Editing Katharine Hepburn (section)

=== Characterizations ===
Hepburn is the subject of a one-woman play, ''[[Tea at Five]]'', written by [[Matthew Lombardo]]. The first act features Hepburn in 1938, after being labeled "box office poison", and the second act in 1983, where she reflects on her life and career.<ref name=tea>{{cite news|last=Weber |first=Bruce |title=Theater Review; Two Snapshots of a Hollywood Legend at Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/theater/theater-review-two-snapshots-of-a-hollywood-legend-at-home.html |access-date=November 28, 2011 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 18, 2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022014205/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/theater/theater-review-two-snapshots-of-a-hollywood-legend-at-home.html |archive-date=October 22, 2013}}</ref> It premiered in 2002 at the Hartford Stage.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/theater/documents/02164902.htm |title=Tea and Kate |work=[[The Boston Phoenix]] |date=February 21–28, 2002 |access-date=February 11, 2012 |author=Clay, Carolyn |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121120125946/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/theater/documents/02164902.htm |archive-date=November 20, 2012}}</ref> Hepburn has been portrayed in ''Tea at Five'' by [[Kate Mulgrew]],<ref name="tea" /> [[Tovah Feldshuh]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Gans |first=Andrew |title=Feldshuh Is Hepburn in Tour of Lombardo's Tea at Five, Beginning Dec. 19 |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/feldshuh-is-hepburn-in-tour-of-lombardos-tea-at-five-beginning-dec.-19-146254 |work=Playbill |access-date=November 29, 2011 |date=December 19, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071234/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/feldshuh-is-hepburn-in-tour-of-lombardos-tea-at-five-beginning-dec.-19-146254 |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> [[Stephanie Zimbalist]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Donelan |first=Charles |title=Tea at Five Tells Hepburn Story |url=http://www.independent.com/news/2009/dec/02/tea-five-tells-hepburn-story/ |access-date=November 28, 2011 |newspaper=The Santa Barbara Independent |date=December 2, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031212444/http://www.independent.com/news/2009/dec/02/tea-five-tells-hepburn-story/ |archive-date=October 31, 2013}}</ref> and [[Charles Busch]].<ref name="busch">{{cite web | url=http://www.teaatfive.org/TeaAt5/HOME.html | title=Home | publisher=Tea at Five | access-date=January 7, 2012 | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217141523/http://www.teaatfive.org/TeaAt5/HOME.html | archive-date=December 17, 2011}}</ref> A revised version of the play, eliminating the first act and expanding the second, premiered on June 28, 2019, at Boston's Huntington Theater with [[Faye Dunaway]] playing Hepburn. Feldshuh also appeared as Hepburn in ''[[The Amazing Howard Hughes]]'', a 1977 television movie, while Mearle Ann Taylor later portrayed her in ''[[The Scarlett O'Hara War]]'' (1980). In [[Martin Scorsese]]'s [[Howard Hughes]] biographical film ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'', Hepburn was portrayed by [[Cate Blanchett]], which earned her the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]. This marked the [[List of Academy Award records|first instance]] where the portrayal of an Academy Award-winning actress itself won an Academy Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cate Blanchett Biography|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018917/bio|publisher=Yahoo! Movies|access-date=October 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725052148/http://movies.yahoo.com/person/cate-blanchett/biography.html|archive-date=July 25, 2013 }}</ref>