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  Bryn Mawr College - Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center - About The Center
In 2004, Bryn Mawr College was named the only organization authorized to commemorate the life and achievements of screen legend Katharine Hepburn ’28 by her family and the executors of her estate.
The Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College was established to honor the adventurous and bold spirit of the Houghton Hepburn women and to inspire future generations of women to challenge conventions, just as they did.
The launch of the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center will be celebrated with a series of special events at Bryn Mawr and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, on Sept. 8 and 9, 2006.
www.brynmawr.edu /hepburn/about.php   (221 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Katharine Houghton
Katharine Houghton, an American actress, was born Katharine Houghton Grant on March 10, 1945, in Hartford, Connecticut.
Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic star of American film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic star of American film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence.
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 Katharine Hepburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a successful urologist from Virginia, and Katharine Martha Houghton, a suffragette and birth control advocate, who, along with Margaret Sanger, helped to found the organization that became Planned Parenthood.
Although their marriage was a failure, Katharine Hepburn often expressed her gratitude toward Ludlow for his financial and moral support in the early days of her career.
Hepburn's niece is actress Katharine Houghton, who appeared with her in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katharine_Hepburn   (3425 words)

  
 Katharine Houghton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Katharine Houghton is best known for her role as Joanna "Joey" Drayton, the caucasian ingenue with an African-American fiance, played by Sidney Poitier, whom she brings home to meet her parents, portrayed by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, in the 1967 film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Houghton was named after Katharine Hepburn, who was her maternal aunt.
She is also a playwright and has translated the works of others for the stage.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Katharine_Houghton   (230 words)

  
 Hilarity Ensues
Joey Drayton (Katharine Houghton) brings her fiance, Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn).
Katharine Hepburn had to use her salary as backing in order to make this movie because Spencer Tracy was so ill that the studio didn't think that he would make to the end of the picture.
Katharine Hepburn's character's daughter is played by Hepburn's actual niece Katharine Houghton.
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 CNN.com - Transcripts
HOUGHTON: I think she was fascinated by Hughes because he was another maverick, and I think she admired his courage and his unusual personality.
HOUGHTON: She started painting when she was told she was box office poison, and she thought, Oh, dear, it's going to be a long, sad period of life, and I've got to do something or I'll go crazy.
HOUGHTON: Well, I think that you have to understand that the only time that my aunt ever played a mother was in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" And she played a mother on stage and off stage.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0306/19/lkl.00.html   (5385 words)

  
 Katharine Hepburn Biography
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907, in Hartford, CT, at 22 Hudson Street, which was then opposite the Hartford Hospital.
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.
Katharine Hepburn died in her home, surrounded by loved ones, on June 29, 2003, at the age of 96.
www-scf.usc.edu /~kristena/bio.html   (899 words)

  
 AOL Research & Learn: Biography - Katharine Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) was a critically successful actress on the stage and on the screen for over 50 years, delighting audiences with her energy, her grace, and her determination.
Katharine Hepburn never conformed to the conventional star image, but there is no doubt that she was a super star in more than one medium.
Katharine Hepburn provided some new perspectives on her personality and the roles she played on stage and screen in her autobiography, published after she retired from performance.
reference.aol.com /history/biography?id=20050413141309990019   (1391 words)

  
 CWHF-Katharine Houghton Hepburn
Katharine Houghton was educated at Bryn Mawr College and received an M.A. in art history from Radcliffe.
She moved to Hartford in 1904 with her husband, Tom Hepburn who was beginning his medical career as an intern at Hartford Hospital.
In 1907, after attending a lecture given by the British suffragist, Emeline Pankhurst, Katharine decided to become an active champion of women's rights to vote.
www.cwhf.org /hall/houghton-hepburn/houghton_hepburn.htm   (234 words)

  
 Katharine Hepburn - People of Connecticut
atharine Houghton Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 12, 1907.
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.
Katharine Hepburn continued to appear in film, on Broadway, and on television into the 1990's.
www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ct_khh.htm   (502 words)

