Katharine Hepburn : Oscar Winning Actress

 Overview

Born May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Died June 29, 2003 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA  (natural causes)

Birth Name Katharine Houghton Hepburn

Nicknames First Lady of Cinema

Kate

The Great Kate

Kathy

Height 5' 7½" (1.72 m)

Katharine Hepburn was brought into the world on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist and a specialist who both supported her all the time to express her genuine thoughts, foster it completely, and practice her body to its maximum capacity. An athletic spitfire as a youngster, she was exceptionally near her sibling Tom; at 14 she was crushed to think that he is dead, the evident consequence of unintentionally hanging himself while rehearsing a hanging stunt their dad had educated them. For a long time thereafter, she utilized his November 8 birthdate as her own. She became timid around young ladies her age and was to a great extent educated at home. She went to Bryn Mawr College, where she chose to turn into an entertainer, showing up in a large number of their creations.

In the wake of graduating, she started getting little jobs in plays on Broadway and somewhere else. She generally stood out, particularly for her job in "Craftsmanship and Mrs. Bottle" (1931). She at long last broke into fame when she played the featuring job of the Amazon princess Antiope in "A Warrior's Husband" (1932). The inescapable film offers followed; after make a couple of screen tests, she was projected in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), inverse John Barrymore. The film was a hit, and in the wake of consenting to her compensation requests, RKO marked her to an agreement. She made five movies somewhere in the range of 1932 and 1934. For her third, Morning Glory (1933), she won her first Academy Award. Her fourth, Little Women (1933), was the best image of its day.

Yet, stories were starting to spill out, of her haughty conduct off-screen and her refusal to play the Hollywood Game, continuously wearing pants and no cosmetics, never modeling for pictures or giving meetings. Crowds were stunned at her capricious conduct as opposed to praising it, thus when she got back to Broadway in 1934 to star in "The Lake", the pundits panned her and the crowds, who at first purchased up tickets, before long abandoned her. At the point when she got back to Hollywood, things didn't beat that. From the period 1935-1938, she had just two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her second Oscar assignment, and Stage Door (1937); the many lemon included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937) and the now-exemplary Bringing Up Baby (1938).

With such countless lemon, she came to be marked "film industry poison." She chose to return to Broadway to star in "The Philadelphia Story" (1938), and was compensated with a raving success. She immediately purchased the movie freedoms, as had the option to arrange her direction back to Hollywood according to her very own preferences, including her decision of chief and co-stars. The film rendition of The Philadelphia Story (1940), was a film industry hit, and Hepburn, who won her third Oscar selection for the film, was bankable once more. For her next film, Woman of the Year (1942), she was matched with Spencer Tracy, and the science between them went on for eight additional movies, traversing the course of 25 years, and a sentiment that kept going that long off-screen. (She accepted her fourth Oscar selection for the film.) Their movies incorporated the exceptionally fruitful Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957).

With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into moderately aged old maid jobs, accepting her fifth Oscar designation for the film. She played a greater amount of these kinds of jobs all through the 50s, and won more Oscar designations for a significant number of them, remembering her jobs for Summertime (1955), The Rainmaker (1956) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Her film jobs became less and farther between during the 60s, as she dedicated her chance to her debilitated accomplice Spencer Tracy. For one of her film appearances in this ten years, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she accepted her 10th Oscar designation. Following a five-year nonappearance from films, she then, at that point, made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy made; he passed on only weeks subsequent to completing it. It earned Hepburn her 10th Oscar selection and her subsequent success. The following year, she did The Lion in Winter (1968), which brought her 11th Oscar designation and third win.

During the 1970s, she went to making made-for-TV films, with The Glass Menagerie (1973), Love Among the Ruins (1975) and The Corn Is Green (1979). She actually kept on showing up in highlight films, like Rooster Cogburn (1975), with John Wayne, and On Golden Pond (1981), with Henry Fonda. This last brought her twelfth Oscar designation and fourth win- - the last option right now still a record for an entertainer.

