Katharine Hepburn.

tell me goodbye no, yes, I did, you have to sharpen pieces, clean, there are no loose ends between us, I can't, my father thought I would be a surgeon, oh, where in the world did I want to be a film actor, what right can you bring me ? favorite arcade you will feel good the closed doors refuse to see people oh yes nothing small about here you go my father always said that his children we are never satisfied and I say with a bride at the wedding the corpse at the funeral is there I think no one more in the whole business that has been a star for 60 years has been handled properly, that's right, not even by myself, and that said to Spencer, uh-oh, sir.

Tracy I'm afraid I'm going to be a little tall for you and Tracy replied don't worry miss heparin I'll cut you down to your size don't fight the lift could you let me give give give us. In Peter and Kate had a huge conflict, but he called her a bore, she called him a pig, so what you said about him going back to the devil was a lie about how you could never have done it on your own and how you lost your heart and everything you're a liar. . this is not a person she invented this is really what woman is what you see is what you get Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn's career spans 64 years, more than 50 films and four Academy Awards she won in Hollywood and in the process became legend sometimes irascible frequently outspoken and always unpredictable I don't think I'm an eccentric and now I'm just something from New England there I was very American and raised, I'm extremely intelligent people who gave us a kind of I think the best gift that man can give to anyone and that is a kind of freedom from fear.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn's life began on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut; She was named after her mother, who was an early feminist and political leader; her father, dr. Thomas Hepburn, a prominent surgeon, supported her and led her own fight for legislative reform in public education about venereal diseases, controversial positions in the post-Victorian era. This was a great relationship, really a wonderful relationship, and he was not an easy man, he was very demanding. very disciplined and yet very encouraging and strengthened her greatly in 1905, Hepburn's first child was born, followed in 1907 by Katherine, whom everyone called Kathy Kathy idolized her brother, the two children became inseparable and, as that Tom became a calm and serious young man, his sister. she became an adventurous, freckled tomboy.

The Hepburns eventually had four more children who were encouraged to speak their minds and Cathy learned to stand up for herself, I mean, around the table, around what they said, what they thought, what they believed that it was very important that you would express. yourself and by God you expressed yourself Mrs. Hepburn was active in the suffrage movement and led Connecticut's fight to win the right for women to vote. Cathy frequently accompanied her mother handing out leaflets and marching in parades. Ms. Hepburn eventually turned down an offer to run for the United States Senate. The Hepburns were leaders in radical causes that were not popular in conservative Hartford.

Neighbors threw bricks at their windows and children were often forced to defend themselves in fights. I think that made me decide. It made me really resentful so I thought, damn it, I'm going to say something. The Hepburns maintained a summer home in Fenwick, an exclusive coastal community in southern Connecticut. The beach house became a gathering place for the entire extended family. The athletic activities of Hepburn, Houghton, and her friends filled the summer days, days spent swimming, sailing, and playing in the ocean. We would like a control play. You know it was great. We kept wanting to go to Hartford, but we never did all summer in the spring.

In 1921, twelve-year-old Kathy and her older brother, Tom, left to visit her godmother in New York on the morning they were due to return home. Tom didn't show up for breakfast. Kate's Ivanka, as she would call it, must have been sleeping. She goes up to her room and at first when she opened the door she didn't see him, what she saw was a curtain hanging loose because they had removed the curtain tie and then she saw the shadow coming in front of her and she turned around and there he was Tom and had hung himself with the curtain tape from the beam in this room.

Tom was dead, his feet bent beneath him clearly able to reach the ground. He had forced his own strangulation on him. Hepburn heard the news at my house in Hartford when I was sitting in the dining room and I got the call on the phone that Tom had died and my mother just collapsed at that table and moments later she thought I had regained my composure and never spoke about herself. . Dr. Hepburn refused to believe that his son's death was a suicide. He announced to the press that Tom had died while he was practicing a trick.

