Hollywood has created and presented many stars over the years, but only the greatest of them become legends. Among the legends, there have been great beauties and great talents, but none of them can really be said to be in the league of Katharine Hepburn, for she is a lady in a class by herself. Hers is the most distinguished career in the history of movies.
Born in Connecticut, Kate Hepburn set out at an early age to become the finest actress in the business. Following a number of appearances on the theatrical stage, she headed for Hollywood, and in 1932 landed her first film role, in A Bill of Divorcement, opposite John Barrymore. The following year she portrayed an aspiring actress in Morning Glory, for which she won her first Academy Award as Best Actress. That triumph was followed by Little Women, 1933, Alice Adams, 1935, Stage Door, 1936, and other light romances and melodramas, culminating in three classic comedies made with Cary Grant: Bringing Up Baby, 1937, Holiday, 1938, and The Philadelphia Story, 1940, in which James Stewart costarred.
In the next year she played Woman of the Year, which initiated a long costarring association with Spencer Tracy, with whom she would complete Keeper of the Flame, 1943, Without Love, 1945, State of the Union, 1948, Adam's Rib, 1949, Pat and Mike, 1952, and The Desk Set, 1957. The 1950s also saw memorable performances with other leading men, such as Humphery Bogart in The African Queen, 1951, Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker, 1956, and Montgomery Clift in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, 1958, costarring Elizabeth Taylor.
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