I was curious about this because I saw her in the 1957 movie "Desk Set".

She was born in 1907, so she was age 50 when this was filmed. I thought she had a "smokers face", though I don't think she appeared smoking in any film I had seen; e.g., African Queen.

So I researched this- she was indeed a smoker, though she may have quit before her death at age 96.

There is at least 1 photo on the internet of her holding a cigarette, not from a film.

Towards the end of her life it is mentioned that she was in failing health, though I saw no details available about that.

After many years of smoking, it is well accepted that this has a very detrimental effect on a person's appearance, especially in the face.

Kate was married only once, to Luddy Ogden Smith

Katharine [note the correct spelling of her first name] Hepburn did not have a life-long sexual attraction to other females. Her 45 year romantic affair with Spencer Tracy, as well as her much shorter dalliance with Howard Hughes, should make that obvious.

Close associate William Mann, in a publicity tour for his book, stated the following in an interview:

Q: "You say that, after some of these terrible breakups she had with the men in her life, you say, 'She would retreat to the comforting embrace of the community of women.' Did she have serious female romances?"

WM: "Absolutely. But at the same time, sex itself was never a real defining aspect of any relationship in her life, whether with men or with women. It was really about, for her, she found she preferred the companionship of women and the nurturance of women, but her great passions, even if they didn't include sex, were always reserved for men."

Katherine Hepburn trained intensively with a pianist so that she could be filmed playing the piano for the 1947 M-G-M release, SONG OF LOVE, portraying the wife of famous composer Robert Shumann. A couple of years later (1949), she again played the piano onscreen in the now classic, ADAM'S RIB, for the same studio.

She was 5 foot 7.

Hepburn & Tracy made 9 movies together from 1942 thru 1967.

Woman of the Year (1942)

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Without Love (1945)

The Sea of Grass (1946)

State of the Union (1948)

Adam's Rib (1949)

Pat & Mike (1952)

Desk Set (1957)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Amelia Earhart never had a baby, she married and then almost right away went on a flight. I took 6 proposals for her to marry.
I assume you are referring to Amelia Earhart Putnam. As far as it is known she never had biological children. There were persistent rumors she may have adopted a boy child, who claimed to be the foster son of the Aviatrix. At the time of her disappearance she had been divorced from George Palmer Putnam, so was a divorcee, hardly an ideal foster-mother candidate.

Woman of the Year

"Rooster Cogburn" was the movie Duke and Kate Hepburn were in together.

Katharine Hepburn was a movie and stage actress. She won three or four Oscars or academy award ( Marilyn and Jayne never won one) she entertained a lot of people in generally Highbrow roles, such as female lawyers even science fiction types-one film was a sci-fi comedy about war-industry types quite different from Rosie The Riveter! It had something to do with some sort of hazard-reduction helmet and was played as a serio-comedy about a war-industries lab or plant. -Which was totally unlike M.W.Kelloggs!

According to a 2003 piece in The New York Times, Hepburn had a "progressive yet treatable neurological disorder called essential tremor." Her ailment, which used to be called palsy, was inherited.

Katherine Heigl is 5' 9" (1.75 m)

Yes she had brothers, Tom, Bob, and Richard. Tom was Kates' older brother who died by commiting suicide by hanging himself in their grandmothers attic ( though Kate who found him said that she beliieved it was an accident when he was trying to perform a trick their father had tought them. Bob followed in their fathers footsteps and was a doctor. Richard a playwright lived with his sister at the end of his life and died at the age of 89years old. Shortly before his sister Kate, who was 93 at the time of his death, died.

For her full filmography, you can go to this link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/
She won Oscars for her performances in Morning Glory, Guess who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter (tie with Barbra Streisand), & On Golden Pond.

On March 16, 1934, Katharine Hepburn won her first Academy Award for the 1932/33 film "Morning Glory" when she was 26 years old. She would not win again until the late 1960s when she earned back-to-back Best Actress honors for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) and "The Lion in Winter" (1968). She won her final Best Actress Award for the 1981 film "On Golden Pond."

LiNDHURST HiGH SCHOOL

No, but Katharine Hepburn did have a niece Katharine Houghton who played Hepburn's daughter in the1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Katharine Houghton and Katherine Ross are roughly the same age and look a bit alike. As a result, they have been confused with each other.

Katherine Hepburn was married only once to Ludlow Ogden Smith.

Even after their divorce, he remained quite attached to her family (much like Cary Grant's character in The Philadelphia Story, which was loosely based on Hepburn's family).

She was devoted to her partner Spencer Tracy for over 25 years. They never married as his wife would never grant him a divorce.

She never had children.

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She is not listed in the cast, and I do not recall seeing her in that film. She is my favorite actress, and this is one of my all-time favorite films, so I can't imagine having missed her on-screen.

I have wondered this for years. The actress at the beginning of the movie at the premiere is a girl being held back by two policeman. She is a dead ringer for Katherine Hepburn, yet I cannot find anything conclusive online that gives a direct yes to this question. In my opinion and looking at photos of her from that year, it is her.

Katherine Hepburn

Directors: John Huston and Howard Hughes. She was married in the 1930's to a non-Hollywood type and divorced in Mexico and in U.S. from him by 1942.