![]() If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."īut she also lauded "Luddy" for opening doors in New York for a raw young actress. It's bloody impractical to love, honor and obey. She divorced him in 1934 and later remarked, "I don't believe in marriage. She made her New York debut in "These Days" in 1928, the same year she married Philadelphia socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith. After graduating, she joined a stock company in Baltimore. Young Kate was educated by tutors and at private schools, entering Bryn Mawr in 1924. "Mother was really left of center women's suffrage was her great cause, and I remember appearing at all the local fairs carrying huge flocks of balloons that said `Votes for Women.' I almost went up with them." "My parents were much more fascinating, as people, than I am," the actress once said. Her father built a theater in the family's back yard, where young Katharine's career took root. ![]() Hepburn, a noted urologist and pioneer in social hygiene, and Katharine Houghton Hepburn, who worked for birth control and getting the vote for women. She was born in Hartford on May 12, 1907, one of six children of Dr. They made nine films together and remained close companions until Tracy's death in 1967. ![]() She married only once, briefly, and her name was linked to Howard Hughes and other famous men, but the great love of her life was Spencer Tracy. She dressed for comfort, usually in slacks and sweater, with her red hair caught up in a topknot. Hepburn, the product of a wealthy, freethinking New England family, was forthright in her opinions and unconventional in her conduct. "I think every actress in the world looked up to her with a kind of reverence and a sense of 'oh boy, if only I could be like her,'" actress Elizabeth Taylor said in a statement. Her Oscars were for "Morning Glory," 1933 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1967 "The Lion in Winter," 1968 and "On Golden Pond," 1981.Īn icon of feminist strength and spirit, Hepburn brought a chiseled beauty and patrician bearing to such films as "The Philadelphia Story" and "The African Queen." Her mark of 12 Academy Award nominations stood as a record in the acting categories until Meryl Streep surpassed that total in 2003. She died as she lived, with dignity and grace." "She was and always will be an American original. "Through her films generations to come will discover her humor, her grace, her keen intelligence," McFadden said in a statement from the family at a news conference near Hepburn's home. Hepburn, who had been in declining health in recent years, died of old age, said Cynthia McFadden, a close friend and executor of her estate. There have been very few actresses throughout their careers who have been able to do that the way she did," Zimmerman said. "The reason many women have gone into directing is to be able to control the images of women on screen. Hepburn chose roles that showed smart, independent women at a time when many female film characters were empty stereotypes, said Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies, a nonprofit advocacy group for female filmmakers. They all get to be accomplished and smart and physically active without necessarily recognizing those are hard-won rights," said Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. ![]() "The young women of today are living the life Katharine Hepburn exemplified, but they might not know it. She died Sunday at her family's waterfront home at age 96. She even wore trousers years before other women did.įeminists on Monday remembered Hepburn as a role model for young women who helped popularize women's advancement. She was an outspoken advocate of birth control. In her personal life, she had a long affair with a married man. She was an innovative businesswoman who took charge of her career at a time when she was labeled "box-office poison." (AP) - In her 60-year career, Katharine Hepburn played smart, muscular, independent women, from lawyers and journalists to athletes and matriarchs. ![]()
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