Katherine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was a notable American actress who was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Educated at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Hepburn received her degree in 1928 and debuted on Broadway that same year in Night Hostess. In 1932 her screen-test for RKO gained her a role in the George Cukor film A Bill of Divorcement (1932), playing opposite John Barrymore. Hepburn won her first Academy Award in 1933 and won three more Oscars and eight nominations over the rest of her career.
In Woman of the Year (1942), she made her first of nine appearances opposite Spencer Tracy, launching one of Hollywood's most famous romances. Though they were together until Tracy's death in 1967, the couple never married reportedly because Tracy, a devout Catholic, would not divorce his wife. Hepburn had previously married and divorced Ludlow Ogden Smith (who changed his name to Ogden Ludlow, so that his bride would not have to be known as Kate Smith) and had long-term relationships with Leland Hayward and Howard Hughes.
On June 29, 2003 at 2:50 p.m., 96-year-old Katharine Hepburn died at Fenwick, the Hepburn family home, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton (nee Katharine Houghton Grant) is an award-winning stage and film actress and co-starred with her aunt in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
Stage Work
Filmography
Further reading
- Me, Stories of My Life, Katharine Hepburn, Knopf, 1991
- The Making of the African Queen Katharine Hepburn, Knopf,1987
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