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Movie Icon, Oscar Winner Katharine Hepburn Dies at 96

Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn died Sunday at 2:50 p.m. (1850 GMT) at her home in Connecticut, U.S. at the age of 96. She had been in declining health in recent years.
(Photo shows Katharine Hepburn arriving at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in 1992)


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Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn died Sunday at 2:50 p.m. (1850 GMT) at her home in Connecticut, U.S. at the age of 96. She had been in declining health in recent years.

During her 60-year career, she won a record four Academy Awards and was nominated 12 times. Her Oscars were for Morning Glory, 1933; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967; A Lion in Winter, 1968; and On Golden Pond , 1981.

She married only once, briefly, and her name was linked to Howard Hughes and other famous men, but the great love of her life was Spencer Tracy. They made nine films together and remained close companions until Tracy's death in 1967.

After winning an Oscar for only her third picture, 1933's Morning Glory, she earned multiple nominations in the '30s, '40s, '50s and '60s before a final nomination and victory, opposite another screen legend, Henry Fonda, in 1981's On Golden Pond.

Hepburn was born in Hartford, Conn., on May 12, 1907, one of six children of Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn, a noted urologist and pioneer in social hygiene, and Katharine Houghton Hepburn, who worked for birth control and getting the vote for women.

Young Kate was educated by tutors and at private schools, entering Bryn Mawr in 1924. After graduating, she joined a stock company in Baltimore.

She made her New York debut in These Days in 1928, the same year she married Philadelphia socialite Ludlow Ogden Smith. She divorced him in 1934.


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