Katharine Hepburn & Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940, dir. George Cukor) (via drmacro)

“I loved working with Katharine. She was fun…but she was very serious about the film. She was almost the producer, and when I had to do a scene in a bathing suit…well, I just told Katharine that I looked ridiculous in a bathing suit because my legs were just so thin. She said, ‘Show me your legs,’ and she said it with such authority that I hoisted my pants up until she could see my knees. And she took one look and said, ‘You’re right. Those are just the worst legs I’ve ever seen!’ And so she talked [The Philadelphia Story director George] Cukor into letting me do the scene in a bathrobe”.

-Stewart on Hepburn, his gams, and filming The Philadelphia Story (quoted in Michael Munn’s Jimmy Stewart)

Poster art featuring Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman for 1944’s Gaslight (dir. George Cukor)

Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944, dir. George Cukor, based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play) (via)

“You are up against the most awful moment of your life, and your whole future depends on what you are going to do in the next hour. Nothing less. You are not going out of your mind, Mrs. Manningham. You are slowly, methodically, systematically being driven out of your mind.”

-Patrick Hamilton, Gaslight: A Victorian Thriller in Three Acts 

Leslie Howard on the realized set of Juliet’s garden in Romeo and Juliet (1936, dir. George Cukor) Set designer Cedric Gibbons designed the garden so there would be “a physical obstacle for Romeo to overcome” on his way to Juliet’s balcony.

Photo by William Grimes.

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Katharine Hepburn on the set of Sylvia Scarlett (1935, dir. George Cukor) (via)

Charles Boyer & Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight (1944, dir. George Cukor) (via)