There are have been a few women in our history who personify strength and beauty with the same intensity.\u00a0 Katherine Hepburn was one of them.\u00a0 I don’t know many women who don’t hold her in highest esteem – she busted through a great many stereotypes and allowed women to forge their own paths and styles without question.\u00a0 Today is her birthday and I think it is worth reflecting on her wonderful presence in our culture.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s the birthday of actress Katharine Hepburn<\/a><\/strong>, (books by this actor<\/a>), born in Hartford, Connecticut (1907). She became a Hollywood star by not doing anything that Hollywood stars were supposed to do. Her looks were unconventional: she had red hair and freckles and sharp cheekbones. She didn’t wear make-up or dresses, she didn’t cooperate with the media, and she had a habit of insulting other people in the business. She played smart, sexy, independent women who were always able to get the guy in the end.<\/p>\n
She won her first Oscar for her role in Morning Glory<\/em> (1933). After that she hand-picked each of her movies, and she often had a say in who the other actors in the movie would be. Sometimes she rewrote her own lines, something almost no other actress would have dared to do at the time.<\/p>\n
In 1991, Hepburn published her autobiography, titled Me<\/em>, and it was a best-seller. She wrote about her twenty-seven-year affair with Spencer Tracy, her career, and life in her brownstone in the middle of Manhattan, where she lived for more than sixty years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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