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The absolute best Katharine Hepburn interview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2022
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My favorite "interview" with Katharine Hepburn. It's mostly her mini autobiography. She is such an Icon with a capital I. No nonsense and charming at the same time.
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That fact that she grabs her things, gets up and walks out as soon as they’re done is a beautiful moment. Classic demonstration from a no-nonsense personality doing exactly as they please, not submitting to any tradition or social influence that they don’t believe in supporting. Unapologetically being herself every moment of her life. That’s what I find so fascinating about her. It inspires me to be so likable to myself that I’m not afraid to be that person no matter what situation I’m in.
An absolutely Brilliant Actress, her performance in The Lion in Winter, was the first time I saw her. She certainly left a legacy no actress, will ever fill!!
I agree. Lion in Winter’s performance by Katherine was one of her best.
I think Katherine Hepburn is one of the few "celebrities" I would have loved to meet. Her autobiography was wonderful. I was very envious when a friend told me he once offered to share a cab with a lady and found himself sitting next to her for an amazing ride.
KathArine.: she really was bothered by her name being miss-spelled
This entire dialogue was unplanned, unrehearsed, spontaneous -- basically ad-libbed. How many interviewers could do what Cavett did here? How many guests could summon the poise, the wit, and the conversational brilliance Ms. Hepburn shows throughout? Truly remarkable.
My favorite actress! She's no cookie cutter woman for sure!
Mine as well. My favorite [movie] line of hers is _”It smells like dancing.”_
She’s chatty, full of character and certainly not guarded. The way she describes her interesting life anecdotes is just a natural flow of enthusiasm. Her quick wit might not be so PC in today’s world but she doesn’t hold back. Certainly anti-anxiety meds commonly used now could have softened up her manner but I think this athletic and forthright woman would have flushed them all down the toilet. What a delightful personality.
Utterly unique talent and spirit. this is the sort of person that you will never forget having met and I guarantee the uninitiated, if you have not seen one of Kate's Oscar nominated performances, make the time. Its not like you don't have a smorgasbord of choices there! The woman has 12 nominations and had 3 statues sent to her ( she never showed up to receive one. As I say quite a character!
Did she show up to get her Oscar for Morning Glory?
@@stxrstrxckmxteo515 she did not. No photos of her at the 6th academy awards
I don't understand why this doesn't have 2 million + views! As a massive Hepburn fan, somehow I have missed this interview and it is by far, the best , most revealing conversation I've ever seen.
“Don’t laugh, ‘cause I can do it”😏
I agree with what she says about the influences of our early years giving us confidence. It doesn't mean we don't have fear, its just we have the confidence to jump in and do what we feel we should do, despite what others think.
Yes.
She really dominates. She would scare me. I think she'd be quite critical.
She clearly was raised to speak her mind even way back then.
In a comment about three weeks ago, I was very critical of The Great Kate's behavior in this interview which I found to be very rude, but also said I think she was acting bossy out of nervousness and a need to control things because of her anxiety. I also said that Dick Cavette would have won her respect if he'd called her on her behavior or gave her a few zingers, himself. Then tonight I see this interview with Glen Close and her experience when meeting Katharine Hepburn and telling her a story about how watching THIS interview inspired her to strive to be as good an actress. AND Glen then reads a very touching letter she received from Kate. It just goes to show that human beings are complicated people and we never really know what makes most of us tick. Here's the Glen Close interview th-cam.com/video/brjZnCOQToY/w-d-xo.html
I think she was very opinionated, intimidating, and aggressive. She was still an incredible person.
My daughter wrote to her when she was about 11 and Kate wrote back. She was thrilled.
Awe. I love that! That's a class act.
That's amazing
She was 66 here in October of '73. She lived another 40 years after this interview and died at 96 years old.
Might want to revisit that math.
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30 years…
"Don't question things as time passes. Just use it".
What a lovely random, happy coincidence to find this interview on International Womens Day 2022. Could not have asked for a better free gift
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OMG. I loved that lady!! She was so great Watch her in Stage Door with Ginger Rogers. That is also Lucille Ball's movie debut-excellent movie!
It was not Lucy's movie debut BUT it was her "big break"
She reminds me of Peter O'Toole and how they both talk in later years of both.
