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Biography

Born:12 May 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Death:29 June 2003, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA
Real Name:Katharine Houghton Hepburn
Nick Name:First Lady of Cinema
Spouse:
Ludlow Ogden Smith (12 December 1928 - 2 May 1934) (divorced)
Great lover: Spencer Tracy
Facts:
-The inevitable film offers followed, and after making a few screen tests, she was cast in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), opposite John Barrymore.
-She made five films between 1932 and 1934. For her third, Morning Glory (1933) she won her first Academy Award. Her fourth, Little Women (1933) was the most successful picture of its day.
-From the period 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937)
-A leading contender for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), she later served as Maid of Honor at Vivien Leigh's and Laurence Olivier's wedding.
-The film version of The Philadelphia Story (1940), was a box-office hit, and Hepburn, who won her third Oscar nomination for the film, was bankable again.
-For her next film, Woman of the Year (1942), she was paired with Spencer Tracy, and the chemistry between them lasted for eight more films, spanning the course of 25 years, and a romance that lasted that long off-screen. (She received her fourth Oscar nomination for the film.)
-Had a relationship with Spencer Tracy from 1943 until his death in 1967.
-Made nine films with Spencer Tracy, the first of which was Woman of the Year (1942).
-With The African Queen (1951), Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film.
-She played more of these types of roles throughout the 50s, and won more Oscar nominations for many of them, including her roles in Summertime (1955).
-For one of her film appearances in this decade, in Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), she received her ninth Oscar nomination.
-After a five-year absence from films, she then made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), her last film with Tracy and the last film Tracy ever made; he died just weeks after finishing it. It garnered Hepburn her tenth Oscar nomination and her second win. The next year, she did The Lion in Winter (1968), which brought her her eleventh Oscar nomination and third win.
-She never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was Spencer Tracy's last film.
-She still continued to make an occasional appearance in feature films, such as Rooster Cogburn (1975), with John Wayne, and On Golden Pond (1981), with Henry Fonda. This last brought her her twelfth Oscar nomination and fourth win - the latter currently still a record for an actress.
-She died at the age of 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
-Meryl Streep beat her in the number of Oscar nominations, when she received her 13th Oscar nod for Adaptation. (2002). However, Hepburn still reigns as the only 4-time Oscar recipient for acting.
-She was voted the "2nd Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.
-Was a self-confessed fan of John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.
-She was voted the 14th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.
-Was nominated 12 times for the Academy Award, all as Best Actress, winning three times.

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Filmography and Tribute

One Christmas (1994) (TV) .... Cornelia Beaumont
Love Affair (1994) .... Ginny
This Can't Be Love (1994) (TV) .... Marion Bennett
The Man Upstairs (1992) (TV) .... Victoria Brown
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988) (TV) .... Laura Lansing
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986) (TV) .... Margaret Delafield
Grace Quigley (1984) .... Grace Quigley
On Golden Pond (1981) .... Ethel Thayer
The Corn Is Green (1979) (TV) .... Miss Lilly Moffat
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978) .... Miss Pudd
Rooster Cogburn (1975) .... Eula
Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV) .... Jessica Medlicott
The Glass Menagerie (1973) (TV) .... Amanda Wingfield
A Delicate Balance (1973) .... Agnes
The Trojan Women (1971) .... Hecuba
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) .... Countess Aurelia
The Lion in Winter (1968) .... Eleanor of Aquitaine
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) .... Christina Drayton
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) .... Mary Tyrone
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) .... Mrs. Violet Venable
Desk Set (1957) .... Bunny Watson
The Rainmaker (1956) .... Lizzie Curry
The Iron Petticoat (1956) .... Captain Vinka Kovelenko
Summertime (1955) .... Jane Hudson
Pat and Mike (1952) .... Patricia 'Pat' Pemberton
The African Queen (1951) .... Rose Sayer
Adam's Rib (1949) .... Amanda Bonner
State of the Union (1948) .... Mary Matthews
Song of Love (1947) .... Clara Wieck Schumann
The Sea of Grass (1947) .... Lutie Cameron Brewton
Undercurrent (1946) .... Ann Hamilton
American Creed (1946) .... Narrator
Without Love (1945) .... Jamie Rowan
Dragon Seed (1944) .... Jade Tan
Keeper of the Flame (1942) .... Mrs. Christine Forrest
Woman of the Year (1942) .... Tess Harding
The Philadelphia Story (1940) .... Tracy Lord
Holiday (1938) .... Linda Seton
Bringing Up Baby (1938) .... Susan Vance
Stage Door (1937) .... Terry Randall
Quality Street (1937) .... Phoebe Throssel
A Woman Rebels (1936) .... Pamela 'Pam' Thistlewaite
Mary of Scotland (1936) .... Mary Queen of Scots
Sylvia Scarlett (1935) .... Sylvia Scarlett
Alice Adams (1935) .... Alice Adams
Break of Hearts (1935) .... Constance Dane Roberti
The Little Minister (1934) .... Barbara 'Babbie'
Spitfire (1934) .... Trigger Hicks
Little Women (1933) .... Jo
Morning Glory (1933) .... Eva Lovelace
Christopher Strong (1933) .... Lady Cynthia Darrington
A Bill of Divorcement (1932) .... Sydney Fairfield
Movie Legends - Katharine Hepburn

