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Woman of the Year

this film sparkles like champagne. Okay the plot is flimsy, not to mention corny, but the magnetism and chemistry that goes on between Tracy and Hepburn is enough to keep you enthralled for hours. The dialogue is witty and snappy, and there are many hilarious moments not to be missed. It's lovely to see such an old fashioned fun movie that makes you laugh and cry at the same time. The most wonderful moment in the film has got to be when they kiss for the first time, it's wonderful, and you can feel the warmth between them.

This was the first pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn and it's one of their better films together. Hepburn is a sort of Claire Booth Luce-type woman who has traveled the world and conquered pretty much everything she's tried. However, when it comes to love, she is a novice and her relationship with sports writer, Tracy, does not come easy--about the only thing in her life that doesn't. Tracy is forced by her frequent travels to try to be both husband and housewife but is too old fashioned to take to it. Eventually, their very different and complex lives take a toll on their marriage. Will it survive? Will love triumph after all? Well, this is a Hollywood film of the 1940s, so it's not hard to guess how it all ends. However, the acting and writing is so good, you'll have a great time watching their journey.

In their first of nine co-star rings, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy play Tess Harding and Sam Craig, reporters at a newspaper who get married. Naturally, Sam assumes that Tess will "settle down" and just be a wife, but she is very independent, with events to cover all over the world. They sort of forget that they're married. You just can't beat a pairing like Tracy and Hepburn. "Woman of the Year" moves along like a...I can't even come up with a good comparison, but I basically mean that it's very brisk. It's impossible not to like this movie. You would have to be a full-scale sourpuss not to like this movie. A comedy classic.