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Post by CrazyForKate on Jan 23, 2012 17:03:02 GMT -5
news.moviefone.com/2012/01/18/woman-of-the-year-hepburn-tracy_n_1214125.html?just_reloaded=1Okay, Kate fans... how many of these did you already know? I counted 2 as probably inaccurate (maybe they got it confused with The Philadelphia Story), but those who know more about WOTY might have something else to say on the subject. Did they try to cast Gable? I've never read anything of the sort. 4 is kind of subjective, IMO- what about Christopher Strong? Though they did say "one of the first", and she didn't have a particularly sexy image in the studio's eyes. Other than that...well, the Internet is no match for us
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 23, 2012 17:47:54 GMT -5
I've never read anything of the sort RE: Gable, 'stead of Tracy, but I also haven't read every book/transciption in the world, so it's highly possible that I'm merely a naif. Perhaps in the creative process Gable's name was thrown around, but it was pretty much Tracy from 'go', yes?
Unless someone can offer up any more info on this...
Also, where the hell was Spencer in any of that? What, was he just sittin' by the curb of the road, waiting for Hepburn to whisk him into an unholy silver screen alliance? Oh, Spence.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 23, 2012 19:13:21 GMT -5
And, I mean, I don't know about ya'll, but I think the Pot was pretty sexy in WOTY, too.
Of course, we could launch into a whole feminist diatribe about why the topic of Kate's sex appeal/sexuality [or lack thereof, which I do not agree with, but] is even up for discussion, however... we won't. I'm speaking as a person, and not as an industry executive. (I'm looking at you, Selznick.)
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Post by Judy on Jan 23, 2012 23:31:20 GMT -5
Re Gable - Ring Lardner, Jr was interviewed in a 1997 issue of On Writing, a publication of the Writers Guild of America East. It's a great interview. After explaining Hepburn's post Philadelphia Story clout and the fact that Spencer Tracy was off filming The Yearling, he was asked:
On Writing: Who were you thinking of when you wrote it?
Lardner: Because of MGM we thought Gable was more likely.
On Writing: Hepburn and Gable together would have been...
Lardner: Well, Hepburn and Tracy worked very well. Of course they had not met before. I think their attraction for each other showed in the film.
I imagine there there were plenty of screenplays around the studio that had his fingerprints on them before they got made with someone else - or if they never actually got to him, at least he was in the mind of the screenwriter during the writing process.
But I think that all things considered, things worked out the way they were meant to. And the proof's on the screen.
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 24, 2012 0:19:46 GMT -5
Re Gable - Ring Lardner, Jr was interviewed in a 1997 issue of On Writing, a publication of the Writers Guild of America East. It's a great interview. After explaining Hepburn's post Philadelphia Story clout and the fact that Spencer Tracy was off filming The Yearling, he was asked: On Writing: Who were you thinking of when you wrote it?
Lardner: Because of MGM we thought Gable was more likely.
On Writing: Hepburn and Gable together would have been...
Lardner: Well, Hepburn and Tracy worked very well. Of course they had not met before. I think their attraction for each other showed in the film.I imagine there there were plenty of screenplays around the studio that had his fingerprints on them before they got made with someone else - or if they never actually got to him, at least he was in the mind of the screenwriter during the writing process. But I think that all things considered, things worked out the way they were meant to. And the proof's on the screen. And this is why we're thankful we have Judy, folks! It IS a great interview -- I read it, like, a decade ago, but my brain decided not to bank that particular tidbit. From what I recall, it also included the original screenplay's ending, with Tess and Sam at the fight and some business about a new hat... Curtis even cited the juicer Lardner Jr. quotes in his Tracy biography. Good stuff.
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Post by Judy on Jan 25, 2012 14:20:44 GMT -5
Re Gable - Ring Lardner, Jr was interviewed in a 1997 issue of On Writing, a publication of the Writers Guild of America East. It's a great interview. After explaining Hepburn's post Philadelphia Story clout and the fact that Spencer Tracy was off filming The Yearling, he was asked: On Writing: Who were you thinking of when you wrote it?
Lardner: Because of MGM we thought Gable was more likely.
On Writing: Hepburn and Gable together would have been...
Lardner: Well, Hepburn and Tracy worked very well. Of course they had not met before. I think their attraction for each other showed in the film.I imagine there there were plenty of screenplays around the studio that had his fingerprints on them before they got made with someone else - or if they never actually got to him, at least he was in the mind of the screenwriter during the writing process. But I think that all things considered, things worked out the way they were meant to. And the proof's on the screen. And this is why we're thankful we have Judy, folks! It IS a great interview -- I read it, like, a decade ago, but my brain decided not to bank that particular tidbit. From what I recall, it also included the original screenplay's ending, with Tess and Sam at the fight and some business about a new hat... Curtis even cited the juicer Lardner Jr. quotes in his Tracy biography. Good stuff. We all have FAR too much info in our heads, so it always helps people - and by people, I mean me, too - to have someone to remind them of what they know but have forgotten they knew .
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Post by HollywoodHepcat on Jan 25, 2012 21:39:53 GMT -5
We all have FAR too much info in our heads, so it always helps people - and by people, I mean me, too - to have someone to remind them of what they know but have forgotten they knew . Basically, our lives are DESK SET. I'm Peg.
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Post by evelien on Jan 26, 2012 3:33:46 GMT -5
Thanks for posting.
Just imagine if Spencer hadn't become availabe... I just can't imagine Kate and Clark Gable doing this sort of movie together.
I was thinking about the last fact (the meeting that was dramatized in the Aviator) and I thought I had missed something. I couldn't remember them meeting in the film and Kate uttering that famous opening line, but then I remembered the scene on the set where he throws her the apple. I really wish they had used the orginal story of how they met in the film, because the story of that meeting is well, kind of legendary, don't you think?
This isn't in the article, but am I right to assume that the name of Tess Harding was based on Laura Harding (I think I read that somewhere)?
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Post by Judy on Jan 26, 2012 9:08:35 GMT -5
We all have FAR too much info in our heads, so it always helps people - and by people, I mean me, too - to have someone to remind them of what they know but have forgotten they knew . Basically, our lives are DESK SET. I'm Peg. ;D
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