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Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003:
Screen legend Katharine Hepburn was branded "box-office poison" in 1938, but--by sheer will and a shrewd business sense--refashioned herself into a cultural icon. She won the first of her record four Best Actress Oscars in 1933 for Morning Glory and made several popular films in the mid-1930s, including Little Women, but her subsequent choices like Christopher Strong and Sylvia Scarlett baffled her audience. Even such screwball comedies as Bringing Up Baby (1938) failed to renew her box-office popularity, and it wasn't until The Philadelphia Story (1940) that she was back on top. Hepburn partnered in nine films with Spencer Tracy, winning an Oscar for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She also won Oscars for The Lion in Winter and On Golden Pond. She received a Kennedy Center Honors award in 1990. This portrait by her friend Everett Raymond Kinstler was said to be her favorite.
Everett Raymond Kinstler, 1982 |