The fake romance of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy
Was an “epic love story” staged to conceal queerness?
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6 min readJun 14, 2022
Most any American from the 1940s to the 1990s knew that Hollywood movie stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were in love, and wanted to marry.
But he was Catholic, and couldn’t divorce his wife. That was the story. Unable to be together as spouses, they made nine movies together—the visible proof of their love.
