[Shannon]

Okay guys, 2 Hollywood Legends, and this one is not necessarily based on looks.

Which one is it for you?

Katherine Hepburn?

OR

Audrey Hepburn?

[x0x_JoAnNe_x0x]

i chose audrey cas i dunno katherine! are they related? xx

[Shannon]

Katharine the Great

Katharine Hepburn long ago transcended run-of-the-mill "Star" status. She is no longer even a mere Legend, but rather is firmly entrenched in the public psyche as a venerable and very much loved Institution.
Who can begin to compare?
Never mind the record 4 Academy Awards for Best Actress --she never took the Oscars seriously anyway. Never mind her sheer longevity as a star--she has made films for *seven decades*. Ignore the incredible range of her performances, and her ability to move easily from stage to screen and back again. What do you have aside from all of that? Sheer, unadulterated STAR POWER, charisma, hard-nosed Yankee pragmatism, and indomitable independence. Not to mention those cheekbones! Someone once referred to them as "The greatest calcium deposits since the White Cliffs of Dover."

Hepburn has represented for decades an ideal of independent womanhood that millions have admired and aspired to, but no one could ever duplicate. She was strong and self-sufficent years before modern feminism was even conceived. And yet, that strength has never made her less than a woman, never overridden her basic appeal as both an actress and a human being.


http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/Kate.HTML

Quotes Listed by Author 'katherine hepburn'

1. "I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

2. "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun"

3. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

4. We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?

5. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

8. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Ha ha classic Katherine, i love that last quote

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)
Katharine Hepburn, actress, was best known for roles in which she played strong, sophisticated women.

9. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Ha ha love that one

10. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

11. If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

12. When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

13. Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

14. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

15. Enemies are so stimulating.

16. Loved people are loving people.

17. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

18. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Again classic Katherine

19. Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about

[Shannon]

Originally Posted by x0x_JoAnNe_x0x

i chose audrey cas i dunno katherine! are they related? xx

Ha ha no hon they are not related.Katherine was a major hollywood star before Audrey came along! Katherine died about 2 -3 years ago, she was seriously a major legend in Hollywood! One of the mighty stars! I love her cos she was sooo unbelieveably strong!

Did you know she was the first woman in Hollywood to wear trousers and didnt care what anyone thought! If she had something to say to the men she came right out and said it! She was a powerhouse!

I love Audrey too, but Katherine just that little bit more!


BIOGRAPHY


Katharine Houghton Hepburn was the second of five children born to Katharine and Thomas Hepburn. One of her siblings, an older brother, committed suicide, and she used his birthday as her own for years. She was an actress even as a child. When she was eight years old, she cast and presented a dramatization of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN with the neighborhood children.



Hepburn's career in Hollywood spanned six decades. She was nominated for twelve Academy Awards during her film career and received four Oscars for Best Actress for her roles in MORNING GLORY, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, THE LION IN WINTER, and ON GOLDEN POND. Three of those she received after she was 60 years old. Hepburn starred with Spencer Tracy in nine films and had a lengthy relationship with him which ended with his death. Her autobiography, ME: STORIES OF MY LIFE was published in 1991.

[Shannon]

Audrey Hepburn!

Audrey Hepburn-Ruston, May 4, 1929, near Brussels, Belgium. d.1993. The daughter of an English banker and a Dutch baroness, she was sent to a girls' school near London after her parents' divorce. She was vacationing with her mother in Arnhem, Holland, when WW II broke out. She spent the war years in the Nazi-occupied town, attending a local public school and receiving ballet training at the Arnhem Conservatory. After the war she went to London on a ballet scholarship. Graceful, slender, and long-legged, she soon began winning modeling assignments from fashion photographers. In the early 50s she joined Felix Aylmer's acting classes and began playing bit parts in British movies. While filming Monte Carlo Baby on the French Riviera, in 1951, she met Colette, the French novelist, who insisted that Audrey play the lead in the forthcoming Broadway adaptation of her Gigi.

