* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

The top actors of the era are now thought of as the classic film stars, such as Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, and the greatest box office draw of the 1930s, child performer Shirley Temple.

Although the project had an excellent pedigree with stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, the film was not a success, and Capra's eyebrow-raising statement, " I think State of the Union was my most perfect film in handling people and ideas " has few adherents today.

One of Cukor's first ingenues was actress Katharine Hepburn, who debuted in A Bill of Divorcement and whose looks and personality left RKO officials at a loss as to how to use her.

Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.

He reunited twice with Katharine Hepburn for the television movies Love Among the Ruins ( 1975 ) and The Corn Is Green ( 1979 ).

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and has been called " the screwiest of the screwball comedies " by film critic Andrew Sarris.

With Katharine Hepburn in a promotional image for The African Queen

Bogart starred with Katharine Hepburn in the film The African Queen in 1951, again directed by his friend John Huston.

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 ".

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy visited him at this time.

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

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A thank-you letter from Katharine Hepburn to Alan Light thanking him for his condolences in regards of Cary Grant's death

In Morocco ( 1930 ) Marlene Dietrich kisses another woman on the lips, and Katharine Hepburn plays a man in Christopher Strong in 1933 and again in Sylvia Scarlett ( 1936 ).

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Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib ( 1949 ) and Pat and Mike ( 1952 ).

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On 31 August 1940, Olivier and Leigh were married in Santa Barbara, California, in a ceremony attended only by their witnesses, Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin.

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The many performers who have appeared at the theatre include Pearl Bailey, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore, Warren Beatty, Sarah Bernhardt, Claire Bloom, Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth, Fanny Brice, Carol Channing, George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Katharine Cornell, Hume Cronyn, Tim Curry, Denishawn, Ruth Draper, Todd Duncan, Maurice Evans, Lillian Gish, Ruth Gordon, Julie Harris, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Joseph Jefferson, James Earl Jones, Lucille La Verne, Eva LeGallienne, Jerry Lewis, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Eartha Kitt, Ian McKellen, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Rita Moreno, Helen Morgan, Rosie O ' Donnell, Laurence Olivier, Annie Oakley, Geraldine Page, Robert Redford, Debbie Reynolds, Chita Rivera, Will Rogers, Rosalind Russell, George C. Scott, Kevin Spacey, Sting, Jessica Tandy, Norma Terris, Marlo Thomas, Lily Tomlin, Franchot Tone, Rip Torn and Liv Ullmann.

Golden Hollywood ( First row, left-right ) Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford ( Second row, left-right ) John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas ( Third row, left-right ) Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney ( Fourth row, left-right ) Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren ( Fifth row, left-right ) Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

The name is a blend of the names of the three people who devised it: speech therapist Margaret Walker, and two psychiatric hospital visitors from the Royal Association for Deaf people named Katharine Johnston and Tony Cornforth.

They settled in London and had four daughters: Janet ( born 1865 ), Charlotte ( born 1867 ), Margaret ( born 1869 ) and Katharine ( born 1875 ).

Some of the more notable artists appearing on Hyacinths and Thistles are Bob Mould, Sally Timms ( The Mekons ), Sarah Cracknell ( Saint Etienne ), Neil Hannon ( The Divine Comedy ), Gary Numan, Marc Almond, Momus, Clare Grogan ( Altered Images ), Melanie, Miss Lily Banquette ( Combustible Edison ), Katharine Whalen ( Squirrel Nut Zippers ) and the accomplished toy piano player Margaret Leng Tan.

With the greater ease of travel, more members of Canada's royal family visited as well, including the Queen Mother ; Princess Mary, Princess Royal ; Katharine, Duchess of Kent ; Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ; and, in 1957, Elizabeth was again in residence, though for the first time as queen.

* In 1928, Margaret Ayer Barnes adapted the novel into a play, first produced on Broadway, starring Katharine Cornell as Countess Ellen Olenska.

