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In a month-long look at Power of Conscience characters, today we celebrate Katharine Hepburn. Most of her roles were feisty, strong-minded women who wanted fairness, equality, and justice as they battled a society they were convinced was wrong!<\/p>\n
This is from Wikipedia–<\/p>\n
Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from\u00a0screwball comedy<\/a>\u00a0to literary drama, and she received four\u00a0Academy Awards<\/a>\u2014a record for any performer\u2014for\u00a0Best Actress<\/a>. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the\u00a0American Film Institute<\/a>\u00a0as the\u00a0greatest female star<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Classic Hollywood Cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n Raised in\u00a0Connecticut<\/a>\u00a0by wealthy,\u00a0progressive<\/a>\u00a0parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at\u00a0Bryn Mawr College<\/a>. After four years in the theatre, favorable reviews of her work on\u00a0Broadway<\/a>\u00a0brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in the film industry were marked with success, including an Academy Award for her third picture,\u00a0Morning Glory<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures that led her to be labeled “box office poison” in 1938. Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying out\u00a0her contract<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0RKO Radio Pictures<\/a>\u00a0and acquiring the film rights to\u00a0The Philadelphia Story<\/a><\/i>, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. In the 1940s, she was contracted to\u00a0Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<\/a>, where her career focused on an alliance with\u00a0Spencer Tracy<\/a>. The screen-partnership spanned 25 years and produced nine movies. \u00a0Full Article HERE<\/a><\/p>\n Katherine Hepburn was famous for her prim and proper romantic comedy Power of Conscience roles including: Rose Sayer in The African Queen<\/strong>; Amanda Bonner in Adam\u2019s Rib<\/strong>; and Eula Goodnight in Rooster Coburn<\/strong>. She often played high society ladies who could be characterized as snooty, judgmental, and argumentative women, who were thought to be “too big for their britches.” \u00a0Watch her go at Carey Grant and Spencer Tracey below<\/p>\n