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Watch romantic Romantic films, from "Pride and Prejudice" to "Roman Holiday" Metromix May 19, 2009 Kiera Knightley in "Pride and Prejudice" Giving the phrase "cheap date" a fresh spin, the folks at Loews Ventana Canyon resurrect their free summer film series.

Hollywood Reporter I guess turnabout is fair play and Hollywood is always remaking Asian films.

APPLAUSE BY DAVID A. ROSENBERG Born in Connecticut , died in Connecticut , Katharine Hepburn once wrote she felt "lucky" to live here.

There's a terrific exhibit for those visiting New York City. It's also worth the trip just for this: howing through Oct.

The annual Downtown Lawrence Film Festival starts this Thursday with a showing of "Woman of the Year," a 1940s film starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Katharine Hepburn's transvestite role -- she is disguised as an adolescent boy in the company of her fugitive father -- is really not much more out of character, nor more unwholesome, than most of her early roles.

As a kid in Philadelphia, Shirley Herz sat in the back row of the Forrest Theatre and watched Katharine Hepburn give such an inspired curtain speech , Herz decided then and there that her future lay among stage-folk. A decade later, she made it to New York, breaking into showbiz while sharing an apartment with a newcomer from Texas named Liz Smith.

The Melon Patch Players' production of the musical Meet Me in St. Louis will be presented at 2 p.m. today at the Melon Patch Theatre, 311 N. 13th St., Leesburg .

Classicflix.com reports that at long last, Paramount will release a DVD of one the great adventure-romance movies of all time: The African Queen , coming in October.

The famous Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord is about to get remarried. But no amount of money can help her keep the problems away.

The entry titled "Wrapping the Austin Social Season 1." Categories Archives Thursday, May 21, 2009, 09:22 PM 'Society? What society? In Austin?" When readers challenge my references to the just-wrapped, traditional social season, they're really questioning the concept of "high society," as in Katharine Hepburn's classic comedy, "The Philadelphia ...

O'Toole had lived in the United Kingdom since before the Second World War. The Great Kate told the 27-year-old O'Toole to get a nose job as she wanted him to play with her in Suddenly, Last Summer , which was to be shot in London.

Hapgood Theatre closes its season with the American classic "On Golden Pond" through June 7 at the Nick Rodriguez Community Center, 213 F St.

A comedic tale of strange people acting slightly crazy, yet falling in love along the way.

In the 1957 movie Desk Set , Katharine Hepburn plays a researcher at a TV station who feels her job is threatened when Spencer Tracey comes along and installs a computer that could spit out the answers in a fraction of the time.

Some movies are not inherently cinematic and their origins are usually theatrical.

More than 40 years before we elected a black president - " who is himself the product of an interracial marriage - " Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn tackled the then-tricky topic in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

HAPGOOD THEATRE COMPANY will end its 2008-09 season on a sweet note with the ever-popular American classic "On Golden Pond," opening Thursday at the Nick Rodriguez Community Center theater in Antioch.

Summertime : Summer is classically the time when teens learn big life lessons. But are you ever too old for summery revelations? Take Katharine Hepburn in David Lean's sumptuous travelogue.

Tropez Town Hall 1977 First quadraphonic concert 1991 A new cancer drug, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest, is announced 1992 Ingrid Baeyens becomes first Belgian woman to ascend Mount Everest 1993 Last broadcast of Cheers on NBC