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Katharine Hepburn

A fiercely individual star whose clipped delivery and independent persona became inseparable from her roles.

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Hepburn’s screen identity pushed against the era’s expectations of female decorum while still thriving inside the studio system.

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Bringing Up BabyThe Philadelphia StoryThe African Queen

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1938 · Screwball comedy

Bringing Up Baby

A paleontologist, an heiress, a leopard, and a missing bone collide in screwball comedy at full speed.

1940 · Romantic comedy

The Philadelphia Story

Hepburn’s heiress faces an ex-husband, a reporter, and a wedding in a sharply written comedy of class and self-knowledge.