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Born in Hatford, Connecticut in 1907, Hepburn was brought up by her surgeon father and suffragette mother to be strong-willed, free-spirited and physically fit. Her Broadway career was a success despite her constant arguments with directors, and her contract with RKO to make movies was signed despite the fact that she had wilfully demanded an extremely high fee. But her first film, A Bill Of Divorcement, was a hit and she turned out to be one of Hollywood's best-loved performers, although she refused to play the celebrity game. Having cannily acquired the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, she began a fruitful relationship, on and off-screen, with Spencer Tracy. She kept appearing in hit films well into the 90s.
