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  Financial Review: Katharine Hepburn's classic finale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hepburn was famous for her whirlwind, carpe diem approach to life, while Berg is known as a craftsman of the planned, stately career.
Hepburn wouldn't talk about the last five years of their life together, leading up to Tracy's death in 1967 - and that, as she might have remarked, is that.
Hepburn may or may not have been the greatest actor of Hollywood's golden age, but Berg's claim that she carved out "the greatest acting career of the 20th century" seems incontestable.
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn was educated at the elite women's college Bryn Mawr, in Pennsylvania, and graduated with a major in history and philosophy.
Though she revered health, in life Hepburn accommodated herself to all of Tracy's neuroses - he was an alcoholic and depressive, unhappily married, guilt-ridden over a son's deafness, and not in her class as a mind or a talker.
As she neared 50, and stayed resolute about acting her age, Hepburn was the schoolteacher plunged into late love in Venice, in David Lean's Summer Madness (1955), a spinster refreshed by Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker (1956), and a very creepy monster mother in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,988367,00.html   (1848 words)

  
 Katharine Hepburn, Oscar's Most Favored Lady
Hepburn's accomplishment is incredible, by any standards, but even more remarkable, seeing how she defied all odds, by bucking trends and offending people.
Hepburn denies the rumor to this day, but the story continues to be a part of her mystique.
Hepburn seemed to shrug it off by heading back to east to work on the stage in a community that seemed to appreciate her talents.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | The divine Ms H: Zadie Smith on Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn said they "gave me the impression that the bitterer the medicine, the better it was for you," and this strikes us as absolutely commensurate with her image on the big screen; never indulgent, always somehow utilitarian; only doing and using what was necessary.
Hepburn didn't help herself, either, with her on-set behavior, which was noted and commented upon by the usual LA gossip columnists sent by the magazines to investigate the potential starlet.
She needn't have worried: Hepburn's romantic dedication to Tracy is now legendary, and I remember, again, as a child, hoping for the sort of relationship that seemed symbolised in the fact that even as he lay dying, Hepburn spent every day with him, lying on the floor beside his bed.
books.guardian.co.uk /departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,988679,00.html   (3011 words)

  
 CNN.com - Katharine Hepburn dead at 96 - Jun. 30, 2003
Hepburn's film career spanned seven decades, and she was perhaps the most decorated actor, male or female, in the industry.
Hepburn and Tracy, who went on to film nine movies together, were the yin and yang of middle-century moviemaking.
The actress is survived by a sister, Margaret Hepburn Perry; a brother, Dr. Robert Hepburn; and 13 nieces and nephews.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/29/hepburn.obit/index.html   (1718 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Film star Hepburn dies at 96
Hepburn, who had been in ill health for some years, passed away at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Hepburn came from a wealthy New England family but she was also touched by tragedy.
Hepburn married once, briefly, and her name was linked to Howard Hughes as well as other famous figures.
film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,987882,00.html   (703 words)

  
 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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 BBC News | FILM | Actress Hepburn 'better' after tests
Actress Katharine Hepburn is said to be "much better" after undergoing tests at a US hospital and is expected to go home in a few days.
Hepburn, who lives in Old Saybrook, near Hartford, her native town, was taken to the hospital after being seen by her own doctor at a clinic in the town.
In a rare interview to a New York newspaper last year, Hepburn denied occasional rumours that her health was failing and that she was bed-ridden.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/film/newsid_1447000/1447112.stm   (396 words)

  
 CNN.com - A new role for Capt. Janeway - Apr. 9, 2003
Hepburn has returned home from California after being labeled "box-office poison" by theater owners because of a series of flops that followed a 1933 Oscar for her role in "Morning Glory." In the latest blow, she learns that she has lost the part of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" to Vivien Leigh.
It is during this act that Hepburn relates the painful story of having to cut down the body of her adored 15-year-old brother after he hanged himself.
She said one big difference between her and Hepburn, who never had children, is that the latter had a "myopic focus on her career" while Mulgrew said her own life has been enhanced by the choice to have a husband and children.
www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/09/leisure.hepburn.reut   (911 words)

  
 Katherine Hepburn Comes Alive
In the first act, 1938, Hepburn is shown in her country estate preparing her usual tea at five--emblem of the rich country squires of Connecticut.
Hepburn is portrayed as a spoiled rich brat, full of egotism, a consummate snob, and a self indulgent, self-involved, prima donna.
She captures very perfectly Hepburn's tremors, her creaking voice due to her illness, and, in a rather touching moment, recalls her brother's suicide and her father's refusal to acknowledge it.
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 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Katherine Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hepburn is clearly the superior choice for this award, on the strength of her body of work, alone.
Katharine Hepburn should get the award because she is the best actress ever (proved by her 4 academy award wins) and besides that she´s a real personality who was never afraid of speaking her piece and with that did so much for the generations of women to follow.
Yes, Katherine Hepburn was a real Lady and a GREAT actress, I am sure she will really be missed to the world and to all those that have enjoyed her movies and will still enjoy them.
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 Hollywood Loses Katharine Hepburn - Jun 29, 2003 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
Hepburn retired to her seaside retreat in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, in the late 1990s, only making headlines when various ailments--including arthritis and pneumonia--sent her to the nearby hospital in Hartford.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,12069,00.html?eol.tkr   (1235 words)

