Vem daterade Katharine Hepburn?

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a leading lady on stage and screen spanned six decades. Known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, she cultivated a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a varied range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama. Her accolades include a record four Academy Awards for Best Actress, two British Academy Film Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards.

Raised in Connecticut by progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while at Bryn Mawr College. Favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in film brought her international fame, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for her third film, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures culminating in the critically lauded box office failure Bringing Up Baby (1938).

Hepburn masterminded her comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. That comedy film was a box office success and landed her a third Academy Award nomination. In the 1940s, she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy. The screen partnership spanned 26 years and produced nine films.

Hepburn challenged herself in the latter half of her life as she tackled Shakespearean stage productions and a range of literary roles. She found a niche playing mature, independent, and sometimes unmarried or widowed women such as in The African Queen (1951), a persona the public embraced. Hepburn received three more Academy Awards for her performances in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). In the 1970s, she began appearing in television films, which later became her focus. She made her final screen appearance at the age of 87. After a period of inactivity and ill health, Hepburn died in 2003 at the age of 96.

Hepburn famously shunned the Hollywood publicity machine, and refused to conform to societal expectations of women. She was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore pants before it was fashionable. She married once, as a young woman, but thereafter lived independently. With her unconventional lifestyle and the independent characters she brought to the screen, Hepburn came to epitomize the "modern woman" in 20th-century America and influenced changing popular perceptions of women. In 1999, she was named the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute.

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., född 24 december 1905 i Houston i Texas, död 5 april 1976 ombord på ett flygplan ovanför Texas, var en amerikansk filmproducent, flygare, flygplanstillverkare och industriledare.

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, född 5 april 1900 i Milwaukee, Wisconsin, död 10 juni 1967 i Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, var en amerikansk skådespelare.

Tracy filmdebuterade 1930 i John Fords Up the River mot Humphrey Bogart, senare följde filmer som Hans andra hustru (1933), men det stora genombrottet lät vänta på sig. Tracy engagerades av Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1935 och där blomstrade hans karriär med en räcka succéfilmer, dessutom erhöll han både 1937 och 1938 Oscars för sina rollprestationer i Havets hjältar och Han som tänkte med hjärtat. Totalt Oscarsnominerades han nio gånger, ett rekord han delar i den kategorin med Laurence Olivier. Under 1940-talet räknades Spencer Tracy som en av studions största stjärnor. Tracys spel var ofta kraftfullt och engagerande och han blev därigenom mycket uppskattad. 1942 spelade Spencer Tracy mot Katharine Hepburn i Årets kvinna, ett samarbete som skulle komma att resultera i nio filmer under 25 år. Mot slutet av sitt liv samarbetade Tracy nästan uteslutande med regissören Stanley Kramer. Det var också i Kramers film Gissa vem som kommer på middag (1967), som Tracys kom att spela sin sista roll. Filmen färdigställdes endast 17 dagar innan Spencer Tracy avled.

Under sin filmkarriär, från starten 1930 till sin död 1967, medverkade Tracy i 75 filmer. Han kom att betraktas som en av de mest respekterade filmskådespelarna vid tiden. År 1999, rankade American Film Institute Tracy som den nionde största manliga stjärnan från Hollywoods klassiska era.