http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/08/from-morning-glory-to-on-golden-pond-four-oscars-for-kate-hepburn/ A new Smithsonian blog covering scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/08/from-morning-glory-to-on-golden-pond-four-oscars-for-kate-hepburn/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 Amy Henderson, Historian, National Portrait Gallery Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:57:46 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/?p=6704#comment-1893 The Portrait Gallery is incredibly grateful to the Katharine Hepburn Estate for donating her record 4 Best Actress Oscars to the Gallery. The earliest one, for MORNING GLORY (1933), has a special aura: first, because it is bronze (the gold-plating has worn off), and second, because it is the first of the Academy's statuettes to be dubbed "Oscar" in print. The Portrait Gallery is incredibly grateful to the Katharine Hepburn Estate for donating her record 4 Best Actress Oscars to the Gallery. The earliest one, for MORNING GLORY (1933), has a special aura: first, because it is bronze (the gold-plating has worn off), and second, because it is the first of the Academy’s statuettes to be dubbed “Oscar” in print.

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