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The great Kate Morning Glory Black and white portrait of Katharine Hepburn, looking slightly to the side with a serious expression, wearing a dark garment with a textured, light-colored trim. Katharine Hepburn, seated at the center, smiles while talking with two men at a table in a scene from the 1933 film Christopher Strong. Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance holds a rope and stands beside Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley, both looking intently ahead in a forest scene from Bringing Up Baby. Cary Grant as Dr. David Huxley sits on stairs in a woman's dressing gown with his face in his hands, while Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance and May Robson as Aunt Elizabeth stand nearby; a dog is in the foreground. James Stewart, Cary Grant, and Katharine Hepburn stand at the front of a crowded wedding scene in The Philadelphia Story, with a minister facing them. George Cukor: The Philadelphia Story The African Queen Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, as their characters in The African Queen, prepare a homemade bomb while sitting in a small boat surrounded by tall reeds.
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Katharine Hepburn: References & Edit History

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Homer Dickens, The Films of Katharine Hepburn, rev. and updated by Lawrence J. Quirk (1990); Gary Carey, Katharine Hepburn: A Biography (1975); Barbara Leaming, Katharine Hepburn (1995, reissued 2000).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: U.S. History - Katharine Hepburn. Sep 18, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 25, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 08, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Overnights - Katherine Hepburn. Oct 22, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Great Lives - Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn. Apr 21, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 12, 2025
Add new Web site: CNN Style - Remember when Katharine Hepburn wore pants and scandalized America? Dec 17, 2024
Add new Web site: ConnecticutHistory.org - Katharine Hepburn�s Love Affair. Oct 21, 2024
Added head levels and cross-references. Sep 12, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Katharine Hepburn�s 20 best films � ranked! Sep 09, 2024
Link added. Jul 23, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Senses of Cinema - Absolute Definition: Katharine Hepburn. Mar 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Katharine Hepburn. Apr 18, 2022
Add new Web site: LiveAbout - Katharine Hepburn Biography: Classic Hollywood's Independent Star. Feb 14, 2021
Noted that she won a Kennedy Center Honor in 1990. Jan 23, 2020
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Katharine Hepburn, Spirited Actress, Dies at 96. Jan 06, 2017
Article revised and updated. Dec 15, 2016
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Katharine Hepburn. Mar 03, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMovie - Biography of Katharine Hepburn. Mar 08, 2013
Add new Web site: U.S. History - Katharine Hepburn. Mar 08, 2013
Add new Web site: Matinee Classics - Biography of Katharine Hepburn. Mar 08, 2013
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003. Mar 08, 2013
Added photograph. May 09, 2011
Media added. Dec 21, 2006
Added new Web site: Reel Classics - Biography of Katharine Hepburn. Aug 30, 2006
Article revised. Sep 12, 2003
Article revised. Apr 17, 2003
Article revised. Feb 16, 2001
Article revised. Dec 17, 1999
Article added to new online database. Oct 01, 1999
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