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Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907–2003), four-time Academy Award-winning actress, and named the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. Margaret Perry (1920–2006), librarian [1] Amo Houghton (1926–2020), former CEO of Corning Glass and former U.S. Representative from New York (1987–2005)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women.
Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (February 2, 1878 – March 17, 1951) was an American feminist social reformer and a leader of the suffrage movement in the United States. Hepburn served as president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association before joining the National Woman's Party . [ 1 ]
Marion Houghton Grant (née Hepburn; April 24, 1918 – August 1, 1986) was an American historian, writer, and activist. She was the daughter of feminist Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn and the sister of actress Katharine Hepburn. Her daughter Katharine Houghton and granddaughter Schuyler Grant are actresses.
Katharine Hepburn wears pants on the set of the 1939 broadway hit "Philadelphia Story." The show's success would see her cast in the same role for a movie adaptation released the next year ...
The grave of Katharine Hepburn. Family plot of Yung Wing, the first Chinese graduate of an American university, Yale. General Stedman Monument, sculpted by John M. Moffit. Weidenman family headstone. Horace Wells monument (1909), Louis Potter, sculptor.
Katharine Hepburn was nothing if not passionate, and one of her fiercest attachments was to Fenwick, her estate on the water in Old Saybrook, Conn. From 1939, when the Hepburn family built it, to ...
Hepburn, who died in 2003 at age 96, famously had a long-term relationship with her nine-time costar Spencer Tracy, from 1941 until his death in 1967 at age 67.