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Actress: Katharine Hepburn
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My greatest strength is . . . common sense. I'm really a standard brand--like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
— Katharine Hepburn
KATHARINE HEPBURN, who says she's "revered rather like an old building," always makes the lists of the world's most admired women. Her career spans more than six decades, and she is the only actor or actress who has been nominated for twelve Academy Awards and the only woman to win four as Best Actress--three of them after the age of sixty.
The tomboy daughter of a surgeon and a suffragette, Hepburn did things her way from the start. She arrived in Hollywood in 1932 sporting slacks and a Bryn Mawr accent. She was arrogant and independent, but maybe she had a right to be: her debut opposite John Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement was an instant success. Her third picture, Morning Glory, earned her an Oscar and her fourth, Little Women, was another enormous hit. Hepburn starred opposite Cary Grant in the ultimate thirties screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby, but she left La-La Land in a snit when her next five films sagged and a leading exhibitor dubbed her "box-office poison." She also had to contend with being rejected for the role of Scarlett O'Hara and with gossip columnists snooping into her romances with Leland Hayward (Hollywood's first superagent) and Howard Hughes.
Hepburn returned to Broadway in 1939 for The Philadelphia Story. While starring in the play, she bought the movie rights, and then starred in the 1940 screen version; the film broke box office records and earned Hepburn a third Oscar nomination. Her next effort, Woman of the Year, marked the beginning of her relationship with Spencer Tracy. Tracy was unable to divorce his long-suffering Catholic wife, so he instead settled into a liaison with Hepburn that lasted until his death twenty-five years later. The two co-starred in nine classics. Hepburn also gave dazzling performances in The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart, and in Suddenly Last Summer. (Incensed with the latter film's director, Joe Mankiewicz, for his treatment of co-star Montgomery Clift, she spit in Mankiewicz's face when the movie wrapped.) In the sixties, Hepburn won Cannes' top honors for Long Day's Journey Into Night. Soon after Tracy's death, she took home a third Oscar for The Lion in Winter; she then spent much of the seventies in TV fare such as Love Among the Ruins, with Laurence Olivier, a movie which earned them both Emmys. She continued to work despite her deteriorating health, and she won a fourth Oscar for 1981's On Golden Pond. Hepburn was nearly killed in a car crash in 1984, but survived to carry on her regimen of work, icy showers, and chocolate candies. The title of her memoirs, Me, might seem a little vain, but for someone of her stature, it also seems appropriate.
Occupation: Actress, Writer
Date of Birth: May 12, 1907
Place of Birth: Hartford, Conn., USA
Sign: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Sagittarius
Relations: Ex-husband: Ludlow Ogden Smith; longtime companion: Spencer Tracy
Education: Bryn Mawr College
Fan Mail: C/O William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA
MOVIES
Actor
Love Affair — 1994
Going Hollywood: The War Years — 1988
Laura Lansing Slept Here — 1988
Mrs. Delafield Wants To Marry — 1986
Grace Quigley — 1985
On Golden Pond — 1981
The Corn Is Green — 1979
Olly Olly Oxen Free — 1978
That's Entertainment, Part 2 — 1976
Rooster Cogburn — 1975
Love Among the Ruins — 1975
A Delicate Balance — 1973
The Glass Menagerie — 1973
The Trojan Women — 1971
The Madwoman of Chaillot — 1969
The Lion in Winter — 1968
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? — 1967
Long Day's Journey Into Night — 1962
Suddenly, Last Summer — 1959
Desk Set — 1957
The Rainmaker — 1956
The Iron Petticoat — 1956
Summertime/Summer Madness — 1955
Summertime — 1955
Pat and Mike — 1952
The African Queen — 1951
Adam's Rib — 1949
State of the Union — 1948
The Sea of Grass — 1947
Song of Love — 1947
Undercurrent — 1946
Without Love — 1945
Dragon Seed — 1944
Stage Door Canteen — 1943
Woman of the Year — 1942
Keeper of the Flame — 1942
The Philadelphia Story — 1940
Bringing Up Baby — 1938
Holiday — 1938
Quality Street — 1937
Stage Door — 1937
Mary of Scotland — 1936
A Woman Rebels — 1936
Break of Hearts — 1935
Alice Adams — 1935
Sylvia Scarlett — 1935
Spitfire — 1934
The Little Minister — 1934
Morning Glory — 1933
Christopher Strong — 1933
Little Women — 1933
A Bill of Divorcement — 1932
Other Movie Credits
Women in Defense — 1941 (Narrator)
BOOKS
Me — 1992
The Making of "The African Queen", or How I Went to Africa with — 1987
TV
Katharine Hepburn: All About Me — 1993 (Special)
The Man Upstairs — 1992 (Movie)
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry — 1986 (Movie)
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free — 1979 (Movie)
The Corn Is Green — 1979 (Movie)
Love Among the Ruins — 1975 (Movie)
The Glass Menagerie — 1973 (Movie)
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