With her health declining she retired from public life in the mid-nineties. She was always distant and independent from her family, her younger siblings referred to her as "Aunt Kat". She finally broke into stardom when she took the starring role of the Amazon princess Antiope in "A Warrior's Husband" (1932). She was nearly decapitated by an aeroplane propeller when she was rushing about an airport, avoiding the press. You know. Their films included the very successful Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957).With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. I thought it was very romantic. Husband: Ludlow Ogden Smith (m. 12-Dec-1928, div. . She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars. Tommy Peter, Other Works Beginning with, Release of the book, "Kate Remembered" by, Release of the book, "At Home with Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household" by Eileen Considine-Meara, daughter of Norah Considine (Kate's longtime cook and housekeeper). And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable. When the Conference of Studio Unions, headed by suspected Communist Party member Herb Sorrell, launched a strike in 1946-1947 against the studios and fought other unions for control over Hollywood's collective bargaining, she expressed support for him (Sorrell was kidnapped, beaten, and left for dead, during the strike, possibly by the Mafia, which up until the early 1940s, had controlled the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which was contesting the CSU for jurisdiction over Hollywood unions.) From the period 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937); the many flops included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937) and the now-classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).With so many flops, she came to be labeled "box-office poison." Hepburn lived in a brownstone (244 East 49th Street) which is close to the intersection. For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she received her ninth Oscar nomination. You know? [We] just passed 27 years together in what was to me absolute bliss.”. During what is argued by film historians to be the greatest year in classic American cinema, she was a rare star who did not appear in a film in 1939. Though an open secret in and around Hollywood, the relationship was kept under wraps by the studio system. It is well known that Spencer Tracy never divorced her due to his Catholic beliefs but Louise probably stayed because she had come from a broken home and probably didn’t want to put herself and her children through the same. In the spring of 1932, Ford met Kate Hepburn, then appearing on Broadway in The Warrior’s Husband, which Fox was interested in filming. An encouraged scholar and fiercely independent free-thinker from an early age, one childhood summer she cut her hair short and insisted on being called “Jimmy.” Tracy was born into a devout Catholic family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his father a truck salesman. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. She perfectly exhibited the aggressive energy and athleticism that the role required. [on good parts] If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. Her former maid, Emma Faust Tillman, held the title of "World's Oldest Person" for only four days (January 24-28, 2007). You see, we're *all* creatures of habit, and we get in a rut, and we run down that rut, happy as bugs. Three years after Katharine Houghton Hepburn moved to Hartford with her husband, she attended a lecture given by the prominent British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.The founder of the Women’s Franchise League, Pankhurst brought a message to Connecticut that justified the use of confrontational tactics to achieve women’s equality and suffrage. Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? ", Admitted that she was menstruating while making, On June 2004 Sotheby's auction house hosted a two-day estate sale auctioning personal belongings of the legendary actress to collectors. Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn) is an unmarried, middle-aged, self-described "fancy secretary" from Akron, Ohio on her summer vacation, enjoying her lifelong dream of a trip to Venice after having saved money for it over several years.On the vaporetto to her hotel, she meets two fellow Americans, Lloyd (MacDonald Parke) and Edith (Jane Rose) McIlhenny. 1932). The scene in which her character falls into the canal in, Survived the Great New England Hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938 while at her summer home in the Borough of Fenwick in Old Saybrook, CT. At my age, you don't get much variety - usually some old nut who's off her track. Whether the relationship was a cover to hide what was then considered improper or one of the greatest romantic unions on and off the big screen, the affection between Tracy and Hepburn existed until their deaths. Bottle" (1931). The marriage actually lasted about three weeks before the couple separated, but they were not divorced until 1934. We're sitting looking at a lot of filth. Hepburn had been married previously to Pennsylvania businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith … I never played with a sort of fancy accent of any kind. Genealogy profile for Katharine Hepburn. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior. Only, Her performance as "Eleanor of Aquitaine" in. I welcome death. That's what I've done. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. And this is me, and this is what I have to offer. “They were merely friends…. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it. | However, Hughes apparently hated Hepburn's beloved family home so much that the pair ended up going their separate ways. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. We had solid glass across the front and we would just watch people passing by. I'm an atheist, and that's it. Rumors about Hepburn’s and Tracy’s sexual orientation would circulate during their lives and continue to fuel media reports long after their deaths. [speaking in 1979] We must reform. Tracy was 41-years-old, Hepburn was 34 and said of the meeting she “knew right away that [she] found him irresistible.”. © 2021 Biography and the Biography logo are registered trademarks of A&E Television Networks, LLC. Two … A resident for most of her life of Manhattan's row of brownstone dwellings renowned as Turtle Bay Gardens, Hepburn lived in the four-story building at 244 East 49th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues). 