Woman Of The Year (1942)

Two journalists working on the same newspaper are as different as night and day. Tess Harding (Katharine Hepburn) is an international political pundit and Sam Craig (Spencer Tracy) is a down to earth sportswriter. They fall in love and get married and that's when their differences prove an impediment to a happy marriage. Directed by George Stevens (GUNGA DIN). The first pairing of Tracy and Hepburn, who would go on to make eight more films together. The chemistry is immediately apparent and Tracy (or was it Stevens?) brings out a sexiness in Hepburn that she never had before or since. While Tracy and Hepburn are wonderful here, the movie leaves a bad taste in the mouth. The original ending proved unpopular in previews so a new ending was written and filmed and it's downright offensive. Hepburn's character is punished for being a feminist and career woman so she's humiliated in the kitchen by showing her incompetence. She can't even make toast and what was funny when Lucille Ball did it on I LOVE LUCY is derogatory here. Ball's Lucy was ditzy which made it funny, Hepburn is an intellectual feminist getting her comeuppance for being a career woman rather than a housewife. With Fay Bainter, William Bendix, Roscoe Karns, Dan Tobin and Sara Haden.