Persona wrote: u guys are probably sick of my shit by now, but I like doing these and they are providing with gr8 ways of procrastinating lol. Anyway, u know the drill - each post i'll profile a famous old hollywood actress.
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Name: Katherine Hepburn
Birth: May 12, 1907 (Hatford, Connecticut)
Death: June 29. 2003 (natural causes)
Top 5 films
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. The African Queen
4. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
5. Adam's Rib
Fun fact: One of Hollywood's early tall leading ladies, standing over 5' 7" in an era when most actresses were only a little over 5' 0".
Death: October 6, 1989 (metastasised breast cancer)
Top 5 films
1. All About Eve
2. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
3. Now, Voyager
4. Jezebel
5. The Letter
Fun fact: After the song "Bette Davis Eyes" became a hit single, she wrote letters to singer Kim Carnes and songwriters Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, asking how they knew so much about her. One of the reasons Davis loved the song is that her grandson heard it and thought it "cool" that his grandmother had a hit song written about her.
Fun fact: Was fluent in English, Dutch, Spanish, French, and Italian. She was raised bilingually; speaking English and Dutch (resulting in her unique accent). Throughout her life, she used multilingualism to great advantage with international press in both her careers as an actress and humanitarian.
Fun fact: During filming, whenever there was something going on that wasn't to her liking, she would simply say, "I think I'll go back to Sweden!", which frightened the studio heads so much that they gave in to her every whim.
Fun fact: Has owned some of the world's most magnificent jewelry, including the 33-carat "Krupp Diamond", the Duchess of Windsor diamond brooch, the Grand Duchess of Russia emeralds, the "LaPeregina Pearl" (which was a Valentine present to her from Richard Burton), and the famous pear-shaped 69-carat "Burton-Cartier Diamond" Burton gave her in 1969 (subsequently renamed the "Burton-Taylor Diamond.".
Death: June 22, 1969 (accidental barbiturate overdose)
Top 5 films:
1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Meet Me in St Louis
3. Judgement at Nuremberg
4. A Star is Born
5. Easter Parade
Fun fact: She was considered an icon in the gay community in the 1950s and 1960s. Her death and the loss of that emotional icon in 1969 has been thought to be a contributing factor to the feeling of the passing of an era that helped spark the Stonewall Riots that began the modern gay rights advocacy movement.
Fun fact: She was so dedicated to her fans that she always personally responded to her fan mail by typing responses on blue paper and autographing it. A great deal of her spare time and weekends were spent doing this.
Death: January 20, 1990 (congestive heart failure)
Top 5 films:
1. Double Indemnity
2. The Lady Eve
3. Ball of Fire
4. Baby Face
5. Forty Guns
Fun fact: Throughout her career she was known for her kindness and patience with younger performers. Marilyn Monroe, who worked with Stanwyck in the 1952 film Clash by Night(1952) said that Stanwyck was the only member of Hollywood's older generation who was kind to her.
Fun fact: Most shots of her in her films were of her left profile. She considered her left side to be her best and only rarely allowed full face or right profile shots; an injury to her nose had created a bump on the right. Once an entire set had to be rebuilt so she would not have to show her right side, resulting in some cameramen calling the right side of her face "the dark side of the moon".