Mary of Scotland

Katharine Hepburn is rightly remembered as one of the most regal and intellectually formidable stars of Classic Hollywood, an icon whose career spanned decades and earned her a record four Academy Awards for Best Actress. Yet, for much of the 1930s, Hepburn was notoriously labelled “box office poison” by skittish theatre owners, a tag that stemmed from a series of prestigious but commercially disappointing vehicles.…