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.^ Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut.- Relief at last for legend Hepburn - www.theage.com.au 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theage.com.au [Source type: News]
^ Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, television and stage.
^ Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut.
.^ She received a record 12 Best Actress nominations.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars® (a record untouched by any other actress) and was nominated for eight more.- Katharine Hepburn: All About Me 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.tcm.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Oscars and 12 Academy Award nominations.- William F. Buckley Jr. on Katharine Hepburn on National Review Online 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.nationalreview.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars® (a record untouched by any other actress) and was nominated for eight more.- Katharine Hepburn: All About Me 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.tcm.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hepburn's performance was nominated for an Academy Award.
^ She was nominated for the award eight other times.- Katharine Hepburn, 96: Won a record four Academy Awards - thestar.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.thestar.com [Source type: General]
In 1999, the
American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the
greatest female star in the history of American cinema.
[1]
Early years
Hepburn was born in
Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of
suffragette Katharine Martha
Houghton (1878 – 1951) (an heiress to the
Corning Glass fortune and co-founder of
Planned Parenthood) and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879 – 1962), who was a successful
urologist from
Virginia with
Maryland roots. She was of
Scottish and
English ancestry.
. Her siblings were Thomas Houghton Hepburn (1905–1921), Richard Houghton Hepburn (1911–2000), Robert Houghton Hepburn (1913–2007), Marion Houghton Hepburn Grant (1918–1986) and Margaret Houghton Hepburn Perry (1918–2006).
^ October 18, 2000, Hartford, Connecticut) Robert Houghton Hepburn (b.- Katharine Hepburn - Internet Accuracy Project 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.accuracyproject.org [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born one of six children to Dr Thomas Norval Hepburn and suffragette Katharine Martha Houghton, in Hartford, Connecticut, on 12 May, 1907.- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A47629560 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn leaves a sister, Margaret Hepburn Perry; a brother, Dr. Robert Hepburn; and 13 nieces and nephews.- Second Site 3 Demonstration Site - Boston Globe Obituary for Katharine Hepburn, by Jay Carr, 30 June 2003 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC ss.johncardinal.com [Source type: General]
.^ All the girls participated in golf, swimming, riding and tennis.- Movie Stars of Old Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn – Retro Planet 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.retroplanet.com [Source type: General]
^ Her father insisted that his children be athletic, and encouraged swimming, riding, golf and tennis.
^ Me 30] Parents Father - descended from old southern aristocracy, a doctor and an athlete - encouraged his children in all forms of physical strength and sport: golf, tennis, diving, swimming, wrestling, gymnastics, running, jumping, biking.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
.^ She once won a bronze medal in Figure skating from the Madison Square Garden figure skating club.- Scribe Services Tribute Sample 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC designsbyannieb.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn encouraged athletics, and young Kate excelled in golf, swimming, and figure skating.- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) - Find A Grave Memorial 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.findagrave.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hepburn, eager to please her father, emerged as a fine athlete in her late teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the Madison Square Garden skating club, shooting golf in the low eighties, and reaching the semifinal of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Championship.
Hepburn especially enjoyed swimming, and regularly took dips in the frigid waters that fronted her bayfront
Connecticut home, generally believing that "the bitterer the medicine, the better it was for you." She continued her brisk swims well into her 80s.
.^ Bringing Up Baby (1938) .- Videodetective.com - Katharine Hepburn filmography 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC videodetective.com [Source type: General]
^ The fans pick: Bringing Up Baby .- Katharine Hepburn Fan Club | Fansite with photos, videos, and more 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.fanpop.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ BRINGING UP BABY 1938 .- Videodetective.com - Katharine Hepburn filmography 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC videodetective.com [Source type: General]
.^ In 1920, at the age of 13, she found her beloved older brother, Tom, hanging from a rafter by a torn sheet.- Katharine of Arrogance's date with Michael Jackson - smh.com.au 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.smh.com.au [Source type: General]
^ In 1921, Katharine found her much loved elder brother Tom hanging by the neck in their aunt's attic while on a visit.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hepburn was very close to her older brother, Tom, who hanged himself when she was 13.- Master’s thesis sparks Katharine Hepburn Film Retrospective 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.udel.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Her family denied that it was self-inflicted, arguing that he had been a happy boy; rather, they insisted that it must have been an experimentation gone awry.
.^ Her family denied that it was self-inflicted, arguing that he had been a happy boy; rather, they insisted that it must have been an experimentation gone awry.
^ Hepburn insisted that his son’s death was the result of a boyish stunt gone awry, and tried to get the newspapers to retract their accounts of suicide.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
.^ It has also been speculated that the boy was trying to carry out a trick that he had seen in a play with Katharine.
^ It has also been speculated that the boy was trying to carry out a trick that his father had taught him.
^ She was signed by David O. Selznick, who saw her playing an Amazon huntress carrying a fresh-killed deer on her shoulders.- Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes | Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.metroactive.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hepburn was devastated by his death and sunk into a depression.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn was devastated by his death and sank into a depression.
.^ She shyed away from children her own age and was mostly schooled at home.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ She shied away from children her own age and was mostly schooled at home.
^ She then became very shy around girls her age, and was largely schooled at home.- Katharine Hepburn - Biograhpy, Photos, and Gossip 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.mademan.com [Source type: General]
.^ For many years after this, Katharine used his birthdate, November 8, as her own.- Katharine Hepburn - Biograhpy, Photos, and Gossip 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.mademan.com [Source type: General]
- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ For many years she used Tom's birthday as her own.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ For many years she celebrated her birthday on her brother's (8 November) as a sign of remembrance.- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A47629560 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
It was not until her 1991 autobiography,
Me: Stories of My Life, that Hepburn revealed her true birth date of May 12, 1907.
.^ She was educated by tutors and at private schools before entering Bryn Mawr University in 1924.- Katharine Hepburn (Star of the Month) 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.tcm.com [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn was a little too Bryn Mawr.- Close-Up: Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.boxofficemojo.com [Source type: General]
- Interview: Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn (2007) 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.scottholleran.com [Source type: General]
^ She attended Bryn Mawr College, and received a degree in history and philosophy in 1928, the same year she debuted on Broadway with a bit part in "Night Hostess".- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) - Find A Grave Memorial 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.findagrave.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ By the fall of 1933, “Little Women” was breaking box-office records at Radio City, with Hepburn as America’s beloved Jo billed alone above the title.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ Synopsis: One of the most successful and respected actresses of all time is profiled in the Lifetime special Women of Substance: Katherine Hepburn.- Katharine Hepburn Filmography 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Since that time, her work has focused on advocacy for women’s health issues, particularly reproductive rights.
.^ Later in life she admitted to swimming naked in the college fountain.- Movie Stars of Old Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn – Retro Planet 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.retroplanet.com [Source type: General]
^ In July of 2006 , Bryn Mawr College announced it would launch a center honoring the life and work of alumna Katharine Hepburn.- Katharine Hepburn - Internet Accuracy Project 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.accuracyproject.org [Source type: General]
^ Independent theater owners would not win their point regarding block booking until the Department of Justice intervened a decade later.- GarboForever - Katharine Hepburn - Kate and Garbo Trivia 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.garboforever.com [Source type: General]
.^ That same year she landed a bit part on Broadway in Night Hostess.- Scribe Services Tribute Sample 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC designsbyannieb.com [Source type: General]
^ That year, Katharine landed a bit part on Broadway.
