#laura harding

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From Silver Screen 1936

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Katharine Hepburn and Laura Harding

Photoplay 1938-01 Vol. 52, No. 1

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October 23rd 1940 - Caption reads: Charlie Chaplin, Miss Laura Harding, Garson Kanin and Tim Durant at the Fairway Yacht Club. (Photo by Al Willard/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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Katharine Hepburn and Laura harding are lesbians in love! Cool bug facts!

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"Very early into her affair with Katharine Hepburn, Laura Harding became 'sickeningly jealous' of Kate's devoted attention to Hope Williams. One night after rehearsals, Kate and Laura had a big fight in Kate's dressing room that was overheard by the stagehands. "If you want and expect monogamy from me," Kate shouted, "you've got the wrong woman. I will go after any woman—or man—I want, and there's nothing you can do about it."

Laura had stormed out of the theater, vowing never to speak to Kate again, although the two women were planning to drive with Luddy and Jack to Fenwick to meet Kate's parents that weekend.

Hope Williams rejection wasn't on moral grounds. She was, in fact, a lesbian herself and was actively involved in a torrid romance at the time with Tallulah Bankhead.

It was backstage one night that Beatrice Stewart introduced Kate to the dynamic and colorful Alabama belle, Miss Bankhead herself, who had arrived to pick up her date for the evening, Hope Williams, for a late night party in Harlem. Kate and Tallulah did not spark on their first meeting, although they would know each other "as sort of friends" for decades."

-From Katharine the Great (1907-1950) Secrets of a Lifetime--revealed by Darwin Porter

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Mulholland Dr. (2001)

David Lynch knows how to get a scream out of someone. Not just any old Wilhelm scream, but a shriek that will pierce you to your very core and leave you shaken long after the last of the credits roll.  This film may well be Twin Peaks in the City of Angels, given its excellent, off-kilter balance between film noir and Lynchian surrealist insanity.  But beyond anything else, it’s a dry run for the Laura Palmer scream.  The final moments of Mulholland are exactly what Lynch excels at: driving the viewer into a more uncomfortable experience than anything he or she may have thought possible. Though none of that draws away from the intricacies of the other layers.  Naomi Watts delivers an exquisite performance—her audition scene alone is breathtaking—and the sound design is unparalleled.  Lynch may shock, but he also has an eye for the subtle.

 THE RULES

SIP

A street sign appears onscreen or a specific street is named.

Someone says ‘accident’ or ‘movie’.

A velvet curtain appears onscreen.

Spanish is spoken in a scene.

The blue box appears onscreen.

 BIG DRINK

Someone is wearing a diner nametag.

Every time the Cowboy appears.

 LIVER TRANSPLANT WAITLIST MODE *Only for those who want to be big Hollywood stars*

Sip every time the camera uses a POV shot.

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Such an interesting little behind-the-scenes snap from the set of “Christopher Strong.” Here’s the photo cutline:

The "Christopher Strong" company knocks off work for afternoon tea– English, you know.  Katharine Hepburn sits smiling up at directress Dorothy Arzner. Extreme left is Sir Gerald Grove, technical advisor. On the steps are Helen Chandler, Jack La Rue, Laura Harding and Colin Clive.

Oh, to have tea with this bunch—  and by "this bunch” I obviously just mean Dorothy, Helen, Kate, and Laura (aka Kate's life-long gal pal).

Image from Photoplay, April 1933, page 34.

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"Laura Harding's place with Katharine Hepburn was usurped by a young film editor in 1935, and with much bitterness Laura returned to her family in New Jersey. 'It had become obvious that I did not belong at the center of her life,' Harding would remember forty years later. Jane Loring was the film editor of Alice Adams, Kate and RKO's smash of 1935, and the film's editor became the new young woman in Hepburn's life. Like Barbara Stanwyck's association with Helen Ferguson, Loring's profession gave their friendship the veneer of a working relationship."

-From The Sewing Circle: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women