1993] I have loved and been in love. The 700-plus items included Hepburn's furniture, jewelry (which included the platinum, diamond and sapphire brooch from one-time lover. And the camera never talks back to you. just new challenges. Born May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, both of whom always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. Because fame is something that's over back of you. Is in the Guinness World Records-book for "Most 'Best Actress' Oscars Won". It was not customary to say you were fatigued. A mercurial child with little interest in formal education, he found escape in the form of motion pictures. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going. They were rarely seen in public together, their separate homes helping to ensure Tracy’s wife would be protected, along with the interests of gossip-adverse studio heads fearful of audience backlash over the apparent infidelity that was in breach of the morality clauses big stars of the era were forced to sign. A love relationship as complicated as it was devoted, the bond between screen greats Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy stretched across three decades and nine films including Woman of the Year and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people. Tracy married actress Louise Treadwell in 1923 and the union produced two children, a son John (b. A strict Catholic, divorce was not and would never be an option for Tracy, who remained married to his wife throughout his life. Hepburn was the daughter of a respected Hartford, Connecticut surgeon and suffragist mother. Mann said that the man in … For her third, Morning Glory (1933), she won her first Academy Award. As of 2021, "Only Tie in Oscars For Best Actress". The Grammy winner and the reality star-turned-businesswoman first met in 2003 as friends and nearly a decade later transformed into a Hollywood power couple. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along. Katharine Hepburn It was during those years she met Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she married in 1928. Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself. Not at all. Is one of 9 actresses who have received an Academy Award nomination for portraying a real-life queen. And it was. | I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven. She has appeared in six films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The "Hepburn trousers" shown in the fashion sequence of. The future actress was … The show’s creators modeled the sitcom couple after the bantering and romantic relationship between the Hollywood icons. Katharine, who died at age 96 in 2003, was married just once — to Ludlow Smith, from 1928 to 1934. And the critics I think have lost their minds. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well find some way that is going to be interesting. I tried not to disturb him… I was happy to do this.”, Though devoted to Tracy, Hepburn continued to act, choosing roles that interested her more than fare guaranteed to be box office hits. She did attend Bryn Mawr College, where she decided to become an actress, appearing in many of their productions.After graduating, she began getting small roles in plays on Broadway and elsewhere. Eventually, Katharine’s breakout performance occurred with the Broadway run of The Warrior’s Husband. Why this is I do not know. She set the record straight in the 1993 TV documentary, Was a direct descendant of England's King John through one of his illegitimate children. I'm an atheist, and that's it. She was voted the "2nd Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly. Publicity Listings And what do you know. [October 1997]. According to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley's book "Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s", Hepburn was a leftist in her politics in the 1940s. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you. Then someone passes them. Received academy awards for her first as well as her final three nominations, with 34 years between her first and second win. Katharine Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist and a doctor who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. Most people, I figure, have a reservoir that you walk into town with your little box of goodies, you know. And you haven't got the brains to stop. It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot. Hepburn's record-setting affiliation with New York's legendary Radio City Music Hall will likely never be challenged. Just a year after her husband had met Katharine Hepburn, Louise was about to create her own enduring legacy. But she was more invested in her career than in the relationship, and by 1934 they were divorced. I couldn't be that way and carry on a movie career. [reflecting on her performances] I think I'm always the same. Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature. On the first day of filming 'On Golden Pond she gave Henry Fonda a Fedora hat which had belonged to Spencer Tracy. Hepburn, who once described Tracy as “tortured,” said that all she wanted was for him “to be happy, safe, comfortable. If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. [1993] In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. While filming Woman of the Year in 1942, she began an enduring intimate relationship with her costar, Spencer Tracy, with whom she would appear in films such as Adam’s Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952); both were directed by Cukor. And I don't know how we're going to reform. And you plow on and someone passes you. (Photo By Getty Images) Hepburn eventually talked about the affair in conversations with her biographer, A. Scott Berg. Did all her own stunts because the stunt woman never stood up straight enough. Richard Williams coached his daughters hard from a young age, setting the sisters up for domination in the sport for more than two decades. Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly? Of Jewish descent, she was a paternal great-granddaughter of a Jewish Christian whose name was Sewell Hepbron. I can remember walking as a child. After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by, One of her closest friends, Canadian portrait artist, Thought very highly of the acting talents of. READ MORE: How Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Inspired the Characters Sam and Diane From Cheers. Impressed by her eagerness, Knopf cast Hepburn in his current production, The Czarina. On work: Without discipline, there's no life at all. She was known for correcting those who spelled it wrong. I can't spit in your eye. Each of their six children were given Mrs. Hepburn's maiden name for their middle names. [2006], Is one of 14 Best Actress Oscar winners to have not accepted their Academy Award in person. Hepburn played King John's mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in, On American Film Institute's list of "Top 100 U.S. Love Stories," compiled in June 2002, Hepburn led all actresses with six of her films on the list. Reportedly she was there considering a marriage proposal by Howard Hughes. An athletic tomboy as a child, she was very close to her brother Tom; at 14 she was devastated to find him dead, the apparent result of accidentally hanging himself while practicing a hanging trick their father had taught them. Hepburn was born into a well-to-do New England family, the daughter of a prominent surgeon, Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, and his wife, Katharine Houghton, a … [on remaining childless] I had such a wonderful upbringing that I had a very high standard of how a father and mother should behave. My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. For many years after this, Katharine used his birthdate, November 8, a… I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win. Afraid of death? In the 2018 documentary Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood, Bowers claims to have slept with Tracy and procured female sex partners for Hepburn multiple times. Katherine Hepburn husband is socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith. If you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy and if you live for yourself then you will not be happy and you won't be able to sleep or do anything else. A scout for a Hollywood agent was in the crowd during Hepburn’s performance, and asked her to test for a part in the melodrama, A Bill of Divorcement. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself. One of Hollywood's early tall leading ladies, standing over 5' 7" in an era when most actresses were only a little over 5' 0". She made five films between 1932 and 1934. is the *only* thing that matters. People have grown fond of me, like some old building. Although she said she didn't believe in marriage, she portrayed many wives in marriages based on equality and respect. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" I worked in a storefront travel office across from Macy's on O'Farrell Street, a few blocks from the Curran. The pictures were later lost. At a Screen Writers Guild meeting during the CSU strike, She also made a speech which anti-communist, anti-CSU SAG activist, Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in. Life is full of censorship. Was named Best Classic Actress of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, just barely (21.5% to 20.6%) beating out runner-up, Ranked #1 woman in the AFI's "50 Greatest Movie Legends." After all, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. Katherine Hepburn net worth includes $30 million at the time of her death. Her four-day reign, which was certified by the Guinness World Records committee was also the shortest one on record. Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating. Although she never committed to her marriage with Ludlow Ogden Smith, and she admitted to treating him poorly, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. The inevitable film offers followed; after make a few screen tests, she was cast in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), opposite John Barrymore. She is a descendant of "Eleanor of Aquitaine", whom she portrayed in. Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 60s, as she devoted her time to her ailing partner Spencer Tracy. (She received her fourth Oscar nomination for the film.) She was an exceptional woman and this is her story. "We made you", they said. The others in chronological order are. 1934) Boyfriend: John Ford (film director, mid-1930s) Boyfriend: Spencer Tracy (actor, together 1940-67, until his death) Genealogy for Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 - 2003) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. (Actor. I don't know. The intersection of East 49th Street and Second Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City was renamed "Katharine Hepburn Place" shortly after her passing. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. In death there are no interviews! He married Katharine Hepburn in 1928; she was 21 and he was 29. Birth and pain and joy. It was fun. And you could change, change. Is one of only five thespians to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences over five decades: (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s). She died at 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. Hepburn was with Tracy when passed away in 1967, though she did not attend the funeral out of respect for his family and never publicly spoke of their relationship until after the death of Tracy’s wife Louise in 1983. When I tested for the movies, it was immediately a warm experience. Bell purchased it in 1986 for $2.9 million, according to Variety. We must reform. (The received explanation was that Tracy, a Catholic separated from his wife, shared the cottage with his lover, Katharine Hepburn.) The singers' 14-year marriage withstood hard-partying, allegations of physical abuse and infidelity. I don't fear the next world, or anything. If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them. On art: I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or they're because they're lucky. Exciting but not scary. There are no laurels in life . I liked to wait on him, listen to him, feed him, work for him. If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. The love and respect between the choreographer and dancer would endure infidelities and even death. As a side note I met Katharine Hepburn in San Francisco around Christmas in 1976 when she was performing in A Matter of Gravity at the Curran Theatre. Ludlow Ogden Smith was a Philadelphia businessman. The twice-married actors met when Wood was just a child star and endured a rollercoaster romance until her mysterious death. This last brought her her twelfth Oscar nomination and fourth win--the latter currently still a record for an actress.She made more TV-films in the 1980s, and wrote her autobiography, 'Me', in 1991. Hepburn did not accept any of her 4 wins (for, Was the 6th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for. [June 1999]. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. Hepburn and Tracy, Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times , "so beautifully complemented each other" that their relationship "never seemed to … That's all. Onscreen their chemistry was undeniable, and audiences flocked to their films to witness the staccato, quick-witted bantering and long, meaningful looks that spoke more than any lines of dialogue could represent. 