Katharine Hepburn Didn't Like Me - Jane Fonda

Katharine Hepburn didn't like Jane Fonda -- can you believe it? Jane explains why.
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[@bridgetryder5352]

At least Miss Hepburn was honest. If someone has a problem with me, I would prefer that they tell me to my face.

[@kimerietate382]

Bridget Ryder Honest?She was a CLOSETED BISEXUAL, who messed around with a MARRIED MAN.

[@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272]

Bridget Ryder 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼oh yeah

[@humvee2800]

@@kimerietate382 wasn't that 70 years prior ? Hepburn was head over heels for Spencer tracy and vice versa . They broke it off and tracy maintained his marriage until his death. Moral failing but it happened years ago and was something she learned from

[@LaDivinaLover]

Kimerie Tate Feel better about yourself now that you’ve attacked a dead woman’s reputation? I mean, Are you just stupid or a bigot? Not a rhetorical question. Ofcourse she was closeted. You try being OPENLY bisexual (openly anything) in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s etc. And as far as having an affair with a married man goes, who cares?? I guarantee you have family members that do more salacious things. Your comment smacks completely of ignorance and misplaced self-righteousness. Besides, It’s always the self-righteous ones that are the worst human beings. People like you have something wrong with them. Most of the tome Either intellectual laziness or stupidity, but you seem like both.

[@Curious2Know2]

So much for manners.

[@charlesswitzer8378]

She didn't like Meryl Streep either. She felt that Meryl was too hung up on technique and it showed that she was acting instead of making one believe that she wasn't.

[@Christian_Ada1]

Meryl sleep was applauding for Roman Polanski. Now go do research of what kind of man Roman Polanski is when he took advantage sexually of a 13 year old girl and then he went to France when he was about to get convicted. Hollywood is vile

[@charlesswitzer8378]

@@Christian_Ada1 I was paraphrasing a quote that Hepburn made about Streep's acting---not sure how Roman Polanski came into this lol

[@travellingshoes5241]

@@charlesswitzer8378 Welcome to the wonderful world of the KZbin comment section :)

[@MsVorpalBlade]

I think JF nailed it "She didn't like people to have attachments - except to her"

[@lindaeasley5606]

Bette Davis thought Meryl was the best contemporary actress before she passed.I guess there were varying opinions about the younger generation of actors by the legends

[@Vulcancruiser]

Well there's about 300,000 bikers you can add to the list that let all the patches express what they thought about traitor jane.........

[@trumancapote9097]

LOL!! The late, great KATE was the very first MAJOR celebrity I ever met. It was the winter of 1982 shortly after she won her record FOURTH Best Actress Oscar for ON GOLDEN POND. We were both patients at HARTFORD HOSPITAL in Connecticut where I grew up. She was recovering from a serious foot injury sustained in an automobile accident on an icy road and I was recovering from surgery. We used to drink hot chocolate and play checkers in the rec room. I was only 14 years old and a HUGE fan. I let her beat me at checkers most of the time bc I could tell winning was very important to her. But, she was also very kind and told me funny stories in that singular, unique voice of hers that was instantly recognizable. It was an UNforgettable experience that I never forgot.

[@susan5244]

Its truely amazing if its a true story.Well,we will never know.

[@Daiseehead]

Wow 😳! I am soo jealous. How special!!!

[@gymnastix]

You shouldn't have let Katharine Hepburn beat you in those checkers games you mentioned. These so-called "celebrities" do not need any more special treatment than they already receive, as their egos are quite enormous enough without being fawned over and being granted any extra privileges based upon their being well-known. It was honest of you to at least admit your having noticed Miss Hepburn seemed to be consumed with this need for winning even a simple game of checkers with you, though. Why do you suppose she had that compulsion to prevail in competition with others? Did Miss Hepburn listen, at all, to any of your own stories, jokes or anecdotes (if you had any to share with her)? Or was she only concerned with you listening to what she had to say? Even Miss Hepburn's having refused to appear at Academy Awards ceremonies during years in which she was nominated for Best Actress shouldn't earn her a pass, as she received more publicity by not showing up for the Oscars than if she had just attended the ceremonies. The act was certainly not based upon any sense of humility on Miss Hepburn's part. Interesting that Katharine Hepburn chose to have her foot surgery and recover at Hartford Hospital versus at a more prestigious Boston or New York hospital, or even at one of the other internationally renowned medical facilities, such as Johns Hopkins in Baltimore or at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic. I wonder if Hartford Hospital was chosen by Miss Hepburn because that is the hospital with which her urologist father had been affiliated. Could she have had something like a lifetime discount on medical care at Hartford Hospital? Lastly, why do you use the name "Truman Capote" for your KZbin posting here? Unless that name is, by coincidence, your actual birth and/or legal name, it is obviously misleading to use that name on a public website, since the name is one which had belonged to a late and well-known author.

[@geofftayloruk]

@@gymnastix Jeezus, lighten up....

[@radarou79]

What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing it

[@meganjohnson2434]

I once saw Marlo Thomas's husband, Phil Donohue, interview Katherine Hepburn, on his show. He devoted an hour to her talking about her autobiography called "Me." At the end he asked her to autograph a copy for him. She asked his name and admitted she didn't know him despite his being on TV for 28 years. She wasn't kidding. She had him spell his last name. He laughed but was flabbergasted.

[@bWitched96]

I remember that! it was hilarious. She said, "Donna-Who??..." and the man looked livid.

