Woman of the Year (1942)

Regisseur:

George Stevens

Drehbuchautoren:

Ring Lardner Jr. (original screenplay) and
Michael Kanin (original screenplay)

Premierendatum:

19. Januar 1942 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Romanze | Sportfilm

Werbezeile:

The picture of the year!

Plot:

Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.

Plot Keywords:

Fur Coat | Battle Of The Sexes | Orphan | Friendship | Sports Writer

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Undated sexual politics

Besetzung

Spencer Tracy	...	Sam Craig
Katharine Hepburn	...	Tess Harding
Fay Bainter	...	Ellen Whitcomb
Reginald Owen	...	Clayton
Minor Watson	...	William J. Harding
William Bendix	...	'Pinkie' Peters
Gladys Blake	...	Flo Peters
Dan Tobin	...	Gerald Howe
Roscoe Karns	...	Phil Whittaker
William Tannen	...	Ellis
Ludwig Stössel	...	Dr. Lubbeck (as Ludwig Stossel)
Sara Haden	...	Matron
Edith Evanson	...	Alma
George Kezas	...	Chris

Alternativ:

Frau von der man spricht, Die (Deutschland) [de]
Frau, von der man spricht, Die (Österreich) [de]

Länge:

114 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Französisch | Russisch | Englisch | Deutsch | Spanisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Altersfreigabe:

New Zealand:PG | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | Germany:6

Drehorte:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Firma:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Dies und das:

Hepburn refused to reveal who wrote the screen play to Louis B. Mayer until after he bought the project from Hepburn. Hepburn was afraid that Mayer would low-ball the two authors (Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr.) because at the time they were both relatively unknown.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: In the first scene in the bar, in which all are listening to the NBC Radio program "Information, Please", the dial of the AM radio on the shelf behind the bar changes location between long shots and close-ups. It is correct in close-up, at 660kHz, one of the broadcast frequencies NBC used in New York City in the 1940s, and at 880kHz in long shots, the frequency of the New York City CBS affiliate.

Dialogzitate:

Tess Harding: [In the stands at the ballpark, observing the large crowd in attendance] Are all these people unemployed?
Sam Craig: No, they're all attending their grandmother's funeral.

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Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in The Aviator (2004)

Undated sexual politics

Most commentators on this movie miss the its point completely, and criticize what they misunderstand as the outdated sexual politics of the 1940's from the standpoint of the outdated sexual politics of the 1970's. Blinded by political correctness, they miss the many virtues of the sparkling script.

The point of the script is actually relatively modest. It is not, in fact it is far from, The Taming of the Shrew, or the subjugation of the independent woman. Tracy's character admires Hepburn's character's independence and competence, and he doesn't want her to renounce them to become the "little woman" -- that is the burden of his "kitchen speech" at the end. He simply understands better than she does, at least until the end of the film, that maintaining a relationship and a marriage requires time, work, and attention. That may well be an unwelcome message, but it is not an unwise one.

The comedy of the film comes from their characters' different worlds -- Tracy is a sportswriter and Hepburn an international politics columnist. The drama comes from their different levels of commitment to being a couple. The script delicately and for the most part successfully (with the possible exception of the Greek orphan subplot), balances these two conflicts and the comedy and drama.