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WOMAN OF THE YEAR
March 3, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1942 movie comedy, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their first, utterly electric screen pairing, is one of the funniest and most insightful movies ever made about the newspaper business. They’re delightful together, and her character is such an early feminist that she’s got to be considered groundbreaking, even given all the strong women in film in the previous decade. Of note, too, is that Oscar-winning screenwriters Ring Lardner, Jr. and Michael Kanin were so young when they wrote Woman of the Year (26 and 31, respectively). Also of note: Lardner subsequently was blacklisted as one of the infamous Hollywood 10, and unable to work, under his own name, for more than a decade. But finally, he not only was able to get on-screen credit for his screenplays again, but to win a second Oscar for writing one: His adapted screenplay for Robert Altman’s 1970 comedy M*A*S*H.

 
 
 
 
 
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