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Katharine Hepburn: John Barrymore
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None of those films did well, and Hepburn sometimes seemed stilted or querulous. But beginning with the pretentious show-off who learns better sense in Alice Adams (1935), she had an extraordinary run. She was dressed as a boy in parts of Cukor's risky Sylvia Scarlett (1936). For John Ford, she gave perhaps her most romantic performance, as Mary Of Scotland (1936). In Stage Door (1937), she had wonderful battles of repartee with Ginger Rogers.
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In true Hepburn fashion, she demanded an outlandish $1,500 per week for film work (at the time she was earning between $80 and $100 per week). After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her demands and cast her. At 5 feet, 7 inches (1.71 m), Hepburn was one of the tallest leading ladies of her time.[2] Her film career was launched alongside legendary actor John Barrymore and director George Cukor, who would become a lifetime friend and colleague. In one of Barrymore's many attempts to seduce her, he pinched Kate's behind on the set. She said, "If you do that again I'm going to stop acting." Barrymore replied, "I wasn't aware that you'd started, my dear."
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Without two accomplished players, John Huston could never have achieved his highly audacious purpose of a virtually two-character film, but Miss Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart are entirely up to their jobs. (Feb. 21, 1952)
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