This is GOLD. This woman is a powerhouse. I love it!! Listen to her, she wants a table to put her feet on. She needs to sit back, feet up, easy breezy. Hardly! The guy behind lights up a cigarette. She’s directing, dictating. She’s in control. Demanding? Precise? Insane? Maybe spray the carpet blue? Don’t tell me what’s wrong, just fix it. She is Hollywood royalty. She knows her craft. Some of this “performance” is to disguise nervousness, I believe. This is her personality. She’s a bulldozer, but has the talent to back it up! You do not win 4 Oscars being a mouse. LEGEND!
Thank you for posting this wonderful interview. I love her quote about feeling fear. I feel fear every day, but I go ahead and do things. I often question myself as to why I am so fearful of every little thing, even making a phone call. And having Katharine Hepburn, of all people, say that she thinks that all intelligent people feel fear is so helpful!
Couldn't agree with you more. We're all afraid; it's human. Admitting it is a sign of intelligence indeed.
@@IrishEyes1989and intelligent person realizes all the outcomes and feels each one of them which is the source of anxiety/ fear l knowing what may come. Fear is a natural part of life, that little voice that says “ this may not work out” . Intelligent people have that voice inside of them but the thing to do is to forge ahead. Fear is there but they don’t let it drive the car. Keep that fear in back seat. Most of the things we fret about never come to pass. That’s why we can’t allow our fears to rule our actions and drive the car. If we allow our fear to rule us the car won’t go anywhere. Again what’s the worse that can happen, get fired from a job that had no chance to enhance your life? Whenever one is fired they are doing you a favor, they can’t keep you from the job that keeps you happy by keeping you in a job that is enslaving you.
there is the story told of Barbara Streisand asking Kate what it was like for her to do live stage work in Coco, assuming Kate had never done live theater before. I gather the 'correction' was quick and frosty. The list of her theatrical credits includes multiple Shakespearian and classic Greek dramas and comedies, several Philip Barry plays including Philadelphia Story. Then there is a Bernard Shaw production, J.M Barrie I could go on.
In the memorable words of Kate the Great, "cold sober she's absolutely fascinating!"
Thanks for the heart-y approval, Rose. K. Hepburn is my all-time favorite actress. She continues to be a model of strength and inspiration for women and men! Have seen the complete 2-part interview many times -- even downloaded it. Seeing it again today renewed my affection for her.
There are a couple of things I noticed in this interview that I thought were very cringe worthy.
First of all, I used to watch Dick Cavett all the time when I was younger (I am 67). He can be an engaging interviewer but he did have a tendency to be star struck, and in this case, he is clearly intimidated by The Great Kate. She kept throwing zingers and outright insults at him for this reason, she was testing him and trying to get him to come back at her. I really think she would have enjoyed some zingers from him, but he was like a dog rolling over and showing its belly to the Alpha dog.
Second, I am actually shocked at how mean she is in a couple of instances. For example, you'd have to know that Dick Cavett suffered from severe depression and was taking medication for it to realize how disrespectful she is being when at one point, she refers to what she saw on his dressing room table (his medication) 18:19 - and you can see him dip his head down in embarassment. WTF? I don't care who she is, that is not the way to talk to someone and especially while on their talk show. So uncalled for. And then of course, she tells him to shut up ( 13:30 )
I also think that her bossing people around, complaining about the rug, etc. was actually about her OWN nervousness. People who feel nervous often will try to control their environment in some way. Notice the body language - her leg raised with her foot on the table, creating a protective barrier... Of course, I also think she's used to people being at her beck and call. But again, I do think that if he'd given her some of her own medicine, she would have warmed up to him.
Kate was a strong, talented, very independent woman and I admire her for all of those things, as well as for her body of work. Young woman can learn a lot from her about being self-confident (even if she did have stage fright, as she said) and being assertive. But the level of disrespect I saw in this interview was really disappointing.
I agree. Constantly interrupting and talking over the top of someone is not a sign of strength - it's just plain rudeness 😏
Agreed, and thank you for your reasoned comment. When she was forthright, I found her quite charming, but when she was abrupt and grasping I really cringed. After complaining about stage crew not listening to her, (they aren't supposed to interact with guests, at all, ever) and complaining about Cavett interrupting her, she then constantly interrupted him; I don't think he got to finish a single question in the whole interview.
