Katharine Hepburn celebrated her sixth career nomination portraying Jane Hudson in David Lean’s Academy Award-nominated Summertime. Based on the Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo, Summertime tells the story of a middle-aged, unwed secretary on her first trip abroad to Venice. When she meets the handsome Renato De Rossi, an antiques dealer, her outdated ideals of romance are called into question and Jane succumbs to the allure of an Italian affair. But will this give her the fulfillment that she secretly desires?

United Artists. 100 minutes.

Academy Award Nominations: Lead Actress (Katharine Hepburn); Directing (David Lean).

Print Courtesy of the Academy Film Archive and Janus Films. Summertime (1955) was restored in 2003 by the Academy Film Archive and the British Film Institute with the support of the David Lean Foundation and this screening will mark its New York premiere.

Preceding Summertime, the Academy will present the animated short film Mother Goose Goes Hollywood featuring the voices of Katharine Hepburn, Groucho Marx, Spencer Tracy, Stan Laurel and others. Walt Disney Productions; RKO Radio. [Silly Symphony Series] 1938. 6 minutes.

Academy Award Nomination: Short Subject (Cartoon) - Walt Disney, Producer