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Katharine Hepburn: Morning Glory
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Raised by parents who always encouraged her to speak her mind, Hepburn became known for playing strong, independent women from the moment she decided to become an actress while attending Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Progressively bigger roles in Broadway plays led to film offers and, after a few screen tests, she was cast in A Bill of Divorcement in 1932, her first onscreen performance. With a career that spanned six decades, "Kate" often bounced back and forth between stage and screen, riding a Broadway hit back into Tinseltown after having been famously labeled "box-office poison" following a string of flops. This American icon's formidable resume includes eight Academy Award nominations and four wins for the films: Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).
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In 1932, Hepburn appeared on Broadway in The Warrior's Husband. Her performance was well received, and led to several screen tests, and eventually to a role in the 1932 film A Bill of Divorcement. Hepburn received excellent notices for her performance in this film. A string of films followed in the 1930s, including Morning Glory, her third film, for which Hepburn received her first Academy Award for Best Actress.
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No one worked harder at creating an image and living up to it than Katharine Hepburn. From the moment she made her debut in 1932's A Bill of Divorcement, her intelligence, grace, and architecturally imposing cheekbones made her stand out from her kewpie-doll-cute contemporaries. She won her first Oscar for her third film, Morning Glory, but her strong-willed heroines were not always an easy sell, and her career began to falter. Yet she was canny enough to poke fun at her missteps, taking a speech from her infamous Broadway flop The Lake
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Hepburn is the artist to have won the most Oscars in a starring role. She earned four Best Actress statues in total, for MORNING GLORY (1933) in 1934, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) in 1968, THE LION IN WINTER (1968) in 1969 and ON GOLDEN POND (1981) in 1982.
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After the audience reaction to A Bill of Divorcement, RKO signed Hepburn to a new contract. But her nonconformist, anti-Hollywood behavior offscreen made studio executives fret she would never become a superstar. The following year (1933), Hepburn won her first Oscar for best actress in Morning Glory, playing a young actress who rejects romance in favor of her career. That same year, Hepburn played Jo in the screen adaptation of Little Women, which broke box-office records.
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