Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for ...

In Mona Lisa Smile, set in 1953, Julia Roberts plays Katherine Watson, an art-history professor from California who lands a teaching job at Wellesley. From the look of things, she appears to have ...

Howard’s cheeky anecdote might have just solved a real-life puzzle — the mystery of the Mona Lisa smile.

Impressive though she was at being feisty in Erin Brockovich, psychological complexity does not come easily to her, and her smile (constantly compared within the movie to the Mona Lisa's ...