Fragile and radiant, projecting both childlike and feminine qualities, Miss Hepburn was an ideal Colette heroine. Her success in the play led to a starring part opposite Gregory Peck in the film Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award (she would later be nominated for Oscars four more times, for Sabrina, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Wait Until Dark). Six weeks after the Oscar ceremonies she won the Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway play 'Ondine.' Later in 1954 she married Mel Ferrer, her co-star in the play. They also co-starred in King Vidor's War and Peace, she as Natasha and he as Andrei. Ferrer later directed her in Green Mansions and produced her last picture of the 60s, Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she received her fifth Oscar nomination, for her portrayal of a terrorized blind woman. But Ferrer had no part in the real highlights of her career, notably Funny Face, Love in the Afternoon, The Nun's Story, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade and My Fair Lady. They divorced in 1968. The following year she married an Italian psychiatrist nine years her junior and made her home in Rome and later in Switzerland. She was named a Special Ambassador for UNICEF and devoted much of her free time to charity. She returned to the screen in 1976 after a nine-year absence as a luminous Mid Marian in Robin and Marian, but her subsequent film appearances were few and far between. Shortly after a highly-publicized 1992 mission of mercy to famine- and wartorn Somalia, she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She sucumed after a brief struggle with the disease. Her death was mourned internationally as the loss of one of the favorite film actresses of all time, an icon to style, elegance, dignity, and charity.

http://www.carriespritzer.com/audrey...biography.html

[Mella]

Those quotes are fab! She sounded like a top bird, but unfortunately like Joey... I don't know much about her at all.

I chose Audrey Hepburn. She is so elegant and graceful. I've read lots of interviews with her and she sounds lovely. Very smart and is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. She's also absolutely stunning. Not oi oi sexy.. But much like Nicole...she has a classic timeless beauty that is engulfing. Plus I absolutely adore the films My Fairy Lady, Sabrina & Breakfast at Tiffanys.

[Shannon]

An Assorted Collection of Quotes by Audrey Hepburn

"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."

"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."

Ha ha talk about modesty

"People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference."

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."

"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

"My own life has been much more than a fairy tale. I've had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties I've gone through, I've always gotten a prize at the end."

"For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart."

"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."

"My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses."

"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."

"I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies. It doesn't stand out a mile, but it's there."

Hmm that one doesnt sound so modest

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

“My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.”

“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”

“I went through a period of first success. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don’t about that, but I do. I’m hurt. I feel it. I don’t think I’ve done anything dreadful. Sometimes you go things for reasons the press doesn’t know. But I’m happy to go on as I have.”

“There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.”

“I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.”

“On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

“I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But, listed separately, I have a few good features.”

“Making movies is very hard, unglamorous work.”

“I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn’t enjoy it all when it happened.”

“My first dream was to be a ballet dancer. I didn’t know about success at all. You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.”

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”

“There’s a very big division between what’s in the public eye and what you feel about yourself. I never saw in myself what other people saw in me.”

“Truly, I’ve never been concerned with any public image. It would drive me around the bend if I worried about the pedestal others have put me on. And also I don’t believe it.”

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it’s very true.”

[Mella]

18. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Oh LMAO that one cracked me up!

[Shannon]

Girls what planet are ye from???? Ha ha ye dont know Katherine Hepburn! This is a really good biography for her! She was ace, the stronges actress ive ever seen!




Biography for
Katharine Hepburn

Birth name
Katharine Houghton Hepburn
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Nickname
First Lady of Cinema
Kate
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Height
5' 7½" (1.71 m)
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Mini biography
Born May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, she was the daughter of a doctor and a suffragette, both of whom always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a child, she was also very close to her brother, Tom, and was devastated at age 14 to find him dead, the apparent result of accidentally hanging himself while practicing a hanging trick their father had taught them. For many years after this, Katharine used his birthdate, November 8, as her own. She then became very shy around girls her age, and was largely schooled at home. She did attend Bryn Mawr College, however, and it was here that she decided to become an actress, appearing in many of their productions.