She mentioned people who don't listen and only talk, and yet...
I will always enjoy her performances, but I don't think I'll ever indulge in an interview again. It left me feeling a little sad.
She actually told him to shut up. I was astonished at the rudeness - even if she were nervous, I see little merit in her 'performance' here. Could not finish watching it.
I think she was mean.
Gotta love the Stage Manager lighting up a ciggie. Those were the days. Not.
Wow, Kate's so sharp and bright. Love the way she knows what she wants and the self-deprecating humor.
a delight getting to know Ms Hepburn
Fascinating, beautiful, strong woman with an excellent interviewer!
I love it when she says "DON'T TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG. JUST FIX IT".
You love bad manners. ❤❤❤
She's simply marvelous...brilliant... authentic....humorous.....
I admired her for many reasons - her talent, independence, energy, work ethic, etc. - but she was clearly quite self-centered. Maybe it was insecurity or anxiety. When I was in high school (around age 16 or so), I collected autographs of women I admired, and I wrote her a letter explaining the things about her that I looked up to. I was so excited to get a return letter with her name on the top left corner - but when I opened it, it was a hand-typed letter from her assistant explaining that Miss Hepburn did not sign autographs. I am nearly 60 now, and I still remember this. If her assistant could take the time to type a letter, it seems like Miss Hepburn might have respected her fans enough to sign it. After all, actors and other celebrities would not have careers without their fans. Like I said - very self-centered. I don’t think she would have made a very good friend, she would have been too high-maintenance. But she was still interesting enough that I sat through this entire interview.
I stopped reading comments here. I think you've nailed it pretty well. There's a scene in African Queen were she struggles to call Charlie, "dear"....That scene - that particular line -
has always haunted me as the most iconic Hepburn line of all times. That was truly her in both movie and real. life. Until this interview I had mo way of knowing for sure (but suspected) just how self centered and insecure she was. I love all of here movies! She was truly a giant but, she also knew how insecure and awkward she was and it was the lines in the script that gave her the structure and chance to share just how lovely she would want everyone to think she was because in real life, she was probably schizophrenic.
@@cheric35 Dude, it was 45 years ago. Every teenager is self-centered. 😂
I feel like I relate a lot to Miss Hepburn. Thank you for sharing this story. This just confirms to me how righteous she really was. She was good hearted enough to read her fans letters but assertive enough to decline signing autographs knowing that if she signed yours she would have to sign everyone’s and that is not considerate of one to ask of someone who is also human trying their best to make sense of it all
no person owes you anything. you consume the content they make that's where the contract ends. what you describe here is parasocial nonsense.
@@spamgarbage6999 Parasocial? 😂
OMG, I absolutely adore KH
This has made my day. The great lady did not disappoint.
Katharine Hepburn has to be Katharine Hepburn. Her devoult fans understand and expect her style as the common woman. This interview continues into the following night Cavatt. If you watch the second half, you will see and hear a more kind person. Here is the link to part 2 should you have an interest ~ ~ th-cam.com/video/rOJ2OvZFrY8/w-d-xo.html
Wonderful sense of humor
Thank you for posting this! She’s so fabulous, full of wisdom, and inspiring! As an artist, she makes me feel proud of having an eccentric mind. BTW.. she probably would have been diagnosed as ADD
Yes, absolutely. I too believe she very liked had ADHD, which is cool because I'm a woman diagnosed with it myself. Like you, I'm also a creative and most certainly off-beat lol. It's very empowering to look at women like Kate, total originals, who blazed the trails we're all following today as female artists. We're part of her legacy.
The Great Kate❤️
Dick Cavett was a great interviewer. He interviewed many interesting and provocative people. Love KH - definition of tough New Englander.
Bette Davis even more so.
just delightful!! pure joy!!
Dick was right. I’ve seen both interviews more than 30 times. I just love hearing her talk.
Loved her!
4:25 Haven't seen so much polyester in one place at one time in a long while.
Her beautiful skin!
Dignified and free. Perfect.
