Katharine Hepburn acts.
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 . Morning Glory is a 1933 Pre-Code American drama film which tells the story of an eager would-be actress and her journey to stardom , and what she loses as a result . The picture stars Katharine Hepburn , Douglas Fairbanks , Jr. , and Adolphe Menjou , was adapted by Howard J. Green from a then not yet stage produced play with the same name by Zoë Akins , and was directed by Lowell Sherman . The African Queen (film) . The film stars Humphrey Bogart ( who won the Academy Award for Best Actor -- his only Oscar ) , and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley , Peter Bull , Walter Gotell , Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel .