I think this Spencer Tracy crap is all PR I believe she was a lesbian there's no way she would share something so private from someone so private. She's just being an actress. She grew up in a time where you couldn't be a lesbian Go look at her Wikipedia and all the women she's alleged to have slept with a straight woman does not sleep with that many women I don't not believe he was the love of her life but she was a difficult woman, difficult to be around difficult to work with and his death even though he was married made her a martyr she certainly rode that all the way to her grave.
I watched this the night it was first broadcast. It was embarrassing, it’s not embarrassing today. Time has changed the rules for long-term unmarried couples. Hepburn’s quest to understand her friend has a noble quality in 2024. That is, their attraction seems perfectly logical, and the confused questions it inspired seem inevitable.
Regardless if their relationship was romantic or not, the feeling of love was real. I have platonic friends whom I cherish dearly. My heart tugs at this message because i understand this type of love doesnt have to be physical, but two souls who understand each other
He was an artist and he wouldn't foist his problems onto others as everyone has them . Katherine was remarkable too . A yankee and an Irishman . What a duo - in fact classic Hollywood was so superior to today . They made their mark . 🎥❤
Katherine truely loved spencer but did spencer truely love katherine.?it really showed how much she loved him when reading that letter.godbless you katherine i hope you are united with your true love spencer and him with you again.godbless you both 🙏🙏💖💖🕊🕊🤲🤜🤛❤❤🦋🦋Amen🌹🌹🌷🌷💐💐🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
I cried the whole way through watching this. I’ve never seen an actor be this vulnerable in front of the camera when they aren’t acting. Tremendous woman. One of the greatest of all time
It is amazing how much she loved him. She was so very gorgeous, and he was so very stoic, and in some ways so very common. One of the most essential relationships in human history.
As an ex Catholic it's not an easy religion to live by but they says it's a good religion to die in. Catholics are fed guilt from day one I got out and moved on. Spencer Tracy obviously had issues like we all have and as much as life is worth living at times it isn't easy. They had a love for each other however Tracy was married that couldn't have been easy and he certainly liked a scotch or six but I find it a fabulous love story between them both.
WOW. i’m absolutely sure that Katherine wasn’t trying to express the message that _i_ got from her letter. Surely when you’re struggling to understand things from the _inside,_ right in the middle of it - well, it must be so difficult to see the _complete picture._ The more she read, the more i thought “omG Spencer really seemed to have some sort of psychiatric disorder(s)?” He appeared to blame it mostly on the wonderful joys of religious guilt but was that a cause or just a symptom? Don’t get me wrong, i _TOTALLY_ get that - geez i married my first husband out of that guilt - did NOT work out well. Anyway God knows that the only real knowledge i have ab mental illness is unfortunately personal but simply from one letter it’s pretty obvious that i’m seeing depression & anxiety & addiction & insomnia etc. It’s such a sad lonely letter but what _truly_ breaks my heart is the possibility that if only he’d been born & lived later, maybe he could’ve been diagnosed & treated! Their lives together sounded as great as (she) could possibly make them & i sincerely believe that Mr Tracy wouldn’t have lived _nearly_ as long w/o her. … _siiiiiiigh_ 😢 then i can’t help imagining even how much _BETTER_ it could’ve been if they’d both been .. in their right minds? Sorry, don’t know how else to say it? .. ok, so TY if anyone actually read all of my bs. Think i need to find something fun & amusing to watch - listening to beautiful Katherine Hepburn read her letter to a long ago passed on partner was almost more sad than i can bear. These crazy kids were some AMAZING PEOPLE! 🤟🏼💞
RIP and long live Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967), aged 67 And RIP and long live Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 - January 6, 2022), aged 94 You both will always be remembered as legends.
The world lost focus when this icon passed. As all the great ones who leave this world. The world loses the fuel from the soul of these icons. Katherine Hepburn we miss as love you.
Yes yes Katherine Hepburn was a true friend of Mr Tracy and I'm sure of the love and mutual respect for each other was unwavering...Her open letter to Spence was quite warm and heartfelt...Especially letting everyone know how she felt about his troubled life and now deep sleep...Very much a fan if both Kate & Spence with love and respect I give thanks for both entertainers life in show business... Thank for Everything R.I.P. ...
How incredibly impressed with Spencer, Kate was. That is saying a lot because Kate acted with many of the all-time great lead men and likely conversed at length with and knew well a good number of them; however none made such an indelible impression on her as Mr.Tracy did. One can hear in her voice and see in her countenance that Spencer somehow mesmerized her with both his nonpareil acting skills and humanity, much of which she clearly found magnetic and alluring but also inscrutable and distant. Tracy, Cagney, Stewart, Bogart, Wayne, Cooper, Flynn, Gable et al: When Giants walked the earth. We shan't see their like again
Katharine Hepburn was a tremendous actress. And there are those who claim her affair with Tracy was an act they put on to protect one another from being out to be gay. To them I say "hogwash!" You need only watch her reading this letter to know that that was no act- she really was in love with Spencer Tracy.
A lot of speculation lately that their relationship was a cover-up because he was gay and she was a lesbian. I think this video shows that she knew him very intimately. I doubt she would have felt that connected to him if what they had together wasn't a true and lasting love ... the real deal. Writing a letter of that length and depth to someone who was dead for 18 years ... the raw emotion in her voice and tears in her eyes at the end ... omg ... what more proof could there be of how well she knew and deeply loved him?
@@BLTKellys What a load. He was married. Why, to cover of being gay, would he devise a very secret ~30 year affair with a lesbian that was hidden until after his death? (Plus he was a notorious womanizer and a well-known client in the Sunset brothels.) This was kept very hidden from the public, and pictures with his wife and children were routinely published throughout his career to show his "happy family". A beard is something that covers; you don't cover the beard. This relationship was completely hidden and wasn't publicly acknowledged until their friend wrote a memoir after Tracy passed. People don't think very logically any longer.
I love Kate so much. Every time I see her in an interview I wish I had been born a couple decades earlier so I could have met her. Thanks for the video.
I dont think this kind of relationship would work for most women. I think it worked for Hepburn because she probably was too independent to be tied down, didnt really want more children, was devoted to her career, and was secure enough within herself that she didnt require the commitment of marriage.
Definitely. I'm no Katherine Hepburn, but am in a similar relationship for the very reasons you suggested she might have been with Tracy. 60+ years on the planet, two marriages, and a lifetime of experience have taught me that sometimes love can be even stronger and last longer when it doesn't get eroded by the inevitable day-to-day wear and tear of a 24-7 relationship or marriage. Kudos to Spence and Kate for the courage to live their lives as they chose to in spite of all the challenges they faced, and for the deep bond they shared as a result ...