^ She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, receiving a degree in history and philosophy in 1928, the same year she debuted on Broadway after landing a bit part in Night Hostess.
.^ In 1928, just out of Bryn Mawr, she had married Ludlow Ogden Smith.- Powell's Books - Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.powells.com [Source type: General]
^ She married Ludlow Ogden (Luddy) Smith in 1928, but soon realized that she wanted to be free.- Tribute To Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.films42.com [Source type: General]
^ The year she graduated from college she entered marriage with socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
.^ They could care less.- Katharine Hepburn dies | MetaFilter 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: General]
^ In the nearly 30 years that Hepburn and Tracy spent together—starring together in nine films—there would be much shifting in shape.- Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy : People.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.people.com [Source type: General]
^ Following three forgettable pairings (they made nine movies together), Miss Hepburn came in as a late substitution as Tracy's wife in "State of the Union" (1948), Frank Capra's adaptation of the stage hit.- The Claremont Institute - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.claremont.org [Source type: General]
.^ Fearing that the Mexican divorce was not legal, Ludlow got a second divorce in the United States in 1942 and a few days later he remarried.
^ They were divorced in 1934 and she never remarried.- Katharine Hepburn, 96: Won a record four Academy Awards - thestar.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.thestar.com [Source type: General]
^ A few days later, she had an occlusion.
.^ Katharine often expressed her gratitude toward Ludlow for his financial and moral support in the early days of her career and "Luddy" continued to be a lifelong friend to her and the Hepburn family.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Although their marriage was a failure, Katharine Hepburn often expressed her gratitude toward Ludlow for his financial and moral support in the early days of her career.
^ Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn's career spanned seven decades, during which she became one of the most-acclaimed actresses of all time.
.^ "Luddy" continued to be a lifelong friend to her and the Hepburn family.
^ Katharine often expressed her gratitude toward Ludlow for his financial and moral support in the early days of her career and "Luddy" continued to be a lifelong friend to her and the Hepburn family.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hepburn was married once, for three weeks, to family friend and Philadelphia socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith at the beginning of her career.
.^ She died on June 29, 2003 at 2:50 p.m., at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
^ She died at the age of 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ Her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut became her haven.- Scribe Services Tribute Sample 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC designsbyannieb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn narrowly escaped before the home was washed away.
^ KATHERINE HEPBURN: I've only known such excitement a few times before a few times in my dear brother's sermons when the Spirit was really upon him.- PM - Tribute to Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.abc.net.au [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1939, her mother moved her and her two half-brothers to their grandfather's home in Arnhem, Netherlands.
.^ Three stars appearing in the 1953 Academy Award-winning film From Here To Eternity were nominated for best actor or best actress Oscars.- Movie Trivia�Questions About Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Bambi, The Three Stooges and More! 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.triviafool.com [Source type: General]
^ Together, the couple would make nine movies, including “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967), which earned Hepburn her second Best Actress Oscar.- Happy Birthday, Katharine Hepburn, Legendary Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.findingdulcinea.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn appeared in a total of nine movies with Tracy, including Adam's Rib (1949) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), for which Hepburn won her second Best Actress Oscar.
Career
Stage
.^ Katharine Hepburn was a little too Bryn Mawr.- Close-Up: Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.boxofficemojo.com [Source type: General]
- Interview: Robert Osborne on Katharine Hepburn (2007) 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.scottholleran.com [Source type: General]
^ During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in Baltimore, Maryland, who cast her in several small roles, including a production of The Czarina and The Cradle Snatchers.
^ It is during this act that Hepburn relates the painful story of having to cut down the body of her adored 15-year-old brother after he hanged himself.- CNN.com - A new role for Capt. Janeway - Apr. 9, 2003 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: General]
.^ During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in Baltimore, Maryland, who cast her in several small roles, including a production of The Czarina and The Cradle Snatchers.
^ After graduating, she joined a stock company in Baltimore.- Katharine Hepburn dies at 96 - Movies- msnbc.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.msnbc.msn.com [Source type: General]
- Obituaries | Death Notices | Newspaper Obituaries | Online Obituaries | Newspaper Death Notices | Online Death Notices 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.legacy.com [Source type: General]
- John Wayne related news - 06/29/2003: "Actress Katharine Hepburn Dies at 96" 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.jwayne.com [Source type: General]
^ A young actress of possibilities The years between her college graduation and Broadway are documented with programs from The Czarina , in which Hepburn appeared for Edwin Knopf's Baltimore stock company in 1928, a photograph of Hepburn in The Big Pond , a play that opened in Great Neck (Hepburn was fired after one night, something that would happen more than once in her early stage career), as well as an Actors' Equity contract, dated Aug.- Katharine Hepburn On Stage - Playbill.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.playbill.com [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn's first leading role was in a production of The Big Pond, which opened in Great Neck, New York.
^ She soon started appearing in small roles in plays on Broadway in New York City.That year she also married a businessman named Ludlow Ogden Smith.- VOA Special English 2009-09-18 - Biography - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.manythings.org [Source type: General]
^ Although she divorced him six years later, she credited "Luddy" for opening doors in New York that allowed her to find some work.- Katharine Hepburn (Star of the Month) 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.tcm.com [Source type: General]
.^ She is the last of the great ones: a celebrated actress, a brilliant personality, an original.
^ The producer had fired the play's original leading lady at the last minute, and asked Hepburn to assume the role.
^ As much as I admired Katherine Hepburn as an actress I always had the feeling from her interviews and pieces about her that she was somewhat dismissive of other’s opinions or/ and life styles.- What Katharine Hepburn Taught Me About Life and Death | wowOwow 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wowowow.com [Source type: General]
.^ Terror stricken at the unexpected change, Hepburn arrived late and, once on stage, flubbed her lines, tripped over her feet and spoke so rapidly that she was almost incomprehensible.
^ Hepburn nearly lost a foot in a car accident in late 1982 and spent almost three weeks in a hospital.- Obituaries | Death Notices | Newspaper Obituaries | Online Obituaries | Newspaper Death Notices | Online Death Notices 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.legacy.com [Source type: General]
- John Wayne related news - 06/29/2003: "Actress Katharine Hepburn Dies at 96" 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.jwayne.com [Source type: General]
.^ She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small stock company roles and as an understudy.
^ During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in Baltimore, Maryland, who cast her in several small roles, including a production of The Czarina and The Cradle Snatchers.
^ After another summer of stock companies, in 1932 Hepburn landed the role of Antiope the Amazon princess in The Warrior's Husband (an update of Lysistrata), which debuted to excellent reviews.
Hepburn was cast in the Broadway play
Art and Mrs. Bottle.
.^ Hepburn was fired from this role as well, though she was eventually rehired when the director could not find anyone to replace her.