She made more TV-films during the 1980s, and kept in touch with her self-portrayal, 'Me', in 1991. Her last element film was Love Affair (1994), with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, and her last TV-film was One Christmas (1994). With her wellbeing declining she resigned from public life during the nineties. She kicked the bucket at 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Moved on from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1928, with a degree in history and theory.

Was named Best Classic Actress of the twentieth Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line survey, scarcely (21.5% to 20.6%) taking down next in line Audrey Hepburn. [September 1999]

She never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) in light of the fact that it was Spencer Tracy's last film.

Positioned #1 lady in the AFI's "50 Greatest Movie Legends." [June 1999]

Strolled around the studio in her clothing in the mid 1930s when the ensemble division took her pants from her changing area. She wouldn't place anything more on until they were returned.

She was almost executed by a plane propeller when she was hurrying with regards to an air terminal, staying away from the press.

A main competitor for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), she later filled in as Maid of Honor at Vivien Leigh's and Laurence Olivier's wedding.

Had a relationship with Spencer Tracy from 1943 until his demise in 1967.

Positioned #68 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Brought into the world at 3:47pm-EST.

Auntie of entertainer Katharine Houghton, who depicted her personality's girl in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

Confessed to utilizing her sibling's birthdate as her own for quite a long time.

Didn't experience the ill effects of Parkinson's infection. She put any misinformation to rest in the 1993 TV narrative Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993), which she described herself. Quote: "Presently to crush talk. No, I don't have Parkinson's. I acquired my shaking head from my granddad Hepburn. I found that bourbon helps stop the shaking. Issue is, if you don't watch out, it stops most of you as well. My head simply shakes, yet I guarantee you, it ain't going to tumble off!".

Was an immediate relative of England's King John through one of his ill-conceived kids. Hepburn played King John's mom, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in The Lion in Winter (1968).

Incredible auntie of Schuyler Grant and Daniel Jenkins.

Turned down the job of Marilla in Anne of Green Gables (1985), yet suggested her incredible niece, Schuyler Grant for the job of Anne. Schuyler wound up playing Diana all things being equal.

On American Film Institute's rundown of "Top 100 U.S. Romantic tales," aggregated in June 2002, Hepburn drove all entertainers with six of her movies on the rundown. (Entertainer Cary Grant, co-star with her in two of them, drove the male field, additionally with six movies on list). The team's The Philadelphia Story (1940) was positioned #44 and their Bringing Up Baby (1938) positioned #51. Hepburn's four different films on AFI Top "100 Love Movies list" are: - #14 The African Queen (1951) - #22 On Golden Pond (1981) - #58 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - #74 Woman of the Year (1942)

Meryl Streep beat her in the quantity of Oscar designations, when she accepted her thirteenth Oscar gesture for Adaptation. (2002). Nonetheless, Hepburn actually rules as the main 4-time Oscar beneficiary for acting.

Starting at 2021, "Just Tie in Oscars For Best Actress", Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968) and Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968) in 1969.

Her dad's name was Thomas Hepburn and her mom's name was Katharine Houghton. Every one of their six kids were given Mrs. Hepburn's birth name for their center names.

Was selected 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." She lost the twice.

Her maternal granddad; her dad's sibling, Charlie; and her more seasoned sibling, Tom, all serious self destruction. These misfortunes were never discussed in her family. Ms. Hepburn said of her folks, "There was not something to be done with regards to these issues and [my parents] basically didn't trust in groaning about anything."

Made nine movies with Spencer Tracy, the first was Woman of the Year (1942).

Conceded that she was bleeding while at the same time making The African Queen (1951), which brought about giving her kindred team individuals the feeling that she was surly and troublesome.

