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Katharine Hepburn: Family
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Katharine Hepburn's grave is located on the west side of Section 10 at Cedar Hill. Look for the large boulder engraved with the family name (pictured above) and a smaller, flat stone marking the burial site of the actress.
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born to a doctor and suffragette, into a well established East Coast family. As a young woman, she was encouraged to speak her mind and be physically active, and she was home schooled. Her education continued at Bryn Mawr, and it was in college that she began to explore the possibility of an acting career, appearing in many productions there.
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In a time when sexual matters were not discussed, Hepburn's father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of venereal disease. Hepburn's mother took young Katharine to a suffrage rally and co-founded Planned Parenthood with birth control advocate Margaret Sanger. During adult familial conversation the Hepburn children were never asked to leave the room, shaping them to be outspoken about social and political issues. The Hepburn children, at their parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing frank views on various topics, including sex. "We were snubbed by everyone, but we grew quite to enjoy that", Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, whom she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
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Although the family always called her Kathy or Kath, one summer Miss Hepburn so hated being a little girl that she cut her hair and called herself Jimmy. "I thought being a girl was really the bunk," she said in an interview. "But there's no bunk about Jimmy."
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A banner year for Hepburn, 1928 ... marked her marriage to socialite businessman Ludlow ("Luddy") Ogden Smith, whom she met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a short engagement. Hepburn and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start—she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow so she would not be confused with well-known rotund singer Kate Smith. They were divorced in Mexico in 1934. 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. Katharine Hepburn often expressed her gratitude toward Ludlow for his financial and moral support in the early days of her career. "Luddy" continued to be a lifelong friend to her and the Hepburn family.
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The town historian and secretary Elaine Staplins said the theater should be named after Hepburn. The family and executors gave their blessings and that catapulted the project into the heavens and brought out the stars.
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