AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars
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AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years...
Katharine Hepburn publicity photograph
Humphrey Bogart 1940
Jezebel 1938 Bette Davis cropped
Grant, Cary 01 Crisco edit
Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress whose career as a leading lady on stage and screen spanned six decades. Known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokennes
AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars
…marked a completed body of work." Jurors selected the final lists from 250 male and 250 female nominees. When the lists were unveiled, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas and Sidney Poitier were alive, but have since died. As of 2026, at age…
Left to right: daughter Katharine, Marion, Robert, Thomas, and Richard. Her mother is seated at center with daughter Margaret, 1921
Hepburn's yearbook photo, 1928, Bryn Mawr College
Hepburn in the 1932 role that brought her to the attention of Hollywood, The Warrior's Husband