After graduating, she began getting small roles in plays on Broadway and elsewhere. She always attracted attention in these parts, especially for her role in "Art and Mrs. Bottle" (1931); then, she finally broke into stardom when she took the starring role of the Amazon princess Antiope in "A Warrior's Husband" (1932). The inevitable film offers followed, and after making a few screen tests, she was cast in A Bill of Divorcement (1932), opposite John Barrymore. The film was a hit, and after agreeing to her salary demands, RKO signed her to a contract. 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.

But stories were beginning to leak out of her haughty behavior off- screen and her refusal to play the Hollywood Game, always wearing slacks and no makeup, never posing for pictures or giving interviews. Audiences were shocked at her unconventional behavior instead of applauding it, and so when she returned to Broadway in 1934 to star in "The Lake", the critics panned her and the audiences, who at first bought up tickets, soon deserted her. When she returned to Hollywood, things didn't get much better. From the period 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937); the many flops included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937) and the now- classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).

With so many flops, she came to be labeled "box-office poison." She decided to go back to Broadway to star in "The Philadelphia Story" (1938), and was rewarded with a smash. She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars. 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.) Their films included the very successful Adam's Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and Desk Set (1957).

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), The Rainmaker (1956) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Her film roles became fewer and farther between in the 60s, as she devoted her time to her ailing partner Spencer Tracy. 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.

In the 70s, she turned to making made-for-TV films, with The Glass Menagerie (1973) (TV), Love Among the Ruins (1975) (TV) and The Corn Is Green (1979) (TV). 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 made more TV-films in the 80s, and wrote her autobiography, 'Me', in 1991. Her last feature film was Love Affair (1994), with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, and her last TV- film was One Christmas (1994) (TV). With her health declining she retired from public life in the mid-nineties. She died at the age of 96 at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.


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Spouse
Ludlow Ogden Smith (12 December 1928 - 1934) (divorced)

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Trade mark
Playing strong independent women with minds of their own.

Often wore slacks instead of dresses, decades before it became fashionable for women to do so


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Trivia

Graduated from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1928, with a degree in history and philosophy.

Was named Best Classic Actress of the 20th Century in an Entertainment Weekly on-line poll, just barely (21.5% to 20.6%) beating out runner-up Audrey Hepburn. [September 1999]

Has never watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) because it was Spencer Tracy's last film.

Ranked #1 woman in the AFI's "50 Greatest Movie Legends." [June 1999]

Walked around the studio in her underwear in the early 1930s when the costume department stole her slacks from her dressing room. She refused to put anything else on until they were returned.

She was nearly decapitated by an aeroplane propeller when she was rushing about an airport, avoiding the press.

Was a leading choice to play "Scarlett O'Hara" in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Had a relationship with Spencer Tracy from 1940 until his death in 1967.

Ranked #68 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Born at 3:47pm-EST.

Aunt of actress Katharine Houghton, who portrayed her character's daughter in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

Admitted to using her brother's birthdate as her own for years.

Does not suffer from Parkinson's disease. She set the record straight in the 1993 TV documentary Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (1993) (TV), which she narrated herself. Quote: "Now to squash a rumor. No, I don't have Parkinson's. I inherited my shaking head from my grandfather Hepburn. I discovered that whisky helps stop the shaking. Problem is, if you're not careful, it stops the rest of you too. My head just shakes, but I promise you, it ain't gonna fall off!"

Was admitted to a Hartford hospital for treatment for a urinary infection. Her release was delayed because doctors wanted to monitor her walking. [18 July 2001]

Was a direct descendant of Britain's King John through one of his illegitimate children.

Great-aunt of Schuyler Grant.

Turned down the role of Marilla in Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV), but recommended her great-neice, Schuyler Grant for the role of Anne. Schuler ended up playing Diana instead.

On American Film Institute's list of "Top 100 U.S. Love Stories," compiled in June 2002, Hepburn led all actresses with six of her films on the list. (Actor Cary Grant, co-star with her in two of them, led the male field, also with six films on list). The duo's The Philadelphia Story (1940) was ranked #44 and their Bringing Up Baby (1938) ranked #51. Hepburn's four other movies on AFI Top "100 Love Movies list" are: - #14 The African Queen (1951) - #22 On Golden Pond (1981) - #58 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - #74 Woman of the Year (1942)

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.