A fake hanging staged for effect. The death of her brother had a profound effect on Cathy for the next three years, she became withdrawn and nervous and suspicious. She was lonely, she refused to go to high school and finished her education at home. She even adopted Tom's birthday, November 8, as her own. Cathy tried to take her brother's place in the family. She finally left home in 1924 to go to college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, although Kathy adopted a new name. Kate maintained her antisocial behavior, unpopular with her classmates, and was failing miserably at the end of her sophomore year in the summer of 1926. nothing the quiet, retiring young woman surprised everyone and announced that she was going to become a The actress Kate walked in and the way she did it was she dropped this like a bombshell and I don't think Dan even suspected it, but Kate said she was going to going to the theater and dad hit the ceiling and said, well, you know I wouldn't get anywhere in the theater and I should sleep with the director.

Her father sent her back to Bryn Mawr in the fall. By the spring of 1928, Kate's grades had improved enough for her to participate in the school's May Day celebration. She showed up at a school. Kate met 28-year-old Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she called Bloody Bloody, who lived near campus and belonged to a social group that Kate was attracted to. Letty came from a blue blood town of Philadelphia. family, he was very charming, he seemed like a feat, but a bit like a matinee idol profile, you know, very, very, very, very handsome and he adored the ludie.

Kate Kate graduated from Bryn Mawr and left for New York to become an actress at the end of that. The year Ludie proposed, Kate accepted and the couple married in New York. Kate immediately gained attention more for her style than her performance while dressed in casual clothing and adopting a free-spirited personality, she became a nightclub regular and cultivated a position at Café Society. She certainly isn't your typical young actress trying to make her way on stage. She arrived thinking of a star from the beginning. She could never see herself in a position to be in the background or in the chorus or be whatever Kate was starting to get.

She landed a series of acting jobs in the New York theater, but her lack of training and her open attitude took a toll in just two years. Kate was fired from four productions during rehearsals and never made it to opening night. Well, I think, like many unique actresses who contribute something. Newly arrived at the theater, she had difficulty recognizing that she was different and if you are different, it is difficult for people to accept that easily, they have to get used to it. Kate arrived on Broadway in 1932 playing an Amazon queen in The Warrior's Husband, dressed in a costume that accentuated her long legs, Hepburn jumped down a flight of stairs with a deer slung over her shoulder, grabbed this deer, threw it into the floor and then her leading lady was standing right there and she jumped and she throws him to the floor and it was amazing I mean no one ever saw a woman do something like that on stage sweet dear sweet dear tell me goodnight no yeah I feel like you have to Hollywood realized director John Ford did this screen test of Kate but nothing came out oh how rude so George Cukor ordered a test Kay directed it herself and I did my makeup with real modesty, I had never done it before and I did my own air with My usual modesty and I chose the material and I had left a glass and George said the performance was idiotic but you left a glass and you listened with great tenderness and emotion and they hired me.

Cukor offered her the lead role in her new film A Letter of Divorce and soon Kate Hepburn The Broadway actress was on her way to Hollywood to become movie star Katharine Hepburn. I hope Katharine Hepburn came to Hollywood in 1932 to make her first film. A divorce letter. She left her husband Ludie behind in New York. She was simply determined to not be just an actress, but an actress into a big star and her life had taken another direction since they were friends in a divorce letter. Kate played Sidney Fairfield, a young English woman who learns of her father's descent into madness and gives up her own happiness to support him.

Barrymore played her father, producer David O Selznick, constantly worried about Kate's performance during filming, he was convinced that she would be a failure, she was quite different from everyone, beautiful and eccentric, and as a person, although they thought that He was independent, I don't think so. has not seen anything like it George Cukor the director of the film soon became good friends with Hepburn felt that he saw something special in the young and daring actress who immediately saw in Kate a quality that he had seen and in many of the other great stars that had had directed Greta Garbo Joan Crawford many of these stars saw this quality of this unusual strong-willed woman the audience agreed you can't stand even the first glimpse of the truth honey, it would be dangerous for me to get married when a divorce bill the open public fell in love with Hepburn and so did the critics she told him she loves him I didn't hear anything I'm done with her take it out I took it out you must never run I came right away or I will Kill you Kate's performance earned her a long-term contract term with RKO.

She followed her debut with Christopher Strong. The story of a daring aristocratic aviator. During filming, she began an affair with her agent. Leland Hayward. Hayward was married and a known womanizer. He seemed a little bit like some of those sophisticated 1920s caricatures in The New Yorker and so on, he was very smart, extremely charming and, what's more, he was an agent and he believed in her. Kate continued to flirt with Hayward and kept their marriage a secret. Ludie waited patiently for her to return to New York, convinced that her romance with Hayward and her Hollywood career would soon end, but Hollywood was in love with Kate.

Her unusually gentle performance in Morning Glory, only her third film, earned her the Academy Award in 1933. She followed it up with a dazzling performance in Little Women. Kate shocked audiences by creating a perfect image of a modern independent woman in late 1933 at the top. of his cinematic successes. Kate prepared for a triumphant return to Broadway and cast a play called The Lake directed by the legendary producer. Jed Harris Harris was known for his callous treatment of leading ladies and his handling of Hepburn was no exception. His performance was a famous disaster. I walked through opening night in a state of absolute paralyzed terror and kept praying, kill me, Lord, just kill me, hit me.

I straightened it out and nothing happened. I just carried on as you know and finally the curtain came down. Everyone applauded and I sadly didn't mean it and I was extremely roasted. Kate's performance was roasted. The well-known wit of Dorothy Parker commented. Miss Hepburn's emotions ran the gamut from A to B. The Lake ran for 55 performances when Jed Harris announced his intention to take the show on the road. Cate, horrified, offered to buy his way out. Harris took every penny he had and closed the job. Kate's public humiliation. In New York it just made her more determined to make it in Hollywood, she was tough and she just wanted to be better, better, better, and if you told her she couldn't do something, she wanted to do it.

Kate's sudden lack of success extended to her marriage. announced his plan to divorce Ludie and Mary Leland Hayward after a quick divorce in Mexico returned to California a relationship with Hayward eventually broke down and more trouble followed RKO's cascade into a succession of landmark costume films that flopped at the box office the studio failed To capitalize on the unique modern personality that made her a star in 1936, Kate began a relationship with Howard Hughes, the eccentric millionaire aviator pursued Kate in style and finally won her over with extravagant stunts, once landing his small plane in a golf course to join it. a game Hughes fascinated Hepburn how the ideals were very she had a very brilliant mind but she had something much more important than that and that is that she never gave up, she went after what she got and I used to say if she was going after the needle Nasdaq.

In China she would find it, she would never give up wonderful quality. I copied it, but Kate's perseverance wasn't the problem. The starrapidly rising Ginger Rogers to the cast as box office insurance. I don't think I meant to borrow it or anything. I just want to see how I feel. One of these things. Do you feel very different? Okay, why don't you put it on? Man, oh why not? You can also go to the ermine position. I'm sure you'll come back in rags. What right? You can get my favorite game room yourself, behind closed doors, you refuse to see people.

Hepburn gave a great performance as a society girl. The actress reduced to size by her roommates in a theater boarding house. Stage Door turned out to be another box office failure. Bringing a Baby with Cary Grant was hailed as her best performance to date the film lost $365,000 a lot of money in 1937 RKO eventually lost faith in Hepburn and began loaning her out to other studios Kate knew her time was up when she was offered a B movie called Carey's Hens and decided to split company with RKO and bought out her contract the same day the theater owners took out ads in trade papers labeling Hepburn as box office poison and when she approached David O.

