Hepburn, Katharine Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn.(Brief article)(Book review)Churchwell, Sarah
The only tie in Oscar history led to a little bit of an awards night scandal. Katharine Hepburn famously never bothered to show up for an Academy Awards ceremony, even after winning four of them. In 1969, she was nominated for her performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine inThe Lion in Winter, ...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton. A White couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé.
Four-timeAcademy Award-winning actressKatharine Hepburnwas a versatile, outspoken, and independent woman in her life, taking on many strong women roles in a male-dominated Hollywood industry. One of her famous roles included playing Mary Stuart in the 1936 film,Mary of Scotland. While she brought...
which the Academy hadn’t always done before the Oscars were televised. The advent of TV also made it more imperative for stars to show up to get their awards, rather than stay home and collect them later like Katharine Hepburn, who skipped all 12 times she was nominated, including the fo...
Streisand's entry into the film industry was marked by her reprising her role in the movie adaptation of Funny Girl, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress, tying with Katharine Hepburn. This marked the beginning of a long and successful career in cinema, with ...
“Funny Girl” gave her a career launch that most actors and entertainers only dream of. After receiving a Tony nomination for leading the original Broadway show, she was cast in the same role for the film adaptation (her film debut). She won the Oscar, tying with Katharine Hepburn (“...
The most successful figure to date in the history of the Academy Awards is Katharine Hepburn, who won four Oscars throughout her acting career.
(The prestigious Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University bears his name.) Wilma was a fine arts major from Radcliffe, a feisty New Englander in the mold of Katharine Hepburn, who would later become an authority on Chinese art in her own right, and play ...
When Marc Antony was later appointed ruler of Rome’s eastern provinces, Cleopatra was quick to secure the next political alliance – and, in true form, she did so with theatrical flair. Robert Ryan and Katharine Hepburn embracing in a scene from "Antony and Cleopatra" at the American Shakesp...