^ Although she divorced him six years later, she credited "Luddy" for opening doors in New York that allowed her to find some work.- Katharine Hepburn (Star of the Month) 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.tcm.com [Source type: General]
^ Imagine what Rosalind Russell and Norma Shearer could have done with such roles, or Katharine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall, or even Salma Hayek and Regina King..."
.^ Amazon princess in The Warrior's Husband (an update of Lysistrata), which required her to wear a very short costume and debuted to excellent reviews.She became the talk of New York City, and came to the attention of the big Hollywood studios.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After another summer of stock companies, in 1932 Hepburn landed the role of Antiope the Amazon princess in The Warrior's Husband (an update of Lysistrata), which required her to wear a very short costume and debuted to excellent reviews.
^ After several summers of acting in stock company productions, in 1932, Hepburn landed the role of Antiope With Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.in "Morning Glory."- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hepburn became the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by Hollywood.
^ On her first outing with the Hollywood press corps after the success of A Bill of Divorcement, Hepburn talked with reporters who had invaded her and her husband's cabin aboard the ship City of Paris.
^ In 2004, in accordance with Hepburn's wishes, her personal effects were put up for auction with Sotheby's in New York.
.^ Her screen debut in 'A Bill of Divorcement' was historic.- Katharine Hepburn at Reel Classics: Article: The incomparable Katharine Hepburn is woman of the year, every year 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.reelclassics.com [Source type: General]
^ In the play, Hepburn entered the stage by leaping down a flight of steps while carrying a large stag on her shoulders — an RKO scout (Leland Hayward, whom she would later romance) was so impressed by this display of physicality that he asked her to do a screen test for the studio's next vehicle, A Bill of Divorcement, which starred John Barrymore and Billie Burke.
^ In the play, Hepburn entered the stage by leaping down a flight of steps while carrying a large stag on her shoulders an RKO scout (Leland Hayward, whom she would later romance) was so impressed by this display of physicality that he asked her to do a screen test for the studio's next vehicle, A Bill of Divorcement, which starred John Barrymore and Billie Burke.
.^ In true Hepburn fashion, she demanded an outlandish $1,500 per week for film work.- Scribe Services Tribute Sample 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC designsbyannieb.com [Source type: General]
^ In true Hepburn fashion, she demanded an outlandish $1,500 per week for film work (at the time she was earning between $80 and $100 per week).
^ After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her demands and cast her, launching her film career beside legendary actor John Barrymore and director George Cukor, who would become a lifetime friend and colleague.
.^ After seeing her screen test, studio executives agreed to her demands.- Scribe Services Tribute Sample 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC designsbyannieb.com [Source type: General]
^ After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her demands and cast her, launching her film career beside legendary actor John Barrymore and director George Cukor, who would become a lifetime friend and colleague.
^ After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her demands and cast her, launching her film career aside legendary actor John Barrymore and director George Cukor, who would become a lifetime friend and colleague.
.^ RKO bought the rights from Wilde for $1000 on June 11, 1937 and the film was scheduled to begin a fifty-one day shoot in September with Katharine Hepburn starring and virtually no leading man.- PennTags /tag/Katharine_Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC tags.library.upenn.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Yet from her very first day in Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn had been known best for one thing: her pants.- Powell's Books - Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.powells.com [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn : leading man: how do we know Kate Hepburn was one of the greatest actors ever?- Katharine Hepburn Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.encyclopedia.com [Source type: General]
[3] .^ She received Emmy nominations for Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" (1973), and "The Corn Is Green" (1979), directed by her longtime friend and collaborator, George Cukor.- Katharine Hepburn on TV.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.tv.com [Source type: General]
^ After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her demands and cast her, launching her film career beside legendary actor John Barrymore and director George Cukor, who would become a lifetime friend and colleague.
^ George Cukor, her director in "A Bill of Divorcement" and nine other films, once said, "There's a lot of Kate herself in some of the pictures we did together."
.^ In one of Barrymore's many attempts to bed her, he pinched Kate's behind on the set.
.^ She said, "If you do that again I'm going to stop acting."
^ ''Oh, Mr. Tracy, I'm afraid I'm going to be too tall for you,'' she said at their first meeting.- Second Site 3 Demonstration Site - Boston Globe Obituary for Katharine Hepburn, by Jay Carr, 30 June 2003 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC ss.johncardinal.com [Source type: General]
^ Barrymore I am never going to act with you again", to which Barrymore replied "My dear, you still haven't".- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
.^ Barrymore replied, "I wasn't aware that you'd started, my dear."
^ Barrymore I am never going to act with you again", to which Barrymore replied "My dear, you still haven't".- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ Barrymore replied, I wasn't aware that you'd started, my dear.
Film
.^ RKO was delighted by audience reaction to A Bill of Divorcement and signed Hepburn to a new contract after it wrapped.
^ Film RKO was delighted by audience reaction to A Bill of Divorcement and signed Hepburn to a new contract after it wrapped.
^ But an enraged Hepburn settled her contract with RKO .- Katharine Hepburn at Reel Classics: Article: The incomparable Katharine Hepburn is woman of the year, every year 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.reelclassics.com [Source type: General]
.^ But her nonconformist, anti-Hollywood behavior offscreen, which would make her one of the silver screen's most beloved stars and a feminist icon, at the time made studio executives fret that she would never become a superstar.
^ But her nonconformist, anti-Hollywood behavior off-screen, which would make her one of the silver screen's most beloved stars and a feminist icon, at the time made studio executives fret that she would never become a superstar.
^ They would go on to become the most beloved couple in film, starring together in nine movies throughout their careers.- Scribe Services Tribute Sample 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC designsbyannieb.com [Source type: General]
.^ She won her first for Morning Glory in 1934.- The Sheila Variations: Katharine Hepburn and Howard Hughes 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.sheilaomalley.com [Source type: General]
^ She won won 4 Oscars during her career.
^ A year after Divorcement, she played the headstrong, stagestruck ingenue in Morning Glory and won her first Oscar.- KATHARINE HEPBURN: 1907-2003 - TIME 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.time.com [Source type: General]
- KATHARINE HEPBURN: 1907-2003 - TIME 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.time.com [Source type: General]
.^ This movie earned Hepburn her first Academy Award for Best Actress.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent, Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English 2009-09-18 - Biography - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.manythings.org [Source type: General]
^ Journey brought Hepburn the best-actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
^ That same year, Hepburn played Jo in the screen adaptation of Little Women, which broke box-office records.
.^ Intoxicated with her success — an Oscar followed by a smash hit at the box office — Hepburn felt it was time to make her return to the theater.
^ Intoxicated with her success - an Oscar followed by a smash hit at the box office - Hepburn felt it was time to make her return to the theater.
^ Intoxicated with her success an Oscar followed by a smash hit at the box office Hepburn felt it was time to make her return to the theater.
.^ Kath’s wounds from The Lake were still too raw, and the drubbing Spitfire was taking only made things worse.- Powell's Books - Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.powells.com [Source type: General]
^ She chose The Lake, but was unable to obtain a release from RKO and instead went back to Hollywood to film the forgettable movie Spitfire in 1933.
