OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. (AP) _ Her backyard acting blossomed into a career for the ages: Four Academy Awards, 12 nominations, 60 years of stage and screen brilliance, a lifetime of feisty independence.

I love her, her films are so much fun to watch, and she was a real MOVIE STAR, but I doubt many thespians think of her as “the greatest actress of all time.” As Dorothy Parker famously said of her: ...

When she was filming her movie debut, “A Bill of Divorcement,” in 1932, Katharine Hepburn wrote her mother a letter: “This is such a scream. ... I’m gathering so many interesting and amusing facts ...