Thread-ending talk...hmmm...Ok. How about this? In the past few months, I've watched several Katherine Hepburn movies. I've liked her for a long time, but increasingly so.

My question is this: De we have any actresses who trade in the "strong woman" role, in comedies? or even things other than Action movies and Touching Dramas?

Let's talk gay cowboys in love.

De we have any actresses who trade in the "strong woman" role, in comedies?

The only one coming to mind is Diane Keaton.

Brigitte Nielsen.

Or do you mean intentional comedies?

Diane Keaton.

Yeah, but she's, you know, old. It seems like all the comediennes in their 30s are ditzes, or, at least, that's their schtik

Susan Sarandon has played strong all through her career, but it's not her raison d'etre.

I guess Sigourney Weaver is too much of an action hero to count. Although, outside of the Alien movies, has she done another action character?

eta Holly Hunter? Frances Macdormand?

Actually, I'm hard pressed to think of a Coen brothers heroine who wasn't tough in some way.

...see them tumbling down...

I don't know... was that whole "America's Sweetheart" thing such a tremendous factor in the Hepburn era, because I've seen lots of actresses give an original performance or two and then get skinny, blonde(er) or winsome really fast.(Not that those are horrific qualities, I have some of them, I think, but if that's all you ever see...)

I know exactly what you mean, erika. They get bland and cookie-cutter. It usually codes as sying their hair blonde for me, too.

Rosalind Russell certainly played tough in a comedy in HIS GIRL FRIDAY, but I don't know if that was her usual type of role.

Granted, for that, they took a male role in the play and re-gendered it while changing as little as they could.