Audrey Hepburn:
Apart from her most famous Breakfast at Tiffany's,
* Two for the Road - ten years of marriage on rocks, a couple take their usual road trip across France and reminisce about their previous road trips. one of the earliest movies to experiment with non-linear screenplay.
* The Children's Hour - two women who run a private school for young girls are suddenly accused of having an "unnatural relationship" between them. eventually they lose the school and their personal relationships with others. this was 1960s when the word "lesbian" could not be used in mainstream media. so, the euphemism.
Katherine Hepburn:
* Bringing Up Baby - a screwball comedy with a paleontologist trying to find a bone, getting involved with a free-spirited woman with her own brand of logic and a leopard named "baby".
* The Philadelphia Story - another screwball comedy with the same cast as above (sans the leopard ;)), this movie explores the comedy of remarriage. a wealthy, hard-nosed socialite's second marriage plans are thrown off-rails with the arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist. there is a delightful scene of husband punching the wife in exasperation and moving out of the marriage.
*Guess Who is Coming to Dinner - one of the most iconic movies when racism was still very much there in america and inter-racial marriages were uncommon. brilliant cast of Hepburn, Sidney Poiter and Spencer Tracy. perhaps the movie feels more poignant as this was Tracy's last movie and he died 17 days after completion of the movie. it also brought an end to one of the most beautiful off-screen relationships of Tracy and Hepburn.
Bette Davis:
* Now, Voyager - an unattractive and repressed spinster who is constantly berated by her dominating and wealthy mother. she finally comes into her own when she is taken away from her mother and sent to a recuperating home and subsequently a cruise where she falls in love. this movie has one of the most iconic scenes where the man lights two cigarettes in his mouth, lights both and passes one to his woman.
Liz Taylor:
*Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - a wife's predicament in her marriage - trying to save her crumbling marriage to a man who might have had a homosexual relationship with his best friend, and whose death he thinks he is responsible for, dealing with his alcohol, while at the same time trying to patch up his relationship with his father so that they can inherit his fortune. quite a movie on greed, superficiality, moral decay, sexual desire and foibles of the human nature.
*A Place in the Sun - a young working class man who gets entangled with two beautiful women, one of them being a beautiful and wealthy socialite. and his plans to climb the social ladder is thwarted by the other woman who is pregnant with his child. a tale of love and ambition gone haywire.
Apart from her most famous Breakfast at Tiffany's,
* Two for the Road - ten years of marriage on rocks, a couple take their usual road trip across France and reminisce about their previous road trips. one of the earliest movies to experiment with non-linear screenplay.
* The Children's Hour - two women who run a private school for young girls are suddenly accused of having an "unnatural relationship" between them. eventually they lose the school and their personal relationships with others. this was 1960s when the word "lesbian" could not be used in mainstream media. so, the euphemism.
Katherine Hepburn:
* Bringing Up Baby - a screwball comedy with a paleontologist trying to find a bone, getting involved with a free-spirited woman with her own brand of logic and a leopard named "baby".
* The Philadelphia Story - another screwball comedy with the same cast as above (sans the leopard ;)), this movie explores the comedy of remarriage. a wealthy, hard-nosed socialite's second marriage plans are thrown off-rails with the arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist. there is a delightful scene of husband punching the wife in exasperation and moving out of the marriage.
*Guess Who is Coming to Dinner - one of the most iconic movies when racism was still very much there in america and inter-racial marriages were uncommon. brilliant cast of Hepburn, Sidney Poiter and Spencer Tracy. perhaps the movie feels more poignant as this was Tracy's last movie and he died 17 days after completion of the movie. it also brought an end to one of the most beautiful off-screen relationships of Tracy and Hepburn.
Bette Davis:
* Now, Voyager - an unattractive and repressed spinster who is constantly berated by her dominating and wealthy mother. she finally comes into her own when she is taken away from her mother and sent to a recuperating home and subsequently a cruise where she falls in love. this movie has one of the most iconic scenes where the man lights two cigarettes in his mouth, lights both and passes one to his woman.
Liz Taylor:
*Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - a wife's predicament in her marriage - trying to save her crumbling marriage to a man who might have had a homosexual relationship with his best friend, and whose death he thinks he is responsible for, dealing with his alcohol, while at the same time trying to patch up his relationship with his father so that they can inherit his fortune. quite a movie on greed, superficiality, moral decay, sexual desire and foibles of the human nature.
*A Place in the Sun - a young working class man who gets entangled with two beautiful women, one of them being a beautiful and wealthy socialite. and his plans to climb the social ladder is thwarted by the other woman who is pregnant with his child. a tale of love and ambition gone haywire.
Thanks for the list :D
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