This book is a joyous tribute to two extraordinary people. Here is Spence, the greatest screen actor of his generation: sharp, magnanimous, joking, tense. Kanin gives us his Kate-the born eccentric, charming, brilliantly inventive, and determined. He has shared his experience and his affection for them with us by recounting-through personal anecdotes as unpredictable and astonishing as Tracy and Hepburn themselves-the times-troubled, hectic, or satisfying-that they spent in Hollywood, New York, London, and Paris. Garson Kanin remained close to the two great stars throughout their long friendship. What kept these two-so opposite in taste and technique-so fiercely together for twenty-seven years? They were one couple everyone knew of but no one really knew anything about. Ladies first?' 'This is a movie chowderhead,' said Spence, 'not a lifeboat.' 'Well, after all,' his friend replied, 'she's the lady. Once, when the celebrated author-director chided Spencer Tracy on his insistence on first billing, Spencer said 'Why not?' his face full of innocence. The billing never changed: the gentleman preceded the lady. This 1971 episode of Elliot Norton Reviews is a discussion with writer and director Garson Kanin about his book, Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir. She was so much more than just a pretty face. On screen as well as in life, she proved you don’t have to be vulnerable to be a woman. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who come. Truman Capote and Garson Kanin offer insights on Katharine Hepburn for Esquire.

'It was always Tracy and Hepburn,' Garson Kanin recalls. Adams Rib is a 1949 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Inside, the book has no perceivable flaws.

The dust jacket has multiple chips and closed tears along the edges. Tracy and Hepburn by Garson Kanin is a 311-page hardcover published by The Viking Press, New York, 1971.