As of 2003, "Only Tie in Oscars For Best Actress", Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968) and Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968) in 1969.

Her father's name was Thomas and her mother's name was Katharine.

Was nominated for two Tony Awards: in 1970 as Best Actress (Musical), for playing the title character, Coco Chanel in "Coco," and in 1982 as Best Actress (Play), for "The West Side Waltz." She lost both times.

Her maternal grandfather; her father's brother, Charlie; and her older brother, Tom, all committed suicide. These tragedies were never talked about in her family. Ms. Hepburn said of her parents, "There was nothing to be done about these matters and [my parents] simply did not believe in moaning about anything."

Measurements: 34B-22-33 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Made nine films with Spencer Tracy, the first of which was Woman of the Year (1942).

Admitted that she was menstruating while making The African Queen (1951), which resulted in giving her fellow crew members the impression that she was moody and difficult.

On June 2004 Sotheby's auction house hosted a two-day estate of Katharine Hepburn, auctioning of personal belongings of the legendary actress to collectors. The auction included her furniture, jewelry (which included the platinum, diamond and sapphire given to her by then-boyfriend Howard Hughes which fetched $120,000, six times its estimated price), paperwork (such as personal checks, telegrams, birth certificates, letters, film contracts, movie scripts), and nomination certificates from the Academy Awards. Among other items were casual clothes, and gowns that included her unusual wedding dress to Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928, made of crushed white velvet with antiqued gold embroidery, sold for $27,000. Also consisted in the lot were house decorations drawings and paintings done by the actress herself, glamour portraits, and a glass bronze sculpture entitled "Angel on a Wave" sold for $90,000 while a self-portrait entitled "Breakfast in Bed and a Self-Portrait in Brisbane, Australia", fetched $33,000, some 40 times the estimated price. Movie memorabilia comprised of a ring from her 1968 film The Lion in Winter (1968), Gertrud (1964), the canoe from the film On Golden Pond (1981) sold for $19,200 to entertainer Wayne Newton and the most sought after piece and the most expensive item was the bronze bust of Spencer Tracy that Hepburn created herself and was featured in _Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)_ . The audience cheered when the 3-inch sculpture sold for $316,000, compared to an estimate of $3,000-$5,000. The only awards that were won by the actress to be auctioned of were the 1958 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, the annual Shakespeare club of New York City, the Fashion Desinger Lifetime Achievment, a few Box Office Blue Ribbons, the Walk of Fame plaque and the 1990 Kennedy Center Honor. Her four Oscars were not included due to contract reasons.

She was one of the few great stars in Hollywood who made no attempt to sugarcoat her true personality for anyone, a personality that was by all accounts feisty and some would say nasty. She was infamous for letting those whom she disliked know it.

Was a natural red head.

Her affair with Howard Hughes was portrayed by Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2004).

[b]She was voted the "2nd Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.[/B]

Was a self-confessed fan of John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.

In The Lion in Winter (1968) she plays the mother of Richard Lionheart, who is played by Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins later said that Hepburn's voice was, in part, the basis for Hannibal Lecter's voice.

She was of Scottish and English descent.

Expressed great fondness for actors Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Melanie Griffith and Julia Roberts, and great disdain for Meryl Streep, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and - in particular - Woody Allen.

In a letter to Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences President Gregory Peck, she claimed that sentiment for the passing away of her long-time lover and co-star Spencer Tracy had been part of the reason she won her second Oscar for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (1967). She told Peck that she modeled her award-winning characterization of Christina Drayton on her mother.

When Cate Blanchett won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for _The Aviator (2004)_ , Hepburn became the first previous Oscar winner to become an Oscar-winning movie role.

She was voted the 14th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.