On June 2004 Sotheby's bartering house facilitated a two-day home deal unloading individual effects of the incredible entertainer to gatherers. The 700 or more things incorporated Hepburn's furnishings, adornments (which incorporated the platinum, jewel and sapphire clasp from one-time darling Howard Hughes which got $120,000, multiple times its assessed value); desk work, (for example, individual checks, messages, birth testaments, letters, film contracts, film contents), and assignment declarations from the Academy Awards. Among different things were easygoing garments, and outfits that incorporated her surprising wedding dress to Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928, made of squashed white velvet with antiqued gold weaving, which sold for $27,000. Additionally in the part were house beautifications drawings and works of art done by the entertainer herself, allure representations, and a glass bronze model named "Holy messenger on a Wave", which sold for $90,000; while a self-picture named "Breakfast in Bed and a Self-Portrait in Brisbane, Australia", brought $33,000, multiple times the assessed cost. Film memorabilia remembered a ring from 1968's The Lion for Winter (1968), and Gertrude, the kayak from the film On Golden Pond (1981) which was purchased for $19,200 by performer Wayne Newton. The most pursued piece and the most costly thing was the bronze bust of Spencer Tracy that Hepburn made herself and that was likewise highlighted in their Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). The crowd cheered when the three-inch mold sold for $316,000, contrasted with the assessed $3,000-$5,000. The main honors won by the entertainer that were unloaded were her 1958 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, the yearly Shakespeare Club of New York City grant, the Fashion Desinger Lifetime Achievement, a couple of Box Office Blue Ribbons, her Hollywood Walk of Fame plaque and the 1990 Kennedy Center Honor. Hepburn's four Oscars were excluded because of agreement reasons.

She was one of a handful of the extraordinary stars in Hollywood who made no endeavor to gloss over her actual character for anybody, a character that was obtuse and scrappy.

Was a characteristic red head.

Her issue with Howard Hughes was depicted by Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004).

She was casted a ballot the "second Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.

Was a self-admitted aficionado of John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.

In The Lion in Winter (1968) she plays the mother of Richard the Lionheart, who is played by Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins later said that Hepburn's voice was, to a limited extent, the reason for Hannibal Lecter's voice.

She was of for the most part English, with far off Scottish, heritage.

Communicated extraordinary affection for entertainers Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Melanie Griffith and Julia Roberts, and incredible hatred for Meryl Streep, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and - specifically - Woody Allen.

In a letter to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Gregory Peck, she guaranteed that opinion for the passing of her long-term darling and co-star, Spencer Tracy, had been essential for the explanation she won her second Oscar for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). She told additionally Peck that she displayed her honor winning portrayal of "Christina Drayton" on her mom.

At the point when Cate Blanchett won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Aviator (2004), Hepburn turned into the main past Oscar victor to turn into an Oscar-winning film job.

She was casted a ballot the fourteenth Greatest Movie Star ever by Premiere Magazine.

As per Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley's book "Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry during the 1930s and 1940s", Hepburn was a radical in her legislative issues during the 1940s. At the point when the Conference of Studio Unions, headed by presumed Communist Party part Herb Sorrell, sent off a strike in 1946-1947 against the studios and battled different associations for command over Hollywood's aggregate haggling, she communicated help for him (Sorrell was hijacked, beaten, and left for dead, during the strike, conceivably by the Mafia, which up until the mid 1940s, had controlled the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which was challenging the CSU for purview over Hollywood associations.) At a Screen Writers Guild meeting during the CSU strike, She likewise gave a discourse which hostile to socialist, hostile to CSU SAG lobbyist Ronald Reagan perceived as being put together in exactly the same words with respect to a CSU strike notice. She overlooked sweetheart Spencer Tracy's counsel that entertainers should avoid governmental issues ("Remember who shot Lincoln"). In spite of their family's abundance, her mom had been thoughtful to Marxism and the Soviet Union. On May 19, 1947, Hepburn tended to a Progressive Party rally at the Hollywood Legion Stadium with Progressive Party sturdy and later official up-and-comer Henry Wallace (with a group that incorporated any semblance of Judy Garland, Edward G. Robinson, Lena Horne, Charles Chaplin, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner and Danny Kaye), the previous VP of the U.S. who had been sacked from President Harry S. Truman's bureau for being favorable to Soviet. Wearing a red dress, Hepburn conveyed a discourse, composed by Communist Party part and destined to-be arraigned Hollywood Ten part Dalton Trumbo. At the point when another Hollywood Ten screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., (champ of an Oscar for keeping in touch with her image Woman of the Year (1942), was imprisoned, she composed a letter of help for him. Years after the fact, in 1964, when Lardner was attempting to get Tracy to star in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), he said thanks to Hepburn her help. She let him know she didn't recollect composing the letter and would not discuss it.