[@menopassini9348]

That's an old way of slamming a person that is full of themselves or a phoney At the end of the conversation and their all puffed up or think they made a new friend. You point blank ask them, Who are you? That just deflates their Big ego. Learned it from an old politician when BSer came looking for something. Hepburn being an old New Englander would use that kind of passive aggressive remark.

[@meganjohnson2434]

I remember a person who told someone who they were. He kept walking and said "Of course you are".

[@1953childstar]

Correct...

[@debbiepowers4743]

Hepburn did not act like she was the brightest bulb in the box. I wonder if she had Alzheimer’s towards the end, seems kind of nutty as a fruitcake to me.

[@call2872]

Ms Hepburn doesn't seemed like the person who talked bad about people behind their backs. She just went to confront the person directly about her feelings.

[@Dbusdriver71]

Its so true Cal L. Its humorous to me that Ms. Hanoi can cry victim about others in the past but its right after Ms. Hanoi torches you and talks behind your back; the sign of an elite or so Ms. Hanoi acts like.

[@Jocelyn_Jade]

@@Dbusdriver71 it’s humorous to me that you let one photograph in 1972 dictate your entire opinion of this complex person. People are more complex than a single action they do or don’t do. It was 50 years ago. My goodness, bless that bitter heart.

[@jm7804]

@@Dbusdriver71 You're a fool

[@patgreene7753]

@@Jocelyn_Jade Exactly. I am astonished at how our Reich wing media (Faux I'm looking at you) has made us turn on one another.

[@kellyanastasia2752]

A friend of mine was working at a hotel many years ago. Jane Fonda happened to be staying there and when she was getting ready to leave they sent him up to help with her luggage. For some reason the limo was delayed and she asked if he wanted to sit and wait in her room. She sat in the living room with him and they talked for like 20 minutes till the car arrived. He said she could not have been nicer.

[@vincentmancini6279]

she should have been that kind to our servicemen.

[@joeanonymous1834]

Oh my God, she actually chatted with one of the little people for 20-minutes? I'm tearing up. I mean, most of us do that every time we're in an Uber or what have you. But for her highness Hanoi Jane to have engaged that sort of sacrifice with a mere hotel employee? Truly awe inspiring. Where is she, so we can all bow at her feet.

[@Johnnyrocks34]

Tell how nice she was to prisoners in vietnam that she said vietnam should execute them! What if that was poor family menber of urs in a vietnam prison and u saw some rich famous woman get on tv and tell enemy they should execute ur family member. Thats exactly what she did! She s horrible person

[@wentworthcheswell8989]

So what?

[@Maya-bu2rf]

@@vincentmancini6279 She has been apologizing for being young and stupid for about 40 years.

[@helenboula3538]

I think I can understand why Katharine Hepburn did not like you Jane.

[@skylark5789]

Jane has always been a bitter malcontent, who covered it with a "rebel's cause", when in fact she just had serious daddy issues.

[@tamadoer]

My admiration for katharine Hepburn has grown immensely after the revelations described here by Jane Fonda. Katharine Hepburn, what a great woman.

[@gheller2261]

You admire a person who does not know another person saying to that other person on first meeting them "I don't like you"? Only an insecure jerk does that. Nothing admirable about that. It's not like Jane Fonda was on record as a bigot or as a person lacking empathy.

[@joeanonymous1834]

@@gheller2261 "A bigot or a person lacking empathy?" Are you for real?

[@joeanonymous1834]

Me too, actually.

[@gmh471]

@@joeanonymous1834 Um, yeah. You might not have liked her politics (although she turned out to be mostly correct), but she's not a bigot and her political activities have always been directed to helping the "other."

[@joeanonymous1834]

@@gmh471 You must be about 15-years-old. I have no idea where to even start with you. So, I won't.

[@kennykool100]

I don’t understand how people can idolize someone like Hepburn or make light of their ugly demeanor and bad behavior. There’s never anything remotely cute, funny, or enduring, about rudeness or insulting others.

[@tigergreg8]

People who knew her loved that part of her, it was what made Hepburn, Hepburn. It doesn't matter if everyone doesn't like her, she simply didn't care. I think many need that attitude today.

[@lemurianchick]

@@tigergreg8 There's a YUGE difference between being an individualist and not being respectful towards others. Sounds like you're acting like a jackhole too? If so, it's not cute. #BeBest

[@Ladybhive71]

​@@tigergreg8I heard that many times about her 😂

[@tigergreg8]

👍👍@@Ladybhive71

[@lauraberendson4032]

I think that is pretty rude Of her to say I don't like you at the beginning of a project and I now have so much less respect for her and how disappointing to learn what she was really like.

[@barbaracastelli3725]

Good for Katherine Hepburn. She’s very wise woman. Jane couldn’t fool her, like she does the fans. Jane Fonda always plays the victim role. Henry Fonda never talked in public about his children but Jane Fonda always said bad things about her legend father. Henry Fonda always talked great about his children. He had class and a brilliant actor. Victim Jane Fonda, poor Jane. All her mistakes she blame her father , it was always his fault. The problem with her is she was a spoiled brat. No one had perfect parents and she had it better then most people. She’s a millionaire and has lived a long life. Still plays a victim and still promoting communism. She is not a true patriot. She careless about the poor. She lives in a bubble like all of Hollywood. .

[@karlolsen2077]

Liking Hanoi Jane would be the same as liking the corona virus.

[@roycathers6875]

She should have been convicted of treason

[@RickJones222]

Fascinating how you people love to hate Fonda, but not the rightwing war machine that needlessly sent 58,000 kids (and millions of Vietnamese)to their deaths.

