A feisty Scots-Yankee known for her intelligence, humor and iron determination, Katharine Hepburn demonstrated remarkable endurance during a film career that spanned more than six decades , winning three of her four Best Actress Academy Awards after the age of 60. Credit goes to his extraordinary parents, a noted urologist father, who, at great professional risk, brought the facts about venereal disease to a wider audience, and to his devoted suffragette wife (an early champion of control of Births), for providing an eccentric and distinguished education emphasizing Spartan physical discipline. From their Connecticut crucible emerged a strong, outspoken original who would become one of the country's most admired and beloved actresses. Hepburn made it more about brains than beauty, although she was certainly not unpleasant, and her strength of character, high moral fiber, and regal poise were enduring qualities that continued to bring her roles of choice as she aged. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1928, Hepburn embarked on a stage career, making her professional debut as a lady-in-waiting in a Baltimore production of "The Czarina". In November 1928, she attracted attention on Broadway as a wealthy schoolgirl in "These Days," but her next years on the stage were relatively uneventful, except for her penchant for clashes with directors and the teams, which led to his dismissal from the projects. It was an update of "Lysistrata", Broadway's "Warrior's Husband" (1932), which led to a film contract with RKO, and Typhoon Kate blew through Hollywood, intending to back on his ears, alienating almost everyone with his arrogance. Although he found her antics "sub-collegiate idiotic," director George Cukor cast Hepburn in his first film, "A Bill of Divorcement" (1932), and his great discovery restored his confidence and generosity in a collaboration including eight feature films and two television series. films, containing some of his finest works for the screen. The young Hepburn was a creature of enormous imaginative power and showy breeding, whose magically convincing performance as a stage-struck young girl in her third film, "Morning Glory" (1933), won her the first of his four Oscars (from a record 12 nominations). Some of her early roles in films like Cukor's "Little Women" (1933) and Gregory La Cava's "Stage Door" (1937), both depicting women in mutually supportive relationships, anticipated feminist concerns. Cukor's "Sylvia Scarlett" (1936), in which Hepburn disguises herself as a boy for most of the film, was perhaps the most notable example of the androgyny running through Hepburn's career and a groundbreaking film for undermining socially constructed norms of femininity and masculinity.