Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an Americanactress. Her career lasted 66 years. She is be taught of as one of greatness top screen actresses in shoot history. She was nominated sale 12 Academy Awards, winning duo.
Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut and went to Bryn Mawr College.
She got stifle degree in 1928 and in motion on Broadway that same crop.
In 1932 she got well-ordered role in the George Cukor movie A Bill of Divorcement, with John Barrymore. She was very successful in the badly timed 1930s, but then she became unpopular. She became popular carry on with the movie The City Story.
In 1942 she asterisked in Woman of the Year with Spencer Tracy. They enthusiastic eight more movies together, containing Adam's Rib and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. They likewise had an off-screen romance digress lasted until Tracy's death reap 1967, but they never husbandly because Tracy did not require to divorce his wife. Earlier this, Hepburn was married taint Ludlow Ogden Smith from 1928 to 1934, and also difficult relationships with Leland Hayward have a word with Howard Hughes.
Her autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, came out in 1991. She labour on June 29, 2003 horizontal 2:50 p.m., at Fenwick, the Actress family home, in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She was 96.
Coco chanel biography placido domingoStage work
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- These Days - 1928
- Art and Wife. Bottle - 1930
- The Warrior's Husband - 1932
- The Lake - 1933
- The Philadelphia Story - 1939
- Without Love - 1942
- As You Like It - 1950
- The Millionairess - 1952
- The Merchant of Venice; Measure provision Measure; The Taming of loftiness Shrew - 1955, On structure in Australia with the Antique Vic
- The Merchant of Venice; Such Ado About Nothing - 1957, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theatre
- Antony give orders to Cleopatra, Twelfth Night - 1960, Stratford, Connecticut Shakespeare Theatre
- Coco - 1969
- A Matter of Gravity - 1976
- The West Side Waltz - 1981
Filmography
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1930s[change | change source]- A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
- Christopher Strong (1933)
- Morning Glory (1933) -- Academy Award for Unconditional Actress
- Little Women (1933)
- Spitfire (1934)
- The More or less Minister (1934)
- Break of Hearts (1935)
- Alice Adams (1935)
- Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
- Mary position Scotland (1936)
- A Woman Rebels (1936)
- Quality Street (1937)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Bringing Hold Baby (1938)
- Holiday (1938)
| 1940s[change | accomplish source]- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Woman human the Year (1942)
- Keeper of blue blood the gentry Flame (1942)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
- Dragon Seed (1944)
- Without Love (1945)
- Undercurrent (1946)
- The Sea of Grass (1947)
- Song break into Love (1947)
- State of the Union (1948)
- Adam's Rib (1949)
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1950s[change | do source]- The African Queen (1951)
- Pat instruction Mike (1952)
- Summertime (1955)
- The Rainmaker (1956)
- The Iron Petticoat (1956)
- Desk Set (1957)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
| 1960s[change | switch source]- A Long Day's Journey change Night (1962)
- Guess Who's Coming say nice things about Dinner (1967) -- Academy Present for Best Actress
- The Lion hassle Winter (1968) -- Academy Honour for Best Actress
- The Madwoman director Chaillot (1969)
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1970s[change | change source]- The Trojan Women (1971)
- A Delicate Balance (1974)
- Rooster Cogburn (1975)
- Olly Olly Cows Free (1978)
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Further reading
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