Learned so much about my own relationship from this book.

The Book is full of guesswork.

Once the movie industry started NO ONE, was true to their husband, wife, boy or girl friend. They slept with everyone!

I love the old Hollywood actors and their stories.

Read this because my mom had just finished it & really liked it. Filled with interesting "inside" info into the couple's nearly thirty year romance, however much of the "Old Holywood" talk was before my time. I can understand why my mom would get a lot more out of it.

Added 4/26/13. - Found while browsing Internet.
June 2, 2015 - I borrowed this book from my public library. I'm enjoying it immensely. As I said at my group: "They were quite the couple! I don't know where they got the energy to do all the things they did. So many plays, so many movies, so much traveling! So much emotion!

Lots of facts and anecdotes, but I still have no idea why a skinny prude WASP and a violent Catholic drunk hooked up to form the most fascinating couple in film history.

What is it about strong women that compels us to submit to weak men?

A beautiful book about the relationship between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. I learned a lot about them I didn't know and it really shows how devoted they were to each other.

Loved it... took me into another world. Very well written.

The other night Guys Who's Coming to Dinner was on TCM. It's always been one of my favorite movies. After it was over and I finished crying, I pulled out this book and reread it. (I cried with the book, too.)

This book is a moving story of the lives, ambition, and love of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (warts and all). It makes me want to watch every movie they made, separately and together. I've enjoyed Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike, and other movies they've made together. Now I want to see the rest of their films.

Three stars for a well written biography. Zero stars for the relationship. As a clinical psychologist and a person with 37 years of sobriety I believe I can comment on a dependency relationship with some wisdom. Spencer Tracy was addicted to alcohol, finding his value in affairs, manipulation, injurious anger, and being worshipped. Kate was addicted to being needed by Spencer Tracy. This does not a healthy relationship make. I have never liked the concept of a "slip" in AA. It is as though you can be working your program perfectly and someone will throw a banana peel in your path. You do not slip, you consciously make a choice to have a drink or a drug of choice. Spencer chose never to get help with his alcoholism. He trotted out the drinking when Kate threatened to leave him for a film or when he felt insecure. He had blatant affairs to see if "Kate really loved him". The author seems to believe Tracy was a really great guy, but there was little evidence of this in the book. Personally, if I had been Katharine Hepburn I would have kicked his ass to the curb. I am a firm believer that there is rarely a healthy person and a sick person in a relationship. Kate grew up in a history of many suicides. Why wouldn't she be compulsively drawn to the idea of preventing one person, Tracy, from committing slow suicide??? She needed to save someone more than she needed the mutual regard and respect in a healthy relationship. She idealized her father despite the fact that he did not give approval easily and was a "spanking" dad. She sought "love" from Spencer but did not believe his injurious rage directed at her was not OK. Sadly this is a story of two damaged people who fed their own pain through addiction to each other. Kristi & Abby Tabby