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Katharine Hepburn was an American film, television and stage actress. She is considered to be a screen legend, and holds the record with a collection of four Oscars. Her acting career spanned 70 years.
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Born on May 12, 1907, Katharine Hepburn was a twentieth-century icon who carefully constructed and maintained her own myth, from her earliest days in the studio system through more than fifty years on stage, screen, and television. The exhibition includes her four Oscar statuettes—the most won by anyone for best actress; images from her life and career; and a video kiosk that will play clips from a selection of her films.
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In the 1940s and 50s, Hepburn continued to appear in films and on stage. In these two decades, she received seven Academy Award nominations, and won two Oscars for Best Actress, for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter. On the London stage, she appeared in three Shakespeare plays in 1955, and toured with them in Australia. In 1957 and 1960 she appeared in four more Shakespeare productions in Stratford, CT.
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar nominations with twelve and wins with four (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations, but that includes both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nominations). Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was
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In 1968, Hepburn filmed The Lion in Winter with Peter O'Toole, which brought her a third Oscar win. In 1981, she won her fourth Oscar for her role in On Golden Pond, opposite Henry Fonda.
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In 1935, in the title role of the film Alice Adams, Hepburn earned her second Oscar nomination. By 1938, Hepburn was a bona fide star, and her forays into comedy with the films Bringing Up Baby and Stage Door were well-received critically. But audience response to the two films was tepid, and the good reviews from the critics were not enough to rescue her from an earlier string of flops (The Little Minister, Spitfire, Break of Hearts, Sylvia Scarlett, A Woman Rebels, Mary of Scotland, Quality Street). As a result, Hepburn's movie career began to decline.
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