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Author Topic: Katharine Hepburn Passes Away at 96 Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 06-29-2003 07:34 PM                     After six decades of fine acting, Katharine Hepburn leaves life's great stage. "HEPBURN, AN ICON of feminist strength and spirit who brought a chiseled beauty and patrician bearing to such films as “The Philadelphia Story” and “The African Queen,” died Sunday at her home in Old Saybrook, Conn., according to the executor of her estate, Cynthia McFadden, and town authorities. Officials in Old Saybrook and McFadden said Hepburn died Sunday at 2:50 p.m. Her publicist, Freya Matston also confirmed her death to NBC affiliate WVIT-TV in Hartford. She had been in declining health in recent years."--MS NBC News She was one of my favorite actresses, and I will miss her.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-29-2003 08:22 PM                     A very fine actress. May she rest in peace.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 06-29-2003 10:12 PM                     If you ever want an insight into the woman that was Katharine Hepburn, read her biography, "Me." There are no actresses that can touch Miss Hepburn in Hollywood today. She was one of a kind, and I will miss her terribly. Rest In Peace 1907-2003 [ 06-30-2003, 07:21 AM: Message edited by: Bruce McGee ]  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 06-30-2003 01:37 AM                     I enjoyed her most in her later years in films like "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", "Rooster Cogburn And The Lady" and, of course, her 50s hit with Bogie "The African Queen". Thank Goodness we've got her on film. Her talent spanned the generations and yes, she'll be missed.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-30-2003 02:20 AM                       Oh, gee-whiz, that's sad news. She certainly lived a full life, and enriched many others. I just saw her yesterday, again, in "Rooster Cogburn"; how great she and Wayne were together in that picture!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-01-2003 05:12 AM                        Excuse my ignorance, but what is the difference between Katherine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn? Are they the same person? Or is one of them the other's mother? I have seen no mention of "Audrey" in all the news of Katherine's death... and you think she would have been mentioned. I have always been confused on this issue. I only know that one of them was old and the other one was perhaps older.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-01-2003 06:53 AM                        I thought K was A's mother. But on the train this morning I read a massive 3,000 word obit of K in today's Telegraph which made no mention of A whatsoever. It said that K was breifly married once - to a socialite called Ludlow Ogden Smith - and divorced in 1934, 'because she didn't take kindly to honouring or obeying'. She then co-habited with Spencer Tracy for 30 years (despite the latter still being married). The usual convention in these obituaries is to put in the final paragraph '...she is survived by a daughter...' or '...her daughter predeceased her...' but as I said there is no mention of Audrey in there at all. Can anyone clear this up?  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 07-01-2003 07:00 AM                        Kathryn and Audrey were not related. Kate was born and raised in Connecticut where her father was a Physician. Audrey was born in 1929 in Brussels, Belgium and attended boarding school in England. You can read all about Audrey by going to www.google.com and typing in Audrey Hepburn. Her website is still in operation.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-01-2003 11:11 AM                        Thanks Bob...  |  IP: Logged

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