Who dated Katharine Hepburn?
Howard Hughes dated Katharine Hepburn from until . The age gap was 1 years, 4 months and 18 days.
Spencer Tracy dated Katharine Hepburn from until . The age gap was 7 years, 1 months and 7 days.
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn [ˈkæθrɪn ˈhɛpˌbɝn], née le à Hartford (Connecticut) et morte le à Old Saybrook (Connecticut), est une actrice américaine.
Surnommée « Miss Kate », Hepburn compte parmi les grands mythes hollywoodiens. Dotée d'un fort tempérament, elle refuse les conventions ; éclectique et prolifique, elle excelle dans le registre de jeunes femmes loufoques ou de vieilles filles aigries (notamment dans les comédies de George Cukor et Howard Hawks) avant d'endosser le costume de souveraines d'Écosse et d'Angleterre (pour John Ford et Anthony Harvey).
Elle détient le record, inégalé jusqu’à présent, de l’actrice la plus oscarisée au monde, puisqu’elle a reçu l'Oscar de la meilleure actrice à quatre reprises, sans jamais venir chercher ses récompenses. En 1999, Katharine Hepburn est classée par l'American Film Institute comme la « plus grande actrice de légende du cinéma américain ».
Elle n'a aucun lien de parenté avec l'actrice Audrey Hepburn, troisième de ce même classement.
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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American Aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.
As a film tycoon, Hughes gained fame in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-budget and often controversial films such as The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), and Scarface (1932). He later acquired the RKO Pictures film studio in 1948, recognized then as one of the Big Five studios in Hollywood, although the production company struggled under his control and ultimately ceased operations in 1957.
In 1932, Hughes founded Hughes Aircraft Company and spent the next two decades setting multiple world air speed records and building landmark planes like the Hughes H-1 Racer (1935) and the H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose, 1947). The H-4 was the largest flying boat in history with the longest wingspan of any aircraft from the time it was built until 2019. He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. Hughes won the Harmon Trophy on two occasions (1936 and 1938), the Collier Trophy (1938), and the Congressional Gold Medal (1939) all for his achievements in aviation throughout the 1930s. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973 and was included in Flying magazine's 2013 list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No. 25.
During his final years, Hughes extended his financial empire to include several major businesses in Las Vegas, such as real estate, hotels, casinos, and media outlets. Known at the time as one of the most powerful men in the state of Nevada, he is largely credited with transforming Las Vegas into a more refined cosmopolitan city. After years of mental and physical decline, Hughes died of kidney failure in 1976. His legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Howard Hughes Holdings Inc.
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Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy, född 5 april 1900 i Milwaukee, Wisconsin, död 10 juni 1967 i Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, var en amerikansk skådespelare.
Tracy filmdebuterade 1930 i John Fords Up the River mot Humphrey Bogart, senare följde filmer som Hans andra hustru (1933), men det stora genombrottet lät vänta på sig. Tracy engagerades av Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1935 och där blomstrade hans karriär med en räcka succéfilmer, dessutom erhöll han både 1937 och 1938 Oscars för sina rollprestationer i Havets hjältar och Han som tänkte med hjärtat. Totalt Oscarsnominerades han nio gånger, ett rekord han delar i den kategorin med Laurence Olivier. Under 1940-talet räknades Spencer Tracy som en av studions största stjärnor. Tracys spel var ofta kraftfullt och engagerande och han blev därigenom mycket uppskattad. 1942 spelade Spencer Tracy mot Katharine Hepburn i Årets kvinna, ett samarbete som skulle komma att resultera i nio filmer under 25 år. Mot slutet av sitt liv samarbetade Tracy nästan uteslutande med regissören Stanley Kramer. Det var också i Kramers film Gissa vem som kommer på middag (1967), som Tracys kom att spela sin sista roll. Filmen färdigställdes endast 17 dagar innan Spencer Tracy avled.
Under sin filmkarriär, från starten 1930 till sin död 1967, medverkade Tracy i 75 filmer. Han kom att betraktas som en av de mest respekterade filmskådespelarna vid tiden. År 1999, rankade American Film Institute Tracy som den nionde största manliga stjärnan från Hollywoods klassiska era.
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