[@karlolsen2077]

@@RickJones222 What makes you think that Veterans are jingoists? I think that the Vietnam War was a major unjustifiable mistake. I hate the war, but I always love and respect the warrior. The common soldier has no say so about what conflicts we choose to get involved in. The politicians make those decisions. Hanoi Jane caused a lot of unjustifiable harm to American soldiers, and despite her apologies, she will have to live with her actions the rest of her life.

[@jacquil6718]

Rick Jones The whole Vietnam things started under Kennedy, escalated under Johnson, and it was Nixon who stopped it. What the hell are you talking about right wing?

[@stevenroland7472]

@@RickJones222 She traveled to Hanoi and posed in the Seat of an Anti Aircraft Gun used to kill American Soldiers. Compare that to Mohammed Ali who refused induction and lost valuable years from his career.

[@raddish4256]

Katherine Hepburn was a great actress. Dont confuse her talent with her personality. She was a rather spoilt and thoughtless elitist. If you want talent and grace in a single package might I suggest another Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn.

[@claramerchant9210]

That is total bullshit Your describing Fonda. Hephern was as down to earth as they come. She had no patients for stupidty or women who acted dumb to please men. She was salt of the earth

[@caelachyt]

She didn't suffer fools well, so she wouldn't have tolerated you.

[@shayshay9764]

@@claramerchant9210 neither of you know either of these women. You cant judge them when you dont know them nor have walked a mile in their shoes. I met Jane and she was the kindest celebrity i ever met...and i wont forget that...and Katherine Hepburn was raised in a very stoic elitist family and era..she bucked traditions (wearing pants and having an affair with Tracy) but can you imagine how hard it must have been for her to cope with a changing world while being brilliant herself? We don't know anything ...if we but only knew...

[@camilles2189]

There were also many others who didn’t like her. There was her trip to N. Vietnam and her and Hayden’s politics in Santa Monica.

[@fionah3433]

She apologized for doing that and admitted she was wrong decades ago.

[@lindauribe6872]

All you have to do today is say your sorry and then anything is ok.

[@dianeyoung8068]

@@lindauribe6872 She expressed opinions, she didn't murder anyone.

[@snarkymatt585]

@@fionah3433 take an egg and throw it on the floor then apologize to it... You'll notice that the apology doesn't count for shit in repairing the damage done to the egg.

[@tomkellycartoons]

Yes. Some old crabapples still can’t let it go and repeat false embellishments to the story. What a bore.

[@jw2877]

My brother worked at her house in oldsaybrook ct. Back in the 70s and my mom was picking him up one day at her house. She had some rabbits and chickens, and I remember being out of the car and running after a chicken. She popped out the door and yelled at me and said..get away from those chickens. I remember distinctly she was not very nice. My brother was good friends with her brother Dick and I remember him saying they were both very private and picky. It appeared she wasn't a fan of too many people from the storys from my brother. Just something interesting to share I guess.

[@mulemule]

Thank you for sharing. As a lifelong fan, my impression of Hepburn is that I never wanted to know her ... off-screen.

[@jw2877]

@mulemule Agree, im a big fan of a very well-known drummer, Niel Peart, who appears to have the same intense personality as her. I do understand, though, as I get older in general, I can't imagine adding being famous W/aging and not being able to go anywhere without being recognized. She must have been really nice personally, though my brother did speak happily about them.

[@mulemule]

@@jw2877 Agreed: there's much to envy Re: celebrity's lives but living under unrelenting public scrutiny (magnified 10K by the echo chamber media) is not one of them.

[@sazzieb1]

Always knew Hepburn had good taste....

[@russelleads2145]

Yeah, I'm with Hepburn, never liked this spoiled insulated traitor, either!!

[@russelleads2145]

@Blue Wave 2020 typical tolerant LIBTARD. Pitiful!!

[@HeatherGlen33]

That is true, but she was just 20 years old. I was very against the Nam war. I think we lost that war, and gained nothing. Fonda'a mother committed suicide when Jane was very young. Neither she nor her brother knew why. Henry also said NOTHING. This must have hounded her all of her life.

[@johnminer1407]

Katharine isn't the only one that doesn't like traitor Jane!!!

[@WilliamMurray-lr1bb]

even Ted Turner dumped that well used snake ..... ' old floppy muff !

[@lg4lg479]

Somebody didn’t like Hanoi Jane , imagine that.

[@JD-zd8tm]

It couldn't be because Jane Fonda sat in a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun could it?

[@jayala7879]

Touche !!!!!!!!

[@lucindaarmour4685]

No

[@tomkellycartoons]

It couldn’t be that you have a one track mind, could it? What a bore.

[@JD-zd8tm]

@@tomkellycartoons Fungool Fanuche

[@animalian01]

that's all right Jane I think you will find there are a lot of people who don't like you, there are a lot of people in the sixties and seventies who will never forgive you.

[@Brind-amour]

Amen to that!

[@newbloomwon]

I agree with her that the war was wrong, but then she went off the deep end going to Hanoi and making that broadcast for the Vietcong. She’s since expressed regrets for doing that, and it seems she might have been on a lot of drugs at the time, though that’s no excuse.

[@andyiswonderful]

Because they have no life, and never grow up.

[@fionah3433]

Jane Fonda apologized and admitted she was wrong decades ago. It takes courage and integrity to do that ~ but to "never forgive" someone who made a mistake in their misguided youth and has since admitted fault and apologized...not so much. I hope for your sake that others are more emotionally generous to you than you are to her.

