Distinctive way of speaking, with what many say is a "Bryn Mawr" accent. Walked around the studio in her underwear in the early s when the costume department stole her slacks from her dressing room. She refused to put anything else on until they were returned. She was nearly decapitated by an aeroplane propeller when she was rushing about an airport, avoiding the press.
Had a relationship with Spencer Tracy from until his death in Did not suffer from Parkinson's disease. Quote: "Now to squash a rumor. No, I don't have Parkinson's. I inherited my shaking head from my grandfather Hepburn.
I discovered that whiskey helps stop the shaking. Problem is, if you're not careful, it stops the rest of you too. My head just shakes, but I promise you, it ain't gonna fall off!
Was a direct descendant of England's King John through one of his illegitimate children. Great-aunt of Schuyler Grant and Daniel Jenkins. Schuyler ended up playing Diana instead. Love Stories," compiled in June , Hepburn led all actresses with six of her films on the list. Actor Cary Grant , co-star with her in two of them, led the male field, also with six films on list.
Meryl Streep beat her in the number of Oscar nominations, when she received her 13th Oscar nod for Adaptation. However, Hepburn still reigns as the only 4-time Oscar recipient for acting. Her father's name was Thomas Hepburn and her mother's name was Katharine Houghton.
Each of their six children were given Mrs. Hepburn's maiden name for their middle names. Her maternal grandfather; her father's brother, Charlie; and her older brother, Tom, all committed suicide. These tragedies were never talked about in her family. Hepburn said of her parents, "There was nothing to be done about these matters and [my parents] simply did not believe in moaning about anything.
Made nine films with Spencer Tracy , the first of which was Woman of the Year Admitted that she was menstruating while making The African Queen , which resulted in giving her fellow crew members the impression that she was moody and difficult. On June Sotheby's auction house hosted a two-day estate sale auctioning personal belongings of the legendary actress to collectors. The most sought-after piece and the most expensive item was the bronze bust of Spencer Tracy that Hepburn created herself and that was also featured in their Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Hepburn's four Oscars were not included due to contract reasons.
She was one of the few great stars in Hollywood who made no attempt to sugarcoat her true personality for anyone, a personality that was blunt and feisty. Was a self-confessed fan of John Gilbert and Greta Garbo. Hopkins later said that Hepburn's voice was, in part, the basis for Hannibal Lecter's voice. She told also Peck that she modeled her award-winning characterization of "Christina Drayton" on her mother. When the Conference of Studio Unions, headed by suspected Communist Party member Herb Sorrell, launched a strike in against the studios and fought other unions for control over Hollywood's collective bargaining, she expressed support for him Sorrell was kidnapped, beaten, and left for dead, during the strike, possibly by the Mafia, which up until the early s, had controlled the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which was contesting the CSU for jurisdiction over Hollywood unions.
She ignored lover Spencer Tracy 's admonition that actors should stay out of politics "Remember who shot Lincoln". Despite their family's wealth, her mother had been sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union.
Truman 's cabinet for being pro-Soviet. Wearing a red dress, Hepburn delivered a speech, written by Communist Party member and soon-to-be indicted Hollywood Ten member Dalton Trumbo. Years later, in , when Lardner was trying to get Tracy to star in The Cincinnati Kid , he thanked Hepburn her support. She told him she didn't remember writing the letter and refused to talk about it.
Became very fond of Christopher Reeve , both as an actor and as a person, when he made his Broadway debut opposite her in the production of "A Matter of Gravity". She became so fond of him that she used to tease him that she wanted him to take care of her when she retired. Ironically, his reply was "Miss Hepburn, I don't think I'll live that long". Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna 's song "Vogue". After marrying Ludlow Ogden Smith in , she forced him to change his name to S.
Ogden Ludlow. She objected to her married name being "Katharine Smith" because there was already a well-known, and very portly radio singer named 'Kate Smith'. One of Hollywood's early tall leading ladies, standing over 5' 7" in an era when most actresses were only a little over 5' 0".
Kate Bosworth has said that Hepburn was her primary inspiration for her portrayal of "Lois Lane" in Superman Returns She thought Melanie Griffith was a good actress, but would fade away quickly. She also saw Julia Roberts as the next big thing. But the actress she loved above all was Vanessa Redgrave.
She adored every performance Ms Redgrave has ever given and would tell people that she was, "A thrill to look at and to listen to". Did not attend Spencer Tracy 's funeral out of respect to his family. Did all her own stunts because the stunt woman never stood up straight enough. Was known for being an avid golfer, tennis player, and swimmer. She was also known for taking cold showers and for riding her bicycle around Manhattan.