Powerful personality…She lives up to her nickname “The Great Kate”
It was SO interesting to hear from someone of another era. She was ahead of her time in many ways and yet she dealt with the same fears everyone else did as she grew her career. Toward the end when she got to laughing so hard she was snorting, I was grinning ear to ear! It was infectious and even more so because she wasn’t embarrassed by it! I feel like I was transported to another time for the last hour and a half.
Pp
My favorite actress of all time 😏
This interview got better and better she was nervous ++ at first , she is actually shy but knows her own mind . I think she had a great affection for Dick and he did a great job . Foot on the table was self protection they gave her that and that was good of them.
Also, she injured her right foot in a bad car accident...and often kept it propped up; she endured chronic foot pain for the rest of her life.
@@stephaniek1076I don’t think she injure her foot til the 80s maybe I’m wrong
I love Barbara Stanwyk,
Bette Davis,
Ginger Rogers.
However Katherine Hepburn
is my favourite actress
of all time.
Especially in Little Women
and Baby
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Do not forget Myrna Loy.
Loved it. Thank you for sharing.
what a Woman.. just love her outpoken -ness but always with great tone and never disrespectful...
Her wonderful brilliant family never taught her that putting her feet on the furniture is wrong, as is burglarizing homes.
She's genius; looks legs looks great!
This no one else here wants to attempt it,
I SIMP
At least she admits that luck played a big part in her success. However, all luck can do is provide you the opportunity, she had to make the most of it and more than did. She got chucked by Hollywood as box office poison after initial success. So she just went back to the theater and came back with a vengence a few years later.
The best of the best
She was nuts
the Great Kate. My all time favorite and a true American treasure. no one like her then or now.
Valatgo theater is something Kate hupburn remembered goofy good.
Adore Kate and Dick Cavett....I saw this when it aired...
One of America's finest
The absolute best.... wonderful.
She's nervous. But brave!
What year? Great interview...quite real - being herself and sharing real!
1973
She kinda sounded like a Southerner with some lilt. Did the old Yankee accent (North Eastern/New England) sound like that in those days?
PS. Hepburn must have been a diva, as they say, in the classic Hollywood days.
I grew up in Connecticut and I've had people ask me if I'm from Texas, so yeah, people from some parts of Connecticut seem to have a drawl. But she also has a sort of affected British-sounding element to her voice which was taught to actors from her era (elocution lessons).
Her father was born in Virginia, if I remember correctly.
That's called a Scarsdale accent, and sometimes rich people in the East sent their kids (and themselves) to a vocal coach to learn it. The satire of it is Jim Backus playing Mr. Howell in Gilligan's Island.
Good talker.
A real diva..
She and I could not be more opposite and I don’t feel I missed a thing.
that IS absolutely awe-some ✌🤩😜😆🤣👍👍
her name is spelled Katharine
Thanks for pointing that out. It has been corrected.
She can do whatever she pleases! Don’t like it,don’t watch!
3:00 you’re welcome
I think she’s a wonderful actress. Seeing her like this however is a bit of a letdown, in that she’s revealing herself as being quite the eccentric PIA.
I think she was RUDE, great woman or not.
She is such a Devi and very rude person.she thinks she is above everyone..not a very nice woman..
@@cheric35 ….Being basically polite to the people around you IS something you owe to both them and yourself, until they clearly prove they are undeserving of politeness.
What a pain in thr a$$
I admire her for many reasons but never new she could be unnecessarily so rude and bossy...I am a little disappointed....
I would describe KH as teetering on the edge of sanity. Her brother committed suicide. It is important not to create a partial view of this important actress by sugar coating her life. She comes across as connecting with the interviewer with difficulty and lacking grace. She is jagged, rigid and icy in her deportment. This is a tortured woman. Lets not deny the truth, please.
She had multiple suicides in her family. Her grandfather, an uncle and her brother. You may be on to something but to me she just seems nervous at the start of the interview
She was a sharp no nonsense straight talking and a great actress they dont make them like Ms Hepburn or Bette Davis anymore just a bunch of left wing divas who are not that very good at acting Demi Moore, Sharon Stone good looking eye candy but cant act for peanuts. Thank God i was born to some of the greats Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Spencer Tracy, Robert Denero , kirk Douglas, Micheal Douglas take note am struggling with women actors Jessica Lange Jane fonda Susan Surrandan. This generation the millenniums have NOTHING compared with what we had i was born at the best time the right time ❤😅
I’m digging the interview Kate Hepburn good little like Megan suxx was good with Ellen in 2021
"Katharine"
Totally. It has been fixed.
