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Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn
Age: 96 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 12
Died: 2003
Died: June 29
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Actress
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Hartford
Connecticut
Katharine Houghton Hepburn
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