Katharine Hepburn was far more than an iconic movie star who won four
Academy Awards for best actress (the most ever) and made classic films -
The African Queen, The Philadelphia Story, and Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner - that still rank among the greatest of all time. She also
exerted a singular influence on American popular culture, challenging
rigid assumptions about how women should behave - and almost
single-handedly gave them permission to wear pants.
The list of
adjectives used to describe Hepburn - bold, stubborn, witty, beautiful -
only begin to hint at the complex woman who entranced audiences around
the world (she could also be controlling, selfish, and self-righteous).
So here is the full, epic story of "the patron saint of the independent
American female," as one critic described her - from her breakthrough in
Hollywood in the early 1930s to On Golden Pond in the 1980s to her
dramatic affairs with Howard Hughes and Spencer Tracy and beyond. With
her distinctive, patrician voice and tsunami-force personality, Hepburn
always lived life strictly on her own terms. And oh, what a life it was.
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