Movies List
TV Show List
Love Affair

as Ginny

1994
One Christmas

as Cornelia Beaumont

1994
This Can't Be Love

as Marion Bennett

1994
The Man Upstairs

as Victoria Brown

1992
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

as Margaret Delafield

1986
On Golden Pond

as Ethel Thayer

1981
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free

as Miss Pudd

1978
Rooster Cogburn

as Eula Goodnight

1975
A Delicate Balance

as Agnes

1973
The Trojan Women

as Hecuba

1971
The Madwoman of Chaillot

as Contessa Aurelia

1969
The Lion in Winter

as Eleanor of Aquitaine

1968
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

as Christina Drayton

1967
The Big Parade of Comedy

as Tracy Lord (archive footage)

1964
Long Day's Journey Into Night

as Mary Tyrone

1962
Suddenly, Last Summer

as Violet Venable

1959
Desk Set

as Bunny Watson

1957
The Iron Petticoat

as Captain Vinka Kovalenko

1957
The Rainmaker

as Lizzie Curry

1956
Summertime

as Jane Hudson

1955
The African Queen

as Rose Sayer

1952
Pat and Mike

as Patricia "Pat" Pemberton

1952
Adam's Rib

as Amanda Bonner

1949
State of the Union

as Mary Matthews

1948
The Sea of Grass

as Lutie Cameron Brewton

1947
Song of Love

as Clara Wieck Schumann

1947
Undercurrent

as Ann Hamilton

1946
Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn

Birthday

1907-05-12

Place of Birth

Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Biography

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy parents, Hepburn turned to acting after graduation. Favorable reviews of her work on stage in 1932 brought her to the notice of Hollywood. After a few early film successes, including her first Academy Award, for Morning Glory, Hepburn endured a string of flops, which led to her being voted "box office poison". She arranged with playwright Philip Barry to write a play with her in mind, one that smoothed over her prickly public image. This play, The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be a huge success on Broadway. Securing the film rights for herself with the help of Howard Hughes, Hepburn sold them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the condition that she reprise her leading role as Tracy Lord. The hit film adaptation revived her flagging career. Throughout her six-decade career, Hepburn co-starred with screen legends including Cary Grant (Bringing Up Baby, Holiday, The Philadelphia Story), Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen), John Wayne (Rooster Cogburn), Laurence Olivier (Love Among the Ruins) and Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond). Her most successful pairing was with Spencer Tracy, with whom she made a string of hit pictures, starting with 1942's Woman of the Year. The last of their nine films together was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), which was completed shortly before Tracy's death. Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four out of 12 nominations. She won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys, two Tony Awards and eight Golden Globes. In 1999, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star in the history of American cinema. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katharine Hepburn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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