“There will never be another Katharine Hepburn.”
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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a leading lady on stage and screen spanned six decades. Known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, she cultivated a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a varied range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary dr…
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Born 12 May 1907 · Died 29 June 2003 · Q56016
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2026· 6 entries
“I was fortunate to be born with the characteristics that were in the public vogue.”
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“m not going to join the organization. I”
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“knew right away that [she] found him irresistible”
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“I always just say be on the affirmative and liberal side. Don”
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“With Lizzie Curry [The Rainmaker] and Jane Hudson [Summertime] and Rosie Sayer [The African Queen]—I was playing me. It wasn”
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: By the 30s, Katharine Hepburn was box office poison. Then she made The Philadelphia Story
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2021· 1 entry
USA Today rated the claim “Katharine Hepburn wrote a short story from her childhood about her father giving away $20 so another family could purchase circus tickets” False.
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Katharine Hepburn’s 20 best films – ranked!
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Snopes rated the claim “Katharine Hepburn wrote about her father giving their money away so another father could buy circus tickets for his family.” Incorrect Attribution.
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2019· 1 entry
At Boston's Huntington Theater with Faye Dunaway playing Hepburn
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Broadway crash landing for Katharine Hepburn: archive, 20 October 1952
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2015· 1 entry
The British Film Institute held a two-month retrospective of Hepburn's work
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2009· 1 entry
In Old Saybrook, Connecticut, the location of the Hepburn family beach home, which she loved and later owned
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2004· 1 entry
In accordance with Hepburn's wishes, her belongings were put up for auction with Sotheby's in New York City
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2003· 3 entries
At the Hepburn family home in Fenwick, Connecticut
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Died 2003-06-29.
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The intersection of East 49th Street and 2nd Avenue was renamed "Katharine Hepburn Place"
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1999· 2 entries
The American Film Institute named Hepburn the "greatest American screen legend" among females
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Was named the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (1994).
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Worked opposite Anthony Quinn in This Can't Be Love, which was largely based on Hepburn's own life, with numerous references to her personality and career
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1993· 1 entry
“I have no fear of death. Must be wonderful, like a long sleep.”
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1992· 1 entry
For The Man Upstairs, co-starring Ryan O'Neal, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination
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1991· 3 entries
Told a journalist, "I think I'm always the same
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Hepburn told a journalist, "I'm an atheist, and that's it
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Hepburn released her autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, which topped best-seller lists for over a year
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1986· 1 entry
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in recognition of her influence on women's fashion
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award (1985).
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Presented a television documentary about the life and career of Spencer Tracy
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1984· 1 entry
Hepburn starred in the dark-comedy Grace Quigley, the story of an elderly woman who enlists a hitman (Nick Nolte) to kill her
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1983· 1 entry
That Hepburn began to speak publicly about her feelings for Tracy, though their relationship had been an open secret for many years
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for On Golden Pond (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
And received the Kennedy Center Honors, which recognize a lifetime of accomplishments in the arts, in 1990
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1976· 1 entry
Hepburn returned to Broadway for a three-month run of Enid Bagnold's play A Matter of Gravity
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Ladies' Home Journal Women of the Year (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
Hepburn ventured into television for the first time, starring in a production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie
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Hepburn became much more open with the public
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1971· 1 entry
Signed on to star in an adaptation of Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt, but was unhappy with early versions of the script and took to rewriting it herself
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for The Lion in Winter (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
With them appearing in another eight films together
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1958).
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1951· 1 entry
Hepburn filmed The African Queen, her first movie in Technicolor
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1944· 1 entry
Playing a Chinese peasant in the high-budget drama Dragon Seed
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1943· 1 entry
Was a cameo in the morale-building wartime film Stage Door Canteen, playing herself
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1942· 1 entry
Hepburn returned to Broadway to appear in another Philip Barry play, Without Love, which was also written with the actress in mind
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1941· 2 entries
By Garson Kanin, who recalled how Hepburn contributed to the script
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When they were to begin filming Woman of the Year, when she was 34 and he was 41
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1938· 3 entries
When Hepburn left Hollywood after being labeled "box office poison"
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After being labeled "box-office poison", and the second act in 1983, where she reflects on her life and career
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They separated in 1938, when Hepburn left Hollywood after being labeled "box office poison".
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1936· 1 entry
While she was touring with Jane Eyre, Hepburn began a relationship with entrepreneur Howard Hughes
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1934· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Morning Glory (1934).
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Hepburn filed for divorce in Mérida, Yucatán, on April 30, 1934, and it was finalized on May 8.
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1933· 1 entry
And Hepburn was roundly panned by the critics
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1929· 1 entry
Hepburn turned down a role with the Theatre Guild to play the lead in Death Takes a Holiday
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1928· 1 entry
At the Cort Theatre, but reviews for the show were poor, and it closed after eight nights
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1924· 1 entry
Hepburn was admitted to Bryn Mawr College
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1907· 2 entries
Born 1907-05-12.
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In Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children
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