[@fabergeegg1722]

@@fionah3433 She was in her 30s, she wasn't a teen or a person in their early 20s.

[@jadefire2817]

I think Ms. Hepburn expected you to *earn* her respect. From all I've read on her , and seen of her in interviews, she didn't just hand out praise willy-nilly. I think we've become accustomed to that these days, just expecting to be fawned over.

[@khiggins7231]

A very attractive lady! But why the hell did she go to Vietnam during the war to support the other side earning the nickname Hanoi Jane. She could have protested at home like everyone else. Her actions went beyond protest and were border line treacherous.

[@shmataboro8634]

K Higgins...it seems when you have some money and some fame there will be people popping up out of the woodwork to encourage you to use your platform to support their agenda. In betting there were people putting her up to it and convincing her she had a duty to speak out and all of that. She was young and trusting and idealistic. I can't imagine how hard it would be to learn your life lessons in the public eye.

[@Maxigirl5523]

​@@shmataboro8634But she never learnt. She is still a lefty who says things like she would like to murder Republicans. 😮😮😮

[@moonlily1]

It's super classy that you can still speak well of people who you know didn't like you. And it's also super classy on Hepburn's part that she still helped a younger actress despite not liking her. More people should look to these ladies as an example.

[@wurly164]

This woman has nothing to do with class, she got Americans killed...how is that class I ask you?

[@mamatibborscassady9388]

No, she didn't. Old myth, she didn't get anyone killed.

[@wurly164]

+Mrs. Phyllis Stephens even janes father was discussed by her ..liberals are such fools and crybabies

[@Marchant2]

Jane Fonda was young at the time, but she wasn't just starting out or anything. She was already in her 30's when On Golden Pond was released.

[@lindawhite1515]

Mrs Phyllis...talk to your doc about some hormone replacement therapy. I think you've flipped over the edge, my dear.

[@rickw1954]

My Uncle Al once told me about the time he had experienced Hepburn's "prickly" personality. He happened to be in a small general store in Connecticut, not far from her home. As he was leaving, she rode up on her bicycle. After recognizing her, he said, Hiya Kate! Apparently, not liking his overly familiar way, she glared at him and said "up yours"! He told me, he wasn't insulted, he thought it was funny.

[@Αντώνης-υ3ζ]

That just sounds like she was nuts to me... I wouldn't have found that one bit funny, and I don't take myself too seriously, mind you!

[@shayshay9764]

@@Αντώνης-υ3ζ you have to understand the world she was raised in..and the life she had led..she shirked tradition in many ways (wearing pants) (affair with Spencer Tracy) ,and the "high society" expectations places on her from the time she was a child. If we but only knew..we may be less judgemental of her..she was far from crazy...in fact she was brilliant..

[@lenpey]

She was just a moody artist, that's all.

[@tamoshanter6268]

frankly, it is understandable that she would have been insulted by the assumed familiarity of a complete stranger. It was disrespectful. Times have changed now and it may not seem to be as big of a deal but in her time completely understandable. I wouldn't call it prickly, just standing up for herself.

[@tomryan914]

@@lenpey Not an 'artist', an 'actress'. "Oh, Spensah, let's fake a straight love affair...It will be smashing to hide our fruitiness!"

[@oliver8791]

Hate Jane Fonda!? Sounds like a extremely intelligent woman to me! Hanoai

[@olderthanyoucali8512]

Yes, she's right up there with our draft dodging President!

[@tomallen5837]

Yeah there you go!... for all we know about Vietnam, you're going to side with the war. Wow, what an achievement. Wow, you sure told us.

[@terrysmith8749]

When you root against American troops, you deserve all the hatred you get. Hanoi Jane deserves all the hatred she gets.

[@tomallen5837]

@@terrysmith8749 are you rooting for the American troops who are turning against our own people right now?

[@jaelge]

@@olderthanyoucali8512: Face-palm, accompanied by eye roll.

[@justinherbert9146]

Jane came to my college to speak, I wanted to go see her but had to attend a class so I missed it. A couple of hours later I was walking off the campus and who do I see walking by herself, Jane Fonda. I went up to her and we talked and walked together, she was meeting up with the car that would take her to her next destination. She was very nice to me, she was taller then I imagined too. Decades have past, time flies...

[@julietteyork3721]

This makes me like Katherine Hepburn more. She didn’t like Communists either.

[@pbohearn]

She did, however, like pussy. Neither a religion nor a political party. LOL.

[@julietteyork3721]

@@pbohearn You’re the one who sounds like the pervert.

[@jesusnameaboveallnames7369]

06/24/2018 You can include myself, most Veterans & many American citizens on that LONG list ... 😝😒😡 We should stand behind our 🇺🇸Vets, no matter what!!!🇺🇸

[@davidlinihan3626]

Hepburn didn't like her? I'm in great company!

[@savedfaves]

Hepburn was a good actor but a pain in the ass, just like how a plumber can be a good plumber but a pass in the ass.

[@032319581]

Katherine is a good judge of character! Shame on you Hanoi Jane!!!!

[@fretbuzz59]

Shame on YOU! We had no business being there, and we supported the wrong side.

[@christinenewhouse1264]

Jane was young..and we all make mistakes..no one is perfect..Forgive and move forward..Love brings people together..not hate♡

[@johnboys4697]

@@fretbuzz59 she did not belong there either !

[@fretbuzz59]

@@johnboys4697 Her country was engaged in, and on the wrong side of, an immoral war. Young American men were dying, and were killing Vietnamese. As a US citizen she had every right to be there in opposition.

