Great Loves: Kate and Spencer
02/02/2012 § Leave a comment
In the month of February,
my mind always turns to great love stories…
“It was a unique feeling that I had for [Tracy].
I would have done anything for him.”
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn first appeared onscreen together in Woman of the Year (1942). Soon thereafter they began a relationship that was to last over twenty years, until Tracy’s death in 1967. Tracy and Hepburn did not live together until the final years of Tracy’s life and were never married, due to the fact that Tracy already had a wife, Louise Tracy, who he married in 1923 and never divorced. He supported Louise, and their two children, but he almost always lived separately from the household. The romance between Tracy and Hepburn was hidden from the public, but in Hollywood it was an open secret.
Spencer was a troubled soul, a sometimes alcoholic, a lapsed Catholic,
a philanderer, and Kate completely devoted herself to him.
More great love stories:
Joanne and Paul
Elizabeth and Richard
Marilyn and Joe
Bacall and Bogart
Quite Continental 
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