Woman of the Year 1942

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: For the first time in months, this critical spectator feels like tossing his old hat into the air and weaving a joyous snake dance over the typewriter keys in celebration of Metro's triumphant Woman of the Year... Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The premise is promising...But Stevens lacks the courage to make much of the conflict; the film ends with an embarrassing sequence in which Hepburn is tamed and installed in the kitchen. Read more

Penelope Gilliatt, New Yorker: The film earlier has one of the very best Tracy-Hepburn love scenes, full of the sense of private shelter that they uniquely purvey. Read more

Time Out: Tracy and Hepburn were a great team, and this, their first outing together, set the seal on the pattern to follow into the next decade. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Woman of the Year is an entertaining film with superb work by Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Read more