A profile of
Katharine Hepburn, considered in many circles as the greatest American actress that ever lived, is presented through still photographs, clips from her many movies, comments from historians, other academics and those that knew her through a professional and/or personal relationship, and words from her own mouth in two historic interviews she gave later in her life. From a well-off New England liberal background where within her family there was a sense that hard work was generally rewarded, she herself considered that her success was being born at the right time in history where her persona, which imbued her roles and which she was not afraid to display in view when she made herself available to the public, was something interesting to the movie and theater going audience. On the personal side, this profile focuses on her one and only marriage early on in her adult life, and her enduring professional and personal relationship with
Spencer Tracy, which may have been as a strong as it was due to Catholic Tracy refusing to get a divorce forcing the two often to lead separate, independent lives from each other.
—Huggo