Katharine Hepburn Biography: Classic Hollywood’s Independent Star

 

Birth name: Katharine Houghton Hepburn

Born
May 12, 1907
Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.

Occupation: Actress

Spouse

Ludlow Ogden Smith (married 1928; divorced 1934)

Parent(s):

Katharine Martha Houghton (mother)

Biography
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and TV. Hepburn’s career as a Hollywood leading lady was gauged further than 60 times. Known for her willful independence and spirited personality, she cultivated a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played strong-conscious, sophisticated women. Her work came in a range of stripes, from crackbrain comedy to erudite drama, and she entered four Academe Awards for Stylish Actress — a record for any pantomime.

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In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute the topmost womanish star of classic Hollywoodcinema. Raised in Connecticut by fat, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College.

Favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early times in film brought her transnational fame, including an Academy Award for Stylish Actress for her third picture, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of marketable failures climaxing in the critically lauded but commercially unprofitable comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938).

Hepburn manipulated her comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Filmland and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she ended on the condition that she be the star.

Early Career life
Hepburn left university determined to come to an actress. (27) The day after graduating, she traveled to Baltimore to meet Edwin. Knopf, who ran a successful stock theatre company. (28) Impressed by her appetite, Knopf cast Hepburn in his current product, The Czarina. (29) She entered good reviews for her small part, and the Published Word described her performance as” arresting”. (30) She was given a part in the following week’s show, but her alternate performance was less well entered. She was blamed for her treble voice, and so left Baltimore to study with a voice instructor in New York City.

Career Lapses


After the failure of Spitfire and The Lake, RKO cast Hepburn in The Little Minister (1934), grounded on a Puritanical novel by James Barrie, in an attempt to repeat the success of Little Women. (72) There was no similar rush, and the picture was a marketable failure. (73) The romantic drama Break of Hearts (1935) with Charles Boyer was inadequately reviewed and also lost plutocrat. (74) After three citable flicks, success returned to Hepburn with Alice Adams (1935), the story of a girl’s despair to climb the social graduation. Hepburn loved the book and was pleased to be offered the part.

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Awards
Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and TV. Her career gauged 66 times and eight decades (1928-1994), during which time she was recognized with numerous of the industry’s top awards. She was nominated for an aggregate of 12 Academy Awards for Stylish Actress and won four-the-record triumphs for a pantomime. She entered two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe nominations, and two Tony Award nominations. She won awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Montréal World Film Festival; the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards; the People’s Choice Awards, the Laurel Awards, the Golden Apple Awards, the American Movie Awards, the American Comedy Awards, and the David di Donatello Awards. Hepburn was instated into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979. She also won a Continuance Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Council in 1979 and entered the Kennedy Center Honors, which fete a continuance of accomplishments in the trades, in 1990. Outside of acting, Hepburn also entered recognition from the American Humanist Association and the Council of Fashion Contrivers of America.

Net Worth$ 30 Million

 

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