.^ Having satisfied RKO, Hepburn went immediately back to Manhattan to begin the play, in which she played an English girl unhappy with her overbearing mother and wimpy father.
^ Hepburn's acting career begins Theatre Hepburn cut her acting teeth in plays at Bryn Mawr and later in revues staged by stock companies.
^ Katharine Hepburn then began to reminisce about her past, her mother, her father, Spencer Tracy and others.- Meeting Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wnd.com [Source type: General]
The play was generally considered a flop, and Hepburn's performance elicited
Dorothy Parker's quip that the actress "ran the gamut of emotions from A to B."
.^ In 1935, in the title role of the film Alice Adams, Hepburn earned her second Oscar nomination.
^ (She received her fourth Oscar nomination for the film.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
.^ First, she plays a trick on Cary Grant in the 1938 comedy "Bringing up Baby."- Online NewsHour: In Memoriam: Katherine Hepburn -- June 30, 2003 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.pbs.org [Source type: Original source]
^ One flop was the 1938 comedy Bringing Up Baby , now considered a classic.- USATODAY.com - Film icon Katharine Hepburn dies at 96 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: General]
^ Bringing Up Baby (1938) more movies like this .- Katharine Hepburn Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ But audience response to the two films was tepid, and the good reviews from critics were not enough to rescue her from an earlier string of flops (The Little Minister, Spitfire, Break of Hearts, Sylvia Scarlett, A Woman Rebels, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street).
^ She was a strange tomboy in Spitfire (1934), and not too credible at genteel romance in The Little Minister (1934), Break Of Hearts (1936) or Quality Street (1937).- Obituary: Katharine Hepburn | Film | The Guardian 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ She was further defamed by pictures that flopped despite her valiant work in them -- 'Spitfire; Break of Hearts; Sylvia Scarlett; Quality Street.'- Katharine Hepburn at Reel Classics: Article: The incomparable Katharine Hepburn is woman of the year, every year 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.reelclassics.com [Source type: General]
.^ With these box office flops, Hepburn's movie career began to decline.
^ Her career began to decline.
^ As a result, Hepburn's movie career began to decline.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "I often wonder whether men and women really suit eachother.- Katharine Hepburn Biography At DVDwolf.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.dvdwolf.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other.- About Katharine Hepburn - Desktop Wallpapers, Photos, and Information! 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.allmovieportal.com [Source type: General]
^ Times obituaries of the men and women who shaped the 20th century.- Katharine Hepburn: The Times obituary | Times Online Obituary 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.timesonline.co.uk [Source type: General]
"Box office poison"
.^ Box office poison Some of what has made Hepburn greatly beloved today her unconventional, straightforward, anti-Hollywood attitude at the time began to turn audiences sour.
^ Box Office Poison Some of what has made Hepburn greatly beloved today - her unconventional, straightforward, anti-Hollywood attitude - at the time began to turn audiences sour.
^ Box office poison Some of what has made Hepburn greatly beloved today — her unconventional, straightforward, anti-Hollywood attitude — at the time began to turn audiences sour.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
.^ Outspoken and intellectual with an acerbic tongue, she defied the era's "blonde bombshell" stereotypes, preferring to wear pantsuits and disdaining makeup.
^ Outspoken and intellectual with an acerbic tongue, she defied the era's blonde bombshell stereotypes, preferring to wear pantsuits and disdaining makeup.
.^ She also had a famously difficult relationship with the press, turning down most interviews, which did not help her exposure to the public.
.^ On her first outing with the Hollywood press corps after the success of A Bill of Divorcement, Hepburn talked with reporters who had invaded her and her husband's cabin aboard the ship City of Paris.
^ When she first went to Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn never mentioned her husband.- Powell's Books - Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.powells.com [Source type: General]
^ It was a mammoth success and Hepburn regained her popularity and power in Hollywood continuing a career that would culminate in the AFI naming her #1 Woman in the list of Greatest Movie Legends.
.^ A reporter asked if they were really married; Hepburn responded: I don't remember.
^ A reporter asked if they were really married; Hepburn responded, "I don't remember."
^ Garbo is reported to have said "Don't worry darling he said the same thing to me last week", whereupon they both fell about laughing.- GarboForever - Katharine Hepburn - Kate and Garbo Trivia 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.garboforever.com [Source type: General]
.^ AM Katharine Hepburn (One) (1973) Katharine Hepburn appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired September 14, 1973.- Katharine Hepburn on Turner Classic Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.altfg.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ They were of two little children on the beach.- Meeting Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wnd.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn's aversion to media attention did not thaw until 1973, when she appeared on The Dick Cavett Show for an extended two-day interview.
Adding to her self inflicted public dislike were her criticisms of other female stars.
.^ He was very polite about his main dancing partner, Ginger Rogers, and all the others, and when I mentioned Cyd his face shone like a boy.- I knew Katharine Hepburn loved me when she punched me: Peter O'Toole on his relationship with an icon | Mail Online 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.dailymail.co.uk [Source type: General]
- I knew Katharine Hepburn loved me when she punched me: Peter O'Toole on his relationship with an icon | Mail Online 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.dailymail.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ The many interviewees include Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Warren Beatty.- Katharine Hepburn Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.blockbuster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ William J. Mann has written for the Boston Globe , the Los Angeles Times , the Hartford Courant , Salon , and other publications.- Powell's Books - Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.powells.com [Source type: General]
.^ She could also be prickly with fans - though she relented as she aged, in her early career Hepburn often denied requests for autographs, feeling it an invasion of her privacy.
^ She could also be prickly with fans though she relented as she aged, in her early career Hepburn often denied requests for autographs, feeling it an invasion of her privacy.
^ She could also be prickly with fans — though she relented as she aged, in her early career Hepburn often denied requests for autographs, feeling it an invasion of her privacy.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
.^ On movie sets, she was saddled with the label difficult to work with, an attitude that earned her the nickname Katharine of Arrogance (an allusion to Catherine of Aragon) among directors and crew.
^ However, the movie is a highly fictionalized portrayal of Hepburn and Hughes's relationship, and many portions of the movie involving the relationship are inaccurate.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ However, the movie is a highly fictionalized portrayal of Hepburn and Hughes' courtship, and many portions of the movie involving their relationship are inaccurate.
.^ Her nickname early on was "Katharine of Arrogance."- USATODAY.com - Film icon Katharine Hepburn dies at 96 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: General]
^ On the set she was saddled with the label "difficult to work with", an attitude that earned her the nickname "Katharine of Arrogance", (an allusion to Catherine of Aragon), among directors and crew.
^ On movie sets, she was saddled with the label difficult to work with, an attitude that earned her the nickname Katharine of Arrogance (an allusion to Catherine of Aragon) among directors and crew.
[4] .^ Soon audiences began staying away from her movies.
.^ She was famously dubbed “box office poison” by motion picture exhibitors.- Katharine Hepburn: Over 100 years of greatness | AfterEllen.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.afterellen.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hepburn was already reeling from a devastating series of flops when, in 1938, she (along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich , and others) was voted "box office poison" in a poll taken by motion picture exhibitors.
