What is Katharine Hepburn?
{{Infobox person | name = Katharine Hepburn | image = Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph.jpg | image_size = | caption = Studio publicity photograph, c. 1941 | alt = Portrait of Hepburn, aged 33 | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|5|12}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|[[Hartford, Connecticut]], [[U.S.]]}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|6|29|1907|5|12}} | death_place = {{nowrap|[[Fenwick, Connecticut|Fenwick]], [[Connecticut]], U.S.}} | occupation = Actress | alma_mater = [[Bryn Mawr College]] | years_active = 1928–1994 | birth_name = {{nowrap|Katharine Houghton Hepburn}} | spouse = {{Marriage|Ludlow Ogden Smith|1928|1934|reason=divorced}} | partner = [[Spencer Tracy]] (1941–1967, his death) | relatives = See [[Houghton family]] | awards = [[List of awards and nominations received by Katharine Hepburn|Full list]] }} '''Katharine Houghton Hepburn''' (May 12, 1907&nbsp;– June 29, 2003) was an [[Americans|American]] [[actor|actress]]. Her career lasted 66 years. She is thought of as one of the top screen actresses in movie history. She was nominated for 12 [[Academy Awards]], winning four. Hepburn was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]] and went to [[Bryn Mawr College]]. She got her degree in 1928 and started on [[Broadway]] that same year. In 1932 she got a role in the [[George Cukor]] movie ''A Bill of Divorcement'', with [[John Barrymore]]. She was very successful in the early 1930s, but then she became unpopular. She became popular again with the movie ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]''. In 1942 she starred in ''[[Woman of the Year]]'' with [[Spencer Tracy]]. They made eight more movies together, including ''[[Adam's Rib]]'' and ''[[Guess Who's Coming to Dinner]]''. They also had an off-screen romance that lasted until Tracy's death in 1967, but they never married because Tracy did not want to divorce his wife. Before this, Hepburn was married to Ludlow Ogden Smith fr