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 . In 1999 , Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema . Her early years in the film industry were marked with success , including an Academy Award for her third picture , Morning Glory ( 1933 ) , but this was followed by a series of commercial failures that led her to be labeled `` box office poison '' in 1938 . 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 .