Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

gavin6942 Rival reporters Sam (Spencer Tracy) and Tess (Katharine Hepburn) fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle."Woman of the Year" was the first of nine films Hepburn and Tracy made together. They met for the first time on the shoot. In the 1993 documentary Katharine Hepburn: All About Me, Hepburn herself says she was wearing high heels at the first meeting with Tracy and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and said "I'm afraid I'm a bit tall for you, Mr. Tracy". Mankiewicz then responded, "Don't worry, Kate, he'll cut you down to size." It was during the filming of Woman of the Year that Hepburn and Tracy became romantically involved – a relationship that lasted until Tracy's death in 1967.Exactly what Tracy saw in Hepburn is beyond me. I have always found her acting ability overrated ,and her unusual voice and accent is quite obnoxious at times. I suspect she was right in her day and just kept on going fueled by past success. Much as the "husky voices" of Howard Hawks' women would not be popular today, but allowed some women -- notably Lauren Bacall -- to gain stardom.

SnoopyStyle Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) is a world traveling ace reporter covering the coming war with Hitler. After an interview where she offhandedly wondered if baseball should be suspended, sports writer Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) starts a inter-department fight on their newspaper pages. The two differing personalities get together and eventually get marry. She is a modern woman and even selected as "The Woman of the Year". He is a traditional guy, and cracks appear in their marriage.This is the first time Tracy and Hepburn team up in a movie. She is the modern worldly woman. It seems very natural to her. He's the everyman and natural to him. The jokes need to be a little sharper. For example he's reading the Chinese newspaper the wrong way, but how many people would know that the assistant sees that. He needs to flip the paper around a couple of times. Tracy still does a good comedic job. Then there is the wild kitchen comedy bit at the end. It doesn't really fit her character, but it's funny nevertheless. The waffle iron is beyond hilarious.He's thinking of marriage even before their first kiss. It's a role reversal. She's way more successful. Things heat up and he's the one who runs away. He's the romantic. She's afraid of being tied down. She's busy working for much of their marriage. It has some fine comedic moments. The best is the couple's chemistry. They look like they really get along when they just stare at each other across the table. It's really nice to see.

Thomas Drufke Okay, I lied. There are still plenty of clichés in terms of the inevitable romance between co-workers that don't like each other. But this movie has a different feel to it. Mostly because of the great lead performances of Tracy and Hepburn. For a good part of the film, Hepburn remains hooked on her job and doesn't leave much time to be a wife. You start to feel for Tracy's character because it seems like every time they get close she gets a phone call and is then busy for hours. These type of issues still go on today, which is the reason why the Library of Congress inducted it into the National Film Registry as it being culturally and significantly important. Its a film that will live on for at least another 72 years due to it being incredibly relatable between couples these days.I believe this is the first of nine films Tracy and Hepburn collaborated and you can tell the great chemistry they developed while making this movie. I actually thought they handled Hepburn's character turn well. And I believed that she would try to finally start to try to work out their relationship. It was a very well written film with some surprising comedic moments. Usually when I watch some of the old Romantic Comedies I don't find any of the punch-lines funny. This movie on the other hand had some great moments, particularly near the ending. It had some of the best physical comedy I have seen from a movie made before the 50's.I look forward to watching more of this duo in the future and hope they can be as entertaining as this one was.7.7/10

Michael Neumann From their first moment on screen together the rapport between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy couldn't be more obvious, but it's too bad their chemistry wasn't better served by more dynamic direction. The formula romantic comedy plot moves like clockwork, with Hepburn and Tracy very much in character playing a globetrotting political journalist and an old-style sports reporter; the two meet, marry, and only then realize how little (besides love) they have in common. A half-century ago the scenario might have been fresh, but don't be too sure. It was produced in 1942, but under the deliberate (heavy-handed, to be less polite) direction of George Stevens the film looks like it was made a decade earlier. The best reason to see it today is to simply enjoy the ease with which its two stars play off each other.