Katharine Hepburn as Eula Goodnight

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Katharine Hepburn as Eula Goodnight is a sharp-witted, strong-willed missionary who becomes an unlikely partner and moral counterbalance to the grizzled U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the Western adventure film.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictionalCharacterPortrayal
filmCharacter
missionaryCharacter
appearsInFilm Rooster Cogburn NERFINISHED
associatedTheme moralityInLawlessFrontier
redemption
unlikelyPartnership
basedOnWork charactersCreatedByCharlesPortis
belongsToGenreTradition revisionistWestern
characterAgeContext middle-agedToElderlyWoman
characterAlignment law-abiding
characterEthnicityImplied whiteAmerican
characterGender female
characterMotivation pursuitOfJustice
religiousConviction
characterName Eula Goodnight NERFINISHED
characterOccupation missionary
characterTrait moral
sharp-witted
strong-willed
coStarsWithActor John Wayne NERFINISHED
coStarsWithCharacter Rooster Cogburn NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
directorOfFilm Stuart Millar NERFINISHED
filmDistributor Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED
filmGenre Western
adventureFilm
filmIsSequelTo True Grit NERFINISHED
filmRuntimeApproximate 108 minutes
hasOnscreenDynamicWith Rooster Cogburn as portrayed by John Wayne NERFINISHED
languageOfWork English
medium liveActionFilm
narrativeFunction partnerToRoosterCogburn
narrativeRole femaleLead
moralCounterbalanceToRoosterCogburn
notableFor late-careerWesternRoleForKatharineHepburn
on-screenChemistryWithJohnWayne
partOfFilmSeries TrueGritFilmSeries NERFINISHED
portrayalEra NewHollywoodPeriod NERFINISHED
portrayedBy Katharine Hepburn NERFINISHED
productionCompanyOfFilm Hal B. Wallis Productions NERFINISHED
screenwriterOfFilm Charles Portis NERFINISHED
Martha Hyer NERFINISHED
settingGenreContext AmericanOldWest NERFINISHED
yearOfFilmRelease 1975

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Rooster Cogburn leadActorRole Katharine Hepburn as Eula Goodnight
subject surface form: Rooster Cogburn (film)