^ Hepburn was already reeling from a devastating series of earlier flops when in 1938 she (along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and others) was voted box office poison in a poll taken by motion picture exhibitors.
[5] .^ In 1939, Hepburn wanted the role of Scarlett O'Hara, but David O. Selznick insisted that she did not have the lustful, sexual appeal that the part needed.
^ Roles that Katharine Hepburn played.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ Was a leading choice to play "Scarlett O'Hara" in Gone with the Wind (1939).- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn was a woman who made risk-taking part of the game.
^ In 1939, Hepburn wanted the role of Scarlett O'Hara, but David O. Selznick insisted that she did not have the lustful, sexual appeal that the part needed.
^ Hepburn insisted that she did not have the lustful, sexual appeal that the part demanded and told Selznick that his studio needed to find the woman who did.
.^ Hepburn rehearsed the lines thoroughly in case Selznick could not find anyone else suitable.
.^ The night before the deadline, Selznick finally cast Vivien Leigh .
^ The night before the deadline, Selznick finally cast Vivien Leigh.
.^ Unbeknownst to Hepburn and the rest of Hollywood, Vivien Leigh was favored for the role early on, but as a British actress she was deemed unsuitable for the part.
^ The African Queen Hepburn is perhaps best remembered for her role in The African Queen (1951), for which she received her fifth Best Actress nomination, although she did not win (losing to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire).
^ The African Queen Hepburn is perhaps best remembered for her role in The African Queen (1951), for which she received her fifth Best Actress nomination, losing to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire.
.^ In addition, her affair with Laurence Olivier while he was in the middle of a divorce made her a controversial pick.
^ Hepburn made the first of her several television movies in 1975, co-starring with Sir Laurence Olivier in Love Among the Ruins -- and winning an Emmy award, as well.- Katharine Hepburn Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.blockbuster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The vast "search for Scarlett" was orchestrated to make it seem as if no other actress could be found, thus limiting the shock of Vivien Leigh landing the role.
^ The African Queen Hepburn is perhaps best remembered for her role in The African Queen (1951), for which she received her fifth Best Actress nomination, although she did not win (losing to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire).
^ Actually, Selznick offered her the role of Scarlett O'Hara, out of desperation at finding anyone suitable, but she was wise enough to sense that she was wrong for the part, and even though she tentatively accepted, it was no surprise when the part went to Vivien Leigh.
Hepburn was later the maid of honor at Leigh and Olivier's wedding in 1940.
[6] Hepburn remained a close friend of
Vivien Leigh until Leigh's death in 1967.
.^ Yearning for a comeback on the stage, Hepburn returned to her roots on Broadway, appearing in The Philadelphia Story, a play written especially for her by Philip Barry, a year after Hepburn had starred in the film version of his play Holiday.
^ She asked Holiday author Philip Barry to write a play for her, which turned out to be The Philadelphia Story .
^ Hepburn's friend Philip Barry wrote the play especially for her.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent, Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress_����Ӣ����ѧ�� 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wwenglish.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC voa.52en.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English 2009-09-18 - Biography - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.manythings.org [Source type: General]
.^ She played spoiled socialite Tracy Lord to rave reviews.
^ The plot line was written with her in mind - as the spoiled socialite Tracy Lord - and she bought the rights to the play.- http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A47629560 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn plays socialite Tracy Lord who is divorced from C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and is about to marry stuffed-shirt George Kittredge (John Howard).- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ With the help of Howard Hughes, who at one time had been her lover, she purchased the rights to the play and turned it into a hit movie.
^ With the help of ex-lover Howard Hughes, she purchased the film rights to the play and sold the rights to MGM, which adapted the play into one of the biggest hits of 1940.
^ In 1939 she sold the story to MGM and starred in it with Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
.^ Katharine turned down the role of Marilla in the 1985 telefilm Anne of Green Gables , but recommended her great-niece, Schuyler Grant for the role of Anne.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Turned down the role of Marilla in Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV), but recommended her great-neice, Schuyler Grant for the role of Anne.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ She formed memorable screen partnerships with the likes of Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and director George Cukor but outlasted all of them and excelled just as easily on her own.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hepburn's performance was nominated for an Academy Award.
^ She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work opposite Grant and Stewart.
^ This movie earned Hepburn her first Academy Award for Best Actress.- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC voa.52en.com [Source type: General]
.^ Her career was revived almost overnight.
^ Produced by MGM in 1940, the film version was a box-office triumph, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work and her career was revived almost overnight.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Although Hepburn will always (understandably) be associated with Spencer Tracy, I consider her match-ups with Cary Grant to be among the most delightful in film.
^ In 1963, Hepburn starred in Charade, her first and only film with Cary Grant, who had previously withdrawn from the starring roles in Roman Holiday and Sabrina.
^ As part of her deal with MGM, Hepburn got to choose the director — George Cukor — and her costars — Cary Grant and James Stewart.
.^ We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn).- Katharine Hepburn Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The many interviewees include Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Warren Beatty.- Katharine Hepburn Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.blockbuster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Answer » in the movie 'Bringing Up Baby', starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, who or what is Baby?- Katharine Hepburn - Wiki - Pictures - Videos 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.flixster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ And although the second half lets down a bit, Hepburn is bright and touching and funny, carrying the picture and making it worth repeated viewings.
^ In my previous post, I stated that Hepburn didn't utter an "assertive peep" during the McCarthy Era.
^ Wearing a red dress, Hepburn delivered a speech, written by Communist Party member and soon-to-be Hollywood Ten indictee Dalton Trumbo.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
.^ The majority of these films were shot during the studio era, when actors, directors, and writers banged out films in rapid succession to maintain a steady flow of product.- DVD Verdict Review - Katharine Hepburn: 100th Anniversary Collection 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.dvdverdict.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn enjoyed friendships with Leland Hayward, John Ford, Howard Hughes (who bought her the ''Philadelphia Story'' movie rights), and writer William Rose.- Second Site 3 Demonstration Site - Boston Globe Obituary for Katharine Hepburn, by Jay Carr, 30 June 2003 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC ss.johncardinal.com [Source type: General]
^ Her first film director, George Cukor, spotted this quality in Hepburn's initial screen test simply by the way in which she bent down, picked up a glass of champagne from the floor, then turned and faced the camera.- Katharine Hepburn | From the Guardian | The Guardian 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
Despite Hepburn's lack of actual membership in (or any formal links to) the
American Communist Party, Fagan, in his polemical speech against "the Reds" in Hollywood, named Hepburn as "an example", forwarding the claim that "Katharine Hepburn's love for
Joe Stalin is no secret".
[8]
Hepburn and Tracy
Tracy and Hepburn from the trailer for the film
Adam's Rib (1949)
.^ Spencer Tracy is the peoples star, clear and direct, Hepburn wrote.- Tribute To Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.films42.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn and Spencer Tracy In 1942, Hepburn made her first appearance opposite Spencer Tracy in Woman of the Year.- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ Spencer Tracy was married to another woman.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent, Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC voa.52en.com [Source type: General]
Behind the scenes the pair fell in love, beginning what would become one of Hollywood's most famous romances, despite Tracy's life long unwillingness (he was a Catholic) to divorce his estranged wife, the former
Louise Treadwell; they had married in 1923.
