Oscar Actors: Hepburn said about Losing for The Philadelphia Story to Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940).
“I was offered Kitty Foyle, but I didn’t want to play a soap opera about a shopgirl…Ginger Rogers was wonderful, she’s enormously talented and she deserved the Oscar.”
“As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”
As of 2025, Hepburn is the only performer in the Academy’s history to have won 4 Best Actress Oscars: 1933, 1967, 1978, and 1981.
Meryl Streep holds the record as the most nominated actor–21 nods, but only 3 Oscars–in film history.
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