Selznick to Scarlett O'Hara's role in Gone with the Wind, the producer of many of her hits walked away from her after 15 films in six short years. Her career seemed over and without prospects. Kate left Hollywood and returned to Connecticut, but Katherine Hepburn was never one to give up. More determined than ever, she began searching for the role that would land her. back to the top in 1938 Katharine Hepburn lived in her family's home on the coast of Fenwick Connecticut her days in Hollywood were over despite an Academy Award and worldwide fame her career seemed to be on a tremendous downturn she was actually stuck in At this particular time, no one was in a hurry to send scripts to Katharine Hepburn.

That year, Howard Hughes set a record by flying around the world in a twin-engine plane. More than a million people watched a parade in his honor in New York. Kate joined him and together they played a game. Well, for a person who really wanted to live a private life, Kate was always attracted to the type of men in the type of situations that would create the most press and certainly Howard Hughes was that type of person. Howard proposed to Kate in New York, but the idea fell through as Kate expressed it, and Hughes returned to the West Coast in late 1938.

Kate remained in Fenwick in September when a fierce hurricane hit the Connecticut coast. The beloved Hepburn home was literally razed to the ground after Kate. She and her family searched through the rubble and only managed to recover a few dishes and trinkets dr. Hepburn immediately built a new, larger house on the beach later that year. Kate finally thought that she had found the script for her return. Her friend Philip Barry completed a play based on the Hepburn family. He called it the story of Philadelphia, the leading role of wealthy society. The Tracy Lord Girl was written specifically for Hepburn when the play opened on Broadway in early 1939.

Kate desperately needed a hit to re-establish her career. George Cukor's friend came on opening night and said, "Oh, I hope Kate doesn't come and get mad." sweet, I hope she's rude to everyone and I was rude to her, my mother because of all the wedding gifts they had given me and he was delighted and it was lucky that the New York critics loved her. Katharine Hepburn was a hit and to ensure her return to Hollywood, Kate convinced Howard Hughes to lend her the money to buy the film rights. I bought The Philadelphia Story when it came out because I'm practical.

You see, I have common sense and I knew all those successful beauties. The ladies of Hollywood would want it and I thought if I owned it they wouldn't be able to have it and in the end it was so good that they finally had to have me with it. Kate succeeded in her plan by making a deal with Louis from MGM to be mayor, she asked Spencer Tracy. and Clark Gable to co-star with his mayor Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart were offered to get one star it is extremely difficult to get two stars it is twice as difficult as to get three stars it is almost unheard of in what movies are made even today that three major stars very few, but she designed all that because she knew it would be good, what is this Connor, easy, man, she is not hurt, no, she is not hurt, so it seems that the moment she hit the water, the wine did he hit her?

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made her return to film in Philadelphia Story the film earned almost a million and a half dollars and received six Oscar nominations, including one for Kate, she suddenly became a new star in Hollywood. because the role in the Philadelphia story said that Kate was in a different mold, she now had a different personality one saw the strength and we also saw the arrogance that used to be afraid that look the withering look of the goddess I didn't think that The alcohol made Kate take control of her career and in 1941 she acquired a story called Woman of the Year I Wanted and got Spencer Tracy to co-star in the romantic comedy as the rugged, down-to-earth sports writer to her temperamental and sophisticated journalist, the The deal cemented her reputation as a tough businesswoman.

She usually got everything she wanted because she showed up wearing traditional pants and barged into her offices and gave them hell. Kate had never met Spencer. She ran into him on the MGM lot before filming began. then she said to the dispenser Oh, sir. Tracy, I'm afraid I'm going to be a little tall for you, and Tracy replied, Don't worry, Miss Hepburn, I'll cut it down to her size. The exchange set the tone for the film on the set of Woman of the Year. Tracy glared at Hepburn, unnerving the normally unflappable actress, but in the film the two hit it off, their on-screen chemistry was magnetic, and within weeks the studio was abuzz with rumors of an off-screen romance. screen.