  
 Katharine Houghton HEPBURN
Katharine Hepburn was born and raised in Hartford and West Hartford.
She was the daughter of Katharine Martha Houghton, a member of the rich and socially prominent family that founded the Corning Glass Works and an active supporter of women's rights, and Dr. Thomas Hepburn, a prominent surgeon.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born at 22 Hudson Street, which was then opposite the Hartford Hospital.
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 Houghton - Person Page 744
James H. Houghton and Nancy Ann Lillibridge appeared in the census of 1870 of Richland, Richland Co., WI, USA age 46, a stage driver, property $400-200.
James Henry Houghton and Mina Almira Herrick appeared in the census of 1930 of Theresa, Jefferson Co., NY, USA age 61, a farm laborer.
James Houghton Jr married Sarah C.      James Houghton Jr and Sarah C. appeared in the census of 1870 of Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA age 33, a boot and shoe dealer, property $5000.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~houghtonfamily/p744.htm   (2496 words)

  
 Houghton - Person Page 988
     William Houghton was born in March 1852 in Ireland, age 48 in 1900 census.
     William Houghton appeared in the census of 1900 of Sunbury, Northumberland Co., PA, USA age 38, RR conductor; widower; a boarder with John Spath.
     William Houghton was born in April 1869 in MA, USA, age 1 in 1870 census; age 11 in 1880 census; age 31 in 1900 census; age 50 in 1920 census.
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 The Suburban and Wayne Times - Bryn Mawr College to debut Hepburn Center
The college inaugurates the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center in September, honoring Hepburn (a 1928 graduate) and her mother, Katharine Houghton Hepburn (who graduated in 1899), for their contributions to women's rights.
Houghton Hepburn's mother made her promise that she and her two younger sisters, Edith and Marion, would go to Bryn Mawr.
Houghton pursued regional theater in the infancy of its existence instead of following in her aunt's footsteps in Hollywood, where she found few worthy female characters.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=17065477&BRD=1677&PAG=461&dept_id=82745&rfi=6   (657 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for katharine hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Katharine Hepburn, the stage and film actress who has died aged 96, became one of the great stars of the cinema while showing a total disregard for the conventions of Hollywood....
Katharine Hepburn, a leading lady for the ages By Mike Clark, USA TODAY Katharine Hepburn was a modern woman whose career spanned modern movie history, from her debut in 1932's A Bill of Divorcement as John Barrymore's daughter to 1994's Love Affair as Warren Beatty's aunt....
Description: Katharine Hepburn was a modern woman whose career spanned modern movie history, from her debut in 1932's A Bill of Divorcement as John Barrymore's daughter to 1994's Love Affair as Warren Beatty's aunt.
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 Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
Joanna (Katharine Houghton), the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher, Matthew Drayton (Tracy), and his patrician wife, Christina (Hepburn), returns home with her new fiancée, John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), a distinguished fl doctor.
First of all, as Joey, Houghton is seriously out-classed by her costars.
This was Houghton’s first film, and it seems clear she got the role due to nepotism; Hepburn is her aunt.
www.dvdmg.com /comingtodinner.shtml   (1767 words)

  
 Katharine Hepburn pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
An athletic tomboy as a child, she was also very close to her brother, Tom, and was devastated at age 14 to find him dead, the apparent result of accidentally hanging himself while practicing a hanging trick their father had taught them.
For many years after this, Katharine used his birthdate, November 8, as her own.
She then became very shy around girls her age, and was largely schooled at home.
www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=671   (922 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr College - Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center - Hepburn Medalists
The Katharine Hepburn Medal, to be awarded annually, recognizes women whose lives, work and contributions embody the intelligence, drive and independence of the four-time-Oscar-winning actress.
The first two medals in the series will be awarded at the launch of the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, to screen legend Lauren Bacall and celebrated actress-environmentalist Blythe Danner.
A celebrated star of the stage and screen, Lauren Bacall was named among the top 20 female film legends of the 20th century by the American Film Institute.
www.brynmawr.edu /hepburn/launch_medalists.php   (542 words)

