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  Katharine Hepburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hepburn's father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of venereal disease in a time when such things were not discussed, and her mother campaigned for birth control and equal rights for women.
Hepburn especially enjoyed swimming, and regularly took dips in the frigid waters that fronted her bayfront Connecticut home, generally believing that "the bitterer the medicine, the better it was for you." She continued her brisk swims well into her 80's.
Hepburn was already reeling from a devastating series of earlier flops when in 1938 she (along with Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford and others) was voted "box office poison" in a poll taken by motion picture exhibitors.
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 Katharine Hepburn - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hepburn won an Emmy in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys during the course of her acting career.
Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut to a successful urologist, Thomas Norval Hepburn, and a suffragette, Katharine Houghton Hepburn.
Hepburn's father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of venereal disease in a time when such things were not discussed, and her mother advocated birth control and equal rights for women.
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 Hepburn (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hepburn is a Scottish family name that is also associated with a variety of famous personages, eponyms, places, and things.
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (son of Patrick, 3rd Earl of Bothwell) - lover and third husband of Queen Mary I of Scotland.
Hepburn Township is a town in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
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 Katharine Hepburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Thomas Norval Hepburn, a successful urologist, and Katharine Houghton, a suffragette and birth control advocate who, along with Margaret Sanger, helped to found the organization that became Planned Parenthood.
Hepburn and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow, so she would not have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs.
In 1994, Hepburn gave her final two movie performances — as Ginny in the remake of Love Affair and, which was based on a short story by Truman Capote.
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 katharine hepburn
Hepburn graduated from Bryn Mawr, a prestigious all-girl college, in 1928 and headed for the Broadway stage.
Hepburn was a dedicated professional, the first to arrive on the set in the morning and last to leave.
Hepburn was equally at ease with the god-fearing spinster in The African Queen as with Tennessee Williams' viscous dowager in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).
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 Audrey Hepburn - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Hepburn attended private schools in England and the Netherlands, but after the 1935 divorce of her parents she was living with her mother at Arnhem when the German invasion and occupation of World War II occurred.
After the war, Hepburn and her mother moved to London where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and in 1951 began acting in films, mostly in minor or supporting roles; her first major performance was in the 1951 film The Secret People.
Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of only 63, and was interred there.
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 AllRefer.com - Katharine Hepburn (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Hartford, Conn. She made periodic stage appearances from 1928 on and debuted in the first of her 43 films in 1932; in her early roles she was usually cast as rather brittle, one-dimensional characters.
Hepburn also established her lifelong image as a high-spirited, intelligent, witty, idiosyncratic, and sophisticated woman, a persona mirrored in her private life.
In Woman of the Year (1942) she found her ideal leading man (and life partner) in Spencer Tracy, whose solidity balanced her sophistication in a total of nine comedies spanning 25 years.
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 Hollywood Loses Katharine Hepburn - Jun 29, 2003 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hepburn, who had been in ill health in recent years, simply succumbed to old age--an atypically quiet end to an extraordinarily feisty life.
Hepburn and Tracy were Hollywood's most married unmarried couple until his death in 1967, days after they completed work on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, the socially minded race drama that brought Tracy his ninth (and final) Best Actor Oscar nomination and Hepburn her second Best Actress statue.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut, prime breeding ground for the high cheekbones and can-do Yankeeism that were integral to her persona.
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 Audrey Hepburn biography
Audrey Hepburn, actress and humanitarian, was born Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston in Brussels, Belgium.
Hepburn and her mother later suffered from malnutrition and oppression during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II.
Hepburn had an illustrious film career and became known for her grace and beauty.
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 Katharine Hepburn Biography
The play was a tremendous success, and Hepburn, who owned the film rights (Howard Hughes had bought them for her), sold them to L.B. Mayer and MGM on the condition that she would star.
Hepburn and Tracy would go on to star together in nine films, and would carry on a love affair for 27 years.
Katharine Hepburn continued to be active even in her old age, riding her bicycle and swimming in the ocean near her house in Old Saybrook, CT. While she was always somewhat reclusive, she appeared in public less and less as she grew older.
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 Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hepburn, who flippantly admitted she wanted to be an actress so she could be famous, dramatized many troubling human emotions and ideas in her early work.
