Fresh
The film earlier has one of the very best Tracy-Hepburn love scenes, full of the sense of private shelter that they uniquely purvey.
Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker
Woman of the Year
The picture of the year!
1942 · 1h 54m · Approved
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
George Stevens
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Woman of the Year
Overview
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Director and cast
- George Stevens Director
- Spencer Tracy as Sam Craig
- Katharine Hepburn as Tess Harding
- Fay Bainter as Ellen Whitcomb
- Reginald Owen as Clayton
- Minor Watson as William J. Harding
- William Bendix as 'Pinkie' Peters
- Gladys Blake as Flo Peters
- Dan Tobin as Gerald Howe
- Roscoe Karns as Phil Whittaker
- William Tannen Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Woman of the Year is an entertaining film with superb work by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
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...
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Time Out
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