Cat. #001514333: KATHARINE HEPBURN

Highly rare and 8x10-inch black and white portrait in the title role in 1936's stage play "Jane Eyre"-- during which she met and entered into a relationship with Howard Hughes-- boldly signed in black fountain pen at the time of the production. In good condition, overall, but priced to reflect a 1.5-inch crease to the upper area and some residue, visible when the photo is angled toward a light source, but not otherwise. "I'm a personality as well as an actress," Katharine Hepburn once decla red. "Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star." Indeed, the actress was a true individual, with her distinct New England accent and bony frame, ever-expanding mind, and inability to tell anything less than the truth. Critical reactions to her first film, A Bill of Divorcement in 1932, set the tone for the next decade: Some thought that she was the freshest and most original actress in Hollywood, while others were irritated by her mannerisms and "artifi