Rome, July 05: Katharine Hepburn will be remembered at the 60th Venice Int'l. Film Festival (Aug. 27-Sept. 6) with a special screening of a newly restored copy of "Summertime," the David Lean-directed romance set in the lagoon city, organizers said Tuesday. In the 1955 film, Hepburn plays a lonely American woman on holiday in Venice, where she falls in love with a handsome, unhappily married antiques dealer, played by Rossano Brazzi. It garnered two Oscar nominations in 1956: one for Hepburn and one for Lean.
Hepburn -- who died Sunday aged 96 -- won the Venice fest's best actress prize in 1934 for George Cukor's "Little Women," in which she played the tomboyish Jo March.
Bureau Report