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Sep 6, 2022 · Ludlow Ogden Smith was president of Ogden Ludlow Inc. and the creator of the “Ludlow Formula”, a precursor to computerized systems in financial institutions. He rose to fame after he got associated with actress Katharine Hepburn.
- 6 February 1899
- Ludlow Ogden Smith
- Katharine Hepburn’s ex-husband
Hepburn's only marriage was to Ludlow Ogden Smith, a socialite-businessman from Philadelphia whom she met while a student at Bryn Mawr. The couple wed on December 12, 1928, when she was 21 and he was 29. [255] Smith changed his name to S. Ogden Ludlow at her behest so that she would not be "Kate Smith", which she considered too plain. [33]
Apr 28, 2022 · Around the same time, she married businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith. Hepburn then began to perform on Broadway before making the change to film. In 1932, she starred in her first onscreen role in "A Bill of Divorcement."
- Leslie Veliz
Perhaps sensing that nothing would give Kate greater pleasure than to walk out of the show, Ludlow Ogden Smith, her rich, handsome beau of the moment, pressed her to marry him.
Nov 26, 2010 · In 1928, she had married Ludlow Ogden Smith, scion of an old-money Philadelphia family, only to turn her back on the lawn-party life he offered to follow her passion for acting. And she had...
Jul 7, 1979 · Ogden Ludlow, born Ludlow Ogden Smith, was the son of a prominent Philadelphia family and a successful businessman. He was the founder of his own company, Ogden Ludlow, Inc., which was an authority on savings bank systems, a precursor to computerized systems in financial institutions.
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When Ludlow Ogden Smith was born on 6 February 1899, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Lewis Lawrence Smith, was 34 and his mother, Gertrude Gouverneur Clemson, was 30. He married Katharine Houghton Hepburn on 12 December 1928, in West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
