The legendary romance between screen icons Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn was actually a huge sham! Veteran Hollywood insiders have told The National ENQUIRER that the legendary red-hot fling between the actors — who co-starred in nine films from 1942 to 1967 — was a creation of press agents desperate to cover up yet another scandal from the Golden Age of Hollywood. The studios created an extramarital affair to hide that Katharine was a lesbian, while Spencer was a bisexual alcoholic….
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“The story went on for years that Spencer and Katharine were in love but unable to be together because Tracy refused to get a divorce,” a Hollywood insider told The ENQUIRER. “That was poppycock! The fact was that Hepburn was a lesbian who had numerous affairs. The studios wanted to keep that under wraps!"
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"And Spencer," added the source, "had secretly split from his wife, Louise, 10 years after marrying her in 1923 — but never divorced her because he didn’t want his bisexuality exposed! They acted as ‘beards’ for each other. But the story that Spencer and Katharine were star-crossed only helped at the box office. They had great chemistry on screen — and people could easily imagine that they were secret lovers!”
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Veteran screenwriter and gay activist Larry Kramer confirmed the bogus romance between Spencer and Katharine. “Everyone in Hollywood knows this is true,” he said. Katharine, who died at age 96 in 2003, was married just once — to Ludlow Smith, from 1928 to 1934. Spencer married Louise Treadwell in 1923, and remained together until his death at age 67 in 1967.
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Hollywood “sex fixer” Scotty Bowers also confirmed that the supposed Tracy-Hepburn romance was spun for the public. He said that when he first met Katharine at a Hollywood party, he was taken aback that she was wearing a suit. Bowers reveals the host explained to him that Katharine’s “movie honchos” had been pleading with her not to reveal she was a lesbian.
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“Actors, major directors and producers had ‘morals’ clauses in their contracts, which they would have violated by being openly known as gay or bisexual,” said Bowers — known in Hollywood as someone who set up discreet flings. He was approached by Katharine, who asked him: “Do you think you could find a nice, dark-haired girl for me? Someone that’s not too heavily made-up.”
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Over the years, claimed Bowers, he fixed her up with at least 150 women, including one she was with off and on for almost 50 years! Bowers also claims to have had “many” sexual encounters with Spencer — who would always act “as if nothing had happened” a gay fling, said a source.
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Bowers said that many people in Hollywood were well aware of the “phony romance between Tracy and Katharine Hepburn that the studio and publicists had concocted for public consumption. The invented story had been so well managed that the press and public alike accepted it without question.” In real life, however, there was no love lost between Tracy & Hepburn.
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Bowers said that one one evening, as Spencer paged through the script for the screen couple's 1952 film “Pat and Mike,” he “launched into a tirade about her. He told me that she was always rude to him, that she treated him like dirt, that she was contemptuous of him. Nothing about their great tabloid romance matched up with what Spence was telling me that evening.”
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But, Bowers added: “People across the United States gave it so much credence that both Tracy and Hepburn had little choice but to pretend that it was true. On movie productions, they were always given trailers, dressing rooms, hotel suites or bungalows alongside one another to keep the myth alive. And they both played the part. It was as though they were performing in a movie whenever they did a picture together!"
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And, in a final cruel twist, Spencer Tracy's wife (pictured) was left to look like a woman who had trapped her husband in a marriage. “Hired Hollywood spin doctors went so far as to say the reason Tracy never divorced Louise to marry Kate was because of his Catholic upbringing, which, according to church decree, forbade divorce," said Bowers. "It was all so farcical.”
“The story went on for years that Spencer and Katharine were in love but unable to be together because Tracy refused to get a divorce,” a Hollywood insider told The ENQUIRER. “That was poppycock! The fact was that Hepburn was a lesbian who had numerous affairs. The studios wanted to keep that under wraps!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
"And Spencer," added the source, "had secretly split from his wife, Louise, 10 years after marrying her in 1923 — but never divorced her because he didn’t want his bisexuality exposed! They acted as ‘beards’ for each other. But the story that Spencer and Katharine were star-crossed only helped at the box office. They had great chemistry on screen — and people could easily imagine that they were secret lovers!”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Veteran screenwriter and gay activist Larry Kramer confirmed the bogus romance between Spencer and Katharine. “Everyone in Hollywood knows this is true,” he said. Katharine, who died at age 96 in 2003, was married just once — to Ludlow Smith, from 1928 to 1934. Spencer married Louise Treadwell in 1923, and remained together until his death at age 67 in 1967.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Hollywood “sex fixer” Scotty Bowers also confirmed that the supposed Tracy-Hepburn romance was spun for the public. He said that when he first met Katharine at a Hollywood party, he was taken aback that she was wearing a suit. Bowers reveals the host explained to him that Katharine’s “movie honchos” had been pleading with her not to reveal she was a lesbian.
Photo credit: Getty Images
“Actors, major directors and producers had ‘morals’ clauses in their contracts, which they would have violated by being openly known as gay or bisexual,” said Bowers — known in Hollywood as someone who set up discreet flings. He was approached by Katharine, who asked him: “Do you think you could find a nice, dark-haired girl for me? Someone that’s not too heavily made-up.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Over the years, claimed Bowers, he fixed her up with at least 150 women, including one she was with off and on for almost 50 years! Bowers also claims to have had “many” sexual encounters with Spencer — who would always act “as if nothing had happened” a gay fling, said a source.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Bowers said that many people in Hollywood were well aware of the “phony romance between Tracy and Katharine Hepburn that the studio and publicists had concocted for public consumption. The invented story had been so well managed that the press and public alike accepted it without question.” In real life, however, there was no love lost between Tracy & Hepburn.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Bowers said that one one evening, as Spencer paged through the script for the screen couple's 1952 film “Pat and Mike,” he “launched into a tirade about her. He told me that she was always rude to him, that she treated him like dirt, that she was contemptuous of him. Nothing about their great tabloid romance matched up with what Spence was telling me that evening.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
But, Bowers added: “People across the United States gave it so much credence that both Tracy and Hepburn had little choice but to pretend that it was true. On movie productions, they were always given trailers, dressing rooms, hotel suites or bungalows alongside one another to keep the myth alive. And they both played the part. It was as though they were performing in a movie whenever they did a picture together!"
Photo credit: Getty Images
And, in a final cruel twist, Spencer Tracy's wife (pictured) was left to look like a woman who had trapped her husband in a marriage. “Hired Hollywood spin doctors went so far as to say the reason Tracy never divorced Louise to marry Kate was because of his Catholic upbringing, which, according to church decree, forbade divorce," said Bowers. "It was all so farcical.”
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