Katharine Hepburn was born
in Hartford, Connecticut in 1907. She won four Academy Awards for best
actress. She could have been a great middleweight bodybuilder. She was
quick, strong and ripped. She could have competed as a wrestler or gymnast.
She had a life long affair with the actor Spencer Tracy who was married.
She was ahead of her time in being aggressive, beautiful, glamorous and
very powerful all at once. Educated at Bryn Mawr College, she scored her
first stage success in The Warrior's Husband on Broadway in 1932. She starred
in the motion-picture version of The Philadelphia Story (1940) and Morning
Glory in 1933 for which picture she received her first Academy Award. Other
films included Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), and
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner for which she won her second Academy Award
in 1962. She shared an Academy Award with Barbra Streisand for The Lion
in Winter in 1968. Her later films include Rooster Cogburn with John Wayne
in 1975, and On Golden Pond in 1981, for which she won her fourth
Academy Award.
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