The team of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn was a box office hit. magic and a legendary love story were about to begin the success of woman of the year established Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn as an on-screen team and from the beginning Kate adored Spencer Tracy was Catholic, married and a father of two children, but he and his wife Louise had not lived together for years; their son Johnny was deaf, which only fueled Tracy's Catholic guilt. It's no secret to the world that Spencer was a drinker and I think having been around him at the time, a lot of that was as a result of his deep unhappiness over his son's unhappiness with Spencer Kate was submissive, she let him take the initiative in everything.

Family and friends were surprised. Kate was no longer the fiercely independent woman everyone knew. She often felt that she was drowning in him. I also think that in his mind Spencer was a kind of younger edition of his father. I think she had bogged down his rudeness. Kate began turning down jobs to be near Spencer for a while. Her only appearances were in Tracy Hepburn films and her on-screen association with her. was the white-hot keeper of the loveless flame and State of the Union established them as the movie's best couple what you want your massage you want a drink you want anything in 1948 Kate and Spencer teamed up with friends Garson Kanin, his wife Ruth Gordon and George Cukor for Adam's Rib released in 1949 the film perfected Tracy Hepburn's formula that seemed rooted in her own relationship an independent woman is put in her place by a down-to-earth man this is basic I'm old-fashioned I like two sexes and what's more I suddenly don't like being married to what is known as a new woman.

I want a wife, not a competitor, complainer or competitor, you want to be a great woman, go be one, but not with me. Tracy and that man had more. extraordinary relationship on screen, that's all, they had a brilliant script, they were funny and crazy and they had a kind of love-hate relationship, they couldn't stand each other and yet they were madly in love in 1951, in the peak of Spencer and Kate's story. The tragedy of success struck the Hepburn family when Kate's mother died of a brain hemorrhage. Kate's father eradicated all records of his wife's existence. Kate got to work and set out to star in The African Queen.

She became a great friend and admirer of her co-star Humphrey. Bogart and his wife Lauren Bacall and Kate loved working with director John Huston, who helped her find the key to playing Rose Sayer. I remember one of his memories of John Huston being the best director he ever had, was when he came in and said he looks so damn depressed smile think of Eleanor Roosevelt I never dreamed that a simple physical experience could be so stimulating I'm the captain that's it cool I won't take you with me you'd just be in my way I guess I was in your way going down the rapids so what you told me there like always was a lie about how you could never have done it alone and how you lost your heart and everything you liar The performance Hepburn's performance in The African Queen was a career-high.

She earned an Oscar nomination for a role that combined her signature strength with obvious vulnerability. You promised you would die a dozen times down the river. You promised, well, take back my promise. Kate followed her success in The African Queen with Pat. and Mike Garson Kanan and Ruth Gordon adapted the story for Tracy and Hepburn. Kate's role was designed to showcase her athletic abilities, so I mean, well, there's only one thing about us being together, it's what I call a long shot, there's nothing wrong with being alone. If you emerge victorious, it is a fact that we liked a lot.

In 1955, years of heavy drinking caught up with Spencer Tracy, his health was failing with alcoholism, several other health problems also arose, heart, kidney, various other problems and Tracy became quite ill, Kate. she was very attentive, she really became her muse, she helped her nurses in almost everything you can imagine. She really devoted herself to Tracy at this point and helped him at the same time that her father's health was also deteriorating and Kate was at her side. When he died on November 20, 1962, although Spencer had been ill for over a decade, Kate and director Stanley Kramer persuaded him to try one more film.

In 1967, they began filming Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, the story of a couple whose daughter brings home a black fiancé. Kramer Hepburn and Tracy placed their salaries in escrow to ensure the film's completion. There were many doubts in everyone's minds about whether Tracy would be able to cope with a film schedule as the harshness of the film schedule became sicker. and sicker as the movie progressed, they had to film their scenes between 9:00 and 12:00 in the morning, he couldn't go any further, the old magic of Tracy Hepburn was there for all to see with Kate at his side.

