“You’re wonderful! There’s a magnificence in you, Tracy. A magnificence that comes out of your eyes and your voice and the way you stand there and the way you walk! You’re lit from within, Tracy! You’re the golden girl, full of life and warmth and delight and…well, what goes on? You’ve got tears in your eyes!”
Katharine Hepburn reacts to Jimmy Stewart’s enraptured praise in the MGM/George Cukor romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story, 1940.





