Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Holiday, 1938.
Five Favorite Katharine Hepburn Films
→ Holiday (1938)
Linda Seton: I’ve got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is all right with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I’ll believe in those peanuts!
Favourite
Non-Verbal Moments in Cinema (Old Hollywood)Linda: Oh, you don’t know how a girl in love feels.
Nick: We’re sorry, Linda really.
Linda: No, you’re not. You’re- you’re- you’re… what’s the matter with me anyway…- Katharine Hepburn in Holiday
By far, my most memorable and
maybeone of my favourite line deliveries done by Kate. I’m specifically talking about the “what’s the matter with me anyway”- It. Is. Perfect. Everyone knows Kate’s very distinct Bryn Mawr but in this sliver of a sentence- there is no trace of it. In fact, her voice dips lower than I’d ever guess it could go and in that brief second, you can hear her vulnerable heart opening up for all to see. It’s always been so striking to me because it’s such a contrast to her strong assertive voice and this low, quiet register is something we never really see in the rest of her films.
Holiday (1938)
I’ve been dying to get out for years. I’ve never known it so well as tonight. I can’t stand it here any longer. It’s doing terrible things to me.
