OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. -- Katharine Hepburn, an icon of feminist strength and spirit who brought a chiseled beauty and patrician bearing to such films as "The Philadelphia Story" and "The African Queen," ...

Katharine Hepburn died on Sunday at 96. Few acting careers last as long as Hepburn's six decades, and still fewer actors manage to touch and intrigue as many generations of audiences as she did.

Hepburn died Sunday at 2:50 p.m. at her home in Old Saybrook with family by her side, said Cynthia McFadden, a friend of Hepburn and executor of her estate. Hepburn, who had been in declining health ...

Katharine Hepburn's incisive manner and intellect implied that she'd keep death forever at bay, but that was wishful thinking. By the time Hepburn died yesterday at the age of 96 at her home in Old ...

OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. Katharine Hepburn, an icon of feminist strength and spirit who brought a chiseled beauty and patrician bearing to such films as "The Philadelphia Story" and "The African Queen," ...

I must have been born in the wrong era. I have always loved old movies. A more innocent age -- marked by larger-than-life stars in a black-and-white sky -- has always appealed to me. So when Katharine ...