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Why Spencer Tracy Didn’t Leave His Wife for Katharine Hepburn: ‘He Didn’t Want to Put Her Through Any Pain’


Spencer Tracy didn’t want to leave his wife, Louise, for Katharine Hepburn because of this reason, author Christopher Anderson exclusively reveals to Closer.

“I was talking about you and the movie we’d just finished — Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner — and my studio and your new tweed coat and the garden and all the nice sleep-making topics … but you never stopped tossing.” John Kobal Foundation/Getty ImagesFor decades, the real-life romance between “Spence” and “Kate” was an open secret in Hollywood circles but only hinted at in public. 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images In her last love letter to him, which she read for the 1986 documentary The Spencer Tracy Legacy, Katharine recalls fretting over his inability to feel peace in his life.

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