Dick Cavett Recalls a Katharine Hepburn Highlight

Dick Cavett once joked that Barbara Walters always had a strained look on her face when they ran into each other. Why? Because he was the one who, in the fall of 1973, nabbed that rarest of TV experiences: an interview with Katharine Hepburn.

Earlier that same year, Cavett sat down with Marlon Brando. These are two of the most well-remembered episodes of Cavett’s illustrious career, and they both come up in the 79-year-old showbiz vet’s T magazine “Perfect Strangers” conversation with Seth Meyers, online today and in print Sept.