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Katharine Hepburn' (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was a notable American actress who was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Educated at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Hepburn received her degree in 1928 and debuted on Broadway that same year in Night Hostess. In 1932 her screen-test for RKO gained her a role in the George Cukor film A Bill of Divorcement (1932), playing opposite John Barrymore. Hepburn won her first Academy Award in 1933 and won three more Oscars and eight nominations over the rest of her career. As of January 2003 she was tied with Meryl Streep as the most Academy Award-nominated actress in history.
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Born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Conn., Katharine Hepburn was the second of six children of a surgeon and a suffragette. She began acting on Broadway soon after her 1928 graduation from Bryn Mawr.
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Labeled as box-office poison by her original Hollywood studio RKO, Katharine Hepburn returned to the New York stage and in 1938 starred in a hit play called tThe Philadelphia Story. In 1939 she sold the story to MGM and starred in it with Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. In this comedy, she is again a sophisticated and egotistical socialite, determined to get her own way. There are several new elements added to this story. The tragedy that she must face and overcome is the tragedy of her own selfish nature, pointed out to her by both her father and her ex-husband. Also added is the element of her strong attraction to a 'common man', the writer played by Jimmy Stewart.
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Katharine Hepburn made her professional stage debut in 1928 in Baltimore, and from 1932 attained international fame as a strong character actress. Among many of her outstanding films was Woman of the Year (1942), which saw the beginning of a 25-year professional and personal relationship with co-star Spencer Tracy. She won Oscars for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981), and is ... remembered for her role in The African Queen (1952).
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Katharine Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1928 and in the same year she made her professional debut in a minor role in a Baltimore stock company production of Czarina. By 1932 she was a star on Broadway in The Warrior’s Husband, followed in the same year by her screen debut opposite John Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement. On Broadway Ms. Hepburn originated the Tracy Lord role in The Philadelphia Story (1939) before taking it to Hollywood a year later. In 1942 she starred opposite Spencer Tracy in Woman of the Year and began a twenty-five year relationship which included working on nine classic films.
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Katharine Hepburn was born into a family of free thinkers—her father a pioneering doctor in Hartford, Conn., her mother, a suffragette and birth control activist. Genuine non-conformism remained a motif throughout her life, in both large and small matters. She was known for her dislike of Hollywood glamour, preferring to dress in trousers and a loose-fitting sweater. She was known to talk back to directors and producers. After an early marriage and divorce in 1934, she never remarried, but pursued a relationship with Spencer Tracy (who was married but separated from his wife) for a quarter of a century.
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