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    feelings from watching it, I don’t have much to say about “GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER?”, because the main message the director: Stanley Kramer, script writer: William Rose and actors: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn, and features Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton are trying to convey; (the racism and interracial marriage in the USA) are truly distant to me personally. In my country of origin and furthermore, in our national history, we never experienced slavery in the form

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    Katharine Hepburn, the actress who plays Amanda Wingfield, does an excellent job portraying the abandoned mother who lives in a world of delusion and has a hard time accepting reality. In the script Amanda’s tone and mood was seen through the words on the paper

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    Altman in 1933 ordered an entire collection from her.She ordered bathing suits,dresses,and gowns.Muriel’s clothes were used in majority of the films in the 1930’s.She designed a whole collection of clothing for the leading lady Katharine Hepburn for her film Sylvia Scarlett and also created a collection made just for Katherine personal life. Every woman wanted her clothes or wore them.Her designs were based on a comfortable fitting and her liking in style..She continued with her work

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    There is no doubt that The Philadelphia Story is one of the best American romantic comedy file in 1904. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart are protagonist in this film, but Katherine Hepburn’s acting make me so impressive. After finishing watching this film, I fall in love with this wonderful story not just because Katharine Hepburn is a beautiful as well as elegant lady, but lots of plots of this film are thoughtful and interesting. The most important event in The Philadelphia

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    Once upon a time there was a girl named Scarlett, who was known as the world’s greatest fisher. She could catch twenty foot fish within a second of her line being out. News crews always asked her how she did and she always answered with “A good fisher never reveals their secret.” People from all over would come to see her fish but she knew the publicity would never change who she was. That night as she fell asleep she remembered she was going fishing tomorrow and could not wait. She even had dreams

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    LAURA [walks over to her glass menagerie and picks up the unicorn]: What a lovely creature you are! [She places the unicorn under the light]: Oh, look how the light shines through you, don’t tell the others but I think you’re the most beautiful piece I have! If you were a girl like me I think you would have seventeen gentlemen callers. [She laughs wistfully. She gently picks up the unicorn with utmost caution and walks towards the diagram of the typewriter keyboard]: I just can’t help but feel

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    In the study of Tennessee Willliams' plays: "Suddenly Last Summer" and "The Glass Menagerie", we can find a great deal of autobiographical connections. "The Glass Menagerie" is particularly considered the author's most biographical work. It is described by the playwright as "a memory play"; indeed, it is a memory of the author's own youth, an expression of his own life and experiences. Similarly, "Suddenly Last Summer" includes many of Tennesse Williams' real life details. First and foremost,

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    THE AFRICAN QUEEN Short Summary: "The African Queen" is the tale of two companions with different personalities who develop an untrustworthy love affair as they travel together downriver in Africa around the start of World War I. They struggle against the climate, the river, the bugs, the Germans and, most of all, against each other. In the course of much misery, they develop love and respect for each other. Detailed Summary: In September 1914, the German occupying forces hold East

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    (1940), offers modern viewers a look at changing personalities in 1930s/40s American high society. The film stars Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and James Stewart in a clash of cultures centered around a wedding. Macaulay Connor (Stewart) is a reporter for tabloid like Spy Magazine, on assignment to write an exposé on the marriage of wealthy Tracy Lord (Katherine Hepburn) with the help of her ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant). While all of the characters present go through a dramatic change

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    Abandoned by her husband and left penniless, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, lived in a small alley apartment on the lower middle-class section of town with her two adult children Tom and Laura, which was far cry from Amanda’s youth during the Victorian era at Blue Mountain to her present situation of poverty and uncertainty. As a single mother, Amanda was worried about her family’s financial security along with concerns about her daughter’s lack of marital prospects;

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