2007
Film Buff Chris (Doylestown, PA United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Katharine Hepburn is a great actress, and she has made scores of first rate films. This collection is ludicrous as a first collection for her. "Morning Glory" is indeed good, and was her first Oscar. "Sylvia Scarlett" is weird and doesn't quite work, but it's definitely of interest - she passes as a man, which is intriguing; Cary Grant is charming and shows his music hall background. But it's also famous as the film Hepburn and director George Cukor APOLOGIZED for after it was made (to the producer). "Undercurrent" is faintly interesting, as Katharine worries if husband Robert Mitchum is dangeorus; but she's hardly at her best as a worried wife. "Without Love" is probably the dullest Tracy-Hepburn film, and Lucille Ball probably gives the best (supporting) performance in it. "Dragon Seed" is a famously bad film which even at the time was ridiculed for all these Caucasions pattering around playing Asians. (Once you get over the disconcerting casting, I admit Hepburn has good moments in it, as does Walter Huston.) I've never seen the tv version of "Corn is Green," maybe it's okay, I don't love that story, and don't love the Bette Davis version either.
But here are brilliant Hepburn films (and performances) that could or should be in a collection: "Little Women," "Alice Adams" (fabulous performance, excellent film), "Stage Door" (great movie, and has the "callalilies" lines), "Holiday," "Bringing Up Baby" (classic screwball comedy, one of the best), "The Philadelphia Story."
"The African Queen" is a fabulous film, needs to be on a US dvd soon. All these OTHER Tracy-Hepburn are worthy: "Woman of the Year," "Adam's Rib," "Pat and Mike," "State of the Union," even "Desk Set" (charming), "Keeper of the Flame" (unusual story), "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." "Summertime" is great; "Rainmaker" is moving and good. She's great in "Suddenly Last Summer," excellent in "A Delicate Balance." Her performance in "Long Day's Journey into Night" is truly great, and psychologically complex. Of her tv movies, "Love Amid in the Ruins" is very good, and it has Laurence Olivier too. Oh, and "Lion in Winter."
Gosh, with this many great movies, how did they come up with this list??? (Maybe rights is a big part of the answer, but even so.) So better to buy your Hepburn films separately for now. Hope a more valuable, less obscure Hepburn collection comes out someday.
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