.^ Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957) a comedy with Tracy about the computerization of a company, has its moments, but is generally one of the weaker Hepburn-Tracy films.
^ One of Katharine Hepburn's most famous roles was in the movie "The African Queen."- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress_����Ӣ����ѧ�� 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wwenglish.com [Source type: General]
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^ William Holden vs. Katharine Hepburn Holden is one of the most awesome people to ever live ______________________________________________________________ My DVDs .- Awesome Tournament '10 B3: William Holden vs. Katharine Hepburn - No Homers Club 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.nohomers.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hepburn, with her agile mind and New England brogue, complemented Tracy's easy working-class machismo.
^ Hepburn was more a personality than an actress when she took the professional plunge after graduating from Bryn Mawr in 1928; her first stage parts were bits, but she always attracted attention with her distinct New England accent and her bony, sturdy frame.- Katharine Hepburn Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.blockbuster.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On September 21, 1938, Hepburn was staying in her Fenwick, Connecticut home when the 1938 New England Hurricane struck and destroyed her house.
When
Joseph Mankiewicz introduced them, Hepburn, who was wearing special heels that added several inches to her slender frame, said, "I'm afraid I'm too tall for you, Mr. Tracy."
.^ Mankiewicz retorted, Don't worry, he'll soon cut you down to size.
^ Mankiewicz retorted, "Don't worry, he'll soon cut you down to size."- The Infidels - Katherine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.theinfidels.org [Source type: General]
^ I’ll cut you down to size.” And so began one of the silver screen’s most enduring partnerships, although I remain unconvinced that producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz didn’t write this bit himself.- The Films of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy | Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.openlettersmonthly.com [Source type: General]
As
The Daily Telegraph observed in Hepburn's obituary, "Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were at their most seductive when their verbal fencing was sharpest: it was hard to say whether they delighted more in the battle or in each other".
.^ Most of their films together stress the sparks that can fly when a couple try to find an equable balance of power.
^ This image is as strong today as it was then, with most women trying to balance career and family, often feeling guilty because no matter which they are working at, they are ignoring the other.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
^ They are one of Hollywood's most recognizable pairs both on-screen and off, and have in large part become the standard by which other film romances are judged.
.^ The sexy sparring over power and control almost always resolves, in their movies together, into an agreement to share and share alike.
.^ Hepburn's performance was nominated for an Academy Award.
^ It's not Adam's Rib , but in my opinion it's their second-best film together.
^ Pat and Mike 1952 N/R , 95 min.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The pair carefully hid their affair from the public, using back entrances to studios and hotels and assiduously avoiding the press.
^ And so, in one of the most lyrically funny and politically reviled episodes in American movies, Hepburn cooks Tracy breakfast in order to win him back.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ Tracy took a little house on George Cukor's estate which Hepburn also used on occasion.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn and Tracy were undeniably a couple for decades, but did not live together regularly until the last few years of Tracy's life.
^ Their marriage lasted only a few years.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
^ Although Hepburn and Tracy were frequent companions for 25 years, they never married or lived together openly, and they booked separate hotel suites when traveling together.- Katharine Hepburn | From the Guardian | The Guardian 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
.^ Even then, they maintained separate homes to keep up appearances.
^ She wound up so sick with dysentery that even months after she returned home the famously vigorous actress was still ill.
^ They were expected to keep up with their traditional duties in the home while making significant achievements in the outside world as well.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
.^ Tracy, a Roman Catholic, had been married to the former Louise Treadwell since 1923, and remained so until his death.
^ Hepburn claimed that they were inseparable and were very happy together, despite the insistence from gossip columns that the marriage would not last.
^ Hepburn and Tracy were undeniably a couple for decades, but did not live together regularly until the last few years of Tracy's life.
.^ Desk Set (Walter Lang, 1957) a comedy with Tracy about the computerization of a company, has its moments, but is generally one of the weaker Hepburn-Tracy films.
^ In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the number one female star in their Greatest American Screen Legends list (AFI's 100 Years...
^ Hepburn's final film was 1994's Love Affair; she died on June 29, 2003, at age 96.- Katharine Hepburn DVDs, Katharine Hepburn DVD Rentals, Rent Katharine Hepburn Movies at Netflix Today 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
[9][10][11]
.^ Kate carried on a lighthearted romance with agent Leland Hayward for four years, but when she wouldnt marry him, he wed actress Margaret Sullavan.- Tribute To Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.films42.com [Source type: General]
^ (Luddy took photos of her visiting beaux—Hayward, Ford, Hughes—and liked to assure visitors that he was the sanest member of the family.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ In 1987, she co-starred with Robert Wagner in a tongue-in-cheek made-for-television caper film, Love Among Thieves which borrowed elements from several of Hepburn's films, most notably Charade and How to Steal a Million.
.^ Tracy, however, seemed to be her one true love.
^ The true love of her life, however, was Tracy, the last man to whom she was ever romantically linked.- USATODAY.com - Film icon Katharine Hepburn dies at 96 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn took five years off from her film career after Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) to care for Tracy while he was in failing health.
^ Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) .- Katharine Hepburn Biography At DVDwolf.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.dvdwolf.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Her performance in "Long Day's Journey into Night" is truly great, and psychologically complex.- http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxtreme/shop/product.aspx?asin=B000NJXG68 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC authors.aspalliance.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ For the rest of her life, Hepburn spoke of Tracy as reverentially as she did of her mother and father.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn's lover Spencer Tracy's admonition that actors should stay out of politics ("Remember who shot Lincoln") was ignored by Hepburn, whose mother had been sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union, despite their family's wealth.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn and Tracy were undeniably a couple for decades, but did not live together regularly until the last few years of Tracy's life.
.^ Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) more movies like this .- Katharine Hepburn Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ She was so heartbroken after he died that she never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner after it was released in 1967, saying it evoked memories of Tracy that were too painful.
^ Hepburn appeared in a total of nine movies with Tracy, including Adam's Rib (1949) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), for which Hepburn won her second Best Actress Oscar.
The African Queen
Hepburn in
The African Queen
.^ Hepburn's performance was nominated for an Academy Award.
^ One of Katharine Hepburn's most famous roles was in the movie "The African Queen."- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
^ And don't tell me Bogart in "African Queen."
.^ The African Queen Hepburn is perhaps best remembered for her role in The African Queen (1951), for which she received her fifth Best Actress nomination, although she did not win (losing to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire).
^ After several years of off-and-on films, Hepburn scored another marked success with 1951's The African Queen, for which she received her fifth Best Actress nomination, losing to Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire.- Katharine Hepburn, Number One Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.squidoo.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Hepburn received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent, Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
- VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress - UNSV.COM 英语学习频道 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.unsv.com [Source type: General]
.^ And don't tell me Bogart in "African Queen."