Wallpaper-Katherine Hepburn

Photos-Carole Lombard

Biography

Born:6 October 1908, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Death:16 January 1942, Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, USA (airplane crash)
Real Name:Jane Alice Peters
Nickname:The Profane Angel
Spouse
Clark Gable (29 March 1939 - 16 January 1942) (her death)
William Powell (26 June 1931 - 16 August 1933) (divorced)
Facts:
-Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her parents were Frederick C. Peters (1875–1935) and Elizabeth Knight (1877-January 16, 1942). Her paternal grandfather, John Claus Peters, was the son of German immigrants, Claus Peters and Caroline Catherine Eberlin.
-Lombard was the youngest of three children, having two older brothers, Fred C. Peters Jr. and Stuart Peters. She spent her early childhood in a sprawling, two-story house at 704 Rockhill Street in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River. Her father had been injured during a work related accident and was left with constant headaches which caused him to burst out in paroxysms of anger which disturbed the family.
-Lombard's parents divorced and her mother took the three children to Los Angeles in 1914, where Lombard attended Virgil Jr. High School and then Fairfax High School. She was elected "May Queen" in 1924. She quit school to pursue acting full-time, but received her GED from Fairfax in 1927
-A 1926 auto accident badly cut her face. Advanced plastic surgery and adroit use of make-up covered the scars. However, at the time the belief was that use of anesthetic during the operation would leave worse scars, so she endured the reconstructive surgery without an anesthetic.
-Her first sound film was High Voltage (1929) at Pathe (her new studio) in 1929. In 1931 she was teamed with William Powell in Man of the World (1931).
-In October 1930, Lombard met William Powell. They had worked together in the films Man of the World and Ladies' Man. Unlike many of Lombard's other suitors at the time, Powell was urbane and sophisticated. He also appreciated her blunt personality and bawdy sense of humor. They married on June 26, 1931. Lombard commented to fan magazines that she did not believe their sixteen-year age difference would present a problem, but friends felt they were ill-suited, as Lombard had an extroverted personality while Powell was more reserved. They divorced in 1933, but remained good friends and worked together without acrimony, notably in My Man Godfrey.
-No Man of Her Own (1932) put Carole opposite Clark Gable for the first and only time (they married seven years later in 1939). By now she was with Paramount Pictures and was one of its top stars.
-Lombard's most famous relationship came in 1936 when she became involved with actor Clark Gable. They had worked together previously in 1932's No Man of Her Own, but at the time Lombard was still happily married to Powell and knew Gable to have the reputation of a roving eye. They were indifferent to each other on the set and did not keep in touch.
- was not until 1936, when Gable came to the Mayfair Ball that Lombard had planned, that their romance began to take off. Gable, however, was married at the time to oil heiress Rhea Langham, and the affair was kept quiet. The situation proved a major factor in Gable accepting the role of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, as MGM head Louis B. Mayer sweetened the deal for a reluctant Clark Gable by giving him enough money to settle a divorce agreement with Langham and marry Lombard. Gable divorced Langham on March 7, 1939 and proposed to Lombard in a telephone booth at the Brown Derby.
-During a break in production on Gone With the Wind, Gable and Lombard drove out to Kingman, Arizona on March 29, 1939 and were married in a quiet ceremony with only Gable's press agent, Otto Winkler, in attendance. They bought a ranch previously owned by director Raoul Walsh in Encino, California and lived a happy, unpretentious life, calling each other "Ma" and "Pa" and raising chickens and horses. They also attempted to have children but were not successful.
-In 1936 Carole received her only Oscar nomination for Best Actress for My Man Godfrey (1936).
-She commanded and received what was one of the top salaries in the business - at one time it was reported she was making $35,000 a week.
-Her last film was in 1942, when she played Maria Tura opposite Jack Benny in To Be or Not to Be (1942). Tragically, she didn't live to see its release.
-According to Garson Kanin, she never had a dressing room when shooting a movie. Instead, she preferred to socialize with the cast and crew members during her breaks.
-On January 16, 1942, Carole, her mother, and 20 other people were flying back to California when the plane went down outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. All aboard perished. The highly acclaimed actress was dead at the age of 33 and few have been able to match her talents since.
-During World War II, after her death, a Liberty ship was named after her.
-Her film To Be or Not to Be (1942) was in post-production when she died in a plane crash, and the producers decided to leave out a part that had her character ironically saying, "What can happen in a plane?"
-Considered by many to be the prototype for the icy blondes in Alfred Hitchcock's films.
-Was named #23 Actress, The American Film Institutes 50 Greatest Screen Legends
-Just before her relationship with Clark Gable began in earnest, Carole read and loved the book "Gone With the Wind". Excited, she sent a copy of the book to Gable, with a note attached reading "Let's do it!". Gable wrongly assumed she was making a sexual advance to him, and called Carole to organize a date. When he found out Carole wanted to make a film the book with him as Rhett Butler and herself as Scarlett, he refused, and kept the copy of the book she had given him thereafter in his toilet.
-Lombard is interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. The name on her crypt marker is "Carole Lombard Gable". Although Gable remarried, he was interred next to her when he died in 1960. Bess Peters was also interred beside her daughter .
-In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the 50 greatest American female screen legends. She received one Academy Award for Best Actress nomination, for My Man Godfrey. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6930 Hollywood Blvd.

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