Turned out to be extremely partial to Christopher Reeve, both as an entertainer and personally, when he made his Broadway debut inverse her in the 1978 creation of "A Matter of Gravity". She turned out to be so partial to him that she used to prod him that she needed him to deal with her when she resigned. Amusingly, his answer was "Miss Hepburn, I don't think I'll experience that long".

Is one of the numerous celebrities referenced in Madonna's melody "Vogue"

She and Spencer Tracy acted together in 9 motion pictures: Adam's Rib (1949), Desk Set (1957), Keeper of the Flame (1942), Pat and Mike (1952), The Sea of Grass (1947), State of the Union (1948), Without Love (1945), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Woman of the Year (1942).

In the wake of wedding Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928, she constrained him to change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow. She had a problem with her wedded name being "Katharine Smith" since there was at that point a notable, and corpulent radio artist named 'Kate Smith'.

One of Hollywood's initial tall driving women, remaining more than 5' 7" in a time when most entertainers were just a little north of 5' 0".

Kate Bosworth has said that Hepburn was her essential motivation for her depiction of "Lois Lane" in Superman Returns (2006).

She thought Melanie Griffith was a decent entertainer, however would disappear rapidly. She likewise considered Julia Roberts to be the following huge thing. Yet, the entertainer she adored most importantly was Vanessa Redgrave. She worshiped each presentation Ms Redgrave has at any point given and would let individuals know that she was, "A rush to take a gander at and to pay attention to".

Didn't go to Spencer Tracy's burial service out of regard to his family. Rather she went to the home of essayist/chief Richard Brooks where she watched, and sobbed, as he screened Tracy 's Oscar-winning execution in Captains Courageous (1937) for her. Afterward, Brooks and his significant other Jean Simmons named their lone youngster, Kate Brooks, after Hepburn.

An inhabitant for the vast majority of her life of Manhattan's column of brownstone residences famous as Turtle Bay Gardens, Hepburn lived in the four-story working at 244 East 49th Street (between second and third Avenues). Well known neighbors throughout the years included, Robert Benton, Stephen Sondheim, Garson Kanin and spouse Ruth Gordon.

Holds the Guiness World Record as the main famous actor to win four Academy Awards, for her driving jobs in Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).

Did all her own tricks in light of the fact that the stand-in never stood adequately upright.

Was known for being an ardent golf player, tennis player, and swimmer. She was likewise known for washing up and for riding her bike around Manhattan.

Is in the Guinness World Records-book for "Most 'Best Actress' Oscars Won".

She is a relative of "Eleanor of Aquitaine", whom she depicted in The Lion in Winter (1968).

Was assigned multiple times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, and won multiple times. Jack Nicholson likewise has 12 assignments (8 as Best Actor and 4 Best Supporting Actor selections) and three successes (two Best Actor prizes and one Best Supporting Actor gong). Hepburn beat down past acting designation record holder Bette Davis (a twofold champ who was assigned multiple times for an Academy Award, every one of them Best Actress gestures, and who had likewise gotten a write-in selection in 1934, which was informal) with her eleventh gesture and third win for The Lion in Winter (1968) (a record she reached out with her 12 assignment and fourth win for On Golden Pond (1981). Hepburn herself was outperformed by Meryl Streep, with 21 gestures (17 in the Best Actress classification, 4 in the Best Supporting Actress classification) and three successes (two in the Best Actress classification and one Best supporting entertainer grant). While it is conceivable that Nicholson and Streep may rise to her four Oscar acting successes, it is implausible that her record of four successes in the top class will at any point be outperformed.

