[1] William J. Mann, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn (2006). Discussion of this biography appears in "Too Hepburn for Hollywood", Vanity Fair, October 2006, and also, Michael Rowe, "Katharine Hepburn: Leading Man", The Advocate, 20 November 2006, quoting Mann: "The reviews in the UK asked why I didn't just come out and say she was bisexual... They didn't understand why I didn't use that term. It's because I don't think it tells us enough about Katharine Hepburn. You can describe her activity as bisexual, but she certainly would never have thought of herself in those terms."
Father: Thomas Hepburn (doctor)
Mother: Katharine Houghton (cofounded Planned Parenthood, d. 1951)
Brother: Tom (d. at age 14, accidental hanging)
Boyfriend: Howard Hughes (ex-)
Husband: Ludlow Ogden Smith (m. 12-Dec-1928, div. 1934)
Boyfriend: Spencer Tracy (dated 1940-67, until his death)
Boyfriend: John Ford (mid-1930s)
University: BA History and Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (1928)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
RKO Radio Pictures under contract
Planned Parenthood
Oscar for Best Actress 1934 for Morning Glory
Oscar for Best Actress 1968 for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Oscar for Best Actress 1969 for The Lion in Winter
Oscar for Best Actress 1982 for On Golden Pond
Emmy 1975 for Love Among the Ruins
Kennedy Center Honor 1990
Hollywood Walk of Fame 6288 Hollywood Blvd.
Margaret Sanger Award 1983
Houghton Family
Appendectomy
Hip Replacement Surgery
Risk Factors: Smoking
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Love Affair (21-Oct-1994)
The Man Upstairs (6-Dec-1992)
Laura Lansing Slept Here (7-Mar-1988)
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (30-Mar-1986)
Grace Quigley (1984)
On Golden Pond (4-Dec-1981)
The Corn Is Green (29-Jan-1979)
Rooster Cogburn (17-Oct-1975)
Love Among the Ruins (6-Mar-1975)
The Glass Menagerie (16-Dec-1973)
A Delicate Balance (10-Dec-1973)
The Trojan Women (27-Sep-1971)
The Madwoman of Chaillot (12-Oct-1969)
The Lion in Winter (30-Oct-1968)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (11-Dec-1967)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (9-Oct-1962)
Suddenly, Last Summer (22-Dec-1959)
Desk Set (1-May-1957)
The Rainmaker (13-Dec-1956)
The Iron Petticoat (12-Dec-1956)
Summertime (21-Jun-1955)
Pat and Mike (13-Jun-1952)
The African Queen (23-Dec-1951)
Adam's Rib (18-Nov-1949)
State of the Union (30-Apr-1948)
Song of Love (Oct-1947)
The Sea of Grass (27-Feb-1947)
Undercurrent (28-Nov-1946)
Without Love (22-Mar-1945)
Dragon Seed (18-Jul-1944)
Stage Door Canteen (24-Jun-1943) Herself
Keeper of the Flame (Dec-1942)
Woman of the Year (19-Jan-1942)
The Philadelphia Story (1-Dec-1940)
Holiday (15-Jun-1938)
Bringing Up Baby (18-Feb-1938)
Stage Door (8-Oct-1937)
Quality Street (26-Mar-1937)
Mary of Scotland (28-Jul-1936)
Sylvia Scarlett (12-Dec-1935)
Alice Adams (14-Aug-1935)
The Little Minister (28-Dec-1934)
Spitfire (8-Mar-1934)
Little Women (16-Nov-1933)
Morning Glory (16-Aug-1933)
Christopher Strong (9-Mar-1933)
A Bill of Divorcement (30-Sep-1932)
Appears on the cover of:
Entertainment Weekly, 11-Jul-2003, DETAILS: Katharine Hepburn 1907-2003 (black and white studio headshot from Long Day's Journey Into Night, 1961)
AKA Katharine Houghton Hepburn
