Katharine Hepburn
Born May 12, 1907, in Hartford, Conn., Katharine Hepburn was the second of six children of a surgeon and a suffragette. She began acting on Broadway soon after her 1928 graduation from Bryn Mawr.

The iconoclastic legend made her film debut in A Bill of Divorcement (1933) and won her first of a record four Oscars with her third picture, Morning Glory. Her subsequent wins were for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond. Hepburn was nominated a total of 12 times, another record unbroken until 2003 (by Meryl Streep).

Her many successes include The African Queen and three films with Cary Grant (Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, Philadelphia Story). Woman of the Year (1942) teamed her for the first of nine times with Spencer Tracy, with whom she had a 27-year off-screen relationship. Hepburn's final film was 1994's Love Affair; she died on June 29, 2003, at age 96.

Featured Movies
  • The Philadelphia StoryThe Philadelphia Story

    Socialite Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) prepares to remarry, but her ex (Cary Grant) and a tabloid reporter (Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner James Stewart) have other ideas as they converge on her home for a fateful visit. The three stars form an incomparable trio in one of the most tantalizing... Read More

  • Bringing Up BabyBringing Up Baby

    Love runs wild for a hapless scientist and an unstoppable heiress in Howard Hawks's classic screwball comedy that ranks high on the American Film Institute's list of the funniest Hollywood films ever made. With her eye on paleontologist David (Cary Grant), heiress Susan (Katharine Hepburn) lures him... Read More

  • HolidayHoliday

    Engaged to wealthy Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), freethinker Johnny Case (Cary Grant) discovers that her family wants to remake him into their idea of the perfect son-in-law -- and he's beginning to consider compromising his values. But as he gets to know Julia's headstrong sister (Katharine Hepburn),... Read More

  • On Golden PondOn Golden Pond

    Henry Fonda -- in his final role -- plays peevish retired professor Norman Thayer, who's making his yearly excursion with his wife to their idyllic summerhouse. But a hostile teen left in their care short-circuits the couple's tranquility. Read More

  • Woman of the YearWoman of the Year

    In this Oscar-winning romance, newspaper colleagues Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) and Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) -- he a brash sportswriter, she a headstrong political columnist -- trade barbs in print, then meet, fall in love and walk down the aisle. But balancing work and marriage turns out to... Read More

All Katharine Hepburn Movies
Broadway's Lost Treasures II (2004)
NR
Hidden Hollywood (1997)
NR
Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms (1996)
NR
One Christmas (1994)
NR
Love Affair (1994)
PG-13
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
NR
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
NR
The Spencer Tracy Legacy (1986)
NR
On Golden Pond (1981)
PG
The Corn Is Green (1978)
NR
Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978)
G
That's Entertainment 2 (1976)
G
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
PG
The Glass Menagerie (1973)
Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie
PG
A Delicate Balance (1973)
PG
The Trojan Women (1971)
NR
The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats (1971)
NR
Directed by John Ford (1971)
NR
The Lion in Winter (1968)
PG
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
NR
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
NR
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
NR
Desk Set (1957)
NR
The Rainmaker (1956)
NR
Summertime (1955)
Summer Madness
NR
Pat and Mike (1952)
NR
The African Queen (1951)
NR
Adam's Rib (1949)
NR
State of the Union (1948)
NR
The Sea of Grass (1947)
NR
Undercurrent (1946)
NR
Without Love (1945)
NR
Dragon Seed (1944)
NR
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
NR
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
NR
Woman of the Year (1942)
NR
World War II: Homefront: Vol. 1 (1941)
NR
WWII: War on the Homefront (1941)
NR
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
NR
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
(Bonus materials available separately)
NR
Holiday (1938)
NR
Stage Door (1937)
NR
Mary of Scotland (1936)
NR
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
NR
Alice Adams (1935)
NR
Little Women (1933)
NR
Morning Glory (1933)
NR

 
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