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Film CXL
CXL: Woman of the Year (George Stevens, 1942)
The first of the nine Tracy/Hepburn pairings (I guess I should list the ones I've seen) - and I suspect if Keeper of the Flame was the second it explains the oddity. Here though we have the familiar pattern - Tracy is the working class man's man, a bit of a bruiser and a boozer, who is annoyed, fascinated and enthralled by the effortlessly brilliant Hepburn. They get married - but there their troubles starts, as Hepburn must be tamed (and then won't be Hepburn).
Here they are both journalists - the only job for a woman - he a sports writer, she a multilingual political editor and figure of national importance. Whilst she is allowed to be gorgeous, she cannot cook, and she cannot be a proper mother. It's a shame she needs to be tamed - the earthing of the unruly woman - but that's the times. Hepburn apparently had a hand in the script, and there's a odd closing line: "I've just launched Gerald."
140 (Cinema: 64; DVD: 71; TV: 5)
The first of the nine Tracy/Hepburn pairings (I guess I should list the ones I've seen) - and I suspect if Keeper of the Flame was the second it explains the oddity. Here though we have the familiar pattern - Tracy is the working class man's man, a bit of a bruiser and a boozer, who is annoyed, fascinated and enthralled by the effortlessly brilliant Hepburn. They get married - but there their troubles starts, as Hepburn must be tamed (and then won't be Hepburn).
Here they are both journalists - the only job for a woman - he a sports writer, she a multilingual political editor and figure of national importance. Whilst she is allowed to be gorgeous, she cannot cook, and she cannot be a proper mother. It's a shame she needs to be tamed - the earthing of the unruly woman - but that's the times. Hepburn apparently had a hand in the script, and there's a odd closing line: "I've just launched Gerald."
140 (Cinema: 64; DVD: 71; TV: 5)
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