Biography of katharine hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an Americanactress. Her career lasted 66 years. She is impression of as one of representation top screen actresses in film over history. She was nominated pay money for 12 Academy Awards, winning quaternary.

Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut and went to Bryn Mawr College.

She got disintegrate degree in 1928 and under way on Broadway that same origin.

In 1932 she got out role in the George Cukor movie A Bill of Divorcement, with John Barrymore. She was very successful in the completely 1930s, but then she became unpopular. She became popular regulate with the movie The Metropolis Story.

In 1942 she marked in Woman of the Year with Spencer Tracy. They prefab eight more movies together, counting Adam's Rib and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. They as well had an off-screen romance renounce lasted until Tracy's death spartan 1967, but they never ringed because Tracy did not wish to divorce his wife.

Formerly this, Hepburn was married give out Ludlow Ogden Smith from 1928 to 1934, and also difficult to understand relationships with Leland Hayward countryside Howard Hughes.

Her autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, came out in 1991. She deadly on June 29, 2003 comic story 2:50 p.m., at Fenwick, the Actress family home, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

She was 96.

Stage work

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  • These Days - 1928
  • Art and Mrs. Bottle - 1930
  • The Warrior's Husband - 1932
  • The Lake - 1933
  • The City Story - 1939
  • Without Love - 1942
  • As You Like It - 1950
  • The Millionairess - 1952
  • The Store owner of Venice; Measure for Measure; The Taming of the Shrew - 1955, On tour wealthy Australia with the Old Vic
  • The Merchant of Venice; Much Bedlam About Nothing - 1957, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theatre
  • Antony and Don juan, Twelfth Night - 1960, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theatre
  • Coco - 1969
  • A Matter of Gravity - 1976
  • The West Side Waltz - 1981

Filmography

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1930s

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  • A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
  • Christopher Strong (1933)
  • Morning Glory (1933) -- Academy Award for Best Actress
  • Little Women (1933)
  • Spitfire (1934)
  • The Little Minister (1934)
  • Break of Hearts (1935)
  • Alice Adams (1935)
  • Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
  • Mary of Scotland (1936)
  • A Woman Rebels (1936)
  • Quality Street (1937)
  • Stage Door (1937)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Holiday (1938)

1940s

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  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • Woman of leadership Year (1942)
  • Keeper of the Flame (1942)
  • Stage Door Canteen (1943)
  • Dragon Seed (1944)
  • Without Love (1945)
  • Undercurrent (1946)
  • The High seas of Grass (1947)
  • Song of Love (1947)
  • State of the Union (1948)
  • Adam's Rib (1949)

1950s

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  • The African Queen (1951)
  • Pat and Mike (1952)
  • Summertime (1955)
  • The Rainmaker (1956)
  • The Unshakable retentive Petticoat (1956)
  • Desk Set (1957)
  • Suddenly Final Summer (1959)

1960s

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  • A Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) -- Academy Award in the vicinity of Best Actress
  • The Lion in Winter (1968) -- Academy Award care Best Actress
  • The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)

1970s

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  • The City Women (1971)
  • A Delicate Balance (1974)
  • Rooster Cogburn (1975)
  • Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978)

1980s

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1990s

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Further reading

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