TRACY AND HEPBURN FOREVER

Frame Dimensions:  15 x 22"
Picture Size:  11 x 14"
Double acid free design mat - UV Glass
A Great Looking Photo

Photo Dimension:  11 x 14"


1942 marked the release of "Woman of the Year", Spencer Tracy's first film with Katherine Hepburn.  The two would go on to make eight more films together, portraying equal partners in the film world's quintessential battle-of-the-sexes. Although Tracy's Catholicism prevented him from seeking divorce, he and wife Louise separated, and Tracy and Katharine Hepburn would become partners off the screen as well as on. The relationship lasted until Tracy's death, and the mutual respect of all concerned prevented any scandalous exposure - a unique occurrence in an age when such arrangements could have caused censure, damaged reputations, and ruined careers.



    Tracy was a complex and difficult man. Even the person who perhaps knew him best, Katharine Hepburn, was never able to fathom the "demons" that seemed to drive him.  In a 1986 documentary, "The Spencer Tracy Legacy", Hepburn shared a letter she had written to him eighteen years after his death:

"Living wasn't easy for you, was it?  What did you like to do? Sailing - especially in stormy weather. You loved polo, but tennis, golf, swimming - no, not really.  Walking - no, that didn't suit you - that was one of those things where you could think at the same time. Of this, of that...of what, Spence, what was it?  Was it some specific thing, like being a Catholic and you felt a bad Catholic? You concentrated on all the bad, none of the good which your religion offered. It must've been something very fundamental, very ever-present. And the incredible fact that there you were, really the greatest movie actor - you could do it, and you could do it with that glorious simplicity, that directness.  You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else.  You were the character in a moment, you hardly had to study - what a relief, you could be someone else for awhile, you weren't you, you were safe.  And then back to life's trials: 'Oh, hell, take a drink. Yes. No. Maybe.' And then stop taking those drinks - you were great at that, Spence, you could just stop.  How I respected you for that - very unusual.  But why the escape hatch? Why was it always open?  To get away from the remarkable you.  I always meant to ask you. Did you know what it was?  Are you having a long rest after all your tossing and turning in life? Are you happy finally?"

Tracy Signature Cut: 2 x 4 1/2" - Hepburn Cut   1 x 4 1/2"


Close up of signature - cut is actually on light tan autograph leaf  close up made the cut appear beige.




This picture that is mounted with these cuts is one
great looking picture and quality.

 

This picture is double matte design  in acid free uv non glare glass in a dull metal frame ready to display on your wall

A Great Piece for the movie buff or Hepburn and Tracy fan.

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