Katharine Hepburn
(1907-2003), ActressSitter in 4 portraits
Hepburn was one of Hollywood's greatest stars. She made her film debut in A Bill of Divorcement (1932). In her career she won four Oscars for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981). She also received Oscar nominations for roles in eight other films including The Philadelphia Story (1940) and The African Queen (1951) and Suddenly Last Summer (1959).
Watch a film clip on the sitter from the BBC Archive in the Media section below
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, published June 1952
NPG x126950
Lord Snowdon, Kathleen Tynan and Katharine Hepburn during the filming of 'The Madwoman of Chaillot'
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver print, 1969
NPG x198413
Katharine Hepburn as Coco Chanel
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1969
NPG x40188
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