According to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley's book "Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s", Hepburn was a leftist in her politics in the 1940s. When the Conference of Studio Unions, headed by suspected Communist Party member Herb Sorrell, launched a strike in 1946-47 against the studios and fought other unions for control over Hollywood's collective bargaining, she expressed support for him. (Sorrell had been kidnapped, beaten, and left as dead during the strike, possibly by by the Mafia, which up until the early 1940s, had controlled the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which was contesting the CSU for jurisdiction over Hollywood unions.) At a Screen Writers Guild meeting during the CSU strike, Hepburn made a speech which anti-communist, anti-CSU SAG activist Ronald Reagan recognized as being based word for word on a CSU strike bulletin. Hepburn's lover Spencer Tracy's admonition that actors should stay out of politics ("Remember who shot Lincoln") was ignored by Hepburn, whose mother had been sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union, despite their family's wealth. On May 19, 1947, Hepburn addressed a Progressive Party rally at the Hollywood Legion Stadium with Progressive Party stalwart and later presidential candidate Henry Wallace, the former vice president of the U.S. who had been sacked from President Truman's cabinet for being pro-Soviet. Wearing a red dress, Hepburn delivered a speech, written by Communist Party member and soon-to-be Hollywood Ten indictee Dalton Trumbo. When screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. (winner of an Oscar for writing her picture "Woman of the Year" and one of the Hollywood Ten) was jailed, she wrote a letter of support for him. Years later, in 1964, when Lardner was trying to get Tracy to star in "The Cincinnatti Kid," he thanked Hepburn for her support. She told him she didn't remember writing the letter and refused to talk about it.

Became very fond of Christopher Reeve, both as an actor and as a person, when he made his Broadway debut opposite her in the 1978 production of "A Matter of Gravity". She became so fond of him that she used to tease him that she wanted him to take care of her when she retired. Ironically, his reply was "Miss Hepburn, I don't think I'll live that long."

She is portrayed by Marianne Taylor in The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980) (TV), by Tovah Feldshuh in The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) (TV) and by Cate Blanchett in The Aviator (2004).

Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue"

She and Spencer Tracy acted together in 9 movies: Adam's Rib (1949), Desk Set (1957), Keeper of the Flame (1942), Pat and Mike (1952), The Sea of Grass (1947), State of the Union (1948), Without Love (1945), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Woman of the Year (1942).

After marrying Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928, she forced him to change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow. She objected to her married name being "Katharine Smith" because there was already a well-known (and rather portly) radio singer with the same name.


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[Shannon]

Personal quotes

"People have grown fond of me, like some old building."

Ha ha i love her

"I'm a personality as well as an actress. Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star."

"Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?"

"I don't regret anything I've ever done; As long as I enjoyed it at the time."

"Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

"I often wonder whether men and women really suit eachother. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

"I've been loved, and I've been in love. There's a big difference."

"Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer."

"There are no laurels in life...just new challenges."

On Hollywood: "They didn't like me until I got into a leg show."

"I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win."

"Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you."

"Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. 'Beat it, ' I said, 'go sit on a tack!' 'We made you, ' they said. 'Like hell you did, ' I told them."

On fashion: "I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."

"My father, a surgeon and urologist, studied sex professionally all his life. Before he died at 82, he told me he hadn't come to any conclusions about it at all."

On marriage: "It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."

"At my age, you don't get much variety - usually some old nut who's off her track."

"With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable."

"I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's."

"I remember as a child going around with Votes For Women balloons. I learnt early what it is to be snubbed for a good cause."

"Life is full of censorship. I can't spit in your eye."

"Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done."

"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself."

"It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot."

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or because they're lucky."

"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior."

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself."

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

"The lack of work destroys people."

"Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. That's all."

"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."

"If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building."

"Enemies are so stimulating."

"I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition."

"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

"I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!"

"I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other."

"I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."

"Listen to the song of life."

"Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature."

"I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep."

"I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was."

'Isn't it fun getting older' is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tyre.

"I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference." (1993)

"In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions etc.. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going." (1993)

"The lack of work destroys people." (1993)

[Describing Cary Grant]: "He is personality functioning."

Ha ha classic Kate, i love it, she cracks me up