Katharine Hepburn was in cinema.
Academy Award for Best Actress . It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry . Katharine Hepburn . She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters , such as in The African Queen ( 1951 ) , a persona the public embraced . On Golden Pond is a 1981 American drama film directed by Mark Rydell . The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester .