Katharine Hepburn worked as an actress.
Katharine Hepburn . 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 . In the 1970s , she began appearing in television films , which became the focus of her career in later life .