Was nominated 12 times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, and won four times. Hepburn beat out previous acting nomination record holder Bette Davis a double winner who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods, and who had also received a write-in nomination in , which was unofficial with her 11th nod and 3rd win for The Lion in Winter a record she extended with her 12 nomination and fourth win for On Golden Pond Hepburn herself was surpassed by Meryl Streep , with 21 nods 17 in the Best Actress category, 4 in the Best Supporting Actress category and three wins two in the Best Actress category and one Best supporting actress award.
While it is possible that Nicholson and Streep might equal her four Oscar acting wins, it is improbable that her record of four wins in the top category will ever be surpassed. Only Laurence Olivier ss , Paul Newman s, s, s, s, and s and Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep ss have turned the trick. Spoofed in the Warner Bros. Godmother of Stanley Kramer 's daughter Katharine. Despite her success at the Oscars, she never attended an Academy Awards ceremony as a nominee.
When she went onstage to a standing ovation, she said "I'm living proof that a person can wait forty-one years to be unselfish. Thanked by Natalie Merchant in the liner notes of her album "Motherland".
Her four-day reign, which was certified by the Guinness World Records committee was also the shortest one on record. Was a close friend of actor Peter O'Toole , and it is commonly believed that his daughter, Kate O'Toole , was named after her.
One of her closest friends, Canadian portrait artist Myfanwy Pavelic died on May 11, , one day short of Hepburn's th birthday anniversary.
Thought very highly of the acting talents of Jeremy Irons and John Lithgow. She particularly disliked Meryl Streep , claiming she could recognize Streep's constant search for tactics during a performance. Hepburn also thought Glenn Close talented, but said openly Close's feet were too big for audiences to take her seriously as an actress.
Hepburn lived in a brownstone East 49th Street which is close to the intersection. Dropped out of the The Blue Bird before shooting began. Instead, Hepburn conveyed the essence of modernism—a woman who looked life straight in the eye. According to leading costume historian Jean L. Costumes were always important to Hepburn, and she kept most of them in her New York townhouse.
Though Hepburn made a series of popular comedies in the late s the most notable being Bringing Up Baby in , opposite Cary Grant , she also appeared in a handful of flops, and producers began to label her "box-office poison. Playwright Philip Barry had written the role specifically with Hepburn in mind, and critics and audiences alike went wild over the production.
Hepburn bought the motion picture rights to the story and headed back to Hollywood, where she sold them to MGM on the condition that she would star in the film.
With this move, she single-handedly regenerated her film career and her mass appeal. Hepburn's next life-changing move was the beginning of her enduring onscreen and offscreen relationship with the actor Spencer Tracy. Woman of the Year , the first of nine films the duo would make together, was a huge smash. Tracy and Hepburn shared a palpable, electric chemistry on the screen and off it.
The pair fell deeply in love while making their first film together; their relationship lasted 27 years, even though Tracy was already married and refused to divorce his estranged wife.
Hepburn and Tracy's unwed romance had its ups and downs, but Hepburn put her career on hold for five years beginning in to nurse Tracy through the illness that would ultimately take his life in , just days after the pair completed their last film together, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Hepburn won another Oscar for her role in the film but always viewed it more as the Academy's tribute to her lost love. Over the course of her long and prolific career, she made dozens of films and garnered a stunning twelve Academy Award nominations, winning four.
She says she is not strange, but is fearless. Katharine graduated from Bryn Mawr college in Pennsylvania in nineteen twenty-eight. She soon started appearing in small roles in plays on Broadway in New York City. That year she also married a businessman named Ludlow Ogden Smith. Their marriage lasted only a few years. Katharine Hepburn was not the usual kind of actress during this period.
She had a thin and athletic body. She spoke with a clear East Coast accent. And she was very independent in her thoughts and actions. Sometimes her independence and liberal opinions got her in trouble.
After a few successful plays in New York, Hollywood filmmakers became interested in her. She later signed with the film production company called RKO pictures. Her first movie came out in nineteen thirty-two. Few directors are interested in her. But by the end of the movie, she has a chance to let her acting skills shine and she becomes a star. Here is a recording from the movie. She talks very quickly, but you can sense the energy behind her performance. I want you for my first friend in New York.
It was Eva Love. I added the Lace. Do you like it or would you prefer something shorter? A shorter name would be more convenient on a sign. During the nineteen thirties, critics either loved or hated Katharine Hepburn. Some thought she was a fresh and exciting addition to the Hollywood industry.
Others decided she was too bold and self-important. They thought her way of speaking sounded false.
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