Katharine Hepburn; The Unlikely Star | New England’s Gifts

Go find one of Kate Hepburn’s early movies from the 1930s: Bringing Up Baby or Holiday, for example. It’s almost shocking how modern she is, how different from the other women in those films. She’s all angles and intelligence—so sharp you could cut yourself on her. What’s she doing with all those moon-faced girls? How did she get cast?

—“Don’t Change: Kate Hepburn,” by Tim Clark, January 2000