The Life of Katharine Hepburn
In’07 Katharina Houghton Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut to a mother who was a feminist as well as suffragist and a father who was a doctor leading the way in STD prevention. Katharine Hepburn is considered the best actress in the world by many and while she many longer be with us today, she is still loved.
Her parents were free spirits and because of this Katharine as well as her 5 siblings were able to enjoy the freedom to be themselves while growing up. This of course was very helpful for developing her acting abilities at a young age. However childhood went by quickly and before she knew it, she was attending Bryn Mawr College where she met Ludlow Smith and married him after gradation.
Unfortunately as most things are, her marriage ended in’34 by divorce. However, it is the experiences in life that made Katharine who she was. During attendance at Bryn Mawr, she also took an active role in the performing arts and even managed to appear in several Maryland productions. Shortly after graduation she moved in to the Broadway scene with her first appearance being in the musical The Big Pond.
In’32, Katharine got her big break while playing in the Broadway Musical The Warrior’s Husband. This show led to a screen test which then led to her first role in the movie A Bill of Divorcement that year. Because of this film she was the most sought after actress in Hollywood and by’33 for her role in the movie Morning Glory (a movie you can still rent today at dvd rental – Netflex), she would receive her first Academy Award.
Of course she missed Broadway so at the end of’33 she returned to appear in the musical The Lake, but unfortunately this turned out to be a big mistake because it was not received well. She finally decided to return to Hollywood in’35, but because of the Broadway flop and her time gone, she was not able to land anything good.
Her luck got better in’38 with the movie The Philadelphia Story. She would later get the rights to the film so that she could make it into a Broadway Musical. For the rest of her life, she continued entertaining audiences on the bi screen as well as on Broadway and for the work she won many different awards including the Lifetime Achievement Awards. She would appear in her last movie as a guest in’94 before passing away in 2003 at the age of 96 years old.
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