Katherine Hepburn is the best actress in the history of cinema.
In the survey that we invited you to participate in Luxury, we wanted to know, according to your opinion, who was the best actress in history. For this, we proposed ten unforgettable celluloid stars: Meryl Streep, Vivien Leigh, Greta Garbo, Catherine Deneuve, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Susan Sarandon, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, and Katherine Hepburn were our proposals and with 21% of your votes. the winner among all of them is Katherine Hepburn.
The American actress had an extraordinary career, in fact, she is the only woman to have won four Oscars and she is one of the most nominated in history with 12 nominations. Her very defined and elegant style was also her hallmark. A style that she described in her youth as tomboyish. Something exaggerated, of course, if we see her wearing this fantastic dress that her designer Adrian made for her in the movie 'Philadelphia Tales'.
Katharine has always been described as a haughty, arrogant, feisty, and independent woman. Aspects that came through clearly when she spoke and said things like: “Enemies are very stimulating”, “If I had followed all the rules, I wouldn't have gotten anywhere” or “I'm an actress, but I'm also a character” or " Only when a woman decides not to have children can she live like a man.
That's what I've done", are some of the star's statements in some interviews; although the most remembered of her, without a doubt, is that answer that she gave to the journalist Bárbara Walters when she asked her if she had skirts in her closet: “I have a Mrs. Walters. I will wear it at her funeral, ”she replied Katharine.
Her sentimental life was marked by a divorce, which was her husband Ludlow Ogden Smith, a businessman with whom she was married for 6 years. She later had several relationships with men as well-known as John Ford or Howard Hughes before starring in one of the most notorious scandals of the time by joining Spencer Tracy, married and firmly Catholic. They would spend 25 years together, until the actor died in 1967, and at no time did he divorce or she asked him.
Spencer and Katharine worked together on several occasions, the last being in the magnificent 'Guess Who's Coming Tonight' (1967).
Although there are different published biographies of the actress, only one of them bears her signature: 'Me' (1991), published in Spain under the title "Myself: Historias de mi vida". Katherine Hepburn died in June 2003, at the age of 96. Already afflicted with various ills, the most visible of which are tremors in her joints and head, she lived the last years of her life in Connecticut, where she was also born.
