Even before Katharine Hepburn met Spencer Tracy, she wanted him as her costar in this film.
George Stevens’ Woman of the Year was conceived as a follow-up to the comeback thar Hepburn had made in the 1940 smash hit, The Philadelphia Story.
The story centers on rival newspaper reporters who had wed but had quickly realized that their careers aren’t so compatible, resulting in the pair forging a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage could be.
The freewheeling but pinpoint-sharp screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin won an Academy Award.
Hepburn was nominated for The Best Actress Oscar.
Woman of the Year marks the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together, and it stands as a dazzling, funny, and sometimes rueful observation of what it takes for men and women to get along-both in the workplace and out of it.
1942 * 112 minutes * black & white * monaural * 1.33:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
* New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New interview with George Stevens Jr., the director’s son
* New interview with George Stevens biographer Marilyn Ann Moss
* New interview with writer Claudia Roth Pierpont on actor Katharine Hepburn
* The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn, an 86-minute documentary from 1986
* Trailer
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 3/21/17
STREET 4/18/17
CAT. NO. CC2750BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-287-8
UPC 7-15515-19611-6
2-DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 3/21/17
STREET 4/18/17
CAT. NO. CC2751ddvd
ISBN 978-1-68143-288-5
UPC 7-15515-19621-5