^ Filmed mostly on location in Africa, almost all the cast and crew suffered from malaria and dysentery - except director John Huston and Bogart, neither of whom ever drank any water.
^ The trip and the movie made such an impact on her that later in life she wrote a book about filming the movie: The Making of The African Queen: Or, How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind, which made her a best-selling author at the age of 77.
(Many of the studio shots were completed in the unlikely location of
Worton Hall aka
Isleworth Studios which is sited in the Greater
London suburb of
Isleworth, West London.)
.^ Hepburn, ever the urologist's daughter, disapproved of the two men's boozing and piously drank gallons of water each day to spite them.
^ Bill of Divorcement (1932) In her first film, Katharine Hepburn is introduced to us as the daughter in a well-to-do family, used to luxury as an every day commodity.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family.- Katharine Hepburn Filmography 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ She wound up so sick with dysentery that even months after she returned home the famously vigorous actress was still ill.
^ Even then, they maintained separate homes to keep up appearances.
The trip and the movie made such an impact on her that later in life she wrote a book about filming the movie:
The Making of The African Queen: Or, How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind, which made her a best-selling author at the age of 77.
.^ One of her closest friends, Canadian portrait artist Myfanwy Pavelic died on May 11, 2007, one day short of Hepburn's 100th birthday anniversary.- Katharine Hepburn Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn's aversion to media attention did not thaw until 1973, when she appeared on The Dick Cavett Show for an extended two-day interview.
^ It'd be real interesting to get them all in a room one day and ask them what they really think.- Katharine Hepburn dies | MetaFilter 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: General]
He described her as a "
Diana of the Hunt" — utterly fearless — and able to shoot with the best of them.
Later film career
.^ Roles that Katharine Hepburn played.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ Her most memorable films of the 1950s are THE AFRICAN QUEEN (with Humphrey Bogart, 1951), SUMMERTIME (1955), and THE RAINMAKER (with Burt Lancaster, 1956).- Tribute To Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.films42.com [Source type: General]
^ With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
She also received nominations for her performances in films adapted from stage dramas, namely as Mrs. Venable in
Tennessee Williams'
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) and as Mary Tyrone in the 1962 version of
Eugene O'Neill's
Long Day's Journey Into Night, for which the cast received a special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
.^ [September 1999] Has never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was Spencer Tracy's last film.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn as Ethel, Norman's understanding wife, received an Oscar for Best Actress.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The chemistry between Tracy and Hepburn is at its best in this film.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ (May 7, 2005) Hepburn is the artist to have won the most Oscars in a starring role.- Katharine Hepburn Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: General]
^ The following year she won a record-breaking third Oscar for her role as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter, an award shared that year with Barbra Streisand for her performance in Funny Girl.
^ A third followed in 1968 for The Lion in Winter, and in 1981 was awarded a FOURTH Oscar for On Golden Pond.- MySpace - Katharine Hepburn - 102 - Female - OLD SAYBROOK, CONNECTICUT - myspace.com/katharine_hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.myspace.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Tracy, a Roman Catholic, had been married to the former Louise Treadwell since 1923, and remained so until his death.
^ They made nine films together and remained close companions until Tracy's death in 1967.- CTV British Columbia- Movie legend Katharine Hepburn dies at age 96 - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.ctvbc.ctv.ca [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn was - and is - an Original, and she remained one until, I've no doubt whatsoever, her final breath.- Katharine Hepburn dies | MetaFilter 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn continued to do filmed stage dramas, including The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), The Trojan Women (1971) by Euripides, and Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (1973).
^ The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) 26.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The Madwoman of Chaillot 1969 G , 132 min.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
In 1973, she first appeared in an original television production of Tennessee Williams'
The Glass Menagerie.
.^ Two years later Hepburn received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Special Program (Drama or Comedy) for Love Among the Ruins, which costarred Laurence Olivier and was directed by George Cukor.
^ Hepburn made the first of her several television movies in 1975, co-starring with Sir Laurence Olivier in Love Among the Ruins -- and winning an Emmy award, as well.- Katharine Hepburn - Ask.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ Was nominated for two Tony Awards: in 1970 as Best Actress (Musical), for playing the title character, Coco Chanel in "Coco," and in 1982 as Best Actress (Play), for "The West Side Waltz."- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn received another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent, Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn also appeared opposite John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn, which was essentially The African Queen done as a western.
^ Both Taylor and Hepburn received Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for this film.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Hepburn also appeared opposite John Wayne in Rooster Cogburn, which was essentially The African Queen done as a western.
^ She's also very good in "Rooster Cogburn," which is sort of an older, more rambling, unofficial remake of "The African Queen."
^ Rooster Cogburn and the Lady (1975) With a story line that is a strong parallel to The African Queen the heroine is now the late middle-aged daughter of a missionary in an untamed land (the American West).- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn won her fourth Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981) opposite Henry Fonda.
^ Henry Fonda also won an Oscar for Best Actor.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ On Golden Pond (1981) 31.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ One Christmas (1994) 32.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ This made-for-TV film is adapted from a Truman Capote short story.- Katharine Hepburn - Movies 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.filmsandtv.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In 1994, Hepburn gave her final three movie performances - One Christmas, based on a short story by Truman Capote, as Ginny in the remake of Love Affair; and This Can't Be Love, directed by one of her close friends, Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter).
Death
.^ Katharine Hepburn died at 96 years old in the home I visited in Old Saybrook on June 30.- Meeting Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wnd.com [Source type: General]
^ PM on June 29, 2003 Greatest.- Katharine Hepburn dies | MetaFilter 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Hepburn dies June 29, 2003 4:19 PM Subscribe .- Katharine Hepburn dies | MetaFilter 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: General]
.^ She was 96 years old.
^ Katharine Hepburn died at 96 years old in the home I visited in Old Saybrook on June 30.- Meeting Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.wnd.com [Source type: General]
^ She died at the age of 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
.^ In honor of her extensive theater work, the bright lights of Broadway were dimmed for an hour.
^ Lights will dim on Broadway at 8 p.m.- USATODAY.com - Film icon Katharine Hepburn dies at 96 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.usatoday.com [Source type: General]
.^ The book Kate Remembered, by A. Scott Berg, was published just 13 days after her death.
^ Two days after Tom’s death, news arrived of the death of another of Dr. Hepburn’s brothers: he had run his car’s engine with the garage door closed.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ The death of her brother and lover -- that Great Love of her Life -- changed 13-year-old Kate forever.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
.^ In 2004, in accordance with Hepburn's wishes, her personal effects were put up for auction with Sotheby's in New York.
^ From her first weeks in New York, in the summer of 1928, Hepburn walked straight into leading roles.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ The first was for Morning Glory, in which Hepburn played a small-town New England girl who conquers the New York stage.- Katharine Hepburn | From the Guardian | The Guardian 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
.^ Classic movies is running Guess Who's Coming to Dinner -- Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn who Sidney poitier and -- good and that's a great story.- Podcast of the Day 012009 | WROR 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC wror.everyzing.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Venus: What Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn really care about.- Hot Couples Report for Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.adze.com [Source type: General]
^ Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) more movies like this .- Katharine Hepburn Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find) - Alibris 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.alibris.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The auction netted several million dollars, which Hepburn willed mostly to her family and close friends, including television journalist Cynthia McFadden.
