The seventh of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn’s nine films together, Pat and Mike has Hepburn playing Pat Pemberton. An accomplished athlete and physical education teacher at a California University, who excels at tennis, golf and just about every other…
Released in 1945, Without Love is the third of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn’s Nine films together. Based on a play by Philip Barry and a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) Spencer Tracy plays Patrick Jamieson, a…
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is fifty years old this year. No stranger to controversial topics, in 1967 director/producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) offered his thoughts on race relations and interracial marriage (something that had been…
Set just after the end of World War II in 1945, John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock is a suspenseful drama, film noir and a western. Based on the short story “Bad Time at Hondo” by Howard Breslin and…
One of the best Hollywood comedies of the 1950’s, Father of the Bride features Spencer Tracy at the top of his game And Elizabeth Taylor looking breathtakingly beautiful. Adapted from a novel by Edward Streeter, the film opens as successful…
Released in 1954, Broken Lance addressed the growing concern of “race relations” “race relations” from the standpoint of the Old American West. A reworking of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s House of Strangers (1949), the film addresses the issue of so-called ‘half…
No stranger to controversial topics, in 1967 director/producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) offered his thoughts on race relations and interracial marriage with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. He cast long-time friends Spencer Tracy (who’d worked with…
Though the names were changed, the events depicted in Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind were based on one of the most famous court cases in the first half of the twentieth century. Often referred to as the “Scopes Monkey Trial,”…
Known for his so-called “message movies,” independent producer/director Stanley Kramer made a career of bringing attention to social issues that most major studios looked to avoid. Whether he was exploring racism, nuclear war, or politics, Kramer always tried to approach…
Based on the stage play by William Marchant, Desk Set was the eighth film pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. While the material is on the lighter side, it’s nonetheless a witty ride, acted expertly by its stars, and…