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Mar 1, 2022 · Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn. In 1904 Katharine Houghton married Thomas Norval Hepburn during his last year of medical school at Johns Hopkins, where her sister Edith was also a student. After Tom finished his medical training, the Hepburns moved to Hartford, which remained home for the rest of their lives. Between 1905 and 1918, the Hepburns had six ...
The niece of superstar Katharine Hepburn (her mother was Hepburn's sister), Katherine Houghton attended Sarah Lawrence College before making her Broadway bow in Ruth Gordon's A Very Rich Woman (1965) She was then cast as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's daughter--and Sidney Poiter's fiance--in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Jan 8, 2022 · Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton and Spencer Tracy in a scene from the 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”. Learning that Sidney Poitier had died, I thought first of his performance ...
Aug 5, 2011 · The last time most of America saw Katharine Houghton, she was playing the idealistic young white woman announcing her engagement to a noble black doctor (Sidney Poitier) in the 1967 film “Guess ...
Other articles where Katharine Houghton is discussed: Sidney Poitier: Hollywood trailblazer: …of a white woman (Katharine Houghton) who takes him home to meet her liberal parents (Spencer Tracy, in his last film, and Katharine Hepburn). The success of the movies made Poitier the top box-office draw of the year.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women.
Some of her later films include the 1991 gangster movie "Billy Bathgate," the 2004 biographical drama "Kinsey," and 2010's family-adventure "The Last Airbender," which was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Along with her acting career, Houghton is a celebrated playwright, who has seen eleven of her plays go into production.
