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Name: Woman of the Year
Released: 1942-1-19
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson

Woman of the Year

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1h 54m
1942

83%

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Academy Award winners Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn star as two feuding news reporters--sportswriter Sam Craig, and foreign correspondent Tess Harding--who fall in love and marry when they finally meet. But their highly combustible relationship explodes when Tess is voted Woman of the Year. The feud ends and the romance begins when Sam convinces Tess to go to her first baseball game ever. But an intellectual, independent feminist and a regular, sports-loving guy mix like oil and water: She never expected to be hosting his rowdy pals, and he never anticipated harboring a fugitive from the Nazis on their honeymoon. Now, will the love between two very strong-willed people be enough to hold their marriage together in this romantic comedy classic?

Director:

George Stevens

Producer:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer:

Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin

Cast:

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix, Gladys Blake, Dan Tobin, Roscoe Karns, William Tannen, Ludwig Stössel, Sara Haden

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Critics Consensus: In the first romantic comedy pairing of Tracy and Hepburn, the stars' chemistry is off to a working start and the film's sparkling comedy smooths out any rough patches.

Reviews

InSession Film

Zita Short

I don’t think this is a successful romantic comedy. I am almost offended...

The dialogue in the Oscar-winning screenplay is priceless -- surveying the enormous crowd at a baseball game, Tess asks, Are all these people unemployed?

It has an engaging quality deriving from its personalities, but where direction and writing are concerned, it is static and often ham, it is at least twenty minutes too long for the motion it carries.

Although arguably not on par with some of the later Hepburn/Tracy pairings, Woman of the Year is still a precious lark ahead of its time, and reveals the co-stars in the early days of their formidable on-screen chemistry.

For a film that starts with such a substantial, self-sufficient female character, it's distressing to see her have to crawl back and change her ways to please a man.

August 15, 2020

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