Katharine Hepburn


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BirthDate
BirthPlace
05/11/1907
Hartford, CT
  • Katharine Hepburn in recovery
    By: Noah Davis July 20, 2001 1:54pm EST
    Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn spent a second night in a Hartford, Conn., hospital recovering from what was described as a minor infection by Hepburn's brother-in-law, The Associated Press reports.
  • Katharine Hepburn hospitalized
    By: Guylaine Cadorette July 19, 2001 1:48pm EST
    Katharine Hepburn was admitted to a hospital in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday, Reuters reports.
  • News Roundup: July 19
    By: Guylaine Cadorette July 19, 2001 1:43pm EST
    Mimi Farina, a singer and social activist, died of cancer Wednesday at her home in Marin County, Calif., at the age of 56. Like sister and fellow singer Joan Baez, Farina was a member of "folk royalty" in the 1960s, but she left her music career to devote herself to charitable work.
  • Win an Oscar, live longer
    By: Kit Bowen May 22, 2001 1:36pm EST
    It certainly pays to be an Academy Award winner-in more ways than one. Sure, there's the adulation and prestige one receives when winning an Oscar, but did you also know it could help you live longer? According to a study published in Tuesday's Annals of Internal Medicine, Academy Award winners live nearly four years longer than those actors who have been nominated but haven't actually won the gold statuette. Lead author Dr. Donald Redelmeier, director of clinical epidemiology at Sunnybro
  • NEWSMAKERS: Pryor Restraint?
    By: Joal Ryan March 19, 2001 11:50am EST
    SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 10, 2000 -- A multiple-sclerosis-stricken Richard Pryor cannot "bathe himself or prepare his own meals." Richard Pryor So says court papers filed by the comic legend's own son, who's seeking to be put in charge of the Pryor estate. Richard Pryor Jr., 38, launched the conservatorship fight last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, the New York Post says. Making a nasty family fight even nastier, the elder Pryor has gone to court himself ... to obtain a restraining