and as a result, Turner Classic Movies is focusing on her life and her work.
I suppose what I should put up is something that focuses on her.
But I have just finished watching a movie in which she won an Oscar, in which others were nominated, but the most appropriate clip - in which you can clearly see what a fine actress she is - is at the end of the movie. It is a monologue by Spencer Tracy, in "Guess Who's Coming Dinner"
If you don't know the film, Sydney Poitier and Katherine Houghton (Hepburn's niece, and my sister's classmate at Sarah Lawrence), have fallen in love and want to get married. Tracy plays a newspaper publisher with a long track record as a fighting liberal who is shocked and resistant to the idea of his daughter marrying a Negro, even though he is impressed by the outstanding person in the character of Dr. John Prentice played by Poitier.
If you have never seen the film, there are superb performances by Beah Richards (rightly Oscar nominated for supporting actress) as Poitier's mother, and Cecil Kellaway (Supporting Actor) as a Catholic Priest who has fought many battles along side Tracy.
The film was made in 1967, the year of but before Loving v Virginia was issued by the Supreme Court, overturning laws against interracial marriages. At one point the man who plays Poitier's father reminds him that the proposed marriage would be illegal in 22 states.
But it is Tracy's Oscar-Nominated performance that sticks with me. I think it is relevant today, because our President is the product of an interracial marriage that like the romance in the film began in Hawaii, and because 45 years ago people still worried about such things, and some people were shocked by the kiss in the back of the cab between Houghton and Poitier.
There are 7 Oscars on that screen - one by Poitier, two by Tracy, and four by Hepburn.
Allow me to share the final monologue, which is what I most remember from the film:
Peace,