| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Won | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn was not present at the awards ceremony. |
Radio Pictures
Directed by Lowell Sherman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Aspiring Broadway actress Katharine Hepburn looks for her first job in New York. She weasels her way into producer Adolphe Menjou's office, but he writes her off as a fast-talking flake. Later at a party, she gets drunk on champagne, performs Shakespeare and ends up sleeping with Menjou. She falls in love him but she means nothing to Menjou, that is until she successfully replaces his star actress on opening night. The precocious Hepburn is hard to warm up to in this role, you get the feeling that this might be the real Hepburn. I much prefer the 1958 remake Stage Struck with Susan Strasberg in Hepburn's role. Strasberg plays on the young actress's naivety rather than her pretentiousness, and the result is a character you care about rather than loathe.
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