Audrey Hepburn or Katherine Hepburn?

But I would not be without either Hepburn.

The pair are very distantly related. K's dad was a very famous urologist, her mum was an early suffragette and advocate of legalising abortion. Audrey was, on her mother's side, minor royalty.

Katharine's drunken scene in Bringing Up Baby is perfection - the way she curls her toes when she's picked up is just brilliant. But then Audrey has such grace and poise. I will not pick, it's like asking a mother to choose between her children.

However, as time goes on, I find that I am likin Katharine more. That voice = rowr.

Let's get real tho' Neither could hold a candle to:

Try this if it doesn't work a 2nd time (sigh)

Bad point is I take the K Hepburn/S Tracy bitchfest as perfect model for male/female relationship, therefore boys scared of my putdowns which I don't bother with uunless I care. But the best thing of hers is Summertime, where she falls into canal in Venice. That whole film = swoon.

Speaking of wrong, phuck AMC for putting commercial breaks into their movies thus spoiling my enjoyment of Sabrina. I used to wuv AMC, but now they are bar-stards.

weird question i know but i'm just curious for some reason.

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Maybe. A really sexy 12-year-old boy, though.

"don't say anything, hilary. just... go."

my grandfather gave me a bio of her to read - kate remembered. i started but then got sidetracked, but even the first few pages were more entertaining than most audrey hepburn movies.

http://delirium.lejournal.free.fr/Katharine_Hepburn1.jpg

I do prefer Audrey but her character in breakfast at tiffany’s did my head in, no guy would put up with that.

Katherine wins... just

You mean dud or Dutch? ;-) I do know that she could speak Dutch quite well. I think her granny made sure she continued using the language so she didn't forget it. I think she's so lovely. Very ethereal. Like a fragile porcelain angel. But not really sexy. If I remember correctly she said she was so skinny because of the war: the atrocities made her feel guilty of eating (or something along those lines). :-(

it's very telling that so many people prefer audrey.

Very ethereal. Like a fragile porcelain angel

if i wanted one of those, i'd buy it off the home shopping network.

Katherine - knockout ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KH_40s-10.jpg and better actress. Admired for her confidence
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Katharinehepburn1.jpg
..which got annoying with old age.

Still, Kate.

Audrey wears me down if I see too much of her. Although I like her more in the abstract.

College-Aged Female Finds Unlikely Kindred Spirit In Audrey Hepburn

Catching up, catching up.

I've been listening to the Julie Ruin's Run Fast in the car for a couple of days. My favourite song is "Lookout"--found this video. Could do without the oversized lyrics blocking out all the images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4id-3mw2hsI

The new doc is not good.

in fact, it is absolutely terrible

I liked it a lot.

Pretty sure I just watched my first-ever Audrey this week (The Children's Hour). Probably not the best intro to her allure but she was quite good in it.

re Audrey - Sabrina, Funny Face, Green Mansions, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Children’s Hour, Charade - she was great in all of them

Roman Holiday, My Fair Lady, and Wait Until Dark are my favorite performances of hers

19 years later, still so embarrassed that i got kate’s name wrong in the thread title

Katharine has the more impressive career by far.

Nothing in common, these two.

I can think of one thing.

They were into threeways and pistachio ice cream

Beat me to it.

Both Katherine and Audrey were slotted into very particular types of roles throughout their careers. How one relates to them is bound to be largely dependent on how one relates to their typical characters, with a small side order of how one relates to their biographies. I happen to relate better to Katherine than Audrey, just as a matter of my personal tastes.

Just because I got to watch and hear her for 90 minutes, I thought the documentary was pretty good. The framing bit with the ballet dancers was quite unnecessary, and they skipped over a few crucial films for some reason: Charade, The Nun's Story, The Children's Hour. (Skipping Bloodline, which played when I was an usher in 1979, a little more understandable.) I didn't know anything about her war experiences, and if I've ever seen Mel Ferrer in a film, I'm drawing a blank. (Like many, I'm sure, I probably always thought she was married to José Ferrer.) I found that guy who swooped in near the end--"Merle Oberon's companion"--a little suspicious, but it seemed like a important relationship in her life. Her time with UNICEF was moving.

Charade is fun. But so is To Have and Have Not.

I see no necessity to choose.

Wait, fuck, did I really just write that? Not To Have and Have Not. African Queen.

(Lauren Bacall vs Rosalind Russell would be just as difficult, tho - To Have and Have Not vs His Girl Friday)

Would have been KH's birthday today, so I played this clip from Woman of the Year for a grade 8 class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H00_NJtbJY

First time--I should have been playing this clip for the last 20 years! All that eye-play when they first look at each other--amazing.