Katharine Hepburn

Also Credited As:

Katharine Houghton Hepburn
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Biography

An overnight sensation upon winning her first Academy Award for "Morning Glory" (1933), the headstrong actress soon chafed under the constraints of the male-dominated studio system. Brash and outspoken - she was one of the first American female celebrities to wear trousers - her prickly public image and a series of poor project choices earned her a reputation as "box office poison" until "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) allowed her to take …
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Job Title

Actor, Writer, Other

Born

May 12, 1907

LATEST CREDITS

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Actor

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Countess Aurelia

The Man Upstairs

Victoria Browne

Spitfire

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A Delicate Balance

Agnes

Love Among the Ruins

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The African Queen

Rose Sayer

This Can't Be Love

Marion Bennette

Holiday

Linda Seton

Alice Adams

Alice Adams

Katharine Hepburn: All About Me

Actor

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

Host

The Trojan Women

Hecuba

Little Women

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Dragon Seed

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Christopher Strong

Lady Cynthia Darlington

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Mary Tyrone

Song of Love

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Morning Glory

Eva Lovelace

Stage Door

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Laura Lansing Slept Here

Laura Lansing

One Christmas

Cornelia Beaumont

Sylvia Scarlett

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Quality Street

Actor

The Corn Is Green

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