Just watched Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Of course I am aware of this movie and the premise of it having seen parts of it and hearing things about it and the actors involved over the years, but I had never sat down and watched it beginning to end. Quite a movie especially for the times--1967--and in it, a comment is made that a marriage between a black and white was illegal in 17 states! This is in my lifetime. This is just so unbelievable and bizarre.
Kate Hepburn won the academy award for it and it was Spencer Tracy's last film, and everyone knew it was going to be. And yes, he died 17 days after the filming wrapped. You see the love between the two in the final scene where Spencer makes his speech. Kate's tears are just at the surface the whole movie. They had been a couple for many years, even though he continued to have other affairs, but Spencer would not divorce his wife because he was Catholic and he had a profound guilt of having a deaf son--he felt he was punished for this because of his sins. So, they carried on their affair. By what I remember in rumor, the wife knew about Kate eventually, but Kate out of respect for the wife didn't speak of their affair while he was alive. He lived with Hepburn the last 2 years of his life and died in her kitchen.
Also, Kate with her wobbly head, it was becoming apparent she had Parkinson's and many of her scenes, she puts her hands up under her chin or pulls a scarf up to her chin -- I think to minimize the shaking.