For all practical purposes, Sam Craig and Tess Harding could be regarded as people from different planets. He is a sports writer for a New York newspaper. Tess is the star reporter of international affairs for the same paper. She is the darling of a society that looks down on people like Sam because their way of looking at life. Sam, on the other hand, is a happy individual who loves his job and what's more, he is good at it. When these two different individuals meet, sparks begin to fly in all directions. Sam and Tess fall madly in love with one another. The trouble is that Tess is a woman in great demand and a busy schedule. Even their small wedding is marked with the pressing need to return of Tess to sort out the world's problems. Their first night together is a disaster! The main question is why did Tess bother to get married in the first place?
Best things in the film involve an awkward Tess, a highly intelligent woman that shows no common sense. When Sam takes her to a baseball game Tess decides to wear a hat that obstruct the view of everyone unfortunate enough to sit behind her. Also, the end of the movie is a gem by the way comedies are judged. It shows an eager Tess going over to Sam's apartment, where he has been living alone. She decides to surprise him with breakfast, but all her endeavors prove to be useless. How can the sophisticated woman who has probably never even made coffee in her life, expects to do waffles, eggs and coffee? Even using the latest appliances, Tess is defeated perhaps for the first time in her life!
Inspired direction by George Stevens, a genius in his own right. His legacy in the American cinema stands by itself. It helps that Mr. Stevens was working on the screenplay created by Ring Lardner and Michael Kanin, two men that clearly understood how to deliver a comedy that has shown its endurance as a favorite from those golden years of Hollywood.
This was the start of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn collaboration as a couple in the movies. Individually both these performers had a long tradition of excellence. As a pair, they are delightful to watch as the mismatched couple that love each other desperately, but can't achieve happiness due to Tess' own hectic agenda. Mr. Tracy and Ms. Hepburn do a wonderful dance for the pleasure of their fans.
Others in the incredible supporting cast include the great Fay Bainter, Minor Watson, Reginald Owen, William Bendix, and Dan Tobin, among others who do wonders to make this a fine time in the movies. Joseph Ruttenberg black and white photography gives us the best of all those marvelous sets created for the project. Franz Waxman provided the musical score. George Stevens kept things in control with a comedy that will live forever.
Best things in the film involve an awkward Tess, a highly intelligent woman that shows no common sense. When Sam takes her to a baseball game Tess decides to wear a hat that obstruct the view of everyone unfortunate enough to sit behind her. Also, the end of the movie is a gem by the way comedies are judged. It shows an eager Tess going over to Sam's apartment, where he has been living alone. She decides to surprise him with breakfast, but all her endeavors prove to be useless. How can the sophisticated woman who has probably never even made coffee in her life, expects to do waffles, eggs and coffee? Even using the latest appliances, Tess is defeated perhaps for the first time in her life!
Inspired direction by George Stevens, a genius in his own right. His legacy in the American cinema stands by itself. It helps that Mr. Stevens was working on the screenplay created by Ring Lardner and Michael Kanin, two men that clearly understood how to deliver a comedy that has shown its endurance as a favorite from those golden years of Hollywood.
This was the start of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn collaboration as a couple in the movies. Individually both these performers had a long tradition of excellence. As a pair, they are delightful to watch as the mismatched couple that love each other desperately, but can't achieve happiness due to Tess' own hectic agenda. Mr. Tracy and Ms. Hepburn do a wonderful dance for the pleasure of their fans.
Others in the incredible supporting cast include the great Fay Bainter, Minor Watson, Reginald Owen, William Bendix, and Dan Tobin, among others who do wonders to make this a fine time in the movies. Joseph Ruttenberg black and white photography gives us the best of all those marvelous sets created for the project. Franz Waxman provided the musical score. George Stevens kept things in control with a comedy that will live forever.