Woman of the Year

NOTE: This is a region-1 DVD which requires a region free DVD-player.

George Stevens’s Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters who wed and then discover that their careers aren’t so compatible forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling but pinpoint-sharp screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin won an Academy Award, and Hepburn received a nomination for her performance. Woman of the Year is a dazzling, funny, and rueful observation of what it takes for men and women to get along—both in the workplace and outside of it.

Special features:
– New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
– New interview with George Stevens Jr.
– 1967 audio interview with George Stevens
– New interview with George Stevens biographer Marilyn Ann Moss
– New interview with writer Claudia Roth Pierpont on actor Katharine Hepburn
– George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey, a 112-minute 1984 documentary by George Stevens Jr.
– The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn, an eighty-six-minute documentary from 1986
– Trailer
– PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek