Desk Set (1957)***Director: Walter Lang In Desk Set Katharine Hepburn plays Bunny Watson, head of the reference department at a national television network, an all-female department staffed by Hepburn and her three coworkers (Dina Merrill, Sue Randall, and a delightful Joan Blondell). When their territory is invaded by an absent-minded “methods engineer,” Richard Sumner (Spencer [...]
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The Films of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Part 3
Posted by sagolas on May 23rd, 2011
Adam’s Rib (1949)****Director: George Cukor Tracy and Hepburn reached what is for me their absolute peak in their sixth movie together, in which they play a pair of married New York City lawyers, Adam and Amanda Bonner. He works for the district attorney’s office; she has a private practice. When Brooklyn housewife Doris Attinger (Judy [...]
The Films of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Part 2
Posted by sagolas on May 9th, 2011
The Sea of Grass (1947)***Director: Elia Kazan The fourth movie Tracy and Hepburn made together is a Western, a nineteenth-century family saga that will remind many of Giant. As the film opens, Lutie Cameron (Hepburn), a young woman from St. Louis, is engaged to Jim Brewton (Tracy), the owner of a huge cattle ranch in [...]
