Woman of the Year (1942)

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Directed by

George Stevens

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Spencer Tracy
Sam Craig

Katharine Hepburn
Tess Harding

Fay Bainter
Ellen Whitcomb

Reginald Owen
Clayton

Minor Watson
William J. Harding

William Bendix
'Pinkie' Peters

Gladys Blake
Flo Peters

Dan Tobin
Gerald Howe

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Ring Lardner Jr.

Michael Kanin

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Description: George Stevens’s Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren’t so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling but pinpoint-sharp screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin won an Academy Award, and Hepburn received a nomination for her performance. Woman of the Year is a daz ... (more)

Release date: 4 June 1942
UPC: 027616664624

Tags: Comedy (4), Romance (3), Baseball (3), Cooking (2), Journalist (2), 1942 (2), Kitchen (2), Secretary (2), Speech (2), Adoption (2), 1940s (2), Screwball (2), Reference To Seabiscuit (1), Coffee Maker (1), Male Female Relationship (1), Sports Writer (1), Bilingual (1), Spencer Tracy (1), Mgm (1), Biting Of Ear (1)

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" Director: George Stevens His 15th movie My 11th movie watched from the director The classic pairing of Tracy and Hepburn triumphs again in this feminist movie, which is less in-your-face than their other feminist movie pairing, "Adam's Rib". The movie moves along nicely until the final scene where she tries to make him breakfast. It's a funny idea but goes on too long and I just wanted to the movie to be over with after five minutes of it. Added to Lists: Top Ten Films - George Stevens"

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