Katharine Hepburn

Real name: Katherine Hounghton Hepburn
Nick name: First Lady of Cinema
Date of birth: 12 May 1907
Place of birth: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Height: 5' 7?
Weight: Unknown (update information →)
Father: Unknown (update information →)
Mother: Unknown (update information →)
Fan mail: Unknown (update information →)
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Education: Hartford School for Girls in Hartford, Connecticut
Profession: actress, writer
Eyes color: Unknown (update information →)
Natural hair color: Unknown (update information →)
Astrology Sign: Taurus
Residence: Unknown (update information →)

Katharine Hepburn quotes

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.... (more Katharine Hepburn quotes)

Katharine Hepburn trivia

Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1928, with a degree in history and philosophy.

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 Audrey Hepburn. [September 1999]

She never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was Spencer Tracy's last film.

Ranked #1 woman i... (more Katharine Hepburn trivia)

Katharine Hepburn filmography

Quality Street
Phoebe and Susan Throssel are sisters living in Quality Street. Phoebe is courted by Dr. Valentine Brown and her sister and noisy neighbors expect a proposal shortly. When he instead enlists in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars claiming he has no 'sweetheart', the two sisters are crushed. ...

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Joey Drayton brings her fianc?, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered,...

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A Delicate Balance
The setting is the comfortable Connecticut home of a well-to-do family. Agnes is a determined, powerful woman who feels she must hold her husband together and present a brave face to the world. Her husband, Tobias, is both retired and retiring, a man who cannot quite face up to life. Living with the...

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Books about Katharine Hepburn

At Home With Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household book cover At Home With Kate: Growing Up in Katharine Hepburn's Household
by Eileen Considine-Meara

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Affair to Remember, An: The Remarkable Love Story Of Katharine Hepburn And Spencer Tracy book cover Affair to Remember, An: The Remarkable Love Story Of Katharine Hepburn And Spencer Tracy
by Christopher Andersen

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Katharine Hepburn Once Said...: Great Lines to Live By book cover Katharine Hepburn Once Said...: Great Lines to Live By
by Susan Crimp

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Katharine Hepburn DVDs

Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979]) dvd cover Katharine Hepburn Collection (Morning Glory / Undercurrent / Sylvia Scarlett / Without Love / Dragon Seed / The Corn Is Green [1979])
~ Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Adolphe Menjou

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African Queen [Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn] dvd cover African Queen [Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn]

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SONG OF LOVE with Katharine Hepburn (Sonata de Amor) (High Quality Import Edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America) dvd cover SONG OF LOVE with Katharine Hepburn (Sonata de Amor) (High Quality Import Edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America)

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Mary of Scotland - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March & Directed by JOHN FORD dvd cover Mary of Scotland - Authentic Region 1 DVD from Warner Brothers starring Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March & Directed by JOHN FORD

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Katharine Hepburn: Film Collection dvd cover Katharine Hepburn: Film Collection
~ Katharine Hepburn

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