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Katharine Hepburn: Spencer Tracy
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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were at their most seductive when their verbal fencing was sharpest: it was hard to say whether they delighted more in the battle or in each other. Latterly, the crackling sexuality which had underlain their earlier exchanges mellowed into a more comfortable - but rather less entertaining - affection.
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In the 1950s, Katharine Hepburn began to take more mature roles and evolved greatly as an actress. She received a number of Oscar nominations for her work on many films, including The African Queen (1951), The Rainmaker (1956), and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). In the 1960s, she took less film roles so that she had more time to spend with Spencer Tracy, who was very ill. They made Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, their last film together, in 1967, for which she later won an Oscar. In 1968, with The Lion In Winter, Katharine Hepburn took home another Oscar.
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Synopsis: Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn costarred for the first time in the delectable romantic comedy Woman of the Year. Tracy plays New York sportswriter Sam Craig, who becomes incensed at comments about the uselessness of sports made by foreign correspondent Tess Harding (Hepburn). Sam and TessRead More
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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (who died 17 days after filming was completed) shine in their last on-screen appearance together as a fashionably liberal couple. When their daughter (Katharine Houghton) introduces them to her black fiance (Sidney Poitier), they find themselves learning just how tolerant of racial differences they truly are. Stanley Kramer's Oscar-winning drama co-stars Roy Glenn, Isabel Sanford. 107 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 3.0, Spanish Dolby Digital mono, French Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; featurettes; photo gallery. Two-disc set.
[I]n 1939 Katharine Hepburn went back to Broadway to appear in The Philadelphia Story, a play which Philip Barry, the author of Holiday, had written especially for her. Audiences loved her portrayal of the rich and spoilt Tracy Lord; and on the advice of Howard Hughes (then her lover) she bought the rights, appearing in the film version with Cary Grant and James Stewart.
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Born in Hatford, Connecticut in 1907, Hepburn was brought up by her surgeon father and suffragette mother to be strong-willed, free-spirited and physically fit. Her Broadway career was a success despite her constant arguments with directors, and her contract with RKO to make movies was signed despite the fact that she had wilfully demanded an extremely high fee. But her first film, A Bill Of Divorcement, was a hit and she turned out to be one of Hollywood's best-loved performers, although she refused to play the celebrity game. Having cannily acquired the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, she began a fruitful relationship, on and off-screen, with Spencer Tracy. She kept appearing in hit films well into the 90s.
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