Spencer gave an excellent performance On June 10, 1967, three weeks after the film wrapped, Spencer Tracy died for two and a half decades. The couple kept their relationship private out of respect for Spencer's wife and family. Hepburn did not attend the funeral, which she never spoke about. he goes, which is a funny thing, it's almost like my mother's attitude towards Tom's death, don't talk about it, go to work, you know, do something. Katherine Hepburn did something. In fact, she won a second Oscar for her work. Guess who's coming to dinner. and accepted the award on Spencer's behalf at the age of 60, another era began in a career that already spanned three and a half decades, and in his new career he would establish himself as more than just a movie star.

Katharine Hepburn was on her way to becoming a legend Katharine Hepburn returned to work in 1967, the year Spencer Tracy died at age sixty, an age when many female stars have trouble finding roles. Kate found herself playing roles as dynamic as those she had in The Winter Tail in which Kate co-starred with Peter O'. Toole, a well-known tyrant on the film's set, found his match in Kate from the beginning. The two strong-willed actors enjoyed an adversarial relationship. Peter and Kate had a huge conflict, but they he called her annoying, she called him a pig, but they had a wonderful, they had a wonderful kind of relationship, they had a wonderful love-hate relationship.

You really care who the King is. I care because you care a lot. Do not fight with me. a little peace a little why so modest how about eternal peace now there's a performance by Todd Cates that won him a third Academy Award director Anthony Harvey accepted the statue for Kate I called her from Hollywood I think it must have been around 3:00 in the morning around 7:00 o'clock, her time she said Oh God, really and I Swan, she was real, oh come on Tony, she put it in a paper bag somewhere, three Years later, I was sitting with her in the house, she opened the closet to take out a box. of chocolates or something and there it was still in the paper bag completely forgotten there was not evenbeen recorded in 1969 Kate was back on Broadway this time in KOCO a musical based on the life of fashion designer Coco Chanel Hepburn came to Broadway a full blown legend it was a classic example of not being able to take your eyes off her she just took over the stage was magnificent hip replacement surgery in the early 1970s did not slow her down and Kate starred in a series of television films and in 1980 returned to Broadway for the last time in the Westside Waltz.

Her legend could be intimidating to many co-stars, but Kate used humor to put people at ease. When we met and started rehearsing, she told me she, uh-uh, me. I'll call you dot now no one calls me dot but I mean it sounded Oh music to me when she said dot you know and I said she said okay and I said yeah okay and I said what should I call you and she said can you call me Miss Hepburn , which I thought and then of course he laughed. That same year, Kate starred in Golden Pond with Henry Fonda.

He quickly developed affection for his fellow film legend early in filming, gifting Fonda one of Spencer's favorite hats and Fonda wearing it throughout the film. Golden Pond was the story of a grumpy old man who had given up on life and his beloved wife of 50 years who was determined to keep him alive, you're going to get him back, he went and I'm going to I'll be right behind you, hold on tight, come on, come on, come on. I don't like horses. Fonda won her only Academy Award for her performance and died shortly after Katharine Hepburn won an unprecedented fourth Oscar in 1982.

Kate severely injured her left foot in a car accident. The accident left her slower but still busy, she continued. He split his time between Fenwick and his home in New York and made several more television movies. In fact, he was late, he was right on time. I keep retreating and I don't stay there. I can not do it. I mean, I don't think you can say I'm not going to work or you can't say I'm going to work. Can't he can't work unless you have something to do and if you see something you want to do and you reject it, you think who Katharine Hepburn's life has spanned almost nine decades her career spanned more than 64 years an unconventional beauty who said what I thought she changed Hollywood and generations of women forever.

I think that for women she is a great defender of independence who stands up for what they believe in. I think she brought dignity to women's roles that hadn't been there before and allowed a lot of actresses to follow her. I don't think she could have. She would have been a Barbra Streisand without a Katharine Hepburn. She is a very, very ambitious and brave girl. She accepts any challenge that she herself believes she can overcome. One of its essential characteristics was independence. She does, in fact, she does things well her way. I get up every day, but I think I get up and assume that between us I am going to win this battle, you say that it is me, eternal ego, you.