[@octavianapanait1918]

Even If you are excelent in something, you don't have to be so cold and so mean like Hepburn..about Fonda what can I say..least when she talked, she has a better carisma .

[@elijahbey3366]

Let's be real. The list of people who don't like Jane Fonda is endless. The legacy of Hanoi Jane.

[@Deborah-kz1bv]

In the early seventies, when I was a teenager, a friend of mine was working for a hotel in Chicago, when Katherine Hepburn checked in. He took me to the hotel so that I might catch a glimpse of her. As we were pulling up to the hotel, a horse drawn carriage was approaching, and, to my surprise, Katherine Hepburn was the passenger. She was wearing a big hat, with a scarf, the same way I had seen her wear them on television. My friend asked, there she is, are you going to say hello to her? I didn't, because, I felt I would have been intruding. From some of the comments on the thread, I have to say that I am glad I didn't approach her. I didn't know her, personally. I knew her as an actress whose movies I liked. Had I approached her carriage, and she had been hateful to me, I would have been very disappointed, and sad. I'm surprised, when I hear some people say that they " love " a celebrity, as though they know them personally. . .

[@marjoriemargel1567]

Deborah 5122 Very true, I used to work in the Industry, and they are nothing like their onscreen selves.

[@mt22201]

Marjorie Margel that’s why it’s called acting.

[@brucefranklin6295]

Most of the time, meeting our favorite celebrities ,actors or musicians, can be a disappointing experience.

[@Jodyrides]

M Zz miss Hepburn told another actor, I think it was Anthony Hopkins,”don’t act, just say the lines. “

[@brianhudson7822]

NOT MANY OTHER PEOPLE LIKE YOU.

[@jeanettecook1088]

Katherine Hepburn wasn't alone.

[@lieslceleste3395]

I suspect her own father couldn’t stand her.

[@vickimccormick8220]

Yea Fonda is not a likeable person

[@LKaramazov]

“There were reasons”. I wonder if Vietnam had anything to do with it.

[@Dej24601]

No, Ms. Hepburn was extremely liberal, was friends with many actors who were considered “leftist” and supported Democratic candidates and causes all her life.

[@LKaramazov]

Deidra Egan thanks, but being a Democrat and supporting the Vietcong could be considered as two separate issues. But you could be right. It might have just been a personality conflict.

[@robbiethurston3492]

L Karamazov I think KH was an extremely good at determining one’s character. And Hanoi Jane has none.

[@luisllorens70]

@@Dej24601 She was. But the Democrats supported the war. At least until 1973.

[@avian_barrister]

@@luisllorens70 Spot on. Troop levels really ramped up under Kennedy and peaked under LBJ. They started to draw down under Nixon.

[@davidfitnesstech]

Katharine didn't like you? Makes me like Katharine even more. (I knew she had class).

[@nwcountry]

Yes sir, I'm with you. She's an evil bitch and if someone doesn't know why I say that, check your history on Vietnam.

[@susanchamplin1143]

Exactly.🙂

[@purselmer5931]

@@nwcountry Amen. There are things you can let go and then there's what Jane Fonda did. She's disgusting.

[@carolnacarato4448]

Gee can't imagine why....

[@carolynargabright8132]

Fonda says Hepburn didn't like her, perhaps because Fonda rubs people the wrong way.

[@debbiepowers4743]

Hepburn was probably jealous of Fonda. Jane Fonda could act circles around her.

[@stagehand9002]

dont worry jane, they love you in hanoi

[@rick3747]

After Hanoi Jane's betrayal of our forces, think Hepburn was wrong about Jane?

[@bobbyd1019]

Bingo!

[@karenl4634]

Apparently I have something in common with Katharine Hepburn. Life is good.

[@philiphatfield5666]

You, me, Kate, and thousands of Vietnam Veterans who would not give 'Hanoi Jane' the time of day!

[@cynthiaking2153]

To be honest Ms. Fonda I didn’t like you when I was growing up either, then I watched all of Frankie and Grace with my daughter. It was real quality mother daughter time. You are beautiful.

[@r.french4415]

I always liked Katherine Hepburn now I like her even more having since enough to dislike a communist

[@BigDeanoSyd]

Hepburn was extremely stubborn and inflexible as a person, she made up her mind about a person and that was that, doesn't mean she was always right but she was very black and white and fixed in her ways

[@brookehanley3659]

I did not think she should have insulted Meryl Streep. Rude. Meryl is a good actress but not the most beautiful. Many think overrated too. But lets give her credit. Kate she is not that bad.

[@superfluouschins2578]

BigDeanoSyd Now how could you possibly know that? (Genuinely curious).

[@BigDeanoSyd]

Superfluous Chins I spent a bit of time with Kate Hepburn before she passed away while resident in New York city and I am in contact with Jane Fonda from time to time, I met Jane at a dinner party in London a decade ago that was hosted by Cate Blanchett who I'm very close to, so there you go.

[@superfluouschins2578]

Interesting! I would love to have met La Hepburn-- despite her shortcomings. I'm sure you feel very lucky. And Ms. Blanchett is a superlative actress. I assume you're in entertainment?

[@BigDeanoSyd]

;)

[@mickeythompson9474]

Her dad didn't like her either , most of her life.

[@Sumarluco]

Low blow.

[@kristic4472]

Katharine Hepburn didn't like Hanoi Jane, makes me like Kate even more.

