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Katharine Hepburn: Old Saybrook
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Katharine Hepburn, an actress whose distinct combination of fierceness and femininity made her one of the 20th century's most enduring icons, died at her home in Old Saybrook, Conn., Sunday. She was 96.
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OLD Saybrook was always a place where Katharine Hepburn could escape the bright lights of Hollywood. In the years that she lived in the Fenwick section, the people of her small coastal town treated her like any other neighbor.
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Katharine Hepburn continued to be active even in her old age, riding her bicycle and swimming in the ocean near her house in Old Saybrook, CT. While she was always somewhat reclusive, she appeared in public less and less as she grew older. The last few years of her life, with her health declining, she generally remained at home. Katharine Hepburn died in her home, surrounded by loved ones, on June 29, 2003, at the age of 96.
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On April 3, 1921, while visiting friends in Greenwich Village, Hepburn found her older brother Tom (born November 8, 1905), whom she idolized, hanging from the rafters of the attic by a rope, dead of an apparent suicide. Her family denied it was self-inflicted, arguing he had been a happy boy. They insisted it must have been an experimentation gone awry. It has been speculated he was trying to carry out a trick he saw in a play with Katharine. Hepburn was devastated and sank into a depression. She shied away from other children and was mostly home-schooled.
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On Golden Pond (1981), a study of old age and family relationships, gave Hepburn her first success in films for 13 years. She bestowed warmth and humanity as the wife of a grouchy Henry Fonda, who ... won an Oscar. "You don't have to act old when you're our age," she reflected. The performances were, however, the sole point of the picture.
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On September 21, 1938, Hepburn was staying in her Old Saybrook, Connecticut home when the 1938 New England Hurricane struck and destroyed her house. Hepburn narrowly escaped before the home was washed away.
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