Episode 182 – George Stevens’ Woman of the Year

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This time on the podcast, David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett discuss George Stevens’s Woman of the Year.

George Stevens’s Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren’t so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling but pinpoint-sharp screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin won an Academy Award, and Hepburn received a nomination for her performance. Woman of the Year is a dazzling, funny, and rueful observation of what it takes for men and women to get along—both in the workplace and outside of it.

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Episode Links

• Woman of the Year – The Criterion Collection
• Woman of the Year – IMDb
• Woman of the Year – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
• Trevor’s review of Woman of the Year – The Mookse and the Gripes
• Joshua Brunsting’s review of Woman of the Year – Criterion Cast
• George Stevens – American Masters
• George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (TCM)
• Reel Classics – Stevens career overview
• This is Glamorous: Great Love Stories – Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn

Episode Credits

• Trevor Berrett (Twitter/Website)
• David Blakeslee (Twitter/Website)