☺️ I named my daughter after “Katharine” Hepburn, so I always notice the spelling. BTW, I agree this is the “absolute best” Katharine Hepburn interview. Thanks for posting.
Katharine's purse! th-cam.com/video/5FeVjOhs7PY/w-d-xo.html
It is KathArine. Please get that right!
Totally. It has been fixed.
@@RoseMakesIt thank you :)
I am sorry I find nothing appealing about her. She is abrasive and being an actress does not excuse that.
She’s sitting with her legs spread wide open and demanding they move chairs, complaining they aren’t responding to her demands, and demanding they nail down the chair so she can “put her feet on it”? The way she’s sitting is as abhorrent as her behavior! Wow! I liked her a LOT better before I saw this interview!!
She's not sitting with her legs wide open. She merely has one leg up, you nor I know why. I know personally, I have terrible sciatic nerve issues and putting a leg up helps. When I talk to someone, I expect an answer, it's rude to listen to someone repeatedly ask a question and not get an answer. That's how these studio sets are, it's not someone's home, they paint things, move things, nail things down, pull things up, all to make the best experience. She's a master, you think she doesn't know this?
Katherine of Arrogance….DIVA with talent.
Alright Pinky . O.K. Pinkie .
She’s a bit too much, as she barks criticisms with her feet on the furniture. Hollyweird, class.
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Very disappointed that Ms. Hepburn was so intractable. I used to enjoy her greatly. I am not charmed… just annoyed.
Yeah it is a real let-down when actors are not the characters they play
@@celtglen well I guess your disappointed a lot because many actors and actresses are not like their characters.
Brat
She gives me a headache
Good Lord! The way she sits ! Both disrespectful of furniture PLUS shoes on a table are unhygienic.
Are you and furniture equally talented?
I thought it was sweet! Showed how athletic she is at her age and made her less nervous. She was a diva wasn’t she though.
A royal pain in the ASS !
@@alexanderiljin84 Consider:
* Good manners are a form of discipline that when practiced allows one to safely navigate through life.
* The statement "Without discipline there is no life at all" has been attributed to KH.
*Asinine comments never carry a conversation.
@@JustTurned60 as a tomboy,kate always sits talks like a man！what the problem?
She's very demanding
Don't like her demanding personality!
She had a long time affair with a married man. Poor character. And there is never an excuse for being rude, no matter who you are.
@@JustTurned60 prove it, name the names. Don't just make cheap gossipy statements.
J Reyes: She did because his wife was Catholic and would not give him a divorce. They were a couple for 26 years until he died. It was a well-known "secret" in Hollywood.
Kate had sex with dozens of young pretty girls. Her “romance” with Tracy was a sham for the public. The book and documentary “Full Service” by Scott Bowers tells about the secret sex lives of the Hollywood stars.
What year?
What a complainer she is. They shouldn't have changed anything for her just to get the interview.
That's how you get to be in that position.
Of course the studio will do it because this is the 1st time Hepburn agreed to do interview.
Dick Cavett, along with every other talk show host in town, had been trying to get Katharine Hepburn on his show for years. One afternoon in 1973, for reasons that he never completely understood, the woman who had been avoiding the press for most of her life and had never appeared on television agreed to simply come into Cavett’s studio to have a look. She wanted to see how it would feel to be on his set. So when suddenly she agreed to do the interview of course they will do what she wanted
I love the way she helped though.
Holding up the table
and picking up the tissues.
We ❤️ Katherine Hepburn
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@@royandjacqueline1294 once we make people gods, they start to believe it! No one is better than anyone else. They are just actors who get over paid, over celebrated.
@@2_thumbs_up_baby why must you feel the need to burst someone’s bubble? These people obviously adore KH. Let them have their fun!
I've never liked her, I always found her harsh and uncharming in her roles. Here she seems very unsympathetic. Apparently she's used to everyone doing what she wants. And what's the point of putting your foot on the table? Very rude.
And Spenser Tracey BEAT that great lady? Did he know WHO he was beating?
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