Hepburn, Katharine

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American actress. She has appeared in films over several decades and won Academy Awards in 1933, 1967, 1968, and 1981. She often costarred with Spencer Tracy. The Philadelphia Story and The African Queen are two of her best-remembered pictures.

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Example Sentences

Looking uncannily like her aunt Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton gives a tender, well-wrought performance that has beauty, feeling and intensity.

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Looking uncannily like her aunt Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton gives a tenderly well-wrought performance that has beauty, feeling and intensity.

From Time Magazine Archive