Katharine Hepburn 1907 - 2003
I post this photo on the anniversary of Katharine Hepburn's birthday, * 12 May 1907 in Hartford, CT, where she grew up and is buried. Considering that she must be the most famous person from Hartford (rivalled only by Harriet Beecher Stowe), and that she still is the record holder for most Academy Awards, male or female, in the Best Actor category (four), it is suprising that there are zero memorials to her in Hartford. - There used to be a mural by the railroad station, yet that disappeared a year or two ago, and none of the places where she lived (I can find five, one of which, in West Hartford, is still extant) has any kind of marker, nor is there a museum - there's nothing.
Also, she's one of my favourite actresses ... and although she won some of her Academy Awards for lesser work and due to longevity, this doesn't diminish her accomplishments at all, as she should have won for The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby and Holiday and Woman of the Year and African Queen and ...
Katharine Hepburn 1907 - 2003
I post this photo on the anniversary of Katharine Hepburn's birthday, * 12 May 1907 in Hartford, CT, where she grew up and is buried. Considering that she must be the most famous person from Hartford (rivalled only by Harriet Beecher Stowe), and that she still is the record holder for most Academy Awards, male or female, in the Best Actor category (four), it is suprising that there are zero memorials to her in Hartford. - There used to be a mural by the railroad station, yet that disappeared a year or two ago, and none of the places where she lived (I can find five, one of which, in West Hartford, is still extant) has any kind of marker, nor is there a museum - there's nothing.
Also, she's one of my favourite actresses ... and although she won some of her Academy Awards for lesser work and due to longevity, this doesn't diminish her accomplishments at all, as she should have won for The Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby and Holiday and Woman of the Year and African Queen and ...