George Stevens directs Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Fay Bainter in this romantic comedy where a sports writing bloke falls for a very successful and far more famous female journalist.

You can approach Woman Of The Year in two ways. A role reversal comedy where a man’s man is made to feel like the inferior little lady at home when he marries someone far more accomplished than him. Or a sexist attempt to take careerist feminists down a peg or two by showing them the topsy turvy world they create when they try to be better than men. I prefer the more innocent first reading. It allows you to enjoy the bristling chemistry between Tracy and Kate. And you can just laugh at the slow burn finale where Hepburn is completely bamboozled by modern appliances in the kitchen. As a sustained sequence of slapstick chaos, it is quite magical.

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Perfect Double Bill: Pat And Mike (1952)

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