KATHARINE HEPBURN

Little Rock connection: Appeared at Robinson Auditorium in 1941.

Tony Awards connection: Received a Tony nomination for Actress in a Musical in 1970 for Coco and a Tony nomination for Actress in a Play in 1982 for The West Side Waltz.  Hepburn famously eschewed awards programs, making only one Oscar appearance in her lifetime (not to accept an award, but to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Lawrence Weingarten).  Not only did she not skip the Tony Awards, with the cast of Coco she performed on the 1970 Tony telecast. That segment ran for over 15 minutes and is the longest excerpt from a show to ever appear in a Tony ceremony.

Today marks the anniversary of her birth.  She was born on May 12, 1907.