Burials at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut) - Katharine Hepburn, Wallace Stevens, Henry Barnard, J. P. Morgan, Samuel Colt, William Glackens (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Katharine Hepburn, Wallace Stevens, Henry Barnard, J. P. Morgan, Samuel Colt, William Glackens, Gideon Welles, Edward Miner Gallaudet, Morgan Bulkeley, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Joseph Roswell Hawley, Robert O. Tyler, Joseph Twichell, Albert Augustus Pope, Edwin D. Morgan, Horace Wells, Cedar Hill Cemetery, John Moran Bailey, Isaac Toucey, Charles Dudley Warner, Yung Wing, Thomas H. Seymour, Anne Morgan, John R. Buck, Isabella Beecher Hooker, James Dixon, Marshall Jewell, Richard D. Hubbard, Thomas Church Brownell, Loren P. Waldo, Henry Roberts, Jacob Weidenmann, Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, William Closson, Nathaniel Shipman, Charles Chapman, Julius L. Strong, P. Davis Oakey, George Capewell, Charles Dillingham, Junius Spencer Morgan II. Excerpt: Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned seven decades, she was adept in both dramatic and comedic roles. In 1999, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star in the history of American cinema. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy parents, Hepburn turned to acting after graduation from Bryn Mawr College. Favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her feature debut, 1932's A Bill of Divorcement, was a huge success and turned her into an instant star. Within eighteen months, she had won an Academy Award for Morning Glory. This initial success, however, was followed by a series of flops. Her brash personality and unconventional behavior (such as wearing trousers) began to turn audiences away, and in time she was labeled "Box Office Poison." By the end of the 1930s, her career was in serious jeopardy. Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying the film rights to The Philadelphia Story and only selling them on the...