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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
凱瑟琳赫本 和 斯賓塞屈塞，《猜猜誰來吃晚餐》
Katahrine Hepburn could get her own Superstar Duos list -- her filmography boasts collaborations with Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, Cary Grant, and John Wayne -- but she worked with Spencer Tracy most (and best) of all. Hepburn and Tracy made nine movies together, and we really could have chosen any of them for this list, but ultimately, we settled on 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner -- partly because it was an important film about race relations that won two Academy Awards (against an impressive eight nominations), and partly because they made it knowing Tracy didn't have long to live. While it hasn't aged particularly well, most critics are still willing to look past Dinner's flaws, including Roger Ebert, who asks, "It would be easy to tear the plot to shreds and catch Kramer in the act of copping out. But why? On its own terms, this film is a joy to see, an evening of superb entertainment."
凱瑟琳赫本可以自己列成一個巨星搭檔列表——她的銀幕搭檔包括有亨弗萊鮑嘉、亨利方達、加里格蘭特和約翰韋恩——但她與斯賓塞屈塞的合作最多也最好。赫本和屈塞一共合作了九部電影，我們其實可以挑選其中的任何一部列入這個單子，但最終我們選擇了1967年的電影《猜猜誰來吃晚餐》，一部分原因是這部獲得了兩座奧斯卡金像獎（獲得了八項提名）的作品是表現種族關系的最重要的電影，另一部分原因在于他們是在明知屈塞將不久于人世的情況下拍攝了此片。然而這部影片并沒有安然變老，很多影評人仍然熱衷于尋找影片的種種缺陷，包括羅杰艾伯特，他認為，“情節很容易被撕得粉碎，看到導演克萊默對于現實的逃避。但為什么這么做呢？就電影本身來看，觀看它是一種樂趣，是很棒的夜晚消遣。”