  
 Ecce Homo - Katharine Houghton Hepburnová - Brno (Český rozhlas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ecce Homo - Katharine Houghton Hepburnová - Brno (Český rozhlas)
Dnes by se dožila stovky jedna z mých oblíbených amerických hereček Katharine Houghton Hepburnová, hvězda amerického filmu a divadla, známá svým vtipem, novoanglickou vznešeností a divokou nezávislostí.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn přišla na svět v Hartfordu v Connecticutu a byla druhým ze šesti dětí význačné novoanglické rodiny, která jí v herecké kariéře nijak nebránila.
www.rozhlas.cz /brno/archiv/_zprava/345063   (559 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
HOUGHTON: When my aunt was little she had to march in all the suffrage parades.
HOUGHTON: No. No. She really loathed politics of any kind.
KING: Katharine Houghton, niece of the four-time Oscar winner, Katharine Hepburn.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0306/19/lkl.00.html   (5385 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: DVD: Spencer Tracy,Sidney Poitier,Katharine Hepburn,Katharine Houghton,Cecil ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Katherine Houghton is not doing anything special, though she is very definative of the preppy, high-class girls of the 50's.
Houghton, relentlessly perky to the point of strangulation, has a relatively thankless role as Joey as she is the catalyst for the plot machinations but has no scene which allows her character to respond verbally to the groundswell of problems the situation has caused for those around her.
Spencer Tracy as Matt Drayton, Sidney Poitier as John Prentice, Katharine Hepburn as Christina Drayton, Katharine Houghton as Joanna Drayton, Cecil Kellaway as Monsignor Ryan, Beah Richards as Mrs.
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 Hepburn, Katharine Houghton --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was settled in 1851 and named for Douglass Houghton, a state geologist.
Katharine Hepburn, in her long stage and motion-picture career, never lost the pungent New England Yankee accent that enriched her performances.
The U.S. nun Katharine Drexel was known as the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Sisters for Indians and Colored People (now Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament), a congregation of missionary nuns dedicated to the welfare of Native Americans and African Americans.
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 CNN.com - Katharine Hepburn dead at 96 - Jun. 30, 2003
Katharine Hepburn's father was a doctor, and her mother was a suffragist.
Hepburn's film career spanned seven decades, and she was perhaps the most decorated actor, male or female, in the industry.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/29/hepburn.obit   (1718 words)

  
 Denny Jackson's Katharine Hepburn Page
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut on May 12, 1907 to a medical doctor and his wife.
From an early age she was fascinated with the silent movies, often doing odd jobs to get the needed ticket money to go to her favorite theater and see the latest production.
Unless her grades improved Katharine could not participate in college plays.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/khepburn.html   (762 words)

  
 Katharine Hepburn: An Absolutely Tender Violet of a Woman
The familial resemblance to her famous aunt is clearly evident for all to see; a fortuitous physical inheritance, strikingly manifest, thanks to the advantage of some very distinctive shared genes.
“Katharine Hepburn died this afternoon,” she says, ever so softly.
Katherine Houghton has suggested one day she may tell us more.
www.angelfire.com /journal2/helgar/article_hepburn.html   (1301 words)

  
 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Starring: Katharine Houghton,Spencer Tracy,Cecil Kellaway,Katharine Hepburn,Sidney Poitier,
Spencer Tracy, Audrey Hepburn & her niece (Katharine Houghton) with up and comming star; (back then) Sidney Poitier and 3-all time Hollywood favorites, accademy award winners and the top of the Hollywood all-star list, Tracy, Hepburn & Poitier with a supporting role by Isabel Sanford destined to become Weezy to George Jefferson.
What their daughter (played very well by Katharine Houghton) who is actually Hepburn's niece in real life does not say is that she is bringing her husband to be with her and she just shows up back home to everyone's surprise with Sidney in tow.
Sidney just happens to be a member of the "World Health Organization" and doctor in tropical diseases as well as being interned at Johns Hopkins is a fl man. Well you can guess what a stir this movie made back in 1967 and if you are too young to know, it was a powder keg.
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Katharine Houghton Grant was born on March 10, 1945, in Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of Marion Hepburn Grant (Katharine Hepburn's younger sister) and former mayor of West Hartford Ellsworth Grant.
This movie also starred her aunt, Katharine Hepburn, with whom which she has had a close relationship, Spencer Tracy, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poiter.
In 1969, she won the Theater World Award for her role in A Sent Of Flowers She is also a playwright and amongst her credits are such as: Best Kept Secret, Merlin, The Marry Month Of May, Mortal Friends, On The Shady Side, The Right Number, Phone Play and her translation of Anouilh's Antigone.
thehepburnactresses.freeservers.com /custom.html   (450 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: People: H: Hepburn, Katharine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
CultureVulture.net: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003) - A remembrance of her life and film work, by Lewis Whittington, and an appreciation from the gay and lesbian culture.
Katharine Hepburn: Woman Of The Year - Biography, filmography, quotes, fan art, and a image gallery.
Katharine Hepburn's Hartford - See locations in Hartford, CT. associated with Hepburn; such as where she was born, lived as a young girl, her school, climbing tree, parent's home, and her grave.
dmoz.org /Arts/People/H/Hepburn,_Katharine   (356 words)

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