Katharine Hepburn

1907 – 2003

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress whose six-decade screen career produced four Academy Awards for Best Actress—Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond—a record that still stands. The American Film Institute named her the greatest female screen legend of classical Hollywood cinema in 1999. Famously independent in her personal life and professional choices, she famously refused ever to attend the Oscar ceremonies that named her a winner.

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