Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) Actress. Hepburn won four Academy Awards in an acting career which lasted more than sixty years. She is perhaps best known for her role as a prim missionary opposite Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. Playbill from her January 1982 performance in The West Side Waltz, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, signed on the cover above her image “For Sally Caricigliceo Katharine Hepburn”. Also signed by co-star Dorothy Loudon (1925-2003), “To Sally Dorothy Loudon.” Hepburn, notoriously, did not sign photograph of herself making this signature on her image quite rare.