[@edmundcharles5278]

Katherine Hepburn roles were all about her playing herself and her own persona, much like that of John Wayne. I find that she played herself as 'type' in most of her movies, never venturing far from roles that were not in synch with her own persona. Meryl Streep and other actresses played a wide range of roles outside of themselves and often out of their comfort zones. It might have been the old time filming or the unimaginative screen writers of the day, but the roles that Miss Hepburn played seemed one-dimensional and almost wooden compared to today's actresses. I liked Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo more as they played more diverse roles.

[@infrantasi]

That is exactly what I have felt all along. Hepburn was a product of the MGM star mill, where persona counted much more than talent. She actually had very little imagination and her command of language was so limited by her hideous speaking voice and Main Line affectations that she couldn't see very far into herself. Her idea of a queen, and the renouncement scene in "Queen Christina" by Garbo show you the difference between a clever hacktress and a genius. Every time Garbo spoke to her subjects, I wanted to kneel with them. I used to watch Hepburn movies and synch with her voice and shake, making friends howl. Her intonation, as well, was so flat, I remember her Portia in Merchant of Venice being such a farce of Shakespearean verse. She was insanely jealous of the younger stars because of their emotional freedom and better training. Not that many people think about her these days, anyway, but Davis and Crawford are still popular among college students, interestingly.

[@gman2010ification]

I am soooo sick of the worship of Meryl Streep--who is nothing more than an impressionist--she's the Rich Little of actresses. Everything about Streep is "calculating and phony. I can't stand her. Hepburn had incredible range.

[@infrantasi]

gman2010ification I don't agree. She had incredible influence, and was very agressive and ambitious, an unabashed narcissist. Lucille Ball could do dramatic and screwball much better, with a much more straightforward attack on the language. Hepburn's style is unbearable to watch. Her movies with Tracy were her best because he sat on her like crazy. Left to her own devices she was ridiculous. Her elitism was egregious and I found her classism revolting.

[@screenactorsguilable]

infrantasi Well I think they are from two generations ! Meryl follows Method Acting of Marlon Brando while Kate is educated through reacting abilities ! Don't ever compare 2 gens dear :)

[@vrinda5303]

Edmund Charles I wouldn't criticize the writers. Some of them wrote scripts to gear them to Hepburn's personality, which explains why she plays herself in most of her films.

[@chriscanale9535]

love Kate

[@thunderbirdmcfly8657]

Interesting she hated you but she liked you at the same time 🤔😉 Old school teachers ways to get you focused

[@livelongandprosper1363]

Ms. Hepburn was very perceptive

[@DD-hy1nl]

There must have been a reason why Katharine Hepburn didn't like Jane Fonda...Wonder why Jane didn't tell Marlo the reason or reasons why!...

[@savedfaves]

Did you ever see Hepburn in interviews? She was a bitch. Ain’t complicated.

[@denisemughrabi8171]

It probably had something to do with Jane’s political views during the Vietnam War. Jane was known as “G.I.Jane” because of her protests against the war in the U.S. & abroad. There were some photos taken when Jane was over there & she didn’t know that she would be posing with a member of the opposition’s army. She was just a young girl & was basically tricked. The press got a hold of the pics & they went viral.The press crucified her & accused of her being a traitor. She has really never been able to shake that narrative because many older people thought she should support the war regardless of the reason we were at war. She was supporting the troops by wanting it to end. Our troops were not accustomed to fighting in that kind of terrain & their captures were torturing our soldiers. They held many P.O.W.’s (Prisoners Of War), for years after the war was over. It really was an unnecessary war, in my opinion as well. A friend once told me that “Men in suits will send your young people to war every time, but they don’t necessarily send theirs, or go themselves!”. I believe that is true.

[@SactoGranny]

She did say, at :54 - because Jane was married, with kids and a pet. Hepburn thought actors should have no attachments.

[@annem9402]

I just saw " On Golden Pond " for the first time over the holiday. WOW, what a great movie!! My husband got a kick out of Henry Fonda and I loved the part where Jane Fonda told her dad she wanted to be his friend.😢😢 I'm going to purchase it to have with my other classic movies.

[@josephlamberta3368]

Her own father couldn't stand her !!!!!

[@robertcole4164]

I'd take it she didn't like the fact that you're a traitor Jane...

[@maryblester213]

I know!

[@Lovelain777]

What did she do?

[@robertcole4164]

@@Lovelain777 google Hanoi Jane

[@owlcowl]

"Traitor" is now an all-purpose smear that people attach to anyone who publically opposes their government's foreign or military policy. Recall that our venerated Founding Fathers were open traitors to the British Crown, but we call Benedict Arnold a traitor because he broke with the rebellion and resumed his loyalty to the mother country. The North called the South "treasonous" for seceding from the Union, but the Confederates considered themselves the true patriots while the Union had betrayed the original principles of the Founders. The German officers who plotted to kill Hitler were certainly committing treason against the legally constituted government in wartime and were executed for it, but posterity regards them as the true German patriots and regrets their failure. A lot of liberals called Trump a traitor for his fealty to Putin, but theres no evidence that he passed along state secrets to the Kremlin, which would indeed qualify by the legal definition. "Hanoi Jane" may have been a naive fool, but she acted as a private citizen and nothing she did met the technical criterion of being a "traitor" to the United States. She had nothing of value to give North Vietnam that would have aided their war effort. In a free society, no citizen is under any obligation to support the government's wars, if she regards them as morally noxious or politically disastrous.

[@fawnmccloud2679]

This woman was a traitor to her country. She gave a note from a prisoner in north Vietnam to his captors. He was beaten. Never forget that.

[@katherined800]

And now the U.S. has a whole group of them and may even re-elect one. That is something to focus on.

