Legendary actress Katharine Hepburn won four Academy Awards and received twelve Academy Award nominations during her sixty-year career. Known for her independence and strength, Hepburn acted on the stage on Broadway beginning in the late 1920s before appearing in her first film, A Bill of Divorcement, in 1932. Immediately popular, Hepburn won her first Academy Award for her third film, Morning Glory (1933). She then starred in a number of films, including Little Women and Bringing Up Baby, before returning to the stage in The Philadelphia Story. Hepburn appeared in the film version in 1940 and then won a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1942 Hepburn was featured in her first film with Spencer Tracy. The pair appeared in nine films together and had a lasting relationship off screen as well. Hepburn left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1951 and worked on stage and in films. Notable among her films were The African Queen, Long Day's Journey into Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981), the latter three garnering Hepburn Academy Awards. Hepburn became a writer later in her life, publishing in 1987 the best-selling The Making of 'The African Queen': Or, How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind. She also wrote an autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, in 1991. Hepburn received countless awards and honors during her career, and a survey conducted by the American Film Institute in 1999 ranked Hepburn the top screen legend among actresses.