William Boehnel wrote in the New York World-Telegram, " To begin with, it has Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in the leading roles.

Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn are the stellar performers in this show and their perfect compatibility in comic capers is delightful to see.

Otto Frank personally wrote to Audrey Hepburn, asking her if she would play the part of his daughter Anne.

Unbeknownst to him, Katharine Hepburn was in the audience, and after seeing it and liked it, she wrote to Fellini saying she had seen a wonderful show based on his movie.

* A 1994 remake, reverting to the original title of Love Affair, starred Warren Beatty ( who also wrote and produced ), featured his wife Annette Bening as the female protagonist, and also featured Katharine Hepburn in a small but pivotal role, which would prove to be her last screen appearance.

Stone then wrote the final shooting script, tailored to stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, with Behm receiving story co-credit.

Together, they wrote the Spencer Tracy / Katharine Hepburn film comedies Adam's Rib ( 1949 ) and Pat and Mike ( 1952 ), as well as A Double Life ( 1947 ), starring Ronald Colman, all directed by George Cukor.

Levenson wrote the well-known poem " Time Tested Beauty Tips " for his grandchild, which has become falsely attributed to Audrey Hepburn .< ref >

Although the building's current state dates to the 20th century restoration by Boston architects Perry Shaw & Hepburn, the College named the building in honor of the English architect Sir Christopher Wren, after the Reverend Hugh Jones, a William and Mary mathematics professor, wrote in 1724 that the College Building was “ modeled by Sir Christopher Wren ”.

Hepburn met Marie-Louise Habets while preparing for the role, and Habets later helped nurse Hepburn back to health following her near-fatal horse-riding accident on the set of the 1960 film The Unforgiven.

Lehman had incurred the director's anger by declining an offer to write the screenplay for No Bail For the Judge, a London set thriller intended to star Audrey Hepburn, Laurence Harvey and actor John Williams.

Actress Katharine Hepburn declined the committee's first offer, though she relented in 1990.

Nixon was widely seen as the " heir apparent ," and had earlier turned down Hepburn's offer to recommend that Nixon be appointed Premier, as Nixon insisted the leadership should be the choice of the party, not of Hepburn.

Some felt the government had little to offer beyond more road construction, and the Tories were soundly defeated by the Ontario Liberal Party led by Mitchell Hepburn.

He was originally approached by San Francisco-based wrestling promoter Joe Malcewicz, but Hepburn turned down the offer.

Hepburn was delighted that Tracy was available for Woman of the Year, saying " I was just damned grateful he was willing to work with me.

Despite several instances of double entendre and sexual references, the Hayes Office passed the film and did not notice or recognize such lines of dialogue as Grant saying that he " went gay " or Hepburn making a reference to George urinating.

Turner later recalled she was surprised about replacing Hepburn, saying: " And I guess I'm about the most un-Hepburnish actress on the lot.

Katharine Hepburn just fell in love with me the first time I met her and I say that modestly because she actually admitted she did ... She loved my eyes, she said they were full of fire ", Willcox was saying in her 2000 interviews.

The search for an actress to play Scarlett in the film version of the novel famously drew the biggest names in the history of cinema, such as Bette Davis ( whose casting as a Southern belle in Jezebel in 1938 took her out of contention ), and Katharine Hepburn, who went so far as demanding an appointment with producer David O. Selznick and saying, " I am Scarlett O ' Hara!

He and Attorney-General Arthur Roebuck broke with Hepburn over the Premier's opposition to the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors in Oshawa in 1937, and resigned from cabinet saying " I would rather walk with the workers than ride with General Motors.

" Despite the poor response, Harris decided to take the show to Chicago, saying to Hepburn, " My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you.

Spiegel sent Katharine Hepburn the book and she suggested Bogart for the male lead, firmly believing that " he was the only man who could have played that part ".

In an interview, Hepburn described the last time she and Spencer Tracy saw Bogart ( the night before he died ):

Audrey Hepburn stars as the title character ; she later says that this is her favorite film role.

Tracy spent the majority of the next two years at home with Hepburn, living what she described as a quiet life: reading, painting and listening to music.

Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed him to the kitchen: " Just as I was about to give door a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor — then clump — a loud clump.

Crawford secretly contacted each of the other Oscar nominees in the category ( Katharine Hepburn, Geraldine Page and Anne Bancroft, all East Coast-based actresses ), to let them know that if they could not attend the ceremony, she would be happy to accept the Oscar on their behalf ; all agreed.

While she was convalescing in the Blackstone Hotel in New York, Niven and Hjördis were next-door neighbours with Audrey Hepburn, who made her début on Broadway that season.

Their partnership elevated them both to stardom ; as Katharine Hepburn reportedly said, " He gives her class and she gives him sex appeal.

Hepburn never saw the completed film ; she said the memories of Tracy were too painful.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as Christina and Matt Drayton. The film tells the story of Joanna " Joey " Drayton ( Katharine Houghton ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii.

Three months after the murder of Darnley at Kirk o ' Field in 1567, she married James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, one of the murder suspects.

When Hepburn paused in speech and realized that everyone was looking at her, she asked what was the matter and Hawks asked her if she was finished imitating a parrot.

Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Margaret Sullavan, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne were offered the role, but turned it down, Dunne because she felt the part was too small and needed to be expanded.

In the 1993 documentary Katharine Hepburn: All About Me, Hepburn herself says she was wearing high heels at the first meeting with Tracy and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and said " I'm afraid I'm a bit tall for you, Mr. Tracy ".

Fenwick was the lifelong home to actress Katharine Hepburn until she died on June 29, 2003 at the age of 96.

* Katharine Hepburn — A four-time Academy Award – winning American star of film, television and stage, she lived in the borough of Fenwick.

In 2005, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.

She married twice more, to Italian-born industrialist, Bruno Pagliai ( with whom she adopted two children ; they lived in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico ) and Dutch actor Robert Wolders – later companion to actresses Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron – before her retirement in Malibu, California, where she died, aged 68, after suffering a stroke.

In 1933, she was nominated at age 75 for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Lady for a Day, losing to Katharine Hepburn.

On television she played Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the 1957 version of Mayerling, which starred Audrey Hepburn.

In August 1946, it was announced Turner was set to replace Katharine Hepburn in the big budgeted historical drama Green Dolphin Street ( 1947 ), a role for which she darkened her hair and lost 15 pounds.