Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn are one of Hollywood's greatest on (and off) screen couples, and are the subject of a new movie.
Throughout the history of great onscreen (and offscreen) romances, few have ever been as iconic as Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. A couple that partnered for nine films over 27 years, but never married due to Tracy’s Catholic guilt (he was already married to Louise Tracy), the subject is just asking for a big screen treatment of its own.
And it may have finally found it as David Permut’s Permut Presentations is teaming with Reunion Pictures to produce David Rambo’s screenplay, Tracy And Hepburn. Rambo, writer on shows that include CSI and Revolution seeks to chronicle the pairing from their earliest meetings when making MGM’s Woman of the Year to their final collaboration on Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, which wrapped only days before Spencer Tracy’s untimely death.
Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn had an affair that is the stuff of Hollywood legend—see its mythical teasing in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator for more. Despite being married to Louise Tracy, Spencer lived and worked with Hepburn for nearly three decades, yet would not divorce his wife due to deeply held religious beliefs. When Tracy finally did die, Hepburn was not invited to the funeral by Louise. Hepburn reportedly never watched Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner due to painful memories. But for our memories, there will always be the likes of Adam’s Rib.
SOURCE: Deadline
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