Woman of the Year

Woman Of The Year: 1942 Comedy, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn.


Marc Horton Plot Synopsis: Tracy's a sports reporter. Hepburn's a political columnist. "Different worlds; unlikely match." Yah, like two people at a newspaper never get together. Eventually, they get married and, naturally, get bored with each other. They bicker. They adopt some refugee kid. They bicker some more. They reconcile.

The hype: This feminist manifesto was Tracy and Hepburn's first screen pairing. They made another 8 films together and knocked knees for nearly three decades in real life.

They "burn up the screen" with their chemistry; at least, as much chemistry as they could put on film in the days of the puritanical Hays Code. They not only sleep in separate beds, which was still a part of movies and TV well into the 60s, but they sleep in separate rooms.

Read this load of critic's tripe in the NYT and you'll look at Entertainment Tonight as hard-hitting journalism.

The Politically Incorrect Movie Review: Newlyweds. Separate rooms. Did people actually buy into this in the 40s or were they too scared by WWII to worry about being bored to death at the Bijou?