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Oh, how glamorous Katharine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart make getting loaded... or rather, how
would they put it? Sauced? Tight? Well, they are drunk anyway in a scene that's
dreamy and tipsy and swoony. George Cukor's classic, sophisticated
screwball comedy -- which also starred that dapper leading man, Cary Grant -- has the blue-blood Kate mesmerizing the
working-class reporter Stewart, even if she's set to marry another man (who, of
course, is not right for her). Hepburn's Tracy is continually called something
of an ice goddess, but the tables are turned during this moonlight dip wherein
Stewart utters lines that are music to her ears: "There's magnificence in you
... a magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in your voice, in the way you
stand there, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got
fires banked down in you, hearth-fires and holocausts ... you're made out of
flesh and blood. That's the blank, unholy surprise of it. You're the golden
girl, Tracy. Full of life and warmth and delight. What goes on? You've got tears
in your eyes." Yes, we would too.
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