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Katherine Hepburns birth
Katherine Hepburn was born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. She was known as a women who was independent and had a strong spirited personality. -
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Katherines marriage
Katherine was married to Ludlow Ogden Smith for 6 years who she met in college. This was her first and only marrige. -
Hepburn becomes a star
Hepburn started out in small roles on broadway. She always attracted attention in these parts. She broke stardom when she took the role in the play A Warrior's Husband,1932. This starring role made many film offers come to be. All of rising fame lead to her first film, A Bill of Divorcement, 1932. The film was a hit and RKO signed her to a contract. She asked RKO for a fee of $1500 a week. She thought that they would turn her down, but after they saw her screen test, they granted her the money. -
First Oscar
In 1934, Katherine won her first Oscar, for leading actress, for her performance in Morning Glory. However, Katherine did not attend the oscars to accept her award. She was not fond of award ceremonies, she never attend any of the ceremonies, for all 12 of her nominations. -
Returns to Broadway
Stories started to leak out about how Katherine off camera would never wear makeup or dress up and how she would not play Hollywood's games. She returned to broadway in 1934 to star in The Lake, but the play was a flop because the critics and the audience did not like it. -
Hepburns flops
After broadway not working out, Hepburn went back to Hollywood but did not have very much success. In the time between 1935-1938, she made many movies that did not turn out well, including break of hearts, which was her biggest flop. Due to all of the movies that were not successful, she was named "box office poison". -
Makes a come back
In 1938, Hepburn went back to broadway because of all of her flops in Hollywood. She started in the broadway play The Philadelphia Story. It was a huge hit. She started getting movie offers again and then she made the film version of The Philadelphia Story, which became a box office hit. She got her third oscar nomination for this movie. -
Hepburn and Tracey
In 1942, the movie The Women of the year came out. It started Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The chemistry onscreen and offscreen lasted for 25 years. They made 8 more movies in that time period. Her life and career were based around her love affair with him, which created one of the best movie pairs of their day. He stayed married throughout all of this time to his wife, however, Hepburn and him lived together for the next 27 years until he died in 1967. -
Hepburn breaks a record for the oscars
At the oscars in 1969, Katherine won an oscar for leading actress for her role in The Lion in the Winter. That year, she became the third person to win consecutive awards and also became the first person to win three awards in lead roles. -
Katherine Hepburn goes to the oscars
Katherine Hepburn attended the oscars for the first time in 1974, to give the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to her friend Lawrence Weingarten. She said, “I’m living proof that a person can wait 41 years to be unselfish.” -
Autobiography
At the age of 84, she wrote her own autobiography, called “Me” which was released in 1991. In the book, she explains all the details of her life and why she decided to write a book about herself even though she always kept her life private. In 1993, she made a documentary about her life and called it Katharine Hepburn: All About Me. -
Her last movies
The last feature film she was in was Love Affair with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening and the last movie she every made was a tv movie One Christmas. -
Her death
Hepburn died June 29, 2003 in Fenwick, Connecticut, United States.
