katharine hepburn

     

In 1997, in honor of her 90th birthday, she was made honorary First Lady of Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Trivia about katharine hepburn

  • Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history
  • Spencer Tracy's in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
  • She played a political journalist in "Woman of the Year", her first film with Spencer Tracy
  • The first woman to win 3 Best Actress Oscars, she was also the first to win 4
  • Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda & Jimmy Stewart won Oscars when starring with this lady
  • A thespian:"Kate Remembered"
  • Her first film was 1932's "A Bill of Divorcement"
  • George Cukor directed Meg Ryan's 1981 film debut & this actress' 1932 debut, "A Bill of Divorcement"
  • Dorothy Parker's comment on this actress, "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B", was a joke
  • A 1928 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she won her first acting Oscar in 1934
  • The daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, she's been called "the First Lady of Cinema"
  • Most will never forget when Barbara asked this actress "What kind of a tree are you?"; she said "Oak"
  • The success of "The Philadelphia Story" as a play & a film helped her shake the reputation of "Box Office Poison"
  • "Kate Remembered" by A. Scott Berg was published only 13 days after her 2003 death
  • 2 of the movie roles she's played are Ethel Thayer & Rose Sayer
  • This actress' "Me: Stories Of My Life" was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1991
  • 1967:Christina Drayton;1968:Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • In a 2003 bestseller, A. Scott Berg "Remembered" this legendary actress who passed away at age 96
  • Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for playing this 4-time Oscar-winning actress in "The Aviator"
  • Her niece Katharine Houghton played her daughter in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
  • A 2010 postage stamp was issued in Old Saybrook, Connecticut honoring this legendary actress
  • As Warren Beatty's Aunt Ginny in "Love Affair"

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