Hepburn is again being punished for her lack of feminine vulnerability, and endures the plot, which terrorizes her through her husband, a sour Robert Taylor.
Hepburn’s part as the long-suffering wife is fairly thankless, but she rips into it with relish, obviously relieved to be free of MGM.
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 Four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hepburn was born the second of six children in Hartford, Conn., in 1907 and grew up in nearby Fenwick.
Hepburn and her siblings were thus encouraged to speak out, to discuss birth control or sex as freely as they liked and to participate in vigorous sports.
Hepburn was married once, for three weeks, to family friend and Philadelphia socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith at the beginning of her career.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1924514   (1788 words)

  
 Master’s thesis sparks Katharine Hepburn Film Retrospective
Hepburn sometimes carried around with her, was listed in the auction catalog at $3,000-$5,000, but it sold for $316,000.
Hepburn went home to her parents in 1938 she had been labeled box-office poison in a full-page ad in a trade paper.
Hepburn had turned down a last-ditch offer from RKO to play one of four daughters in a B movie, and she was without a studio.
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 KATHARINE HEPBURN: 1907-2003 / A gutsy legend in trousers, she had wit to match will
Hepburn for valuing the intelligence of his talented daughter and for nurturing her independent spirit.
Hepburn's success was immediate, and she was given a starring role in "Christopher Strong" (1933), as a female aviator who gets involved with a married man. For "Morning Glory" (1933), in which she played a naive but pushy Broadway wannabe, Hepburn won her first Academy Award.
By 1967, Hepburn was unquestionably a respected actress, but she was not the cultural treasure that she was soon to become.
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 hepburn
Hepburn plays a princess on an official tour of Europe, and who makes a stop in Italy; Rome to be precise.
As is customary, she presides over a gathering of dignitaries, and is introduced to each one in a very long list of individuals.
In a mutual deception, Hepburn tells Peck that she has run away from school, while Peck tells her he is a salesman.
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 Encyclopedia article on Audrey Hepburn [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels she was the daughter of Joseph Anthony Ruston, a British banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings.
Hepburn died of colon cancer on January 20, 1993, in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland at the age of 63, and was interred there.
According to some biographies, Hepburn claimed to have made "several" American and British TV appearances before Roman Holiday, and a poster for a 1951 British public appearance listed her as a TV actress, but so far a copy of "Rainy Day" is the only example of this early work to have surfaced.
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 Walkabout - Hepburn Springs
Hepburn Springs is a delightful and relaxing resort town with a pleasant environment, mountain scenery, forestry and numerous parks and recreation areas.
Daylesford, with which it is closely interconnected by urban sprawl (combined population: 5500), Hepburn Springs is known as the 'Spa Centre of Australia' with 50 % of the country's known and active mineral water outlets and another 30 % located nearby.
The main festival is the Swiss-Italian Festa; a celebration of the town's Swiss-Italian heritage which is held on the last weekend in May. The Opera By The Lake Festival is held in February while Chill Out, a gay-lesbian event, is held on the weekend after the long weekend in March.
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 Absolute Definition: Katharine Hepburn
The only explanation for Hepburn's impossible ways – emphasising odd words, uttering vague, throwaway expressions under her breath – was that she was remembering another film, playing out the rhythm of a different scene in her head.
Hepburn brought her internalised notion of 'culture' into these films – one in which elongated gestures, a hectic schedule, and above all, liberal quotations of French communicate a very idiosyncratic version of class.
Hepburn's idealism is reflected not only in her theatricality, but also in the clean, clear hand gestures which, in conversation, denote both intellectual rigour and an openness to ideas.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/27/katharine_hepburn.html   (1557 words)

  
 Remembering Katharine Hepburn - Jun 30, 2003 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the wake of Hepburn's death Sunday, tributes were heard from Hollywood to the White House.
Tracy, Hepburn's on- and offscreen lover for a quarter-century, died in 1967, shortly after completing work on their ninth film together, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Though in recent years Hepburn withdrew from the public eye--and, truth be told, she was never fond of its stares--her family said she was in good health and spirits to the end.
