Ludlow Ogden Smith

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Ludlow Ogden Smith (February 6, 1899, Pennsylvania – July 13, 1979, New Canaan, Connecticut) was a Philadelphia businessman. He married Katharine Hepburn in 1928; she was 21 and he was 29. He changed his name to Ogden Smith Ludlow at Hepburn's request so that she would not be known as "Kate Smith"; Kate Smith was a popular singer of the time. They separated in 1934 and divorced formally in 1941.

For many years Hepburn would deny that she had married Smith.

Despite their divorce they remained on good terms, with Smith even financing the stage play of The Philadelphia Story in 1939 to help restart Hepburn's then-flagging career. She later wrote about him and their marriage in her memoir Me.

Smith remarried after his divorce, and had two children, one of whom he named Katharine.

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[link] The story related in The Scotsman newspaper

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