[@presley881]

Hey,hanoi jane,news flash,nobody else does either.

[@hjarten]

Katherine Hepburn did her own fall into the Venice canal in the film 'Summertime'. The canal was also a public sewer but she did the fall without thinking, and she caught an eye infection that she never got over. Had to use drops everyday. This is why her eyes were always glassy and red afterwards.

[@kuroniro1]

I think it was ear infection, not an eye infection.

[@hjarten]

kuroniro1 Feel free to Google...

[@nancyneville8700]

hjarten eye problem was from the movie "the African Queen ",you dumbass

[@nancyneville8700]

kuroniro1 eye infection

[@sasha031]

Katherine Hepburn was always a woman of dignity and common sense. There are millions of ppl who don't like you...

[@tatters1232006]

Katherine Hepburn a truly classic actress

[@tiopuerco6923]

I'm sure Hanoi still loves you

[@tomkellycartoons]

Zzzzzzzzz....

[@bspg53]

I watched Dick Cavett's interview with Hepburn recently. She was imperious, a total narcissist and acted like she was doing the world a tremendous favor by deigning to be interviewed. I thought she was a pain in the ass.

[@cynsmi]

No big deal, many people don’t like JF.

[@StevenTorrey]

I have always been a fan of Katherine Hepburn. But she seems so true to Hollywood norm of narcissism. Writing an autobiography entitled ME is simply way over the top in the narcissism scale. A movie is never about a single actress; the entire cast playing to each other's strengths make for the movie work. She apparently didn't like Meryl Streep---but Katherine Hepburn could never approach the range of Meryl Streep as an actress. As others said, Katherine Hepburn played Katherine Hepburn in all of her roles.

[@JMLCK78]

I love Meryl but her range is a bit overrated really

[@delontedeclou98]

Jamie Khan you can be polish, German, french, Italian and Australian? Really...show me how?

[@JMLCK78]

delonte dilemma Listening to countless tapes and copying the accent?

[@delontedeclou98]

then do it... record a vid

[@SebColina]

Jamie Khan I love how you think acting to be someone from another country/culture can be so easy.

[@Alma_Gertrude]

Well, I was never crazy about you either.

[@TheHoopyscoopy]

I can only guess that Hepburn disapproved of Fonda's unseemly tactics during the Vietnam era but I shouldn't assume or presume or whatever the word is.

[@tomkellycartoons]

Yes, you’re right. You can only guess. So why don’t you just be quiet? Your “guesses” are of no importance.

[@MuzzyVanH]

KH was quite aware that she had little to prove, let alone fear or compete with at that time in her professional life. You are correct,....she did the movie, and though she never appeared at any of the Academy Award ceremonies, ( save once, to present the Irving Thalberg award to a man she admired, Lawrence Weingarten.), won her fourth Oscar for her performance in it.

[@rpminc1974]

Katharine Hepburn and over half the country !!

[@rpminc1974]

@Blue Wave 2020 It's a waste of time for that. Facts and Reality mean nothing to you brain dead liberal idiots !!

[@antonysteel8061]

Good taste from Kathryn Hepburn I’d say

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

Don't worry, Jane, no one else does either!

[@mk94194]

Well...that's a lie

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

@@mk94194 If you want to like a woman who sided with North Vietnam, who is pictured on a North Vietnamese antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of Hanoi while we were in uniform, that's your right. Its a freedom we fought for. To me she is a horrid, treasonous wretch. I wouldn't spit on her to see it splash.

[@mk94194]

@@michaelfitzgerald434 The Vietnam war was unnecessary and criminal anyway, so she was right after all for demanding peace with that photograph. I don't know why you're even commemorating it with such pride. It's time to move on Michael.

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

@@mk94194 You are an ass, a certifiable ass. Treason is treason. Aiding and abetting the enemy is aiding and abetting the enemy. You never served, did you, Doufos? No pride over the Vietnam War here. It was horrid! But much pride over the men and women who served, especially those whose names are enshrined on the National Mall. That is something, unfortunately, you will never understand.

[@mk94194]

@@michaelfitzgerald434 Aiding and abetting the enemy wou;d be horrible had she done it... And Vietnam was never the enemy, it was the US that were, once more, meddling in other countries politics and spreading "freedom" and "democracy". Fonda was protesting the war, rightfully so. I wouldn't go about it the same way but activism is often shocking. She certainly didn't commit treason and I'm certainly not touched by your efforts to sound patriotic and pander to veterans. And who said that serving immediately makes you noble or a hero or something?

[@murphtahoe1]

Katherine Hepburn was a smart lady. She saw her for what she is.

[@Poetic_Justice1962]

No, it was ill judgement on her part, and apparently also on your part.

[@brenda1429]

@@Poetic_Justice1962Just ask a Vietnam veteran about Jane Fonda. They hated her ever since she went to North Vietnam. Her nickname is Hanoi Jane.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Yes a traitor

[@ohmeowzer1]

@@brenda1429 Hanoi Jane ,,,cant stand her,,,she is a lousy American

[@ohmeowzer1]

@@Poetic_Justice1962nope she was a traitor to the Viet Nam Vets,..Hanoi Jane name still stands

[@jwr7138]

There's a lot of people who don't like you very much, Jane.

[@ednakelley814]

Katharine Hepburn wasn't the only one that didn't like you.

[@nancybarta8167]

Jane came to my College ..Whittier.........to speak.I was the campus dinning rm supervisor and you were so rude to all of us.This was 1970........I was happy to see so many walked out on you at the ampitheater.So bravo Ms Hepburn!

