SummaryRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Directed By:George Stevens
Written By:Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Kanin, John Lee Mahin
Woman of the Year
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
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WOMAN OF THE YEAR is a marvelous comedy-drama, brimming with wit, style, and sophistication.
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It's as warming as a Manhattan cocktail and as juicy as a porterhouse steak.
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It's very smart, very sleek and one of the great Hollywood romantic comedies. [04 Jul 2003, p.C2]
75
Woman of the Year certainly has its other auxiliary charms: beautifully textured lighting by cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg; a luminous, if limited, performance by Fay Bainter as Tess’s motherly aunt; and some enchanting simulations of soft winter snowfall. But it’s hard not to feel berated, in a time that’s seeing the resurgence of a pernicious nationalism, by both the film’s anti-feminist slant and its insistent compulsion to put a box around Americanism.
70
Watching Woman of the Year today, it’s hard not to see it as a the model for almost every romantic comedy.
60
The chemistry is great, but the plot and tone are wobbly.
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George Stevens’s plodding, straitlaced direction takes much of the edge off this 1941 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy vehicle.
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Production Company:
- Loew's
Release Date:Jan 14, 1942
Duration:1 h 54 m
Rating:TV-PG
Tagline:TRACY'S CRAZY ABOUT HEPBURN...but she's too busy! (Print Ad- Newmarket Era and Express, ((Newmarket, PO)) 23 July 1942)
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Photoplay Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
