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discussed in biography
- In George Stevens: Swing Time, Gunga Din, and Woman of the Year
  Woman of the Year (1942) was the first teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and some consider it their best vehicle. Garson Kanin came up with the original notion of having a gruff sportswriter (Tracy) woo and marry an upper-crust political columnist (Hepburn). When…
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history of motion pictures
- In History of film: The Hollywood studio system
  Stevens (Gunga Din, 1939; Woman of the Year, 1942).
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Oscar to Kanin and Lardner, Jr. for best original screenplay, 1942

Hepburn
- In Katharine Hepburn: Films and relationship with Spencer Tracy
  While filming Woman of the Year in 1942, she began an enduring intimate relationship with her costar, Spencer Tracy, with whom she would appear in films such as Adam’s Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952); both were directed by Cukor. Tracy and Hepburn never married—he was…
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Tracy
- In Spencer Tracy: Films and relationship with Katharine Hepburn
  …teamed in nine films, including Woman of the Year (1942), Adam’s Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), Desk Set (1957), and Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), which was completed three weeks before Tracy’s death. The film garnered Tracy his ninth Oscar
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