bonaventurer:

Someone asked me when I fell for Spencer. I can’t remember. It was right away. We started our first picture together and I knew right away that I found him irresistible. Just exactly that, irresistible… We just passed twenty-seven years together in what was to me absolute bliss.—Katharine Hepburn | ME: Stories of my Life

bon-aventures:

You sat in the rocker, Spencer. Remember when I got that old horse-hair rocker? It was in a window in an old wreck of a shop in Olvera Street. Just a naked frame. I mean, no stuffing - just springs in a frame and the round bars on which it rocked. You were nervous - you liked to rock. Fanny Brice’s Mr. Schwartz could rebuild it - black horsehair buttoned in. The chair had such a pretty shape. The top of the back slightly scooped and the ends of the arms a bit up - pretty angle too. Hopeful and light for a stuffed one. I must have that chair. A Chinese owned it. It had belonged to his grandfather. He said no - not selling. But I went back so often. I told him how you needed it to sit in and to rock in. So he finally let me have it. For quite a lot. He didn’t lose. Nor did I. Nor did you. That was your seat in the corner.

— Katharine Hepburn [Me: Stories of My Life]

gimmeavisky:

Spencer Tracy (Twice as tough as the Metro lion - and twenty times as smart.)
and Katharine Hepburn (A dust storm in the Garden of Eden.)

Sports writer, humorist and cartoonist Arthur “Bugs” Baer put together a book in 1938 with Henry Major called Hollywood in which Major did caricatures of the celebrated players of the day and Baer wrote accompanying humourous commentary. 
The book was released in a limited edition of eight-hundred copies.
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bon-aventures:

This is the side entrance to the Thalberg building, and this is the spot where I met Spencer Tracy. He was coming along from the commissary with Joe Mankiewicz, he had produced The Philadelphia Story and god-willing was going to produce Woman of the Year. And I said ‘How do you do?’  and I had on very high heels. I was about 5’ 7 1/2” then — I’ve been shrinking steadily, I doubt if I’d hit 5’5” now. Spencer was about 5’10” and there was a silence, and I couldn’t think of anything to say so I said, ‘Sorry I’ve got these high heels on, but when we do the movie I’ll be careful of what I wear.’ And he just looked at me with those old lion eyes of his, and Joe looked at me and said, ‘Don’t worry Kate. He’ll cut you down to his size.’ Well, I didn’t know what to say. I just stood there like a goof.

Katharine Hepburn at 85 recalling the first time she met Spencer Tracy.

[All About Me, 1993]

There was a scene in Woman of the Year, the first film she made with Spencer Tracy, where it felt so intimate. I’d watched 20 films before I saw that and suddenly I felt this intimacy and thought I shouldn’t be watching it. It was the most relaxed I had seen Hepburn. I think she gave Spencer Tracy an enormous amount as an actor. She also talks about how much he gave her. In the scene she was playing drunk but there was a chemistry between them - it was like I was seeing someone falling in love. — Cate Blanchett