Vintage “African Queen\" Katherine Hepburn Hand Signed Fan Letter Dated 1990 For Sale

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Vintage “African Queen\" Katherine Hepburn Hand Signed Fan Letter Dated 1990:
$139.99

Up for sale "African Queen" Katherine Hepburn Hand Signed Fan Letter.  

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Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12,

1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and

television. Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Known

for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, she cultivated a

screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played

strong-willed, sophisticated women. Her work came in a range of genres,

from screwball comedy to

literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a

record for any performer. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. Raised

in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying

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 picture, Morning Glory (1933),

but this was followed by a series of commercial failures culminating in the

critically lauded but commercially unsuccessful comedy Bringing Up

Baby (1938). Hepburn masterminded her own 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, which spanned 26 years and nine movies and

extended to an unacknowledged off-screen affair. Hepburn challenged herself in

the latter half of her life, as she and a range of literary roles. She found a niche playing

middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen (1951),

a persona the public embraced. Hepburn earned three more Oscars for her work

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 the

focus of her career. 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 she refused to

conform to society's expectations of women. She was outspoken, assertive, and

athletic, and wore trousers before they were fashionable for women. She was

briefly married as a young woman but thereafter lived independently. With her

unconventional lifestyle and the independent characters she brought to the

screen, Hepburn epitomized the "modern woman" in the 20th-century

United States, and is remembered as an important cultural figure.

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