The Oscar's first lover was Katherine Hepburn!
She is the only woman or person in to whose hands he had fallen most number of times ... four times,without thinking for a second!
She,the Connecticut baby,daughter of a famous urologist,had the most disastrous start to her acting career in the Broadway plays!she was fired more than once for bad performance!
Her career would have ended tamely,when she was fired from the play 'Art and Mrs.Bottle'... but as the company couldn't find a replacement within stipulated time, they recalled her without any choice!
There came the U turn... the whole town started practicing to sing her praise, after watching her as amazon queen in the play 'The warrior's husband'!
RKO was astounded when she asked 15,000 dollars to take up a part in the Hollywood film 'A Bill of divorcement' (she used to make only about 80 dollars at theater!)... but accepted, highly impressed by her screen test!There after no stopping for this beauty queen almost an entire century... oops! no one could beat her record!
Two things are best remembered of her...
One her witty harsh tongue!(when some reporters showed their ugly faces in her private moment with her husband Mr.Smith {the name she hated a lot} and asked how many children they had, she said smilingly 'Two white and Three colored')And the second her great romance with co star 'Spencer Tracy'
She won Oscar on the very first year of her acting career, for 'The Morning glory'!But the Oscar she loved most was for the movie 'Guess who's coming to dinner' (the movie most famous in doctor's community)
The reason was that the Spencer Tracy was her co star in that movie!
Spencer died shortly after the film released (with a failed heart)... as a true catholic he refused to divorce his wife to marry her... even though she loved him most she didn't attended the funeral,as not to offend his family! (Ironically, Katherine Hepurn herself never watched the film 'Guess who is coming to dinner'...as it was his last film)She won the third Oscar very next year for 'The lion in the winter'
when the world seemed to forget her a bit, she came back strong in the movie 'On the golden pond' in 1981!
Oscar man find it hard not to fall in love with that 74 yrs old woman... skin shrieked,but her eyes illuminating the same charming spirit as ever!Even when she vanished from this world at the age of 96...
Oscar couldn't control his habit... he fell for her again yesteryear!
Into the hands of Cate Blanchett... who got best supporting actress in the film 'The aviator' for playing the part of KATHERINE HEPBURN!
MMMM.... now do you have any objection about me calling her as 'Oscar lady'
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