Is one of just five artists to be selected for acting distinctions by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences more than fifty years: (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s). Just Laurence Olivier (1930s-1970s), Paul Newman (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s) and Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep(1970s-2010s) have worked.

Her exhibition as "Eleanor of Aquitaine" in The Lion in Winter (1968) is positioned #13 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Her exhibition as "Tracy Lord" in The Philadelphia Story (1940) is positioned #54 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Her exhibition as "Rose Sayer" in The African Queen (1951) is positioned #94 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Her exhibition as "Susan Vance" in Bringing Up Baby (1938) is positioned #21 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Three movies of hers are on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. They are: The African Queen (1951) at #48, On Golden Pond (1981) at #45, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) at #35.

Ridiculed in the Warner Bros. enlivened animation Little Red Walking Hood (1937), in which Little Red Riding Hood talks precisely like her.

Adoptive parent of Stanley Kramer's girl Katharine. She was named after Hepburn, who was coordinated by Kramer in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

Notwithstanding her prosperity at the Oscars, she never gone to an Academy Awards service as a candidate. Her main appearance was at The 46th Annual Academy Awards (1974) to introduce the Irving Thalberg Award to her companion Lawrence Weingarten. At the point when she went in front of an audience to an overwhelming applause, she said "I'm living evidence that an individual can stand by 41 years to be unselfish.".

Expressed gratitude toward by Natalie Merchant in the liner notes of her collection "Homeland".

Her previous servant, Emma Faust Tillman, held the title of "World's Oldest Person" for just four days (January 24-28, 2007). Her four-day rule, which was guaranteed by the Guinness World Records board of trustees was additionally the most limited one on record.

In Italy, the vast majority of her movies were named by Wanda Tettoni and in the sixties by Anna Miserocchi. She was periodically named by Lydia Simoneschi, Andreina Pagnani and once by Rina Morelli in Desk Set (1957).

Was a dear companion of entertainer Peter O'Toole, and it is normally trusted that his girl, Kate O'Toole, was named after her. In any case, 'Siân Phillips' expressed in her life account that their little girl was named after the title character in Shakespeare's 'Restraining of the Shrew', roused by the line 'Kate, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom'.

Perhaps her dearest companion, Canadian picture craftsman Myfanwy Pavelic passed on May 11, 2007, one day shy of Hepburn's 100th birthday celebration commemoration.

Had a favorable opinion of the acting abilities of Jeremy Irons and John Lithgow. She especially loathed Meryl Streep, asserting she could perceive Streep's consistent quest for strategies during a presentation. Hepburn likewise thought Glenn Close skilled, however said transparently Close's feet were too large for crowds to treat her in a serious way as an entertainer.

The convergence of East 49th Street and Second Avenue in the district of Manhattan in New York City was renamed "Katharine Hepburn Place" soon after her passing. Hepburn lived in a brownstone (244 East 49th Street) which is near the convergence.

Exited The Blue Bird (1976) preceding shooting started.

Was terminated by the maker of Travels with My Aunt (1972) right off the bat in the shooting for requesting too many content changes. Was supplanted by Maggie Smith.

Her amassing of 12 Oscar assignments (4 successes) was cultivated over a time of 48 years. Meryl Streep had 12 selections (2 successes) after just 21 years (with 9 extra assignments and one more Oscar in 2012). Bette Davis scored 10 designations (2 successes) more than 28 years. Starting at 2021, Streep holds the record for assignments, with 21.

Guardian of Sam Robards, child of Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards.

As per Anthony Harvey - the head of The Lion in Winter (1968) - she kept the Oscar she got for the film in a paper sack and in a cabinet for a really long time after he'd conveyed it to her.

Named Cynthia McFadden Executrix of her bequest.

