Woman of the Year (1942)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 18 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Synopsis: This classic romantic comedy was the first film in the long collaboration between Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. As intellectual, political columnist Tess Harding (Hepburn) and down-to-earth sportswriter Sam Craig (Tracy), they work at the same New York paper. After Tess makes... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, William Bendix
Director: George Stevens
Screenwriter: Ring Lardner, Michael Kanin
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Composer: Franz Waxman
Screenwriter: Ring Lardner, Michael Kanin
Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Composer: Franz Waxman
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Filled with witty lines and hilarious situations, the film is good entertainment, reminding us of Hepburn and Tracy's appeal
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04/11/08
A marvelous comedy-drama, brimming with wit, style, and sophistication.
11/13/07
The first teaming of Tracy and Hepburn shows the chemistry between the stars, setting the pattern for future and better battle of the sexes romantic comedies.
07/07/07
Tracy and Hepburn were a great team, and this, their first outing together, set the seal on the pattern to follow into the next decade.
01/26/06
This is the first of many Tracy & Hepburn movies, and the chemistry's not quite there yet in this one. Some impressively funny scenes and a hilarious ending redeem the long stretches of predictability.
08/17/03
The Oscar-winning screenplay provides plenty of smart lines along the way as art anticipates life.
05/24/03
For the first time in months, this critical spectator feels like tossing his old hat into the air and weaving a joyous snake dance over the typewriter keys in celebration of Metro's triumphant Woman of the Year...
05/20/03
Top Critic
The premise is promising...But Stevens lacks the courage to make much of the conflict; the film ends with an embarrassing sequence in which Hepburn is tamed and installed in the kitchen.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Woman of the Year, with its troubled and ambivalent mood, holds up much better than the flag-waving films that followed it after everybody in Hollywood became fashionably antifascist...
01/01/00
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