Rosalind in As You Like It is one of the great roles for women in Shakespeare, so nearly every star of the stage plus several of the screen have played it. One of Katharine Hepburn's first screen roles (Sylvia Scarlett) had her disguised as a man, and she would go on to play strong and independent women competing in "a man's world." So Rosalind was a natural for her.She played the role in 1950. Though Dorothy Parker had famously described her stage acting in an earlier role as running the gamut of emotions from A to B, she apparently acquitted herself well this time. But it was this outfit that got the most attention. Kate Hepburn had not been known for gorgeous gams, so her long legs were a revelation.
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