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Katharine Hepburn's image would evolve again in the 1950s and 1960s, when the now-middle-aged Kate focused on diversifying her acting. She starred with the leading actors of the day, including Humphrey Bogart, Montgomery Clift, and Elizabeth Taylor, and appeared in roles that stretched from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams. Her last film with Spencer Tracy, the Oscar-winning Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), brought closure to that phase of her career.
From 1968 on, Kate embarked on a professional tour-de-force, teaming with John Wayne (in Rooster Cogburn in 1975) and winning her third and unprecedented fourth Best Actress Oscars for The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). She also starred in her first and only Broadway musical, Coco (1969), and did such made-for-television plays as Love Among the Ruins (1975), with Sir Laurence Olivier.
In her long and legendary life, Katharine Hepburn was a role model who resonated beyond the screen and across generations—feisty, fearless, and unapologetically self-centered. As she exclaimed to Dick Cavett in a 1973 interview: “I am absolutely fascinating!” And she was right. |
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Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn in "The Lion in Winter,"
Avco Embassy, 1968 Unidentified artist, 1968 Photo reproduction
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Core Production Stills Collection,
Beverly Hills, California |
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Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier in "Love Among the Ruins," ABC
Unidentified artist, 1975 Photo reproduction Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Performing Arts Non-Film Collection,
Beverly Hills, California |
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Katharine Hepburn and John Wayne in "Rooster Cogburn," Universal, 1975 Unidentified artist, 1975 Photo reproduction Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Special Collections Color Stills, Beverly
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Katharine Hepburn
Everett Raymond Kinstler (born 1926), 1982
Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Everett Raymond Kinstler
© 1982 Everett Raymond Kinstler |
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