Film Critic John Mosher noted the continued rise of two leading female stars, twenty-seven-year-old Katharine Hepburn and six-year-old Shirley Temple. Mosher recalled Hepburn’s recent performance in Little Women, and proclaimed that she “succeeds again” in The Little Minister. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS...
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
Hepburn still found skate-boarding fun, even when she was about to turn 75. In a magazine interview released in October 1984, she shared her thoughts on life and death and premarital sex, along with photos from her own personal album. Kennedy Center Honors Kevin :arkin/AFP/Getty Images Kenn...
During her 66-year acting career, Katharine Hepburn won four Oscars, but she never came to a ceremony to receive them. “As for me, prizes are nothing,” she once said. “My prize is my work.” Still, four best actress — or actor — awards is an unbeaten feat, akin to Wilt Chamb...
Catch Me If You Can ; Dubbed an 'Oddity' and 'Box Office Poison', Katharine Hepburn Liked to Goad the Press and Public with Her Eccentric Behaviour and Unconventional Love Life. but a New Biography Exposes the Compromises That This Scarily Ambitious Beauty Was Forced to Make, Says Tom Dewe...
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) ...
Hepburn and Tracy's unwed romance had its ups and downs, but Hepburn put her career on hold for five years beginning in 1962 to nurse Tracy through the illness that would ultimately take his life in 1967, just days after the pair completed their last film together, Guess Who's Coming to...