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. … I would have done anything for him.” Lauren Bacall, who with her husband Humphrey Bogart were close friends with the couple, once wrote Hepburn was “blindingly” in love with Tracy. 1924), and a daughter Susie (b. Hepburn had been married in 1928 to the social and well-to-do Ludlow Ogden Smith, who had changed his name to Ogden Ludlow because she did not want to be Kate Smith. An early separation would end in reconciliation, but Tracy would continue to live much of his life in hotels and rented residences away from his wife and family. I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other. It must be that there is no audience, and no critics, in the immediate situation. For many years afterward, she used his November 8 birthdate as her own. She was criticized for her s… Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all. Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. Walked around the studio in her underwear in the early 1930s when the costume department stole her slacks from her dressing room. [1999], Desperately wanted to play the role of Alma Winemiller, which was eventually played by. They first met on the set of the comedy-drama Woman of the Year (1942), playing two journalists who fall in love and try to balance their personal lives with their commitment to their careers. The story of his wife and her magnificent life's work, championing the cause of education of deaf children is not so well known. Instead, she was on stage playing Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story," which proved to be her comeback after being branded as box-office poison. Three films of hers are on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time. From New York City nightclubs to the White House, the couple has survived the scrutiny of a union lived out in the tabloids. Time levels. She was voted the 14th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine. Interestingly, the two remained friends until his death in 1979. Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. If they have time to think. In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Pony", which aired on November 7, 1991, she was offered to guest voice the character of the aristocratic horse riding instructor, too which she declined. Scoring her first major Broadway success in The Warrior's Husband (1932), she was invited to Hollywood by RKO Radio Pictures. I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's. Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 20th century and is widely considered one of the greatest actresses to have ever existed in Hollywood. She decided to go back to Broadway to star in "The Philadelphia Story" (1938), and was rewarded with a smash. But their offscreen union would remain publicly unacknowledged throughout Tracy’s life as the couple maintained separate residences and never wed. “It was a unique feeling I had for [Tracy],” Hepburn wrote in her autobiography Me: Stories of My Life. “I can only say that I could never have left him. Was nominated 12 times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, and won four times. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other. - IMDb Mini Biography By: She always attracted attention, especially for her role in "Art and Mrs. Because they're kidding themselves into saying its a sort of intellectual past time. Starred in seven Oscar Best Picture nominees: Inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994. Tracy would never publicly acknowledge or articulate his feelings for Hepburn, a position that would only fuel the myths that would flourish around their relationship. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" Hepburn, her family and servants barely escaped with their lives: Soon after fleeing it on foot in the storm, her home was washed away along with her Oscar for her film. I just find this medium sympathetic, friendly. The film version of The Philadelphia Story (1940), was a box-office hit, and Hepburn, who won her third Oscar nomination for the film, was bankable again. [asked what star quality is] It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. A 1920 portrait of Katharine Houghton Hepburn, mother of the famed actress. [on marriage] It's bloody impractical. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. Filth being sold for too much. Often away on location, she helped encourage the idea that they were not a couple and lived completely separate lives. The "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" costars spent more than two decades hiding their status from the public. “I honestly don’t know,” she replied. Her name was Louise Treadwell. Though an open secret in and around Hollywood, the relationship was kept under wraps by the studio system. [Observation, 1967] I think they're beginning to think I'm not going to be around much longer. Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. When she returned to Hollywood, things didn't get much better. Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer. When you buy it, and it's great, you get *enormous* pleasure out of seeing it, and you never remember how much it cost. The film was a hit, and after agreeing to her salary demands, RKO signed her to a contract. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. READ MORE: How Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Inspired the Characters Sam and Diane From, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1928, with a degree in history and philosophy. I can't say I believe in prizes. On personal power: As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. “Everyone in Hollywood knows this is true,” he said. Here's the story about the on-set hookups, arguments and drug use that plagued the cast. They were not in the bed department at all,” according to Scotty Bowers, an ex-hustler and male “madam” to the stars of old Hollywood. Hepburn left university determined to become an actress. is really a terrible fallacy. Life is to be lived. A 1921 family portrait of Katharine Houghton Hepburn with her six children, with Katharine seated on the far left. The preponderance of that value came from her 7.17acre … Their chemistry would be captured in eight more films including Keeper of the Flame (1942), Adam’s Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Desk Set (1957) and their final appearance together in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). 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