Auntie of stone carver Mundy Hepburn.

Her first name is frequently incorrectly spelled as Katherine, it is really spelled Katharine with a second A. She was known for rectifying the people who spelled it wrong.

During what is contended by film history specialists to be the best year in exemplary American film, she was an interesting star who didn't show up in a film in 1939. All things considered, she was in front of an audience playing Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story," which ended up being her rebound subsequent to being marked as film industry poison.

Was with Spencer Tracy the night he passed on. As indicated by her, he had gotten up in the center of the night to get a glass of milk. She followed the wiped out Tracy to the kitchen however before she arrived she heard a glass break and afterward a boisterous crash. She tracked down Tracy dead on the floor; he had experienced a gigantic respiratory failure.

The scene where her personality falls into the waterway in Summertime (1955) left her with a super durable eye disease as the water was tainted.

Turned down the job of Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle (1940). The part was then given to Ginger Rogers, who proceeded to win the Best Actress Oscar for her exhibition.

Endure the Great New England Hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938 while at her late spring home in the Borough of Fenwick in Old Saybrook, CT. Allegedly she was there thinking about an engagement proposition by Howard Hughes. The tempest killed somewhere around 682. Hepburn, her family and workers scarcely got away with their lives: Soon subsequent to escaping it by walking in the tempest, her house was washed away alongside her Oscar for her film Morning Glory (1933) which was subsequently viewed as flawless. Hepburn remade the home in 1939, and was locally renowned for running individuals off "her" (public) ocean side in her later years.

As per her companion and biographer A. Scott Berg, in spite of the fact that she said regularly that Alice Adams (1935) was her beloved film job, it was really her exhibition as Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) that she viewed as her most prominent accomplishment in film.

Imagined on a 44¢ USA memorial postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, gave 12 May 2010.

Profiled in book "Entertaining Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. [1999]

Frantically needed to assume the part of Alma Winemiller, which was at last played by Geraldine Page, in Summer and Smoke (1961).

In 2010, Jason Bateman, who was in one of Hepburn's last films, This Can't Be Love (1994), let New York Magazine know that the legend just wore white Reebok high-top shoes on and off the set. Assuming a scene required her to be wearing something fancier, she would wear dark socks over the white tennis shoes.

In her book "Me: Stories of My Life", she confessed to modeling for bare photographs when she was in her 20s. The photos were subsequently lost.

Despite the fact that she never dedicated to her marriage with Ludlow Ogden Smith, and she confessed to treating him ineffectively, they remained companions for the other lives.

She was far off and free 100% of the time from her family, her more youthful kin alluded to her as "Auntie Kat".

She and Walter Brennan are the main entertainers to win 3 Oscars on 3 continuous assignments.

Hepburn's exceptional connection with New York's amazing Radio City Music Hall will probably never be tested. Starting with Christopher Strong (1933) in 1933, seventeen sequential movies of hers played in the enormous theater.

Arrival of the book, "Kate Remembered" by A. Scott Berg. [2003]

Arrival of the book, "At Home with Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household" by Eileen Considine-Meara, girl of Norah Considine (Kate's long-term cook and maid). [2007]

Arrival of the book, "Kate: The Woman who was Hepburn" by William J. Mann. [2006]

Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar victors to have not acknowledged their Academy Award face to face. Hepburn didn't acknowledge any of her 4 successes (for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). The others are Claudette Colbert, Judy Holliday, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Anna Magnani, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Anne Bancroft, Patricia Neal, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson and Ellen Burstyn.

Was the sixth entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Morning Glory (1933) at The sixth Academy Awards on March 16, 1934.

She and Joan Fontaine both showed up in creations of The Lion in Winter; Hepburn in the 1968 film rendition, Fontaine in a 1979 Viennese stage creation. The two ladies showed up in 1994 and both died at 96 years old. Fontaine really played a little part in Hepburn's Quality Street (1937).

Previous sister-in-law of Wells Root.

