Some of them hitched a ride on a trolley car toward he Golden Gate Bridge.They clamored across stalled cars and took over the bridge on their way north to the redwoods in Muir Woods on the other side of the bay.Its nominations for director (Vincente Minnelli) and Film Editing were unrewarded.Gene Kelly received an Honorary Award from the Academy the same year, presumably for his contributions to this film - it was presented "in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.Plot SynopsisFresh-faced and luminous Ada Love/"Eva Lovelace" (Katharine Hepburn) was an inexperienced, small town community theatre actress from a New England (Franklin, Vermont) country town who arrived in New York stagestruck, bringing all of her yearnings, hopes and dreams.[Kit has illusions of his own grandiosity and mythic status, even at this early stage in the film.] Holly fantasizes about how she comforts Kit, (in a surrealistic image, he lies in bed decorated from behind with peacock feathers and next to her catfish that is gasping for breath), while wearing angelic white robes and coming o him in the middle of the night:And as he lay in bed, in the middle of the night, he always heard a noise like somebody was holding a seashell against his ear.