![]() ![]() A string of films made with RKO had mixed degrees of success, and Hepburn began earning a reputation as arrogant and self-absorbed on set, though she was always meticulously prepared for her roles. Heralded as a fresh, unconventional beauty and a talented actress, Hepburn won her first Best Actress Oscar for only her third film, Morning Glory (1933). In Hepburn’s debut film, A Bill of Divorcement (1932), she starred opposite John Barrymore and was directed by George Cukor, who would become her close friend and helm many of her films (including 1933’s Little Women, 1935’s Sylvia Scarlett, 1938’s Holiday and 1949’s Adam’s Rib). She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1928 and became a stage actress her role in the 1932 Broadway production The Warrior’s Husband led to a Hollywood screen test and a contract with RKO studios. ![]() ![]() Thomas Norval Hepburn, and his wife, Katharine Houghton, a suffragist and birth control advocate. Hepburn was born into a well-to-do New England family, the daughter of a prominent surgeon, Dr. ![]() On June 29, 2003, Katharine Hepburn-a four-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress and one of the greatest screen legends of Hollywood’s golden era-dies of natural causes at the age of 96, at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. ![]()
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