A Short Bio of Katharine Hepburn
It was May 12th of’07 when Katharine Hepburn was born. Her parents had named her Katharina Houghton Hepburn but she changed the final “a” to and “e” as her stage name. She had a very good upbringing seeing as though her mother was a suffragist and her father was a doctor. Today she is considered to be perhaps one of the best actresses of all time.
Katharine’s parents allowed her and her five siblings to enjoy their childhood freely and as such this helped with the development of her acting skills early on in life. While she never did any acting in childhood, she would one day become the greatest. She graduated from the Bryn Mawr College in’28 which after she would marry Ludlow Smith whom she met while attending the school.
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.
It would not be until’32 that Katharine Hepburn would receive her first real break in the musical The Warrior’s Husband. Her performance was seen by a number of big names which ultimately led to her first screen test which landed her a role in A Bill of Divorcement which was released later that year. The following year she would receive her first Academy Award for her role in Morning Glory (a movie that is still available today at Netflex Movies).
Missing the Broadway scene, Katharine made her way back to New York in’33 to appear in The Lake. Unfortunately this was not taken well by both the critics and the audience. She did not return to movies until’35 which because of the flopped Broadway musical and her lengthy hiatus, finding a good gig was hard to come by.
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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