Her family, her movies, her friendship with Howard Hughes and her love for Spencer Tracy: see Katharine Hepburn's life in pictures here...
Katharine Hepburn. Actress: The Lion in Winter. Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mi
25, 1933, at the tender age of 48. * * * On Second Thought Previously, film critic John Mosher had been lukewarm to the up-and-coming Katharine Hepburn. No more. Her appearance in Morning Glory drew praise from all over, including the Academy, which gave the young star her first ...
Hepburn's next MGM film brought Spencer Tracy (1900–1967) into her life, with whom she began a relationship that lasted over two decades, until his death in 1967. Although separated from his wife, Tracy never divorced her. His romance with Hepburn was a quiet, tender, and private affair...
An unidentified man places flowers at the star of American actress Katharine Hepburn on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in Hollywood, Calif., June 30, 2003. Hepburn, a Hollywood icon who won a record four Oscars, died June 29, 2003 at the age of 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Conn....
Variety reports that the project would chronicle the iconic couple’s entire romance—“from their meeting at MGM before making Woman of the Year in 1942 to Tracy’s death in 1967 after they worked on Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.”The pair, who co-starred in nine movies together, ...
It is also the former home of Elin Hayes, who visitedThe Newtown Beeoffice in 2003, shortly after the death of the legendary Hepburn. Hayes carried with her a photo of Katharine Hepburn and Sadie Kanin — the mother of director Garson Kanin — sitting on the steps of a porch at Far Awa...
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS...Katharine HepburnandJohn BealinThe Little Minister.Hepburn portrayed Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself as a gypsy to protect villagers from a tyrannical lord. In the process she falls in love with the good Rev. Gavin Dishart (Beal). (IMDB) ...
Katharine Hepburn died on June 29, 2003, at the age of 96 in the same house in which she had grown up. "Life is hard," she once said. "After all, it kills you." QUICK FACTS Name: Katharine Houghton Hepburn Birth date: May 12, 1907 Birth State: Connecticut Birth City: Hartford ...
Earl Holliman, the Golden Globe-winning star of “The Rainmaker,” has died at the age of 96, according to media reports.Holliman starred in the 1956 adaptation of the N. Richard Nash play about a spinsterish woman named Lizzie Curry, played by Katharine Hepburn, who falls in love with...