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One could say that the Bonners represent Tracy and Hepburn at their best with each other. They certainly seem to be comfortable playing those roles, and I doubt that they would seem so comfortable if it weren’t natural to them. Perhaps one could say that the Bonners were a couple they would have liked the world to think they were.

— Katharine Houghton

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Although she was certain and unwavering in her attraction to him, he was likely dubious of anything more than a quick and memorable liaison.

“I think that you imagined I was a lesbian,” Hepburn wrote in an epistolary chapter years after his death. “But not for long. Did you.”

[Spencer Tracy: A Biography]

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Top 5 Katharine Hepburn Films

5) Woman of the Year (1942)

Sam Craig: There’s something I have to get off my chest.
Tess Harding: I’m too heavy.
Sam Craig:  No. I love you. 
Tess Harding: You do? 
Sam Craig: Positive. 
Tess Harding: That’s nice. Even when I’m sober? 
Sam Craig: Even when you’re brilliant.

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Spencer with his daughter Susie.

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31 Days of Tracy :: Day 21

Susie was precocious, and always outspoken. When she was six she was introduced to Victor Fleming. She told the director, “I don’t like you because you’re so mean to my daddy. You’ve killed him twice.”

— Larry Swindell

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9 Tracy & Hepburn films, 9 favorite scenes
     ↳ Pat and Mike

PAT: Going to ask you the three big questions, Mike.
MIKE: Go ahead.
PAT: Who made you?
MIKE: You did.
PAT: Who owns the biggest piece of you?
MIKE: You do.
PAT: What would happen if I dropped you?
MIKE: I’d go right down the drain.
PAT: And?
MIKE: And take you right down with me, Shorty. 

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When the delicious meal was over and the after-drinks had been served, Miss Hepburn encouraged Mr. Tracy to entertain us with some of the classic stories he had a reputation for spinning. They were delightful stories, beautifully told, but more arresting than the stories was Miss Hepburn’s reaction to them. Although she must have heard them dozens of times, she listened to each one with wide-eyed fascination, as if she were hearing them for the first time. It was heart-warming to see how much affection flowed between that man and that woman. He treated her with an offhand appreciation, but at the same time he obviously loved her.

— Sidney Poitier

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9 Tracy & Hepburn films, 9 favorite scenes
     ↳ Desk Set

BUNNY: And it would never work.
SUMNER: Why?
BUNNY: Oh because you’re not in love with me, you’re in love with her, she’d always come first. If anything went wrong with her you’d forget about me [snaps] like that.
SUMNER: I couldn’t care less about that — it could blow up right now and it wouldn’t bother me.
BUNNY: Is that so? Let’s see.
SUMNER: See? It doesn’t mean a thing to me! You’re the only thing I care about… Honestly, it’ll only take a second.

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31 Days of Tracy :: Day 25

What fascinated her the most about him was his incredible directness and cleaness of spirit. He said and did exactly what he thought. He didn’t play with a role, he lived inside it. His love for her was as deep as hers for him, but it was not as openly and vibrantly expressed in words. He lived his love for her, rather than talked about it; it was as ingrained as his talent, in the very marrow of his bones.

— Charles Higham

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Here’s what’s most important about Katharine Hepburn: not her career and not her brilliance and not her talent— it was her profound, unconditional love for Spencer Tracy. That was her greatest achievement. She and Spencer were one of the greatest love affairs in the history of America.

Michael Moriarty [costar in The Glass Menagerie]

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You know for us it’s all been great, but… you  know what was the best time of all? It was in the beginning when everything was a struggle and you were working too hard and worried, and sometimes frightened. And there were times when I felt… when I really knew, that I was a help to you. That was the very best time of all for me.