Biography of Katherine Hepburn

Katherine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American performing artist of film, stage, and TV. Known for her adamant autonomy and energetic disposition, Hepburn's vocation as a Hollywood heading woman crossed more than 60 years. Her work arrived in an extent of classifications, from screwball drama to artistic show, and she accepted four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any entertainer. Hepburn's characters were regularly solid, modern ladies with a shrouded weakness.

Brought up in Connecticut by rich, continuous folks, Hepburn started to act while examining at Bryn Mawr College. 4 years later in the theatre, great audits of her tackle Broadway carried her to the consideration of Hollywood. Her early years in the film business were stamped with victory, incorporating an Academy Award for her third picture, Morning Glory (1933), however this was emulated by an arrangement of business inadequacies. In 1938 she was named "film industry poison". Hepburn planned her own comeback, purchasing out her agreement with RKO Radio Pictures and gaining the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she delpeted on the condition that she be the star. In the 1940s she was dealed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her vocation kept tabs on an union with Spencer Tracy. The screen-association traversed 25 years, and handled nine films.

Hepburn tested herself in the last 50% of her existence, as she normally showed up in Shakespeare stage presentations and handled a reach of scholarly parts. She considered a specialty playing adult old maids, for example in The African Queen (1951), a persona general society gripped. Three more Oscars aimed to get her work in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). In the 1970s she started showing up in TV films, which turned into the center of her vocation in later life. She remained animated into maturity, making her last screen manifestation in 1994 at the age of 87. After a time of dormancy and sick health, Hepburn perished in 2003 at the age of 96.

Hepburn broadly avoided the Hollywood exposure machine, and declined to submit to social order's desires of ladies. She was blunt, self-assured, physical, and wore trousers before it was trendy for ladies to do so. She wedded once, as a junior lady, yet from that point existed freely. A 26-year issue with her costar Spencer Tracy was escaped people in general. With her unusual lifestyle and the autonomous characters she carried to the screen, Hepburn came to embody the "cutting edge lady" in twentieth century America and helped change recognitions of ladies. In 1999, she was named by the American Film Institute as the top female Hollywood leg.