  
 Hollywood Iconography in Need of Some Biblical Idol Smashing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With the recent passing of actress Katherine Hepburn I take the risk of being accused of speaking ill of the dead in an attempt at understanding the way her death has been portrayed in a flood of media epitaphs.
The proof of their "accomplishment" is found in the multiple Hepburn obituaries where a relationship that could get you stoned to death — even still today in some countries — is integral to the remembrance of one of America’s grand dames of the stage and screen.
Hepburn for her talent and her contributions to the art of acting, but we have to regard her personal life as no cause for celebration.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film star Katharine Hepburn dies
Hepburn, who lived in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, had suffered various health problems in recent years, including Parkinson's disease.
Hepburn was born in Connecticut in 1907, one of six children.
In her private life, Hepburn was romantically linked to millionaire Howard Hughes, with whom she had a four-year affair.
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 Katharine Hepburn : Katherine Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was a notable American actress who was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
Educated at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Hepburn received her degree in 1928 and debuted on Broadway that same year in Night Hostess.
Hepburn won her first Academy Award in 1933 and won three more Oscars and eight nominations over the rest of her career.
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 USATODAY.com - Film icon Katharine Hepburn dies at 96   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
www.usatoday.com /life/2003-06-30-hepburn-cover_x.htm   (1822 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.
Katherine attended the Oxford School for Girls in Hartford, Connecticut, and then continued her education at Bryn Mawr in Philadelphia.
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 MovieFreak.Com - In Memoriam: Katherine Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, to me Hepburn will always be one of the grand dames of classic film and one of the main reasons I became so addicted to cinema.
Hepburn and Grant are simply wonderful together and the great Hawks holds things together with an assured and steady hand.
Hepburn and Henry Fonda both won their final Oscars for their performances here, while Henry’s daughter Jane also received a nomination for supporting actress.
www.moviefreak.com /features/memoriam_hepburn_a.htm   (1046 words)

  
 Katherine Hepburn Stories. Also Funny and Entertaining Audio Books About Walt Disney and Hollywood! Hear MP3 Samples!
Hepburn at one point was declared box office poison and thought her career would be saved by playing Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind, which she was willing to do for free.
Despite her liberalism, Katherine Hepburn mostly got on well her political opposites, including John Wayne, who kissed her on the lips and called her a "hell of a woman".
During dinner, her father Doc Hepburn and Kate got into a lively discussion as to what needed to be done by the rich to help the poor.
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 Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
Katherine Hepburn passed on a few weeks ago.  The Magi Society would like to express our deepest sympathies to her family and friends.
Hepburn was certainly unconventional so perhaps all those Cinderella ingredients did not really matter to her at all.
From such facts, the love relationship of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy was an example of both heartbreak and true love.  This is not unusual because when it comes to matters of love, it is not possible to have a heartbreak unless there was love, either real love or mistaken love.
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 The Cellar - Katherine Hepburn Dead at 96
She won an unequalled four Academy Awards, and was nominated for a total of 12 while starring in some of the greatest films of all time.
Hepburn was a liberated woman long before society began to accept the concept.
06-30-2003 06:33 PM Katherine Hepburn was great because she always played a woman with a sense of humor and a brain.
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 Turner Classic Movies - Movie News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 12, 1907, the second of six children to Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn, a noted urologist, and Katharine Houghton Hepburn, a suffragette who worked for women's voting rights and was an outspoken advocate for birth control.
Hepburn's biggest box office hits of the '40s were films co-starring Tracy: Cukor's Keeper of the Flame (1942); Harold Bucquet's underrated Without Love (1945); Elia Kazan's soapy melodrama Sea of Grass (1947); Frank Capra's political satire State of the Union (1948), and of course, Cukor's superb battle-of-the-sexes farce Adam's Rib (1949).
Hepburn is survived by a sister, Margaret Hepburn Perry; a brother, Dr. Robert Hepburn; and 13 nieces and nephews.
www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,32062,00.html   (691 words)

  
 Katherine Hepburn
Katherine Hepburn, the great luminary of stage and screen, left us on June 29th...2003.She was born on May 12, 1907, at 5:47 pm est, in Hartford, Connecticut.
In Hepburn's case it is the Sun/moon conjunction in the 7th house.
Ms Hepburn was born in the Year of the Sheep, the month of the Ox, the hour of the Rooster and the minute of the Ox.
www.acumind.com /News/khepburn.html   (698 words)

  
 CBC News:Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hepburn received Oscars for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), A Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).
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.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/06/29/hepburn_030629   (465 words)

  
 Katherine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn was born in 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Hepburn was a direct descendent of James Hepburn 4th Earl of Boswell.
Miss Hepburn was branded box office poison in the late thirties.
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