Movies and TV - Katharine Hepburn Collection (6 Pack) (One Color) - Electronics

Zappos.com is proud to offer the Movies and TV - Katharine Hepburn Collection (6 Pack) (One Color) - Electronics: Six films from screen icon Katharine Hepburn are featured on this collection. The titles included are: THE CORN IS GREEN, DRAGON SEED, MORNING GLORY, SYLVIA SCARLETT, UNDERCURRENT, and WITHOUT LOVE. Overview ; THE CORN IS GREEN: Katharine Hepburn gives a bravura performance as a devoted teacher in this remake of the 1945 film based on Emlyn Williams's famed autobiographical stage play. Hepburn plays Miss Moffat, a schoolteacher in a poor Welsh mining town who dedicates herself to helping one of her promising students gain entrance into prestigious Oxford University. When her protege learns that he's fathered an illegitimate child, Miss Moffat's careful plans--and the boy's future--are thrown into jeopardy. THE CORN IS GREEN, filmed on location in Wales, was Hepburn's second television project with Cukor, following LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, and the ninth film on which the two Hollywood legends worked together. The spark between director and actress--which breathed magic into such Hollywood classics as ADAM'S RIB, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, and LITTLE WOMEN--is still alive in THE CORN IS GREEN, contributing to a grandeur and emotional depth not commonly found in made-for-television movies. ; DRAGON SEED: A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese invaders. The use of caucasian actors and actresses in oriental roles significantly detracts from the film's realism. Based on Pearl S. Buck's novel of 1942. Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Supporting Actress--Aline MacMahon, Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography. ; MORNING GLORY: A delightful adaptation of Zoe Atkins' play about a small-town girl who struggles to become a Broadway actress and finds romance in the Big Apple. Academy Awards: Best Actress--Katharine Hepburn. ; SYLVIA SCARLETT: This complex movie may have been a bit risque for audiences in 1936, but as one of three films Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant made with George Cukor, it remains an idiosyncratic gem. Based on the Compton Mackenzie novel, SYLVIA SCARLETT has become a cult classic because of Hepburn's performance as the daughter of a grieving, compulsive gambler who tries to alleviate their financial misery by stealing expensive French lace. In order to smuggle it out of the country, Hepburn chops her hair and masquerades as a boy; when she meets cockney jewel thief Jimmy Monkley (Grant) on a ship to England, it's just the beginning of a cascade of gender-confusion issues--23 years before Billy Wilder's SOME LIKE IT HOT--yet unlike that film, SYLVIA SCARLETT is not all for laughs. The tension between good humor and hard luck is most deftly displayed by Grant, whose charismatic jewel-thief persona would later be tapped for Alfred Hitchcock's TO CATCH A THIEF. ; UNDERCURRENT: An ex-con who arrives in Puerto Rico to run his former partner's nightclub finds himself set up in a deadly sch