^ Before Tracy, Hepburn had relationships with several Hollywood directors and personalities, including her agent Leland Hayward.
Family and personal life
.^ Hepburn's aversion to media attention did not thaw until 1973, when she appeared on The Dick Cavett Show for an extended two-day interview.
^ Although it did not do well in its first release, due to the Katharine Hepburn's box-office poison label, it is now considered a classic in the genre of screwball comedy.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn said of her parents, "There was nothing to be done about these matters and [my parents] simply did not believe in moaning about anything."- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
Her paternal grandfather, Sewell Snowden Hepburn, was an Episcopal clergyman, but on the subject of religion, she told another journalist (this time a
Ladies Home Journal reporter) in October 1991 that:
I'm an atheist and that's it.
.^ First of all people who have looked at three drinks a day are much happier and people who never dreamed I know there's there.- Podcast of the Day 012009 | WROR 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC wror.everyzing.com [Source type: Original source]
^ And she bucked the system, refusing to subscribe to what others believed a woman should be.
^ I'm curious to what others think out there are I really think that Jill Biden should have known better then to say on the Oprah show bad.- Podcast of the Day 012009 | WROR 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC wror.everyzing.com [Source type: Original source]
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.^ Always practical about money, she let her father, Dr. Thomas Hepburn, a Hartford, Connecticut urologist, handle her affairs.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn's Legacy On June 29, 2003, Hepburn died of natural causes at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
^ Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in nineteen-oh-seven.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
.^ In 1933 she rented a townhouse on East 49th Street in New York's Turtle Bay section, which she later bought outright (and lived in for 63 years).- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
By 1930, Katharine's parents and four younger siblings had moved to a large eight bedroom house at 201 Bloomfield Avenue in
West Hartford. As of 2007, the house is owned by the
University of Hartford.
.^ Tracy in 1967 was to do his last film with Hepburn, dying soon after its completion.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
Robert Hepburn, the last surviving sibling of Katharine Hepburn, died on November 26, 2007. Robert was a doctor who followed in the footsteps of their father, Dr. Thomas Hepburn. He was the head of the urology department at Hartford Hospital for more than 30 years.
.^ Hepburn's professional legacy is today carried on within her family.
^ Hepburn's Legacy On June 29, 2003, Hepburn died of natural causes at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
.^ Hepburn's niece is actress Katharine Houghton, who appeared with her in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
^ Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) .- Katharine Hepburn DVDs, Katharine Hepburn DVD Rentals, Rent Katharine Hepburn Movies at Netflix Today 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.netflix.com [Source type: General]
^ Katharine Houghton, Hepburn's niece, played the daughter.- Katharine Hepburn: The Woman Behind the Legend 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC highandlowny.tripod.com [Source type: General]
.^ Hepburn's grandniece is actress Schuyler Grant; the two appeared together in the 1988 television movie Laura Lansing Slept Here.
^ Hepburn appeared in a total of nine movies with Tracy, including Adam's Rib (1949) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), for which Hepburn won her second Best Actress Oscar.
^ Synopsis: One of the most successful and respected actresses of all time is profiled in the Lifetime special Women of Substance: Katherine Hepburn.- Katharine Hepburn Filmography 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.fandango.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Legacy
.^ She died at the age of 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.- Audrey Or Katherine Hepburn? 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC forum.kusadasi.biz [Source type: General]
^ (September 24, 2003) The Old Saybrook waterfront estate of the late Katharine Hepburn is going on sale with an initial asking price of $12 million.- Katharine Hepburn Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn's Legacy On June 29, 2003, Hepburn died of natural causes at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
.^ (September 24, 2003) The Old Saybrook waterfront estate of the late Katharine Hepburn is going on sale with an initial asking price of $12 million.- Katharine Hepburn Picture, Video, Wallpaper, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.celebritywonder.com [Source type: General]
^ Hepburn's Legacy On June 29, 2003, Hepburn died of natural causes at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
.^ On September 8 and 9, 2006, Bryn Mawr College, Hepburn's alma mater, launched the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, dedicated to both the actress and her mother.
^ We take a tour of "Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files," the first public exhibition of the theatrical papers of Katharine Hepburn at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts .- Katharine Hepburn On Stage - Playbill.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.playbill.com [Source type: General]
^ An interesting thing to note was that in her life Katharine Hepburn survived a situation that is now critical in our culture.- Katharine Hepburn 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.esc.edu [Source type: General]
[14] .^ On June 29, 2003 Katharine Hepburn died of natural causes in Old Saybrook, Connetticut.- Katharine Hepburn - Ask.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.ask.com [Source type: General]
^ On September 8 and 9, 2006, Bryn Mawr College, Hepburn's alma mater, launched the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, dedicated to both the actress and her mother.
^ The auction netted several million dollars, which Hepburn willed mostly to her family and close friends, including television journalist Cynthia McFadden.
[6]
.^ As part of her last wishes, she helped create the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
^ On September 8 and 9, 2006, Bryn Mawr College, Hepburn's alma mater, launched the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, dedicated to both the actress and her mother.
^ Her father, Thomas Norval Hepburn, was a famous urologist and supported her mother, Katharine Houghton, in her militant campaigns for women's suffrage and birth control; she became the chairwoman in WAshington of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control.- Katharine Hepburn: The Times obituary | Times Online Obituary 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.timesonline.co.uk [Source type: General]
At the launch celebration,
Lauren Bacall and
Blythe Danner were awarded Katharine Hepburn Medals for "lives, work and contributions that embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress."
[15]
.^ I don’t want to use my family name because I shall probably have several scandals while I live and I don’t want to cause them any trouble until I am famous, when nobody will mind.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
^ That’s very unusual, isn’t it?”) Some twenty Hepburn biographies have given increasing attention to this very unusual family romance.- Postscript: Born for the Part : The New Yorker 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.newyorker.com [Source type: General]
^ The Hepburns demanded frequent familial discussions on these topics and more, and as a result the Hepburn children were well versed in social and political issues.
In 1985, she received the Humanist Arts Award of the
American Humanist Association, presented by her friend
Corliss Lamont.
.^ She soon started appearing in small roles in plays on Broadway in New York City.That year she also married a businessman named Ludlow Ogden Smith.- Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.voanews.com [Source type: General]
^ We take a tour of "Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files," the first public exhibition of the theatrical papers of Katharine Hepburn at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts .- Katharine Hepburn On Stage - Playbill.com 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.playbill.com [Source type: General]
^ Chapter One A Sea Change From the window of her New York town house, Kath Hepburn, the new queen of Hollywood, looked up and down the quiet, early morning street.- Powell's Books - Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann 15 January 2010 4:46 UTC www.powells.com [Source type: General]
First, a garden near her home was dedicated in her name in 2004.
[16] The garden contains 12 stepping stones each inscribed with quotes. One reads:
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