PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP This 1940 file photo shows US actress Katharine Hepburn, who died Sunday, 29 June 2003, at the age of 96 surrounded by her family and friends at her home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. A Hollywood icon, Hepburn's career spanned six decades during which she became one of the most-acclaimed actresses of all time. She was outspoken and her longstanding affair with US actor Spencer Tracy brought drama and controversy to her life. But no woman has matched the four Academy Awards she won and the American Film Institute counted her among the greatest film icons, alongside Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant and Bette Davis. 000_APP1999111751016

Screen actress Katharine Hepburn is shown in the 1940 film

Away from the cameras, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy relax between scenes of

Katharine Hepburn reacts after Columbia University President Michael Sovern, left, presented the actress-author with an honorary doctor of humane letters during the University's graduation commencement in New York City, Wednesday, May 13, 1992. (AP Photo/David Cantor)

Actress Katharine Hepburn is shown speaking in this March 3, 1986 photo at a special tribute in New York to the late actor Spencer Tracy. (AP Photo/Paul Burnett)

Actress Katharine Hepburn addresses the 46th annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Ca., on April 2, 1974. It is the three-time Oscar winner's first appearance at the awards. (AP Photo)

Sep 04, 1971 - Paris, FRANCE - An iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence KATHARINE HEPBURN during a press cocktail to her movie 'Troja'. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the number one female star in their Greatest American Screen Legends list (AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars). Hepburn had a famous and longtime romance with Spencer Tracy, both on- and off-screen. (Credit Image: ? KEYSTONE Pictures USA)/ eyevine

Sep 04, 1971 - Paris, FRANCE - An iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence KATHARINE HEPBURN during a press cocktail to her movie 'Troja'. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1975 for her lead role in Love Among the Ruins, and was nominated for four other Emmys and two Tony Awards during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Hepburn as the number one female star in their Greatest American Screen Legends list (AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars). Hepburn had a famous and longtime romance with Spencer Tracy, both on- and off-screen. (Credit Image: ? KEYSTONE Pictures USA)/ eyevine

Sep 04, 1971 - Paris, FRANCE - An iconic four-time Academy Award-winning American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence, KATHARINE HEPBURN chatting with ALAIN DELON during a press conference to her movie 'Troja'. The magnetic Alain Delon was among the most prominent French actors of the postwar era; an exotically handsome performer, he sprung from offscreen rumor and scandal to emerge as a uniquely enigmatic and sinister talent. (Credit Image: ? KEYSTONE Pictures USA)/ eyevine

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP The American actress Katherine Hepburn talks with the French actor Alain Delon 03 September 1971 in Paris during a cocktail party organized for the release of the French film "Les Troyennes" by Michael Cacoyannis in which Katherine Hepburn plays Hecube.

Best actress Oscar winner Barbra Streisand stands beside British director Anthony Harvey, who accepts the best actress award on behalf of Katharine Hepburn, at the 1968 Academy Awards held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Hollywood, Ca., April 14, 1969. Streisand was named best actress for her role in

British director Anthony Harvey and American actress Katharine Hepburn are seen ton the set of the motion picture production

American actress Katharine Hepburn takes a bicycle ride in the Victorine Studios where she is filming

Katharine Hepburn poses in character for her role in the 1962 film version of the play

Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift / Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Actress Katharine Hepburn leaves the London airport on her arrival from the U.S. on May 9, 1958. (AP Photo)

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy talk between scenes on the set of

Actress Katharine Hepburn is shown during filming of

American actress Katharine Hepburn is seen on her arrival at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 19, 1955. The stage and screen star is on a tour with the Old Vic Company of London. (AP Photo/Melbourne Herald)

American actress Katharine Hepburn who plays Epifania in the George Bernard Shaw play