Cat. #001514334: KATHARINE HEPBURN

Rare and splendid vintage 8x10-inch black and white publicity portrait as Lewtie Cameron Brewton in Elia Kazan's The Sea of Grass (1947), boldly signed in black fountain pen with her name alone around the time of the film. In good condition, with minor edgewear. "I'm a personality as well as an actress," Katharine Hepburn once declared. "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 "artificial" speech patterns. The following year, she starred in Morning Glory (1933), for which she nabbed her first of four Oscars. Despite increasingly positive revie