Gotten foundation grants for her first just as her last three assignments, with 34 years between her first and second success.

Her cherished entertainer was Bette Davis.

Her last screen appearance was Truman Capote's One Christmas (1994) which John Philip Dayton delivered/leader created for her - their fourth film together - her last line was, 'I can sit back in my advanced age and not lament a solitary second, not wish to change anything. It's what I wish for you...a existence without any second thoughts'.

Is one of 9 entertainers who have gotten an Academy Award selection for depicting a genuine sovereign. The others in sequential request are Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette (1938), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Vanessa Redgrave for Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Janet Suzman for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and The Queen (2006), Judi Dench for Mrs Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech (2010).

Of Jewish drop, she was a fatherly incredible granddaughter of a Jewish Christian whose name was Sewell Hepbron. Sewell Hepbron might have been a Levite, considering that one of Katherine's uncles was named Charles Levin Hepburn; and he appears to have changed the name "Hebron" to "Hepbron", which Katherine's granddad (Sewell's kid) Samuel, an Episcopalian cleric, changed to the Anglophonic "Hepburn".

Garson Kanin tells in his memoir that she once attempted to surf. Despite the fact that she had not the abilities to rehearse, she made a decent attempt and was exceptionally glad for herself.

Featured in seven Oscar Best Picture candidates: Little Women (1933), Alice Adams (1935), Stage Door (1937), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981) and was a person in one more The Aviator (2004) where she was played by Cate Blanchett. She was essentially Oscar selected for her exhibitions in these with the exception of Little Women and Stage Door. Indeed, even Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for depicting her in The Aviator.

Amazing entertainers James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda all won their main Best Actor Oscars in jobs inverse her in The Philadelphia Story (1940), The African Queen (1951) and On Golden Pond (1981) separately. Katharine was essentially assigned for Best Actress for her jobs in every one of those motion pictures, winning for the last.

Drafted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

Won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her last three designations for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).

Starting at 2021, has the longest hole of any entertainer between her first and second Best Actress Oscar wins, a hole of 34 years between Morning Glory (1933) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and the biggest hole of any entertainer between her first and last acting Oscars, which was 48 years between Morning Glory (1933) and On Golden Pond (1981).

Demonstrated for Physical Culture magazine prior to turning into an entertainer.

On August 5, 2018, she was respected with a day of her film work during the TCM Summer Under The Stars.

Spencer Tracy needed her to play his significant other in Father of the Bride (1950), however it was felt that they were too heartfelt a group to play a joyfully trained couple with youngsters, so Joan Bennett got the part.

She has showed up in six movies that have been chosen for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "socially, by and large or stylishly" critical: Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), Adam's Rib (1949), The African Queen (1951) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

The "Hepburn pants" displayed in the design grouping of Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018) allude to the style of the jeans she frequently wore. The home Hepburn leased from George Cukor on St. Ives Dr. in the Hollywood Hills is additionally displayed in that film.

She isn't connected with Audrey Hepburn.

In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Pony", which circulated on November 7, 1991, she was proposed to visitor voice the personality of the refined pony riding teacher, too which she declined.

When shooting On Golden Pond she gave Henry Fonda one of Spencer Tracy's caps to wear in the film.

On the principal day of recording 'On Golden Pond she gave Henry Fonda a Fedora cap which had a place with Spencer Tracy.

On August 21, 2021, she was regarded with a day of her filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.

List of Katharine Hepburn Movies

• A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
• Morning Glory (1933)
• Christopher Strong (1933)
• Little Women (1933)
• Alice Adams (1935)
• Stage Door (1937)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Holiday (1938)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• Woman of the Year (1942)
• State of the Union (1948)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• The African Queen (1951)
• Pat and Mike (1952)
• Summertime (1955)
• The Rainmaker (1956)
• Desk Set (1957)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
• Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• The Lion in Winter (1968)
• Love Among the Ruins (1975)
• Rooster Cogburn (1975)
• On Golden Pond (1981)  & Many more...