Transcript: Profile: Katharine Hepburn's legacy on and off the screen

BOB EDWARDS
NPR Morning Edition
06-30-2003
Profile: Katharine Hepburn's legacy on and off the screen

Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

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Screen legend Katharine Hepburn died yesterday at her home in Connecticut. She was 96 years old. Her career spanned more than 60 years. Her most enduring legacy may be the ideals of independence and intelligence she projected both on and off the screen to generations. Pat Dowell reports.

PAT DOWELL reporting:

In the 1933 movie "Morning Glory" Katharine Hepburn's third film, she played a small town girl who drunkenly declares to a penthouse full of Broadway luminaries ...

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