Productions included The Citadel ( with Geraldine Fitzgerald ), A Christmas Carol ( broadcast once with Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge, and once with Orson Welles himself in the role ), a non-musical version of Show Boat ( with Margaret Sullavan as Magnolia, Orson Welles as Cap ' n Andy, Helen Morgan as Julie, and author Edna Ferber herself as Parthy ), A Farewell to Arms ( with Katharine Hepburn ), Mutiny on the Bounty, Arrowsmith ( with Helen Hayes ), Les Misérables ( with Walter Huston ), Our Town, Ah, Wilderness, Dodsworth, Lost Horizon ( with Ronald Colman ), Dinner at Eight ( with Hedda Hopper and Lucille Ball ), Liliom ( with Orson Welles in the title role and Helen Hayes as Julie ), and Huckleberry Finn ( with Jackie Cooper ).

His first appearance on Broadway was in Romeo and Juliet opposite Katharine Cornell in 1936, but he made his biggest impact in Shakespeare's Richard II, a production whose unexpected success was the surprise of the 1937 theatre season and allowed Evans to play Hamlet ( 1938 ) ( the first time that the play was performed uncut on the New York stage ), Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 ( 1939 ), Macbeth ( 1941 ) and Malvolio in Twelfth Night ( 1942 ) opposite the Viola of Helen Hayes, all under the direction of Margaret Webster.

The rest of the main cast included Robert Walden and Linda Kelsey, who played general-assignment reporters Joe Rossi and Billie Newman, respectively ( Kelsey joined the show in the fourth episode, replacing Rebecca Balding, who had portrayed reporter Carla Mardigian during the show's first three episodes ); Mason Adams, who played managing editor Charles Hume, an old friend of Lou's who had convinced him to move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles ; Jack Bannon, who played assistant city editor Art Donovan ; Daryl Anderson, who played photographer Dennis Price, usually referred to as " Animal "; and Nancy Marchand, who played the widowed, patrician publisher, Margaret Pynchon, a character loosely based on real life newspaper publishers Dorothy Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Katharine Graham of The Washington Post.

He married again in 1934 ; he met his second wife, Katharine Margaret Fox, on a skiing trip.

His third marriage, from 1972 until his death, was to Julia Lockwood ( née Margaret Julia Leon in 1941 ), the actress daughter of the British film star Margaret Lockwood, with whom he had four children, Tim, Nicholas, Lucy and Katharine.

His leading ladies include Margaret Sullavan, Katharine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Jean Harlow, Jean Arthur, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Kelly, Maureen O ' Hara, Ginger Rogers, and Eleanor Powell.

The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier, Andrea Leeds, Samuel S. Hinds and Lucille Ball.

The newcomer Scott was up against some of Hollywood's biggest names for the award -- Katharine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, and the winner Ginger Rogers.

Katherine Isobel Murray ( born November 2, 1981 ), better known by her screen name Katharine Isabelle, is a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Ginger in the Ginger Snaps trilogy and as Gibb in Freddy vs. Jason.

* Stage Door ( 1937, also nominated for Best Director ) with Katharine Hepburn as well as his first of three consecutive film with Ginger Rogers

During the 1930s the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove was frequented by celebrities of cinema such as Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, and countless others.

As part of an ensemble cast that included Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball, Leeds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as an aspiring actress in Stage Door ( 1937 ).

Ginger ( Katharine Isabelle ), her late sister, appears to her as an apparition, saying that she is healing faster and the monkshood is not a cure, it only slows the transformation.

* Katharine Isabelle as Ginger Fitzgerald

Eventually the part was rewritten and split from a single character into two characters which were played by Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.

In 1953, he tried to buy the film library of RKO Radio Pictures — including many of the most famous movies made by Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, and Cary Grant — but was rebuffed by the studio's then owner, Howard Hughes.

The third and final film in the Ginger Snaps trilogy takes place in 19th century Canada, following the exploits of the antecedents of the Fitzgerald sisters of the two previous movies: Ginger ( Katharine Isabelle ) and Brigitte ( Emily Perkins ), who are identical in all respects to their modern-day counterparts.

* Katharine Isabelle as Ginger Fitzgerald

* Stage Door ( 1937 ) with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball

MGM stars included at various times " King of Hollywood " Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Gloria Stuart, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, Audrey Hepburn and Buster Keaton.

Ordered as sung in the song, they are Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Joe DiMaggio, Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean, Grace Kelly, Jean Harlow, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Lana Turner and Bette Davis.