[@billslocum9819]

I heard this said by the writer of "On Golden Pond" on a DVD commentary. It wasn't political and it wasn't even personal, really. Katharine Hepburn found Jane Fonda annoying and complained that she visited Hepburn on set too much, because the woman wanted her space and Fonda was trying to build a repartee (and genuinely liked Hepburn too). The screenwriter seemed to ascribe this to Hepburn's cool manner with people (which he spoke of experiencing at length on the DVD track, though he also credited her for making the movie happen.)

[@DesertScorpionKSA]

Katharine Hepburn didn't like Jane Fonda because Hepburn had class.

[@newbloomwon]

I think Katherine Hepburn was more conservative than Jane Fonda.

[@bonchance9241]

''interviewers'' who constantly interrupt blank blank

[@deancj1]

You mean Marlo Thomas?.....Hahaha. put some respect on her name.

[@bh5606]

Yes, it is believable that KH did not like jane.

[@tamadoer]

I think she was right.

[@tomkellycartoons]

Why do you say that. It must be wonderful to know them so well.

[@arricammarques1955]

She disliked you? Shock horror! LOL

[@wswanliz]

Why would a class act like Katharine Hepburn even give this traitor the time of day if she wasn't getting paid for it? I don't like Jane Fonda either.

[@robertwoodpa6463]

Hey me either!

[@jimelmore9728]

I don’t know anyone who like Jane Fonda.

[@dianeschmidt661]

Maybe she didn't like traitors.

[@vmtz2001]

Let me guess. So you are against those who opposed the Vietnam War. America love it or leave it …our gvt knows best, but now you are against involvement in Iraq or Syria, or Ukraine and mistrust our government. Whatever is in style for the right wing you will follow.

[@Patriot46426]

@@vmtz2001 she questioned the treatment of P.O.W. and suggested that they weren't treated badly you sick fucktard

[@CHOPRJOHN]

​​​@@vmtz2001 Lemme guess your a Commie-crat liberal! As a Vietnam vet I have 2 words for her and you, and they are NOT Merry Christmas!!!!!

[@susandunn7207]

It’s more because during a “peace mission” in a Vietnam POW camp she turned in about a dozen American soldiers who were asking her for help. As a result of her turning them in, the men were tortured even more than they had been. John McCain was one of those men.

[@dragonwithagirltattoo598]

You love war huh?

[@NBZW]

Here’s another to add to the list, Hanoi !

[@tenga3tango]

While Jane is still alive , healthy, vibrant and making waves, the other one is dead, buried and probably irrelevant. Love Jane in Monster in Law. On Golden Pond too old

[@belenheredia2024]

Man that was the logical thing to happen because Jane was younger and.. You'll die. We'll die. What a stupid comment!

[@richardlazine5243]

Never liked a traitor like "Hanoi Jane"

[@richardmcleod5967]

Katherine Hepburn chose people of real substance as friends. She demanded principles from any friend she may have had in life.

[@russs7574]

and hence the reason she wasn't real fond of Hannoi Jane.

[@Poetic_Justice1962]

Are you implying that Jane Fonda is not of real substance and principles? That would be hilariously absurd, and stupid.

[@Poetic_Justice1962]

@@russs7574 Dumb.

[@edwardnashen5960]

It's great to hear Jane Fonda's honesty about her relationship with Hepburn. Love Fonda and I think Kate probably finally liked her.

[@joekriger1252]

Katherine Hepburn was obviously a great judge of character & in this case, lack of character.

[@JudysLivingSmall]

Kudos to Katherine Hepburn!

[@claire111]

Must have been a great judge of character.

[@katwashere194]

You just can’t let the lies go can you?

[@talkingthetalk3640]

🤡

[@lemurianchick]

@claire111: I am sorry that you would rather believe the rah-rah bullshit of satanic demons FORCING young men to die for no good reason or commit unspeakable atrocities. Jane Fonda may have had an ill-advised photo op, but her heart was in the right place and she was fantastic in "Coming Home," which is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[@petersalem2433]

Katharine Hepburn,great an actress as she was,really didn’t like anyone

[@oldfart4751]

How not to interview people, Jane struggling to answer questions because the interviewer keeps asking questions before Jane has finished.

[@christoddur]

The interviewer? That's MARLO FRIGGIN' THOMAS - a great actress herself.

[@gustenhr]

How's that relevant?

[@nazur72]

If you want to cringe watch Megan Kelly interview her. She beings up Jane's plastic surgery out of left field totally awkward cringe.

[@camiblutube7116]

@@nazur72 Wow!

[@christoddur]

@Ed Miller Marlo Thomas has been nominated for several Golden Globes and Emmys - even winning an Emmy for her 1986 movie "Nobody's Child" (1985's "Consenting Adult" and 1984's "The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck" are also GREAT). She has three other Emmys, as well as a a Grammy Award, and a Star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame all to her name, too.

[@moniquelacosta5170]

Jane's life was unconventional to Kate. Jane had so many lives and has evolved in so many ways that some people may judge and misunderstand her. I admire both Kate and Jane. Look at the affair between Spencer Tracy and Kate Hepburn for many years, that was unconventional. That is life with Kate and Jane and nobody should judge.

[@silverbells4732]

Jane's hair style is soo beautiful

[@bgueberdenteich5206]

Is it not-that is how I wish my hair was !

[@pattim173]

Why would she? Does Jane Fonda have any idea of the damage she's caused United States Servicemen? The men that died because of her? Go away now...