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Katharine Hepburn: Morning Glory
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More than any actress in motion pictures, Katharine Hepburn, who died on Sunday at 96, was like an enduring, bright star against a black sky. From Morning Glory (1933), in which her defiance ends the picture with the proclamation, "I'm not afraid!," to Love Affair (1994), in which she is the steady voice for romantic love, Miss Hepburn leaves a lifetime of great performances.
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Katharine Hepburn went on to appear in Broadway shows after college, attracting the attention of film studios in the early 1930s. By her third film, Morning Glory, she won her first Academy Award. Even in her early years in Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn was a rebellious actress, often appearing in slacks when they were still socially frowned upon for women. She ... didn't participate in the endless rounds of press conferences, interviews, and other sundries expected of actresses, and she returned to Broadway in 1934.
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Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003 ) was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She for Oscars for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performancs in On Golden Pond (1982), The Lion in WInter (1969), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and Morning Glory (1933).
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Hepburn's outspokenness lost her more jobs than she received, but in 1932 she finally scored on Broadway with the starring role in The Warrior's Husband. She didn't want to sign the film contract offered her by RKO, so she made several "impossible" demands concerning salary and choice of scripts. The studios agreed to her terms, and in 1932 she made her film debut opposite John Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement (despite legends to the contrary, the stars got along quite well). Critical reaction to Hepburn's first film set the tone for the next decade: some thought that she was the freshest and most original actress in Hollywood, while others were irritated by her mannerisms and "artificial" speech patterns. For her third film, Morning Glory (1933), Hepburn won the first of her four Academy Awards (a still unbeaten record). Despite initial good response to her films, Hepburn lost a lot of popularity during her RKO stay because of her refusal to play the Hollywood Game.
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Hepburn had a number of extraordinary moments in Morning Glory (1933), Little Women (1933), Alice Adams (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Stage Door (1937) and Holiday (1938). A special word might be put in for Sylvia Scarlett (1936), a highly imperfect work, but one with its own peculiar charms. Hepburn plays a boy for half of the film, before “coming out” because she has fallen for a painter played by Brian Aherne. Director Cukor was gracious or canny enough to place Hepburn in a lengthy closeup in her first scene as a “girl.” Short-haired in a large straw hat, with her bright, alert eyes and shining teeth, the actress, as this newly created female (like Venus, born fully formed), radiates joy, freshness, vivacity. Hepburn represents the principle of intelligence rendered sensual.
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Hepburn was given the starring role of the Amazon princess, Antiope, in the 1932 movie, A Warrior's Husband. She was then cast in A Bill of Divorcement in 1932, co-starring with John Barrymore. The film was a huge success, and RKO studios signed her to a contract. Between 1932 and 1934, she made five films, including Morning Glory in 1933, for which she won her first Academy Award. Her fourth film was Little Women in 1933, which was the most successful picture of its time.
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