Perhaps because my life hasn’t followed a conventional gender script, I am fond of images that
Perhaps because my life hasn’t followed a conventional gender script, I am fond of images that challenge stereotypes–and Katherine Hepburn was so formidable she doesn’t seem out of place at all.Hepburn’s breakout performance came in a 1932 revival of The Warrior’s Husband (a riff on Lysistrata) when she played Antiope, sister of the queen and commander of the all-female armed forces in the Amazonian state of Pontus. For her stage entrance, Hepburn jumped down a flight of stairs while carrying the carcass of large stag on her shoulders.An RKO scout in the audience one night, Leland Hayward, was so impressed with Hepburn’s physicality that he arranged a screen test. She made her Hollywood debut in George Cukor’s A Bill of Divorcement and by 1933 had earned her first Academy Award for Morning Glory, where she portrayed a young actress who sacrifices romance for the sake of her career.Perhaps Hepburn had her early successes in mind when she said, “I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.” -- source link
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