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 USATODAY.com - Film icon Katharine Hepburn dies at 96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With her feisty spirit and dazzling screen presence, Katharine Hepburn was one of the true Hollywood legends.
Hepburn's film career began in 1932 with A Bill of Divorcement with John Barrymore and lasted through her final film, 1994's Love Affair with Warren Beatty.
As a girl, Hepburn had wanted to be a doctor like her father, but she turned her attention to drama instead at Bryn Mawr College.
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 The New York Times > Movies >
Katharine Hepburn's independent life and strong-willed movie characters made her a role model for generations of women and a beloved heroine to filmgoers for more than 60 years.
The way Miss Hepburn plays Tracy Lord, with the wry things she is given to say, she is an altogether charming character to meet cinematically.
Katharine Hepburn is tricky and uneven in the difficult role of the wife and mother in this divided family — probably because she has too much to do.
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 Audrey Hepburn - L'Ange des Enfants
Despite her glamour, charm and elegance, Hepburn is one star who has always been seen to have real heart.
Traveling to areas afflicted by famine and devastation, Hepburn worked to raise public awareness of the plight faced by children in times of crisis.
By purchasing your autographed copy of "Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit" through the official website, in addition to all of the author's royalties, all profits beyond the wholesale purchase of the book, will be donated to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
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 Katharine Hepburn News
Katharine Hepburn's estate has donated a huge amount of her memorabilia to the academy of motion picture arts and sciences.
Dorothy Parker once wrote that Katharine Hepburn ran the "gamut of emotions from A to B." Well, it's not as if Lhasa de Sela can't sing, but she conveys a range of emotions that goes from A to A-and-a-half.
Hepburn's grandfather was the priest of Christ Church I.U., located in Kent County, Md., on the Eastern Shore, so as a...
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 CBC News:Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hepburn appeared in more than 40 films and about a dozen plays and television dramas.
Hepburn was encouraged to speak out as she grew up, and when she became an actress quickly earned the reputation of being an intelligent and fiercely independent woman.
Hepburn died at her home in Connecticut Sunday afternoon.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/06/29/hepburn_030629   (465 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Audrey Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The impression that Hepburn was a snob, he persuades us, was the result of an introverted character formed by her experiences during the war.
This wartime experience both fed Hepburn's love of the spotlight and inspired a concern for the poor and powerless that compelled her to campaign for UNICEF from 1988 until her death in 1993.
Hepburn's personal and professional relationships with her leading men?William Holden, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Cary Grant?are presented in gossipy detail, as is her often difficult marriage with actor Mel Ferrer.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Katharine Hepburn (Biography (a & E))   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For decades, Hepburn nursed Tracy when he fell into alcoholic binges and continued to take care of him, even when he turned vicious or became despondent, until his death.
Hepburn appear as a victim which is as far from the truth as can be.
I have read many Katherine Hepburn biographies and this was the one that revealed the most about Hepburn's private life, in the sense that I was able to really feel her voice coming trough, her point of view shining through.
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 Katharine Hepburn - People of Connecticut
atharine Houghton Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 12, 1907.
Her father, Dr. Thomas Hepburn, was a prominent surgeon.
Her mother, Katharine Houghton, was a well-known political activist, prominent in the movement to secure women's rights to vote, and an early proponent of birth control and family planning.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: Katharine Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leaming, John Ford left Los Angeles and joined the military because he was upset that Katharine Hepburn had become involved with Spencer Tracy and further she asserts that Spencer Tracy knew this and was 'tormented' by it.
Hepburn's life that they concluded that the book was accurate even though it has so many obvious inaccuracies.
This book does shed new light on Katharine Hepburn but, most of that new light is focused on other members of her family.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0297813196   (934 words)

  
 CNN.com - The Hughes-Hepburn affair - Feb 23, 2005
I think in that moment, Hepburn again being ever independent, felt more and more that she had to prove herself on her own.
I think she felt she had to prove it to herself, and above all I think she felt she had to concentrate entirely on herself and her career, and as she said that's a terrible way to enter into a marriage or to exist in a relationship.
So by the time Katherine Hepburn came out here he was not really a problem to people who knew him, but a rather glamorous figure, and she knew that.
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 Katharine Hepburn
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